I'm Avi Braunshweiger, founder of Fortify. Over and over I've seen the same gap at NYDFS-regulated insurance carriers, brokerages, and agencies: the IT company keeps the systems running, but nobody owns the governance program - who decides the risks, where it's written down, and whether leadership can defend the certification they sign every April. That's the gap I built Fortify to fill.

I work with NYDFS-regulated insurance carriers, brokerages, and agencies as the person who runs that second job: the governance, the documentation, and the risk process, so leadership can make and defend its decisions - already in place when the examiner arrives, instead of getting manufactured in the weeks after. For some agencies that means building the program long before a letter ever comes. For others, it means walking in the day the first-day letter lands and steadying the response. This is the work I've built my practice entirely around — not one service among many, the whole of it.

Over a decade in IT and security, the last several years focused entirely on cybersecurity governance and NYDFS Part 500. The credentials are below — but they've never been why a client trusts me. That comes from owning the fix, not just naming the problem.

Fortify is boutique on purpose. I work with a handful of agencies at a time, so each one gets real attention — which also means my calendar is genuinely limited. If you want someone to check a box and move on, I'm honestly not your person. But the certification comes due every April 15, and the time to fix what's missing is now — not in the weeks before, when there's no runway left and no room on my calendar. If you want a program that holds up, let's talk while there's still time to do it right.