Brick House provides technology support for businesses and organizations seeking to reduce costs and free up technical resources to focus on their core competencies. Through our extensive multi-vendor, multi-platform capabilities — and our experience integrating a broad range of services — Brick House can meet the most demanding support needs, from a single engagement to a fully managed security program.
Where Reliability Meets Resilience
Authorization to Operate (ATO)
An Authorization to Operate is the gate between your system and its users — and the paperwork alone won't get you through it. We guide cloud service offerings, government contractors, and agencies through the full ATO lifecycle: categorization, control selection and implementation, assessment preparation, POA&M management, and continuous monitoring handoff. Whether it's your first ATO or a renewal under a new framework, we keep the process moving and the assessors satisfied.
Cloud Service Provider
Moving to the cloud changes your risk picture — it doesn't erase it. We help cloud service providers and cloud-first businesses design, build, and validate secure environments: architecture reviews, identity and access hardening, encryption strategy, logging and detection, and configuration baselines for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Our goal is simple: a cloud footprint that's secure by design, audit-ready, and cost-aware.
Continuous Monitoring [ConMon]
Security is not a point-in-time achievement — it's a daily practice. Our Continuous Monitoring service gives you ongoing visibility into your security posture: vulnerability management, log analysis, threat intelligence, and monthly reporting that tells you what changed, what's at risk, and what to fix first. ConMon is also the backbone of FedRAMP and other compliance programs — we run it so your team can run the business.
Penetration Testing [PenTest]
The safest way to meet an attacker is on your own terms. Our penetration testing engagements simulate real-world adversaries against your applications, networks, and cloud environments — then hand you a clear, prioritized report with reproduction steps and remediation guidance. From scoped web-application tests to full adversary emulation, every engagement is performed by experienced testers and tuned to your risk profile, not a generic checklist.
Risk & Needs Assessments
You can't defend what you haven't measured. Our Risk & Needs assessments give leadership a clear-eyed view of where the organization stands: asset and threat identification, control gap analysis, maturity scoring, and a pragmatic roadmap ranked by risk and cost. The deliverable isn't a binder — it's a decision-making tool that tells you what to fix first, what can wait, and how to budget for both.
Technical Specifications [TechSpec]
Good security starts with good specifications. TechSpec translates business and compliance requirements into concrete technical standards — hardening baselines, secure configuration guides, architecture patterns, and engineering standards your teams can actually build against. We write them, socialize them, and help you enforce them, so secure becomes a property of how you build, not an afterthought.