About Brookmore

Cybersecurity that works in the real world.

Brookmore Solutions helps organizations protect their systems, data, and operations through practical cybersecurity and compliance services. We translate complex frameworks into clear, actionable work that businesses can actually carry out.

Our approach

Business first, then frameworks.

Security controls, policies, and compliance requirements must fit daily operations, not disrupt them. Our work focuses on risk awareness, defensible documentation, and realistic implementation.

We don't believe in fear-based security or overengineering. We build controls, policies, and processes that support your business and that your team can maintain.

Who we are

Woman-owned. Veteran-led. Based in Baltimore.

Our leadership brings decades of combined experience leading cybersecurity, risk, and authorization programs in Department of Defense environments, along with hands-on security engineering and testing. We apply that discipline to small and mid-sized organizations in a form they can sustain.

How we got here

Built by people who saw the difference between paperwork and protection.

Our founder spent years inside federal cybersecurity: building risk management programs, writing policy, and securing systems that couldn’t afford to fail. That work taught a hard lesson. A system can pass every checklist and still carry real risk, because documentation and protection are not the same thing.

At the same time, we kept meeting business owners who had built real companies, employed their neighbors, and wanted to do right by their clients, and who were drowning in that same paperwork-first approach. They were told compliance was security, handed binders they couldn’t use, and left more confused than when they started.

Brookmore was started to do it differently. Compliance shouldn’t need a translator, shouldn’t cost more than the protection it provides, and shouldn’t leave a business dependent on its consultant. Our measure of success is simple: every client ends up more secure, more resilient, and more confident than when we found them.

And when you work with us, you work with senior practitioners directly, not a hand-off to an entry-level analyst reading from a script.

Our experience

Decades of combined experience, applied to your business.

Our team has secured systems for the Army, defense contractors, federal research programs, and forensic laboratories. Every engagement is led by senior practitioners, not handed off.

Federal & defense security programs

  • Risk Management Framework programs: system authorization, continuous monitoring, and remediation tracking
  • Independent security assessments against NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-171, and DISA STIGs
  • Incident response and enterprise compliance programs

Security engineering

  • DevSecOps and secure configuration baselines built into CI/CD pipelines
  • Kubernetes and container security for an AI platform at a federally funded research center
  • Image configuration and security compliance for more than 1,700 systems

Offensive security

  • Network, web application, and wireless penetration testing
  • Physical penetration testing and facility security assessments
  • Every test scoped in writing and authorized by the system owner

Leadership

  • Veteran-led, with U.S. Army service
  • Senior roles with major federal systems integrators
  • Leading mixed teams of government civilians and contractors

Quality & evidence

  • Forensic laboratory quality assurance and chain-of-custody discipline
  • Independent quality review of every client deliverable before release
  • Documentation built to hold up when someone checks

Credentials

  • Graduate degrees in Information Systems, Cybersecurity Technology, and Forensic Science
  • CISSP, CASP+, GIAC GSLC, and CEH
  • PNPT, PenTest+, CySA+, Security+, Network+, and Linux+
What we believe

Four principles behind every engagement.

Substance over paperwork

Documentation should describe what you actually do, and hold up when someone checks.

Plain-spoken rigor

Clear language, honest risk ratings, and no fear tactics.

Independence over dependency

We build your team's ability to run the program, not a reliance on us.

Real-world results

Success is a program that keeps working after the engagement ends.

Areas of expertise

Where we spend our time.

Compliance & governance

Gap assessments, risk analysis, and NIST-aligned security programs and policies, including CMMC readiness and the FTC Safeguards Rule.

Business-focused security

Security decisions grounded in operational reality, budget, and long-term sustainability.

Security & risk leadership

Experience leading security, risk, and authorization programs, translated into controls growing businesses can maintain.

Know where you stand.

Book a no-pressure consultation. You leave with a clear picture of your risks and a sensible first step, whether or not we work together.