Secure Digital Solutions

Secure Digital Solutions (SDS) has operated as an information security governance, risk, and compliance consultancy since 2005, well before GRC and vCISO services became a crowded category. Its core offering is advisory rather than pure software: security program strategy, ongoing virtual CISO engagements, audit liaison work, and enterprise risk and data privacy consulting, delivered by a small team where SDS states every consultant carries at least a decade of relevant certification and experience.

What distinguishes SDS from a generic consulting shop is TrustMAPP, a proprietary platform the firm has developed and refined since 2014 to quantify security program maturity against risk, giving clients a structured, repeatable way to track improvement over time and communicate risk posture to boards and executives in maturity-model terms rather than raw audit findings. The platform underpins the firm’s consulting engagements rather than being sold as a fully separate self-service SaaS product.

SDS is a small, privately held firm (roughly a dozen employees) rather than a venture-backed technology vendor, serving Fortune 1000 companies, cooperatives, and government agencies across regulated industries including banking, healthcare, and energy. Its longevity (two decades in business) and continued work with large, regulated clients suggests real client retention, but as a boutique advisory practice its impact is necessarily limited by headcount, and independent, published efficacy evidence beyond its own case studies is sparse.