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A security assessment that needs to answer what could happen next.
Establish what a compromised account can reach, which defenses respond, and where remediation will make a practical difference.
Secure Data Solutions · Founded 2007
Security engineered for real operations.
Understand your exposure. Make the right changes with evidence behind them.
SDS brings cybersecurity architecture and hands-on engineering to the systems your business depends on. We test attack paths and defenses, resolve complex infrastructure problems, and build private AI environments with clear operating controls.
Founded 2007 · Vendor-independent · Enterprise and public-sector clients
What we take on
The work clients bring us.
A useful starting point for the exposure, difficult change, or operational gap in front of you.
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A migration with dependencies that cannot be missed.
Plan network, firewall, identity, and application changes together, with validation and recovery steps defined before the cutover.
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A detection gap that needs evidence.
Trace the activity through network telemetry, security controls, and alert routing so the team can understand what it is seeing and where visibility is missing.
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An AI initiative that needs an operating model.
Define how the infrastructure runs, what an agent can access, who approves consequential actions, and how failures are detected and recovered.
SDS connects assessment, architecture, and hands-on engineering with the evidence needed to judge the result.
What we engineer
Assessment. Engineering. Verification.
Specialist depth across security, infrastructure, and private AI, with practical guidance your operating team can use.
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Penetration testing and security audits
Test practical attack paths and the defenses intended to contain them. Connect configuration review, prevention and detection evidence, remediation guidance, and scoped retesting.
Breach Containment & Detection Validation →02
Network and systems architecture
Bring experienced engineering to the full environment: routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, identity, virtualization, storage, and data centers. Plan difficult migrations, resolve problems across systems, and validate the result with the team that will operate it.
Explore network and systems engineering →03
Agentic security operations
Bring network and endpoint evidence into agent-assisted investigation and remediation planning. Build workflows with defined permissions, human review, and traceable activity.
Agentic security operations →04
Private AI infrastructure
Build the infrastructure around the model: compute, serving, access, monitoring, and recovery. Give the operating team visibility into whether the services and their dependencies are working.
Private AI infrastructure →How we work
From “something’s wrong” to “we know this works.”
We follow dependencies through assessment, design, implementation, and validation. Each engagement defines the work, who owns production changes, and how the result will be checked.
- 01Find the truthUnderstand the environment, exposure, constraints, and operational reality.
- 02Design the answerTurn findings into a defensible architecture and an executable plan.
- 03Guide the changeDefine remediation and change ownership; scope implementation to the engagement.
- 04Prove it worksTest the result, document the decisions, and prepare the operating team.
Eddie Espino's career experience · SDS founded in 2007
The value of having worked through it before.
SDS founder Eddie Espino brings 25 years of consulting across more than 200 distinct technology and cybersecurity environments. Repeated exposure to different businesses, architectures, and operating teams has built the judgment to ask useful questions early, follow the dependencies, and work through difficult technical decisions.
Selected SDS engineering
Experience across the full environment.
Examples of SDS engineering across networks, recovery, and security operations.
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Campus network modernization
Modernized a college campus from a 10 Gb to 40 Gb core, replacing and reconfiguring switching, routing, access infrastructure, and firewalls in a fault-tolerant design.
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Recovery across the full environment
Engaged by a new client after a ransomware attack to lead containment and technical recovery across virtualization, compute, storage, Windows, Citrix, SQL, firewalls, and VPN dependencies. The work continued into rebuilding, upgrades, and hardening.
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Security-agent and AI operations engineering
Built agent-assisted workflows that combine security telemetry to identify threats and configuration drift and prepare remediation plans. Created an AI stability dashboard with live health checks and recovery controls for approved components.
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What needs to work better in your environment?
Tell us about the exposure, difficult change, or operational gap. We will help define a useful starting point and the evidence needed to judge the result.