Cybersecurity Services for Assura

Assura has worked out of Richmond since 2007, close enough to Washington to compete for federal-adjacent work and far enough out to serve Virginia's state agencies, health systems and transportation authorities on their own terms.

That client mix is more demanding than its size suggests. A state transportation authority runs operational technology in the field, on roads and bridges, where a failure is a public safety event rather than a data breach. A regional health system holds records under HIPAA with a fraction of a national provider's budget. A state agency answers to auditors on a published cycle. Each needs a different specialism, and none of them individually justifies a full-time hire at a firm of Assura's size.

CWS supplies those specialisms per engagement. Operational technology assessment, healthcare compliance and public sector audit support, delivered under Assura's name. The client keeps the local firm that answers the phone, and gets capability that would otherwise mean going to a national consultancy that will not remember their name.