AI Governance, vCISO and Compliance Consulting for Regulated Organizations

Adsero Security is a Tampa, Florida consulting firm that pairs conventional cybersecurity and compliance work with an AI governance practice aimed at organizations adopting AI under regulatory pressure. Founded in 2015 by practitioners with backgrounds in penetration testing, incident response and compliance auditing, the firm was built around the view that most security advice arrives generic and misaligned with an organization's actual risks. Its client base skews toward healthcare, legal, financial services and other regulated sectors.

Engagements follow a staged model. The AI governance practice starts with an inventory of the systems already in use and the regulatory obligations attached to them, runs a gap analysis against EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 expectations, then designs a governance framework and supports its rollout. Agent security work reviews tool access and data flows, threat-models the specific deployment, and red-teams it against prompt injection, jailbreak and tool-abuse patterns before guardrails and output validation are specified.

Alongside consulting, three subscription products are sold directly: QwikChek for vulnerability scanning, QwikSec for security awareness training and QwikPhish for phishing simulation, all priced for organizations without enterprise budgets. Traditional services span vCISO leadership, SOC 2 audit preparation, risk assessments, DevSecOps and penetration testing. The team holds CISSP, CCSP and HITRUST CCSFP credentials and cites contributions to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, positioning the firm between a compliance shop and an AI security specialist.