Security · Privacy · Compliance · Technology Governance

Security posture.
Not just paperwork.

Datum Zero helps organizations that handle sensitive data prepare for audits, build effective security and privacy programs, and govern the emerging technologies they build and use, including AI. Veteran led and practitioner driven.

Veteran led
DIB native
Readiness & advisory
Gap assessment & remediation
01 / CAPABILITIES
What we do

Four core capabilities.

P.01

Compliance & Certification Readiness

We prepare you for the standards your contracts and customers require, and ready you to pass the assessment with complete, organized evidence.

  • Gap and readiness assessments
  • Scoping and boundary definition
  • Control implementation guidance
  • Evidence preparation and mock interviews
SOC 2 · CMMC · FedRAMP · ISO · HIPAA · GDPR and more View details
P.02

AI Governance & Security

We secure the AI workflows you run, the chain from the data and prompts going in to the tools, actions, and decisions coming out, and we govern them so an auditor can follow it. This is a dedicated practice area here, built with the same rigor as our audit work.

  • AI workflow and agent inventory with risk classification
  • Workflow security review: data access, credentials, tool permissions, approval gates
  • AI security hardening assessment against a defined control baseline
  • Governance programs on ISO 42001 and NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF)
  • EU AI Act readiness
Inventory · Secure · Govern · Conform View details
P.03

GRC Programs & Continuous Monitoring

We build the program around how your organization operates, then run the continuous monitoring that keeps it current, so posture is maintained between assessments rather than rebuilt before each one.

  • End to end governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program builds
  • Continuous monitoring (ConMon) for all frameworks
  • Plan of action and milestones (POA&M) tracking to closure
  • Recurring deliverables and annual affirmation support
  • Policies and evidence kept current as the environment changes
Maintain · Monitor · Affirm · Reassess View details
P.04

vCISO

Security leadership on retainer. We set direction, own the program, and represent you to customers, assessors, and the board, at the level of involvement your obligations call for.

  • Advisory, program ownership, or embedded tiers
  • Policies, risk register, and vendor reviews owned
  • Audit, assessment, and questionnaire support
  • Reporting to leadership and the board
Advise · Own · Represent View details
02 / AI GOVERNANCE & SECURITY
AI Governance & Security

Security for the AI workflows you actually run.

Your existing frameworks were written for applications, not for agents that read your data, hold credentials, call tools, and take actions on your behalf. Datum Zero secures the whole workflow, from the data going in to the actions coming out, and governs it so an auditor can follow it.

Discover

Inventory every AI system, agent, and automated workflow, with its data access, credentials, tool permissions, and owner. The required first step under the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act registry.

Secure

Assess each workflow against a checkable security baseline: identity and credentials, data and tool permissions, prompt injection paths, output handling, approval gates, logging, and a tested way to stop it. Findings carry severities mapped to OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST, and ISO.

Govern

Stand up an AI management system aligned to ISO 42001 and the NIST AI RMF, with policy, a repeatable use case intake, and clear ownership of every workflow.

AI HARDENING BASELINECAT I / II / III
CAT ICritical exposure, fix before deploy
CAT IIMaterially raises risk
CAT IIIPosture and best practice
Regulatory clock EU AI Act obligations now apply, with more phasing in through 2028
03 / APPROACH
How we work

A clear path from where you are to audit ready.

01

Recon

We map your environment, data flows, AI footprint, and the obligations your contracts actually impose.

02

Assess

We measure you against the standard and surface the gaps that matter, ranked by real risk.

03

Build

We remediate, build the program, and generate the documentation tailored to your systems.

04

Certify

We prepare you for independent assessment and stand beside you through it, then help you sustain it.

04 / WHY DATUM ZERO
Why us

Why clients work with us.

A1Veteran led

Founded by a veteran turned GRC practitioner. The discipline, structured risk management, and accountability carry straight into how we run engagements.

A2Practitioner access

You work directly with the person doing the work, not a junior analyst behind a brand. Real hands on control experience, not slideware.

A3DIB native

Fluent in the defense industrial base and the federal world, from controlled unclassified information (CUI) scoping and enclaves to the realities of an assessment.

A4AI workflow security

We pair established compliance work with security for the AI workflows you run, from the data an agent can read to the actions it can take, a capability we deliberately staffed and credentialed for.

A5Independent by design

We prepare you and produce the evidence. Independent assessors and accredited bodies certify. That separation protects the integrity of your result.

A6Built for speed

A structured methodology and a deep template library compress months of documentation work into a tailored package, without losing rigor.

05 / CREDENTIALS
Credentials

Certified by

ISACA
CompTIA
IAPP
06 / INSIGHTS
From the practice

Latest insights.

12 October 2026

The EU AI Act dates, after the Digital Omnibus

The high risk deadlines moved to December 2027 and August 2028. The transparency rules did not move. The full timeline, what changed, and what a US company selling into Europe should do this year.

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Begin with a consultation about your current posture and obligations. We will map a clear path to readiness and the certifications you are pursuing.