If your business doesn’t have a dedicated security team — and most small and midsized businesses don’t — you’re not alone, and you don’t need to hire a department to get real security guidance. NetCoreSolutions provides practical, hands-on cybersecurity and compliance consulting built for businesses that need to know where they stand, close real gaps, and keep operating with confidence.
What We Cover
Our cybersecurity practice covers the full range of what a growing business actually needs:
- Virtual CISO / Security Program Leadership — Ongoing security leadership and decision-making without the cost of a full-time hire.
- SOC 2 Readiness, Remediation & Compliance-Program Leadership — If your business needs to prepare for a SOC 2 audit or lead an ongoing compliance program, we lead that work. (See below for the essential distinction between what we do and what a licensed auditor does — full detail on our dedicated SOC 2 page.)
- Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessment — see the dedicated section below.
- Incident Response Planning — see the dedicated section below.
SOC 2 Readiness & Compliance-Program Leadership — A Quick Distinction
NetCoreSolutions leads SOC 2 readiness, gap remediation, and ongoing compliance-program work — helping you understand where your controls stand and building the plan to close the gaps. We do not conduct the independent SOC 2 audit itself. That attestation is performed by a licensed CPA firm, separate from the readiness work. Keeping those two roles distinct isn’t just a technicality — it’s how SOC 2 is supposed to work. Read the full breakdown of our SOC 2 readiness and compliance-program leadership work →
Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessment
Understanding where your systems and applications are actually exposed is different from assuming they’re fine. We help businesses evaluate their real security exposure through structured testing.
How this works: Penetration testing is delivered through our qualified testing partners. NetCoreSolutions manages the engagement, works directly with you to define scope, and helps translate the findings into a clear, prioritized plan — but the hands-on technical testing itself is performed by our vetted partner. This partner-delivered model means you get specialized, dedicated testing expertise without needing to separately vet and manage a testing vendor yourself.
At the end of an engagement, you receive a written report identifying what was found and how to prioritize fixing it — explained in terms that make sense for a business decision, not just a technical one.
Vulnerability Assessment
A structured review of your systems and applications to identify weaknesses before they become a problem — a useful starting point whether or not a full penetration test is the right next step yet.
Incident Response Planning
A security incident is a bad time to discover you don’t have a plan. NetCoreSolutions helps businesses build that plan before it’s needed — this is an active, hands-on part of what we do, not an afterthought.
What this includes:
- Incident-response plan development
- Review of an existing plan, if you already have one
- Roles and escalation matrices — who does what, and who needs to know
- Incident communications planning — what gets said, to whom, and when
- Tabletop exercises — a facilitated walkthrough of a realistic scenario so your team knows what to do before it’s real
- After-action reports following a tabletop exercise or a real event
- Remediation roadmaps
- Annual plan reviews, so the plan doesn’t go stale
What this is not: NetCoreSolutions’ incident response planning is preparation and planning work — it is not a 24/7 emergency response retainer, a digital-forensics service, or a breach-containment/active-emergency-response capability, and NetCoreSolutions does not operate a security operations center or emergency response hotline. If you’re looking for that kind of service, we’re not it — but if you want a real plan in place before you ever need one, that’s exactly what we do.
Our Approach
Everything above connects to the same idea: build securely, operate intelligently, grow confidently. Security at NetCoreSolutions isn’t a bolt-on service — it’s the same discipline that runs through our web application development and AI automation work too. You’re not hiring three separate vendors; you’re working with one partner who takes security seriously across everything they touch.
Illinois-Based, Available Nationwide
NetCoreSolutions is Illinois-based, serving organizations throughout Illinois — including Chicago-area service availability — and available to clients across the United States.
Frequently Asked Questions
We don’t have an internal IT or security person — can you still help us?
Yes. Most of the businesses we work with don’t have a dedicated internal security function, and that’s exactly the gap we’re built to fill.
Does NetCoreSolutions perform the SOC 2 audit itself?
No. We lead readiness, remediation, and compliance-program work. The independent attestation is performed by a licensed CPA firm. Learn more on our SOC 2 page →
Does NetCoreSolutions perform the penetration test itself?
Penetration testing is delivered through our qualified testing partners; we manage the engagement and help you act on the results.
Is your incident response service a 24/7 emergency response line?
No. Our incident response work is planning and preparation — building, reviewing, and exercising your plan before an incident happens. We are not a 24/7 emergency retainer or breach-response service.
Do you work with businesses outside Illinois?
Yes. We’re Illinois-based and available to clients across the United States.