About Onyx Security Labs

The calm place where your security posture lives.

We are a cybersecurity, compliance, and offensive security firm built on a simple belief: regulated businesses do not need another dashboard or another vendor. They need a trusted team that does the work, is clear about scope, and stands behind what it ships.

Origin

Why we built this.

We started Onyx Security Labs after years of watching good companies pay five vendors, sit through ten sales calls, and still find security and compliance gaps the morning of an audit.

Security and compliance were supposed to be the steady, protective part of running a business. Instead they became vendor sprawl: one firm for PCI, another for penetration testing, a platform for SOC 2, an advisor for ISO, a lawyer for GDPR, and a Data Protection Officer you could not justify hiring full-time.

So we built one team that covers all of it. PCI DSS, ISO certification, penetration testing and red teaming, GDPR and HIPAA readiness, vCISO, audits, and security governance. One accountable team, clear scope, and artifacts a real auditor can sign. Where a formal signature is required, we deliver it through accredited partners and tell you exactly who signs what.

We named the company Onyx Security Labs because that is what we are: the calm, steady place where your security posture lives. You should be able to trust it is handled, and know who to call when you have a question.

Three Values

Three. Not seven.

The fewer values a company has, the more they mean. Each of these is a behavior, not an aspiration.

Transparency by default

Clear scope in versus out, who does the work, who signs the accredited deliverables, and a public sub-processor list. No buyer should be in the dark about how the work gets done.

One point of contact

Every account has a named lead, and a named DPO where the engagement calls for one. No round-robin support, no ticket queues, no "your account manager left."

Calm under regulation

We do not sell fear. Other vendors lead with breach statistics and fine amounts. We lead with "here is your plan, and here is what we will hand you." Security should reduce anxiety, not manufacture it.

Principals

The people responsible for what we ship.

One named lead on every engagement. You always know who owns the work and who to call.

AA Atika Arif
Atika Arif
Chief Executive Officer & Cybersecurity Instructor

Atika leads security service delivery and the methodology behind PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 readiness engagements. She is also a cybersecurity instructor, teaching the same standards she delivers against.

ISO 27001 Lead AuditorCISMCISACEHCOBIT 2019
Frameworks we deliver against

Built on the standards your auditors expect.

ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor
CISM
CISA
COBIT 2019
CEH
CRTP
eCPPT
CSA
CCNA
ITIL

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