EDGEWARDSecuring the sites you don't control.
Your franchisees, stores, clinics, and partners keep the business running. Edgeward helps you protect every one of them, without slowing them down.
Malvin Eanes, founder. Based in Atlanta, working with businesses nationwide.The risk rarely starts at headquarters.
It starts at a location with a shared password, with a provider who missed an alert, or with a budget request nobody could put a number on.
"Our locations are run by people we don't employ."
Franchisees and partners own the day to day, often with no IT staff on site. Security has to work for them, not around them.
"We pay a provider, but can't see what they do."
Your MSSP or MDR sends reports. Are they catching what matters, and delivering what the contract promises?
"Leadership wants proof before they fund it."
Fear doesn't get budgets approved. A clear case in business and financial terms does.
Four ways to work together.
Clear scope, a fixed fee where possible, and plain-language results your leadership team will actually read.
Multi-Site Security Assessment
A clear, risk-ranked picture of security across every location, and a 12-month plan your leadership can fund.
Security Provider Review & Selection
Make sure your MSSP, MDR, or SOC provider delivers what the contract promises, or find the right one.
Fractional Security Leader
Senior security leadership for your business, without the cost of a full-time executive.
Cyber Risk Investment Case
Turn security needs into a funded plan, framed in the business and financial terms leadership responds to.
From first call to a plan that sticks.
Security only works if people adopt it. Every engagement is designed for the people who have to live with it, not just the auditors.
A real conversation
Thirty minutes on your locations, your providers, and what keeps you up at night. No pitch deck.
See every site
An honest view of locations, devices, identities, and who is responsible for each.
Rank by real risk
Gaps scored by likelihood and business impact, so the first dollar goes furthest.
Make it the standard
Fixes become standards and managed services that hold at every location.
I learned that security is a people problem first.
For 23 years I built and ran the technology and security platforms behind one of the world's largest hotel estates: more than 4,000 sites across four regions, most of them owned and operated by someone else.
Early on I saw everything as an engineering problem. Then I had to win adoption for platforms that required real capital from owners who didn't report to me. That's when I learned that people decide with what they see and trust first. The technology comes second.
Edgeward brings that experience to businesses like yours: practical, proven at scale, and built for the people who have to make it work.
Done at scale, not just on paper.
A managed platform that became the standard
Built a managed connectivity and security platform adopted as a regional brand standard and scaled to 4,000+ locations.
A franchise security program from scratch
Founded a program securing thousands of franchised properties through managed endpoint, identity, and detection services.
Providers held to their promises
Directed SOC, SIEM, MDR, and network security providers through multi-year, multi-million-dollar contracts and renewals.
Risk that leadership can fund
Built the cyber risk quantification model executives use to decide security investment.
Built for businesses with many front doors
Start with a 30-minute conversation.
Tell me about your locations and your providers. You'll leave with a clear sense of where to focus first, whether or not we work together.
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