Built for clarity, calm response, and measurable control.
VanguardGatehouse exists to close a common gap: organizations want strong security, but they also need systems that are supportable, documented, and operationally stable. Our model pairs cybersecurity engineering with runbook-driven IT operations so controls stay in place.
- Clear ownership boundaries and change control.
- Identity-first baseline that reduces account risk quickly.
- Operational cadence: patching, monitoring, monthly reporting.
- Evidence-ready documentation: snapshots, runbooks, and artifacts.
Operating principles
Security you can sustain
The same engineering discipline should apply to both security and operations.
Modern access control with MFA, device trust, conditional access, and least privilege.
Backups, patching, monitoring, and incident response built for continuity.
Security that maps to your risk tolerance and compliance obligations.
We treat documentation as part of the security posture: configurations, rationale, ownership, escalation paths, and evidence artifacts. This creates continuity across staff changes and vendor transitions.
Hardening is staged: quick wins first, then measured rollout. Each change is scoped, reversible when possible, and tied to an outcome you can verify.
Team
Meet the people behind the runbooks
Specialized roles with shared operating standards and a single delivery model.
Leads engagements end-to-end: discovery, risk modeling, secure design reviews, and executive-ready remediation roadmaps. Focus areas include Microsoft 365 security, identity hardening, and practical controls that hold up under audit.
- Security roadmap
- Control validation
- Executive reporting
Owns identity and access patterns across hybrid environments—conditional access strategy, privileged access workflows, and secure automation. Emphasizes least-privilege, measurable baselines, and resilient recovery paths.
- Zero trust access
- Privileged workflows
- Policy-as-code
Builds incident response playbooks, tabletop exercises, and detection tuning that reduce mean-time-to-contain. Known for calm, methodical triage and clear comms when pressure is high.
- IR readiness
- Detection improvements
- After-action reports
Keeps delivery disciplined: scope control, change management, documentation standards, and client-facing status reporting. Makes sure outcomes are repeatable and supportable after handoff.
- Predictable delivery
- Clean documentation
- Supportable outcomes
Drives vulnerability assessment cycles and endpoint hardening with a bias toward fixes that are low-impact and high-leverage. Produces clean evidence packages for audits and leadership updates.
- Patch acceleration
- Hardening baselines
- Audit evidence
Where we work
Coastal North Carolina coverage
Coastal towns across North Carolina—from the Cape Fear region through the Crystal Coast.
Based in Wilmington, NC. We support multi-site organizations and distributed teams, with standardized onboarding and documentation to keep environments consistent.
Best for organizations that value standardized baselines, documented ownership, and leadership-visible reporting.