Experienced cybersecurity leadership for FinTech and regulated growth companies facing audits, regulatory scrutiny, enterprise customer requirements, fundraising or board-level security expectations — without adding a full-time CISO.
Former public-company CTO/CIO and CISO of a Nasdaq-listed crypto FinTech platform. 20+ years across FinTech, payments, and digital assets.
NTD is particularly useful when a company is approaching an inflection point: fundraising, an audit, enterprise customer diligence, regulatory examination, M&A, rapid growth, or increasing board scrutiny.
We work with 2–3 companies at a time. That's intentional — security leadership scales through judgment, not playbooks.
The first 90 days set the trajectory. Here's what that looks like when NTD takes over a security program:
Leadership interviews, a current-state security assessment, a review of regulatory and customer requirements, identification of urgent exposures, and initial risk priorities.
A prioritized security roadmap, a risk register, governance cadence, an audit/compliance plan, and an executive reporting structure.
High-priority remediation begins, recurring leadership reporting is running, owners and vendors are coordinated, and board-level metrics take shape.
Enterprise clients, sponsor banks or partners require SOC 2, PCI DSS, stronger controls or security diligence.
Leadership needs credible reporting, ownership and a prioritized security roadmap.
You need senior security leadership that understands financial-services and digital-asset requirements.
Security is spread across IT, engineering, compliance and vendors, but no executive owns the whole program.
The company needs senior judgment and accountability without the cost or hiring cycle of a full-time CISO.
A prioritized plan matched to the company's stage, risk profile and regulatory requirements.
A living risk register, ownership for every exposure, and the judgment to know what matters first.
SOC 2, PCI DSS, NYDFS Part 500 and the evidence trail auditors, customers and regulators ask for.
Board-level metrics and clear narratives — risk, decisions and what happens next.
Tested response plans and a steady hand when something goes wrong.
Third-party and custody risk managed as part of the program, not an afterthought.
NTD works alongside your leadership, technology, compliance and operating teams — setting priorities, establishing accountability and moving the program forward. NTD is not an MSSP or a penetration-testing company.
Your primary offer: security strategy, risk management, board reporting, security program leadership, incident readiness, and executive advisory.
Fractional CISO ServicesSOC 2, PCI DSS, regulatory readiness, customer security requirements, investor diligence, and related audit/readiness work — scoped as assessments or as part of an ongoing engagement.
Risk & Readiness ServicesFinTech/payments, digital assets and stablecoins, AI governance, and board/M&A/security diligence where the asset class or technology demands specific judgment.
Explore Specialized AdvisoryIndividual service pages: FinTech security · digital asset security · AI governance · board, M&A & diligence support
NTD works with payments, lending, financial technology, digital asset and stablecoin companies — businesses where security decisions are scrutinized by enterprise customers, sponsor banks, investors and regulators. That specialization shapes the priorities, the evidence and the reporting.
Ron Moore has served as CISO and VP of Technology at a Nasdaq-listed crypto FinTech company, where he led the security program through a SPAC transaction and public listing, SOC 2 and PCI DSS audits, board reporting, regulatory scrutiny, and security incidents. He wasn't advising the team from the outside — he was accountable for the program, the people, and the results.
Before that, he spent more than 20 years in FinTech and payments, including senior technology leadership roles at a global ATM and payments company, building and running technology and security organizations with P&L responsibility. He has also been on both sides of security diligence — answering the questions as an operator and evaluating risk as an executive.
Why that matters: You're getting judgment shaped by running technology and security programs under real business, regulatory, and board-level pressure. NTD doesn't replace your MSSP, install firewalls, or run penetration tests. The focus is executive security leadership — setting priorities, building the program, managing risk, and helping you communicate clearly with your board, auditors, customers, and business partners.
NTD Consulting is based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area and works with companies locally and across the United States — see fractional CISO services in Dallas–Fort Worth.
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