About
Veteran-Owned. Engineering-Led. Security-Focused.
137Forge is a veteran-owned cybersecurity advisory and security engineering practice built for regulated and security-conscious organizations and lean IT teams.
The Practice
The practice brings experience across tactical engineering, operational cybersecurity, enterprise security architecture, regulated cloud environments, government-adjacent systems, and strategic cyber risk communication for senior leadership.
137Forge combines advisory credibility with hands-on experience in vCISO-lite advisory, threat and exposure assessment, vendor responsibility review, local AI engineering, secure AI architecture design, control readiness support, control mapping, and validation-oriented security engineering.
Credentials
137Forge is led by a cybersecurity architect with CISSP, CCSP, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional credentials and 20+ years of experience across enterprise IT, cybersecurity architecture, regulated cloud environments, and control-driven systems.
Those credentials support the work, but the emphasis is practical judgment: readable architecture, control traceability, and implementation paths teams can operate.
Security Credentials
Security leadership backed by engineering credentials.
Certifications support the practice's focus on security leadership, regulated cloud architecture, and hands-on engineering for environments where trust boundaries and control discipline matter.
CISSP
ISC2
CCSP
ISC2
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS
Focus Areas
Areas where 137Forge is built to contribute.
The work stays centered on environments that require clear system thinking, control discipline, leadership communication, and operationally useful outputs.
Security advisory and vCISO-lite guidance for lean regulated teams
Forward-deployed security engineering for targeted remediation
AI engineering, local LLM architecture, governance, and validation
Control readiness, evidence paths, and remediation support
Cybersecurity training and risk enablement for owners, staff, and internal IT
Talk through your environment with 137Forge.
Reach out to discuss security advisory, AI engineering for local LLM systems, secure architecture design, control readiness, targeted engineering, risk assessment services, or cybersecurity training.