Cybersecurity consulting · cloud · multi-site · high availability · since 2007
One shield. Six defenses. A different point of view — we understand the business need behind every control, and we speak the language of where your data lives, who can touch it, and how it's protected.
INFO-BYTE_ · SAFE · SECURED · PROTECTED
Illustrative shell · no live client data
Executive security & IT leadership
A CISO on your leadership team, not your payroll — strategy, board reporting, and budget ownership from someone who's done the job.
SOC 2 · HIPAA · PCI-DSS · FFIEC
Gap to evidence to audit-ready — mapped to your real controls year-round, not assembled the week before the auditor lands.
Firewalls · segmentation · zero-trust · cloud (AWS · Azure · Google)
Firewalls, segmentation and zero-trust across every segment — and the same discipline carried into the cloud estates you actually run on AWS, Azure and Google. Designed and managed, not bolted on after the breach.
Real-world attack simulation
We come at your environment the way someone who means it would — find the door first, then hand you the ranked findings and the fix, before anyone else gets the chance.
Breach dumps · criminal marketplaces
Your credentials are for sale. We watch the market — breach dumps and leak sites — and alert you the same day exposure shows up.
Rapid response · containment · recovery
When it happens, a practitioner is on the line — containment, eradication, and recovery — not a ticket in a queue waiting for a callback.
Every network has a door someone forgot to lock. We find it in an afternoon — an attacker has all year. This is what an engagement actually looks like from the other side of the keyboard: five moves, start to finish, before someone who isn't on your payroll makes them for real.
The engagement, one panel at a time — a five-move graphic-novel walkthrough. Illustrated dramatization — an engagement, not a real client.
Public records, forgotten subdomains, the vendor page that lists your whole stack, the person who posts their job title and their tools in the same breath. Your perimeter is always bigger than your inventory admits. I map it the way an adversary would — patiently, from the outside, and for free.
A reused password. An edge appliance two patches behind. An email convincing enough that someone clicks before their first coffee. I don't need ten ways in — I need one. Pick the vector you'd bet is safe.
Every door you tried, opened. You'd pick one to lose sleep over — an attacker tries all four. We find and close all of them, in an afternoon, before anyone else knocks.
> have us try your doors firstIllustrative vectors · scoped placeholders, no real client data.
So I move sideways — quiet, collecting, reading the trust between machines nobody has audited since it was set up. Every over-privileged service account is a shortcut. The distance from a low account to the keys of the whole domain is usually shorter than you'd sleep well knowing.
The finance share. The customer records. The one system that ends up in the headline. I prove I can reach it, and I stop there. I don't move the data, I don't touch what's inside — I photograph the open safe and walk out. That restraint is the whole line between a test and an incident.
Every door, every hop, every fix — in order, in plain language a board can read and an engineer can act on. You get the map and the remediation, not a 3 a.m. phone call from someone who found the same path and had no reason to tell you first.
The point was never to break in. It's to hand you the playbook before someone who won't.
Illustrative engagement — not a real client. Scoped placeholders only.
The six sides of the shield keep attackers out. This is the bedrock underneath — what keeps you standing when something still gets through, or simply fails. You always know your data is recoverable, where it lives, and how fast it comes back.
Defense in depth · five layers under the shield
Tamper-proof, ransomware-resistant copies that a bad actor — or an honest mistake — can't delete or encrypt. Recovery that survives the very thing it's meant to recover from.
Tested recovery plans, not backups gathering dust on a shelf. Documented runbooks so bringing the business back is a procedure someone follows — not a panic someone improvises at 2 a.m.
Architected so a single failure doesn't stop the business. Automatic failover for the systems you can't afford to lose — the ones where minutes, not hours, are the whole conversation.
No single point of failure across power, network, storage, and site. The second path is already in place before you need it — because you find out you needed it at the worst possible moment.
Multi-site and multi-cloud designs that ride out a region, a vendor, or a whole site going dark. Workloads that keep serving when one part of the map turns red.
The retainer is the spine of everything Info-Byte does — the seat, the judgment, and the accountability of a chief security officer, sized to your organization and billed on a monthly line you can actually approve.
A security roadmap your board can read, and quarterly reporting that survives a due-diligence question.
One owner for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS or FFIEC — evidence mapped to the control, not left to your ops team to guess.
Vendor-neutral judgment on what you already run — decisions made for your risk, not a reseller's quota.
Hours, cadence and scope set to your reality — a two-site credit union and a 40-truck utility are not the same engagement.
Info-Byte works where the rules are real and the consequences are public. Same practitioner, tuned to your regulator.
Every mapping cites the control by ID and marks what is confirmed versus self-attested — the way a real assessor writes it.
Somewhere, right now, someone is scanning breach dumps and criminal marketplaces for your logins, cards and PII. We watch the same market from the other side — so the day your data shows up, you hear it from us, same-day — not from a customer, a regulator, or the six-o'clock news.
Scan my exposure →I'm Shane Petrollese. For twenty years I've worked both sides of the keyboard — coming at environments the way an attacker would so I can defend them, then sitting in the boardroom translating what that actually means for the business.
That's the whole point of Info-Byte: a CISO's judgment for the organizations that can't justify a $250K hire but can't afford to go without one. When you call, there's no junior handoff and no ticket queue — the person reading your board report is the same person who found the hole. I put my name on the work, and I keep my inbox open.
Twenty years of hands on real gear. We choose for your risk — not because a badge sits on our wall.
No gated whitepapers, no vendor spin — short reads on the problems we actually get called for.
A curated external feed — the latest cybersecurity headlines from The Hacker News, linked out in full. Not Info-Byte research; the field notes above are ours.
Curated headlines, attributed to The Hacker News and linked in full — headline, date and link only. Refreshed manually; distinct from Info-Byte's own field notes above.
A 30-minute conversation is enough to know where you stand. No pitch deck, no obligation — just a practitioner and your actual risk.
INFO-BYTE_ · SAFE · SECURED · PROTECTED · SINCE 2007
Info-Byte translates complicated problems into logical solutions. Cybersecurity consulting across cloud, multi-site and high-availability infrastructure for regulated small and mid-sized organizations. Founder-led by Shane A. Petrollese, vCISO/vCIO, based in Highland, NY and serving clients nationwide.
Services: Fractional vCISO / vCIO executive security and IT leadership; Compliance and audit for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and FFIEC; Network and cloud security including firewalls, segmentation, zero-trust and secure Wi-Fi across on-premises and AWS, Azure and Google cloud estates; Penetration testing with real-world attack simulation and post-test remediation; Dark web monitoring of breach dumps and criminal marketplaces with same-day alerts; Incident response with rapid containment and recovery.
Regulated environments served: Public Safety (Police, Fire, EMS) under CJIS; Municipalities; Banks and Credit Unions under FFIEC; Healthcare under HIPAA; Schools; Enterprise. Compliance frameworks: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, NIST CSF, CJIS, ISO 27001.
Full-time CISO salaries run $250,000 to $600,000 per year; the Info-Byte vCISO retainer is scoped per engagement (pricing on request), vendor-neutral and founder-led with no junior handoff, including a 30-day risk assessment and 12-month roadmap. Contact sales@infobyte.biz or shane@infobyte.biz, email sales@infobyte.biz. Safe. Secured. Protected. Since 2007.