Translating geek into human.
Fractional CTO & CISO for founder-led companies. Strategy without the $250K hire.
A client sent you a security questionnaire and your team is scrambling. Your cyber insurance premium just doubled. Someone mentioned SOC 2 and the room went quiet.
And every vendor in your inbox is selling urgency. Firewalls, endpoint protection, zero trust, AI-powered threat detection. The list never stops, and nobody's translating it into decisions you can actually make.
Sound familiar?
None of it ever shows up one at a time.
Vendor access becomes an identity problem becomes a data problem becomes the breach. One weakness, four domains, all at once.
Complicated gets optimized. Complex must be governed. The tidy per-domain checklist is exactly what lets the cascade through.
I prove it by measuring what most frameworks skip: the cascade paths themselves.
You're not failing. The model you were handed is.
I help founder-led companies make confident technology and security decisions, and build the programs behind them, so you can grow without flying blind, or paying for a $250K hire.
No discovery calls that are really sales pitches. No "custom pricing" that means "whatever we think you'll pay." Here's exactly what it costs.
Tune in.
$7,500 one-time
I map your technology and security landscape, interview your stakeholders, identify the highest-leverage fixes, and hand you a prioritized roadmap you can actually execute.
Find the signal.
$10,000 /month · 3-month min
I join your leadership team part-time. Strategy sessions, vendor calls, team building, incident response, board prep, whatever the role requires that week.
Let it echo.
$3,000 /month · 6-month commitment
I stay in the picture for clients who've finished a Signal engagement. Monthly counsel, quarterly strategic reviews, and on-call support for the decisions that matter.
Most clients start with Tune. No pressure, no lock-in beyond what's listed above.
Mike has the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience. When assigned a task, you can trust it will be done with the same level of attention to detail as if you had done it yourself.
25+ years and 40+ security and technology programs. Fortune 500 to high-growth startups. I've sat in the CISO chair. I've built the governance programs. I've had the vendor calls where nobody in the room knew what questions to ask.
I started Echo Cyber because smart founders are making million-dollar technology decisions with vendor slide decks and gut instinct. Not another consultant talking in acronyms. Someone who can walk into a board meeting and explain what's actually going on, in plain English.
Based in Raleigh, NC. Dad. Blue belt. Reluctant morning person.
“A key contributor to both strategic direction and client engagement. Exceptional at building authentic, trust-based relationships with customers.”
“A natural problem-solver who remains cool under pressure. A born leader who continuously takes on more responsibility.”
“Strategic leader who builds trust with customers, vendors, and direct reports alike. One of the good guys.”
Names withheld. NDAs are a feature, not a limitation.
National retail chain · brick-and-mortar
Challenge. Security enforcement was nonexistent at the edge. POS systems across stores required manual intervention with no centralized governance.
Outcome. Cloud-native device governance framework. Enforceable, auditable security posture for the first time.
DTC ecommerce · rapid scale
Challenge. Outgrew their collaboration platform but couldn't afford downtime during a migration touching every employee and every business-critical site.
Outcome. Zero-disruption platform migration. Identity sync, policy-driven device reconfiguration, legacy infrastructure eliminated.
15 minutes. 8 categories. Your A–F grade up front. Full report one click from there. Just clarity.
30 minutes. No pitch. Just honest questions and straight answers. You'll walk away with actionable next steps either way.
Translating geek into human.
Cutting through the chaos of cybersecurity and technology, so you can lead with clarity. One email every Sunday. No fluff, no vendor hype, no fear-mongering.