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Welcome to Fortiva IT Consulting

North County San Diego · Carlsbad · Encinitas · San Marcos

Senior IT leadership,
without the full-time commitment.

At Fortiva IT, we are your embedded, CISSP-certified IT Director helping with your security, compliance, vendor management, and building the technology roadmap to get your business where you want it to go.

Free 30-Min Tech Assessment

Find out exactly where your IT and security stand. No obligation, no sales pitch.

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Sound familiar?

Growing businesses get stuck
in the IT gap

Too big to run without real IT leadership. Too small to justify a $150K+ full-time IT Director. That’s the gap we fill.

Compliance

HIPAA or PCI audit risk

You handle patient data or take card payments, but no one owns compliance full time. One audit — or one breach — changes everything.

Security

No one’s watching the whole picture

Your MSP handles tickets. But who’s checking your physical access controls, your backups, and your exposure to ransomware — together, not piecemeal?

Strategy

No roadmap, just reactive spending

New software, new locations, new staff — every decision gets made in isolation. Without a plan, technology spend stops serving the business.

How it works

From first call to a clear plan —
in weeks, not months

1

Free assessment call

30 minutes. We talk through your current setup, your goals, and where things feel exposed or uncertain.

2

Audit & findings

We review your tech stack and security posture and hand you a written report — plain language, no jargon.

3

Roadmap & recommendations

A prioritized plan tied to your business goals, with vendor-neutral recommendations for what to fix first.

4

Ongoing IT leadership

If it makes sense, we stay on as your fractional IT Director — executing the plan and managing it going forward.

What we do

Three ways to work with us

Start with an audit, or go straight to embedded leadership — whatever fits where your business is right now.

01
Ongoing engagement

Fractional IT Director

We operate as your embedded IT Director — owning strategy, vendor management, compliance, and infrastructure decisions. Senior-level leadership, without the full-time cost or the full-time hire.

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02
Assessment

Security Audits

A full review of your cyber and physical security — endpoints, network, access controls, backups, and entry points. You get a written risk report and a clear sense of what needs attention first.

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03
Assessment + Strategy

Tech Stack Audit & Roadmapping

We review what you’re running and what you’re paying for, then build a technology roadmap tied to your actual business goals — with vendor-neutral recommendations, not a sales pitch for someone else’s product.

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Why Fortiva

Senior credentials.
Hands-on operators.

We bring 25+ years of IT leadership across healthcare, hospitality, financial services, and professional services — now focused entirely on North County San Diego businesses.

Certifications

CISSP — ISC²Certified Information Systems Security Professional
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor — PECBInformation Security Management Systems
CompTIA Network+Networking infrastructure & security
CC — ISC²Certified in Cybersecurity

Speaking & Publications

CSO Online / CIO Magazine / The HillPublished on cybersecurity and AI strategy
BSides San Diego — April 2026Cybersecurity conference presenter
Planet CyberSecCybersecurity speaker & presenter
DEF CON 858 Group — December 2025San Diego local security community meetup
Layer8 Masters CISO-CIO Forum (×2)La Jolla & Redondo Beach

Ready to find out where
your current IT stack actually stands?

The assessment is free, takes 30 minutes, and gives you a clear picture of whether or not you’re on solid ground.

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