Your team is balancing evolving threats, resource constraints, compliance pressure, cyber insurance requirements and the need to keep your organization running.
You do not have to navigate it alone.
With Nysernet cybersecurity services, your institution can:
- Understand your current security posture.
- Identify vulnerabilities before attackers do.
- Prepare teams and leaders to respond during an incident.
- Support compliance and audit readiness.
- Build staff knowledge through practical cybersecurity training.
- Connect with peers facing similar challenges.
Grounded in a Framework Leadership Recognizes
Nysernet’s cybersecurity approach aligns with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, a widely used resource for understanding and improving cybersecurity risk management.
We use frameworks like NIST to help organizations move from scattered security tasks to a clearer, more defensible program.
Not sure where to start?
Nysernet will help your team understand recommendations, prioritize next steps and build a realistic roadmap. Contact our team for a consult or use the quick guide below.
- Need to understand your current posture? Start with a Cyber Risk Maturity Blueprint.
- Need to test your defenses? Start with penetration testing.
- Need to prepare leaders and teams? Start with a tabletop exercise.
- Need to meet compliance requirements? Start with CMMC support.
- Need to strengthen staff skills? Start with cybersecurity training.
Security Expertise with Your Organization in Mind
Nysernet’s Security Team works with mission-driven organizations facing high expectations, complex environments and limited internal capacity. We help translate cybersecurity risk into practical next steps your team can act on.
Our role is not to overwhelm you with findings. We help you understand what matters, what to prioritize and how to build resilience over time.
Emilyann Fogarty, CISSP, PMP
Chief Information Security Officer
Nicole Holden
Director, Information Security
Eric Heath, CISSP
Senior Systems Administrator
Frequently Asked Questions
Nysernet offers cybersecurity services that help mission-driven organizations assess risk, strengthen defenses, prepare for incidents and build more resilient security programs.
Current services include Cyber Risk Maturity Blueprint, Cybersecurity Skills Training Program, Penetration Testing, Cyber Resiliency Tabletop Engagements and Cyber Insurance Review and Advisement.
Start with your goal.
If you need to understand your current security posture, a Cyber Risk Maturity Blueprint is a good place to start. If you need to test for exploitable weaknesses, start with Penetration Testing. If you need to practice incident response, a Cyber Resiliency Tabletop Engagement may be the right fit. If cyber insurance is driving decisions, start with a Cyber Insurance Review and Advisement. If your team needs stronger skills, look to increase your Cybersecurity Training.
Yes. Nysernet offers penetration testing to help organizations uncover exploitable vulnerabilities in systems and networks before attackers can. The service is conducted by ethical hackers with an intimate knowledge of nonprofit environments and tailored to individual organization's needs.
Vulnerability scanning identifies potential weaknesses.
Penetration testing goes further by safely simulating real-world attacks and attempting to exploit vulnerabilities to prove actual risk.
A cybersecurity tabletop exercise is a guided simulation that helps technical teams, leaders and cross-functional stakeholders practice how they would respond during a cyber incident.
Nysernet’s Cyber Resiliency Tabletop Engagements use tailored scenarios, real-time feedback, policy reviews and actionable recommendations to strengthen readiness, communication and coordination.
Nysernet offers Cyber Insurance Review and Advisement services to help organizations understand their current or planned cyber insurance policies, identify coverage gaps and align insurance decisions with cybersecurity and business continuity needs.
Nysernet does not provide cyber insurance directly.
Nysernet cybersecurity services align with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and/or CIS Critical Security Controls where appropriate.
Nysernet offers cybersecurity training through programs and partnerships designed to help IT and security professionals build practical skills.
Our Cybersecurity Skill Training Programs includes customized learning pathways with flexible learning options such as live classes, on-demand replay, hands-on labs, virtual simulations and certification-focused courses through StormWind Studios.
Our CMMC Capability Academy prepares security teams at R1 institutions for CCA and CCP certification.
Twice per year, we also offer our members discounted access to SANS Institute courses and GIAC certifications through an aggregate buy program.
Nysernet delivers cybersecurity support through a blend of in-house guidance and trusted technical partners.
This model gives members access to specialized cybersecurity expertise while keeping Nysernet as the mission-aligned partner who understands their institution, goals and constraints.
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