Built for the organizations enterprises leave behind.

TriVigil started in education because that is where the gap was widest. A college holds some of the most sensitive data in American life, faces the same attackers a bank does, and defends it with a security office that is usually a fraction of the size the job calls for. That is the gap TriVigil was set up to fill.

After years of that work, it was clear the problem was not specific to education. It belonged to any organization that is valuable enough to attack, too small to staff a security function, and obligated to protect data belonging to people who never chose to trust it.

So the practice expanded. We now bring the same frameworks we developed in education to small and medium businesses and to investor portfolios. What has not changed is that the work is led by people you can name, and technology is the material we work with.

What we believe

Leadership decides most outcomes

Serious incidents usually trace back to a decision: a deferred project, an accepted risk nobody wrote down, an assumption that the vendor had it covered. Tooling helps, but the organizations that get through this well are the ones where somebody senior owns the outcome. The retainer exists to put that person in place.

Recommendations have to be affordable

You can hand an organization a two-hundred-page assessment that is technically flawless and change nothing about its risk. We would rather give you six things, ranked, with real costs and timelines, and then help you do them. We only recommend things you can fund in the next budget cycle.

We don't sell fear

Our industry sells a lot of anxiety, and we've watched it exhaust the very people who most need to stay engaged. Every statistic on this site is cited to its source, and we checked each one before publishing it.

One partner, one number

The organizations we serve do not have the bandwidth to coordinate five vendors and work out whose responsibility a gap was. We take accountability for the whole thing, and you call one place when something is wrong.

Where we work

We are headquartered in Austin, Texas, and we work with organizations across the United States. Most of our education work is with colleges and universities, alongside K-12 districts and charter schools. Business engagements run from ten-person firms to a few hundred employees across multiple sites.

If you are not sure whether you are the kind of organization we work with, the fastest way to find out is a conversation. We usually know within the first half hour either way.