VoidNet/About

Small team.
Long careers.

Who we are

VoidNet Systems is a small, senior cybersecurity practice. No bench warmers, no offshore NOC, no account managers between you and the work. Every engagement is run by an operator who's spent decades in the rooms where you don't get a second draft.

We were founded on a simple read of the market: most commercial teams get the B-tier of cybersecurity talent. We think that's backwards. The rigor the federal side pays for — the evidence chains, the runbook discipline, the "assume you'll be asked to prove it" posture — works even better when it's applied to a team that can actually move fast.

Our principles

We run unfashionable security — the kind that holds up when the auditor leaves, the incident hits, or the contract you're hoping to sign asks for a SOC 2 report on a Tuesday.

01

Senior every seat

The person who scopes is the person who ships. No handoffs to juniors, no pass-throughs to subcontractors you've never met.

02

Evidence over opinion

We write everything down — hashes, timestamps, decision logs. If it isn't in the record, it didn't happen.

03

Scope is honest

If it's not work we're right for, we'll tell you and route you to someone better. The referral is free; the integrity is the product.

04

Work before paperwork

Compliance is a byproduct of good engineering, not its justification. We fix the system first, document it second.

05

Quiet when it's working

The best outcome is a boring month. No fire drills, no status theatre — just a slowly climbing readiness score.

06

Off-ramps, not lock-ins

Quarterly exits on every retainer. We earn the renewal each time. If we're not delivering, leave us.

Founder / CEO
Nick Martin

Nick Martin

Founder & CEO · IT & security · FedRAMP and CMMC experience

Nick has spent his career standing up and securing IT for federal agencies, defense primes, and the SaaS platforms that serve them, with deep experience across FedRAMP, SOC 2, and CMMC work.

Before VoidNet, he led security engineering at a FedRAMP-authorized platform and worked as a federal consulting SME across civilian programs.

"The best security is indistinguishable from IT that just works. Our job is to make the unseen structure solid — the compliance is a byproduct."

VoidNet is what happens when that perspective is brought to commercial teams that need the rigor but can't afford the overhead of a federal services firm.

FedRAMP CMMC NIST 800-53 / 171 OSCAL AWS · Azure · GCP vCISO

Path · selected milestones

2026
VoidNet Systems founded
Commercial-first cyber practice · Docyard private beta
Founded
2023–2025
Head of Security Engineering · FedRAMP SaaS
Authorization maintenance across renewal cycles
Platform
2019–2023
Security Lead · Defense Prime
CMMC 1.0 → 2.0 transition program · 4 BUs
Defense
2014–2019
Consulting SME · Federal Civilian
Civilian programs · ATO support · OSCAL contributor
Federal
2006–2014
IT & Security Engineer · various
Cut teeth on identity, endpoints, forensics, incident response
Field
The bench

Operators, not analysts.

Every VoidNet engagement ships with a named lead and a hand-picked operator. A few of the people we work with:

T

Trevor Clark

Lead InfoSec Engineer · FedRAMP & Cloud Security

Leads FedRAMP Moderate authorization work for a secure file-sharing platform — SSP authoring, OSCAL mapping, and 3PAO coordination. Background in AWS GovCloud security architecture and SIEM engineering (Splunk & Sentinel).

FedRAMPNIST 800-53CMMC L2AWS GovCloudAzure GovSplunkSentinelTenableTerraform
LocationWashington, USA
FocusFedRAMP · SIEM
D

Dean Davis

Sr DevSecOps · GCP · Kubernetes

Senior DevSecOps lead. Builds the pipelines, landing zones, and hardened Kubernetes platforms the security posture actually rides on — Terraform-first, GCP-heavy, no snowflakes.

Brings the other half of modern commercial security: the automation that turns policy into reality every time an engineer pushes to main.

GCPKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsArgoOPA / RegoSupply chain
LocationRemote · US
FocusDevSecOps · K8s
Referral network

When it's not our work, we route it honestly.

CMMC · 3PAO / C3PAO
Two assessment firms

Authorized C3PAOs for formal CMMC L2 assessment. We've signed enough attestations together to know their bench.

Active · warm intro on request
FedRAMP · 3PAO
One senior 3PAO

Mid-market-friendly FedRAMP 3PAO. They take the assessment; we prep the posture — the handoff is clean.

Active · warm intro on request
Legal · Privacy
Two outside firms

Privacy and data-breach counsel for when the IR playbook needs a signature, not just a screenshot.

Available · warm intro on request
PenTest · Red team
A small boutique

Deep web, cloud, and AI/LLM red team. When you need an adversary who'll actually try, not a scan-and-report.

Active · warm intro on request
Staffing · Fractional
Senior-only talent bench

For the rare engagement that outgrows us in scope, we staff up from a bench of senior ex-federal operators.

On standby
Always-open
Add yours

If you're a specialist firm that does one thing superbly and hands it off cleanly, we'd like to know you.

Email [email protected]

Work with the people in the room.

A 30-minute call with Nick. No pitch deck. Honest scope of what we'd do first.

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