Forge Secure AI.

A four to six week external review of your AI infrastructure, conducted by iTmethods engineers (not auditors, not policy reviewers). Working engineers who have built and operated governed AI substrates in regulated production. Scoped against your foundation model footprint (Bedrock, AI Foundry, Vertex, OpenAI, Anthropic), agent runtimes (Cursor Self-Hosted, Claude Code, LangGraph, CrewAI, Agentforce), MCP servers, identity surface, secrets management, and network boundary.

Deliverables, in writing, against a fixed scope: a board-ready threat model named to your assets and mapped to the risks that matter (tool-call abuse via MCP, prompt injection, credential and secret leakage, output abuse, supply-chain attacks on weights, blast radius from autonomous tool calls); a gap report against framework expectations and what your auditor will ask in twelve months; a prioritized, scoped, effort-estimated remediation plan; framework-mapped findings against OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, FINOS AIGF v2.0, and EU AI Act Article 9. The plan is what Harden executes against. CISO, CRO, Audit Committee Chair, and Head of Risk receive a document that goes into a board meeting and a regulator conversation without translation.

Engineering execution against the remediation plan produced in Assess. iTmethods engineers do the work, in your environment, against your runtime. Not consulting advisory. Not a steering committee. Not a slide deck handed back across the table. Engineers writing configuration, deploying controls, implementing pipeline gates, and wiring evidence collection into Reign's Audit Ledger (CAVR) so every control firing produces a hash-chained record.

Typical engagement runs 6 to 12 weeks, scoped against the Assess backlog. Hardened tool configurations across the Governed Tooling Layer (Atlassian, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, JFrog, SonarQube, Docker). Control libraries deployed across the Forge AI Substrate. Pipeline gates implemented at the points runtime risk concentrates: model swaps, agent deployments, MCP server registration, secret rotation, identity changes. Acceptance criteria documented per remediation item. CISO sign-off at exit; audit committee briefing optional. Every Harden engagement produces reusable platform artifacts (control libraries, pipeline gate templates, evidence wire patterns) that compound across the customer base.

Continuous operation of the assurance posture established in Harden. Not a monitoring dashboard. Operation as a discipline, with iTmethods engineers responsible for the running posture across the Governed Tooling Layer and the Forge AI Substrate. The runtime keeps moving. New agents ship, foundation models swap in, MCP servers connect, tools get added. The posture certified in Harden is correct on day one and drifts by day forty. Sustain keeps it current against that drift. Continuously, not quarterly.

Posture monitoring across the four sub-components of the substrate (Agent Runtime Ops, Governed Foundation Model Access, MCP and Tool Ops, Governed Sovereign Control Plane). Drift response when configurations move, agents are added, models swap, or tool surfaces expand. Incident remediation when a control fires, a tool-call goes out of bounds, or an agent exhibits anomalous behavior. Continuous evidence flow into Reign's Audit Ledger (CAVR), pre-mapped to Assurance Packs. Quarterly posture reviews with CISO and audit committee. Framework mapping updates as standards evolve. The auditor querying Reign on day 364 of a 365-day window sees current state, not a quarterly snapshot.