WHERE STRATEGY MEETS SECURITY
Rehearse the cyber incident before your team has to manage one.
Spartan helps leadership, IT, and business teams practice incident decisions through facilitated cybersecurity tabletop exercises. Examine responsibilities, identify gaps, and agree on practical next steps.
Facilitated tabletop exercises
Work through a realistic disruption with the people responsible for responding.
Examine escalation, operational decisions, and communication. Identify questions to resolve before a real incident.
Ask to see Spartan’s tabletop workspace during your scoping conversation.
Who we are
About Us
Spartan Cyber Consulting was built on a simple premise: mid-market organizations deserve practitioner-grade security methodology — not generic frameworks copied from enterprise playbooks. Our founder brings over a decade of hands-on experience across military, government, private, and public sectors. That background shaped two proprietary methodologies — SAGA and SPEAR — built specifically for real-world conditions.
Our Approach
We start with your objectives, participants, and business context. Together we agree on the scope, scenario, schedule, and deliverables. Spartan facilitates the discussion and turns observations into practical findings your team can use.
An exercise built around your objectives
Prepare
Agree on the scenario, participants, and decisions to examine.
Rehearse
Work through the incident with Spartan facilitating the discussion.
Improve
Review findings and agree on useful next steps. Deliverables and follow-up are defined in your scope.
Our Methodologies
SAGA — AI Governance Audit
Most organizations have granted AI systems access they would never grant a human employee, and have no documented record of having done so. SAGA is a structured, three-layer audit methodology that inventories AI tools within the agreed discovery scope in your environment, scores its access and authority across five dimensions, and maps your governance maturity across eight evidence-based dimensions. Three weeks. Two deliverables. One clear picture of your AI risk posture.
SPEAR — Exposure Window Reduction
AI-assisted exploit generation is collapsing the time between vulnerability discovery and active exploitation. Traditional 14-day patch SLAs were built for a world that no longer exists. SPEAR replaces patch-compliance thinking with a four-lever exposure reduction model, Patch, Virtual Patch, Isolate, and Detect & Respond, prioritized by asset tier. The metric that matters isn’t Mean Time to Patch. It’s Mean Time to Mitigate.
AI Advisory — Fight AI With AI
Your adversaries are already using AI to find vulnerabilities, craft phishing attacks, and automate exploitation at scale. We identify where AI tools can strengthen your detection, response, and monitoring capabilities, and where they introduce the very risks they’re supposed to prevent. You get a clear, prioritized map of where AI helps your security program and where it creates new exposure.
What we Offer
Our Services
Why Choose Us
Why organizations choose Spartan
Work directly with the practitioner delivering your engagement. Spartan brings experience in cybersecurity exercises, training, course development, and specialist advisory, with work scoped to your organization’s needs.
Trusted Company
A proven track record handling sensitive information across military, government, private, and public sector engagements. We bring the same rigor to your environment that high-stakes organizations demand.
Expertise
Over a decade of hands-on cybersecurity experience across diverse sectors. Industry-leading certifications. Deep understanding of the threat landscape that mid-market organizations actually face, not theoretical enterprise scenarios.
Practitioner-Led
You work directly with the founder, not a junior analyst following a template. Every engagement is led by the practitioner who built the methodology, with direct accountability for findings and recommendations.
No Boilerplate
No 200-page reports padded with generic findings. No recommendations copied from a compliance checklist. Every deliverable is specific to your environment, your tools, and your actual risk exposure.
Meet your consultant
Founder and Principal Consultant
Credentials & Background
Military Service
Education
Certifications
Speaking & Instruction
SANS Institute
Instructor & AI Speaker · Cybersecurity instruction and public speaking
✓ Verify Credential →Zakery Stufflebeam
Founder & Principal Consultant — Spartan Cyber Consulting
Zak founded Spartan Cyber Consulting after a career spanning U.S. Air Force service, federal government, and private sector cybersecurity. That background, operating in environments where security failures have real consequences — shaped both the SAGA and SPEAR methodologies. Zak holds a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity and brings a broad set of cybersecurity credentials: CISSP, GCIH, GPEN, GWAPT, GSOM, CEH, SSCP, Security+, Network+, and Project+. He is a recognized SANS AI speaker with a verified Credly badge, one of a small number of practitioners nationally who has presented on AI security at that level. When you engage Spartan, Zak runs your engagement personally.
Zak Stufflebeam
CEO
With over a decade of cybersecurity experience with public, private, and government sectors I have dedicated myself to my craft and cant wait to bring that passion and skillset to your business.
Testimonial
What they say about us.
On behalf of the entire team, I wanted to express our sincerest gratitude for your time, expertise, and unwavering dedication to furthering our understanding of cybersecurity. Your contributions will undoubtedly continue to resonate with us, as we navigate the evolving landscape of the hospitality industry. Lastly, I wanted to thank you serving and protecting our country from foreign cybersecurity threats. Once again, thank you for your invaluable contribution, Zak. We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to learn from you and look forward to the possibility of collaborating again in the future! Regards,
Zak Stufflebeam has been extremely instrumental in supporting two different high-visibility cyber missions. His understanding of cyber operation and cyber network defense has allowed the Air Operations Center, and Joint Cyber Team missions to operational success. Zak Stufflebeam is a proven leader in cybersecurity with his role as director of cybersecurity running a security operations center (SOC).
