Our founders

CyVantage was founded by Chris Fogle and Rob Schmidt who had previously founded Delta Risk LLC. In 2015 Delta Risk was purchased by Diamond Holdings in a private equity deal led by Sec. Michael Chertoff (DHS Ret.) and Gen. Michael Hayden (NSA, CIA, Air Force, Ret.). Mr. Fogle and Mr. Schmidt bring considerable Cyber and Financial Services expertise to the new enterprise. 

Our team of cyber security experts leverages expertise from close association with the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Intelligence Community. ​

• Exercise development from small-scale tabletops for CEOs and flag-level officers, to technical drills for attackers and defenders, to large-scale national exercises, to challenges on all aspects of national power.

• Training on cyber warfare, intelligence support to cyber warfare, exercise planning, contingency planning, top-level domain operations, Computer Incident Response Team and Fusion Center Operations, cyber Red Teaming, intrusion monitoring, enterprise cyber defense, insider detection, and detecting advanced persistent threats.

• Incident response and developing Concepts of Operation against advanced cyber threats.

• Strategic consulting and policy development, using our experience at the highest levels of government and private-public sector partnerships to help organizations define their cybersecurity postures.

• Business Resiliency and Mission Assurance, to guide enterprises in performing risk assessments and developing contingency plans focusing on their most critical operations and information assets.

• Cyber defense assessments, to assess an organization’s cyber defense program — people, processes, and technology — and their ability to defend against and respond to advanced adversaries.