Cybersecurity · Compliance · AI · Product

Senior technology leadership, designed to fit your needs

Ardentech gives growing companies independent counsel on cybersecurity, compliance, AI and product strategy. Technology leadership that meets your team where they are and scales with your unique requirements.

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25+ yearsConsulting and technology leadership
CISSPCertified security professional
Acquisition-testedGrowing tech companies through acquisition and IPO
Framework consulting Advisory
  • SOC 2Readiness and audit support
  • HIPAA / HITRUSTHealthcare data
  • PCI DSSPayments and card data
  • ISO 27001Global security standards
  • AI governancePolicy and model risk
assess → advise → oversee

Services

Independent results, from strategy to audit

Bring Ardentech in for a defined advisory engagement or as an ongoing part of your leadership team. Every engagement is designed to address your unique challenges and result in actionable outcomes: an assessment, a roadmap, a clear decision or an audit-ready plan. Ardentech helps your team prepare for, and carry out, the next evolution of your business.

Security

Cybersecurity advisory

Security strategy, standards and architecture guidance sized to your risk, not a template.

  • Security program and policy design
  • Cloud, API and AI product security review
  • Application risk assessment and pen test scoping
  • Incident response and continuity planning

Compliance

Compliance readiness

Know where you stand against a framework and what it takes to become audit-ready.

  • SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI and NIST guidance
  • Gap assessment and remediation roadmap
  • Vendor and third-party risk review
  • Audit preparation and auditor liaison

AI

AI strategy and governance

Turn AI experiments into a clear strategy, with the security and oversight to match.

  • AI strategy and use-case roadmap
  • AI security and governance policy
  • AI product risk review
  • Vendor and model evaluation

Product

Product strategy

Guidance on planning, staffing and scaling SaaS products, from roadmap to large migrations.

  • SaaS product planning and roadmap
  • Team structure and hiring guidance
  • Migration and scaling strategy
  • Build-versus-buy decisions

Leadership

Fractional CTO and CISO

An experienced technology executive at your leadership table, part-time.

  • Technology vision and roadmap
  • Board and executive communication
  • IT budget, vendor and contract review
  • Technical due diligence for acquisition

Architecture

Architecture and vendor advisory

Independent review of the platforms and vendors your business depends on.

  • Cloud architecture review (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Network and identity design review
  • Security tool and vendor selection
  • Payments platform guidance

Experience

Perspective shaped by 25 years of leading technology

Ardentech's expertise comes from running technology at growing companies, not from a slide deck.

  • Help small technology companies grow through acquisition and IPO
  • Large scale web application firewall deployment
  • Enterprise product rewrite from strategy to design/development to deployment
  • SaaS customer migrations that cut cost per client by 75%
  • US market deployment of Inua Shield AI-based penetration testing
  • Oversight of cloud platform architecture and deployments for Apex Property Media (Azure) and Inua Shield (GCP)
  1. 2025 – present
    Managing Partner Edu Plus International Product development, AI research, partner and contractor management across a portfolio of ventures.
  2. 2023 – 2025
    Director of Security Architecture, Engineering and Operations Waystar Security standards, incident response, cloud and AI product security, and regulatory compliance after the HealthPay24 acquisition.
  3. 2015 – 2023
    Vice President of Technology HealthPay24 Technology strategy and teams through growth and acquisition by Waystar.
  4. 1999 – 2015
    Senior Project and IT Manager; Consultant and Developer ImageVision.Net Revenue cycle, e-commerce and reporting applications; infrastructure and project delivery.
Brian Evans, founder of Ardentech Advisory

About the founder

Brian Evans, CISSP

Brian founded Ardentech Advisory to give growing companies the kind of technology leadership he spent 25 years providing from the inside: as VP of Technology at HealthPay24 through its acquisition by Waystar, as Waystar's Director of Security Architecture, Engineering and Operations, and as Managing Partner of Edu Plus International.

Because his expertise comes from years of running technology, his recommendations are practical for the people who carry them out. Clients get an advisor who can explain risk to a board and give the engineering team and vendors a clear plan to address it.

Credentials CISSP B.S. Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management, Messiah University
Beyond client work Technology for development in Zambia Technical assessment for a new university in Choma, and a rural internet business center with the Macha Malaria Research Institute.

Contact

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