Levee SECURITY ADVISORY
Exposure management for mid-market organizations · Louisville, Kentucky

Frontier AI will find your exposures. Find them first.

When your board asks “what is our AI risk?”, Levee gives you the answer — and one number to track it. Enterprise-grade exposure management for mid-market teams: independent advice, partner-delivered testing, results the board can see.

Start a 30-day Exposure Sprint Take the 5-minute scorecard
BUILT FOR Regional health systemsBanks & credit unionsManufacturing & logisticsMulti-site retail & restaurantsConsumer brands

AI just gave every attacker an enterprise-grade toolkit. Most mid-market defenses haven't caught up.

01

Attacks got cheaper

Frontier models read code, chain weaknesses and test exploits at machine pace. Being "too small to target" no longer protects anyone.

02

Scanners miss the real risk

Logic flaws, misconfigurations and identity paths often have no CVE and no scanner score — and they are exactly what AI-driven testing finds.

03

Small teams can't do it alone

Your team is already stretched across tickets, audits and alerts. Nobody owns exposure end to end — so it doesn't get managed.

Our methodology

The LEVEE Framework

Five continuous stages with a Frontier AI lens at every step — aligned to Gartner's CTEM model and sized for teams without a dedicated exposure function.

L

Landmark

Mark what the business cannot lose.

E

Expose

See everything an attacker can reach.

V

Value

Rank by what each exposure would cost.

E

Emulate

Prove it the way AI adversaries will.

E

Enforce

Fix, retest and report the risk removed.

The signature metric

One number your board can track: the Waterline.

The count of validated, exploitable exposures on your crown-jewel systems — across AI-speed exploitation, AI apps and agents, shadow AI and AI-powered social engineering. Every quarter, it should go down. The goal is to keep it below the levee line you set.

SAMPLE · 6 MONTHS
31 → 7
Levee line ≤ 5

Reported quarterly with what moved the line, what's still above it, and one clear ask for the board.

Engagements

Six questions your board will ask. Six fixed-fee ways to answer them.

Each starts with a 2–4 week assessment and a board-ready answer. Continue on a retainer only if you want help driving the fixes.

START HERE

“What is our AI risk — and are we getting safer?”

LEVEE Exposure Sprint
30 days · fixed fee
  • Crown-jewel scope and owner map
  • Partner-validated top-10 exposures
  • First Waterline and 90-day fix plan
Then: Fractional Exposure Lead retainer
02

“If we were breached tonight, how fast would we know — and stop it?”

Detection & Response Readiness
4 weeks · fixed fee
  • Measured MTTD and MTTR baseline
  • Detection coverage mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Build, buy or MDR recommendation
Then: Detection Program Oversight retainer
03

“Do we have the right security people — and enough of them?”

Security Team & Leadership Review
3 weeks · fixed fee
  • Staffing and skills benchmark
  • Roles, ownership and MSSP/MDR mix
  • 12-month hiring and budget plan
Then: Fractional CISO retainer
04

“Could one compromised laptop take down the whole company?”

Zero Trust Architecture Review
4 weeks · fixed fee
  • Segmentation and remote-access review
  • Endpoint and EDR coverage gaps
  • Phased zero trust roadmap
Then: Architecture Advisory retainer
05

“Where is our sensitive data — and who, or what AI, can reach it?”

Data & AI Protection Assessment
4 weeks · fixed fee
  • Sensitive data and AI usage inventory
  • AI use policy aligned to NIST AI RMF
  • Data loss and agent permission fixes
Then: AI & Data Risk Office retainer
06

“Could we survive ransomware — and will our insurance pay?”

Ransomware & Insurance Readiness
2–3 weeks · fixed fee
  • Executive ransomware tabletop
  • Backup recovery test and IR plan
  • Insurer questionnaire evidence pack
Then: Incident Readiness retainer
Independent by design

We don't sell tools. We make sure the right ones work for you.

Levee owns the program and the outcome. Specialist testing partners do the offensive work, selected for your environment and held to the scope, timeline and evidence we set.

01

We scope and set the rules

Crown jewels, rules of engagement and what "proven" means — before anyone tests.

02

A vetted partner tests

The right offensive specialist for your stack, with no reseller margin steering the choice.

03

We turn findings into fixes

Owners, SLAs, retests and a trend line — the part most reports never reach.

Free · 10 questions · 5 minutes

How exposed are you to Frontier AI?

The LEVEE Readiness Scorecard rates your program Gap, Developing or Strong across all five stages, with the first fix to make in each.

One email with the scorecard. No vendor lists, no spam.

Why Levee

Built where the river rises.

After the 1937 flood, Louisville learned that a wall only protects you if someone keeps inspecting it. Levee brings that same discipline to exposure management for organizations across Kentucky, Tennessee and the Ohio Valley.

Independent

No reseller margins. Recommendations are based on your risk, not a product quota.

Fixed-fee

Every engagement has a defined scope and timeline, agreed before it starts.

Measured

Progress is reported as one number your board can follow: the Waterline.

Where would a frontier model get in first? Find out in 30 days.

Start with a 20-minute fit call. If a Sprint isn't right for you, we'll tell you what is.

Book a 20-minute fit call