ABOUT STRACE
Built by practitioners. Trusted when it counts.
Strace Technologies is a veteran-owned cybersecurity firm based in Plano, Texas, built on a single conviction — the firms that handle your most sensitive work should be the ones who've actually done the work.
OUR STORY
Strace was founded by cybersecurity practitioners with backgrounds in US military service, federal cybersecurity operations, and enterprise security leadership. We started the firm because we kept seeing the same pattern in the industry — buyers paying premium rates to large consultancies, and getting junior analysts running playbooks they didn't write.
We built Strace to fix that. Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner. Every scope is built by the person who'll execute it. Every deliverable reflects work we'd put our name on.
The firm is veteran-owned, US-based, and structured to serve organizations across the United States. Our work spans four practice areas: incident response, compliance and advisory, cloud security, and corporate cyber training.
We are not the biggest cybersecurity firm. We are deliberately not trying to be. We are the firm you call when the work has to be done right.
HOW STRACE OPERATES
Founder-led. Practitioner-run.
Strace is founder-led and practitioner-run. Engagements are scoped and delivered by senior cybersecurity professionals with experience across enterprise security operations, incident response, cloud security, and compliance-driven environments. As the firm grows, every practitioner who joins meets the same bar — senior depth, hands-on background, ability to lead engagements end-to-end.
We do not subcontract engagements to junior consultants. We do not staff incidents with rotating teams. The person you meet at the consultation is the person who delivers the work.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Four convictions.
01 — Practitioner-led, always
A firm where seniors scope and juniors execute is one where the work degrades on day one. Strace engagements are led end-to-end by the practitioner who scoped them.
02 — Speed is methodology
Real response speed comes from standardized methodology, pre-negotiated contracts, and practitioners who've done this exact work before. We are built around all three.
03 — Documentation is the product
Reports that survive an assessor's questions, IR reports that hold up in litigation, training that changes behavior measurably — that's the actual product. Everything else is the work that produces it.
04 — Pricing should be defensible
Our clients have to justify our invoices to their boards, their finance teams, and their cyber insurance carriers. We price in fixed-scope engagements that can be defended.
HOW WE WORK
Four phases, every engagement.
01 · SCOPE
Every engagement starts with a no-obligation consultation. We listen, we ask hard questions, and we tell you what we can actually deliver.
02 · DELIVER
Work is executed by the practitioner who scoped it, against a written statement of work with fixed deliverables and a defined timeline.
03 · DOCUMENT
Every Strace engagement produces written deliverables built to survive scrutiny — from assessors, from insurance carriers, from litigation, or from your own board.
04 · CONTINUE
When the engagement closes, we don't disappear. Most Strace clients return for adjacent work — retainers, follow-on assessments, training, or advisory.
WHERE WE WORK
Headquarters
Plano, Texas — in the Dallas–Fort Worth corridor, home to one of the densest concentrations of defense, technology, and enterprise firms in the United States.
Primary market
Defense contractors, mid-market businesses, professional services firms, healthcare and behavioral health practices, nonprofits and associations, and government contractors across the United States.
Channel partnerships
Strace works with managed service providers (MSPs) that need senior security depth without building an internal cybersecurity practice — typically on incident response, M365 hardening, and compliance engagements. White-label and co-engagement structures are available.
WHAT WE'RE BUILDING TOWARD
In active build-out — public when complete.
Strace will not claim a credential until it is held. The following are in progress; each will appear on this page when complete.
- SAM.gov registration with active UEIIn progress
- SBA Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) certificationIn progress
- Errors & Omissions and cyber liability insuranceIn progress
WHY “STRACE”
In Linux, straceis the diagnostic tool that traces every system call a process makes — how it actually behaves, not how it claims to behave. The name captures what we do for our clients: trace what's actually happening in your environment, surface what's exposed, and fix what's broken. Practitioners know the reference. That's intentional.
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