About

The Ashlyn Consulting Group provides cybersecurity consulting services to clients worldwide.

Ashlyn Consulting Group is a boutique cybersecurity consulting firm owned and operated by Matt McKean. Matt and his team have extensive experience helping clients worldwide review and improve cybersecurity programs to reduce risk, decrease cost, and improve performance.

We work with all levels of clients in the public and private sectors, from analysts, managers, and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to C-suite executives and Boards.

Recent examples of our work include:

Cybersecurity program reviews against standard (CMMC, NIST) and custom (risk, maturity, performance) models, including detailed analysis and documentation of current state, gaps, and target state.

Cybersecurity program improvements, including design and prototyping of new strategies and ideas, redesign of processes, development of new metrics and dashboards, competitor and market analysis, and more.

Design and creation of supporting tools and processes that improve the speed and quality of cybersecurity program reviews and improvements based cybersecurity standards and best practices.

Matt McKean

Founder and Owner, Ashlyn Consulting Group

Matt has more than 30 years of consulting experience, serving public and private clients worldwide, primarily in the areas of security program assessment and improvement. Matt is a Registered Practitioner (RP) for CMMC.

In addition to founding Ashlyn Consulting Group, Matt served as the Chief Design Officer for a cybersecurity startup, managed classified security programs for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and was a senior manager on Booz Allen Hamilton's International Team.

Matt has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Operations Research) from Princeton University. He, his wife, and their rescued fur babies live in Virginia's horse and wine country.