Cybersecurity and AI consulting in Charlotte, Washington, DC, Tampa, and virtually

Where deep expertise meets public-sector accountability.

RogueNation Solutions is a boutique cybersecurity and AI consulting firm serving government agencies, nonprofits, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and small businesses—organizations where security, technology, and workforce decisions have consequences beyond the bottom line.

Illustrative example

90-day action roadmap

Excerpt from a prioritized issue register

Example roadmap: priority, action, timing and owner
PriorityActionWhenOwner
CriticalRetire shared admin credentials and legacy service accountsDays 0–30Identity team
HighPublish an AI acceptable-use policy and tool inventoryDays 0–45CIO and counsel
HighTie SIEM detections to mission-critical systemsDays 31–60SOC lead
MediumRun a wire-fraud impersonation tabletop with financeDays 61–90Finance and security
Every recommendation tied to a risk, an owner, and a sequence your team can execute.
Years in security
15+
Doctoral credential
Ph.D.
Certified Fraud Examiner
CFE
Practitioner delivery model
Senior-led

Four disciplines. One senior-led practice.

Choose the service, not a generic consulting package.

  • Cybersecurity Advisory

    Assessments, security architecture, zero trust, identity, security operations, risk prioritization, and modernization roadmaps.

    Typical deliverables: Assessment package, Action roadmap

  • AI Strategy & Governance

    AI readiness, governance, acceptable use, data and identity risk, secure adoption, and implementation planning.

    Typical deliverables: AI governance package, Implementation roadmap

  • Security Training

    Security awareness, fraud risk, executive briefings, tabletop exercises, and role-relevant workforce education.

    Typical deliverables: Training plan, Custom content, After-action report

  • Curriculum Development

    Cybersecurity and AI learning programs for onboarding, professional development, executive education, and academic settings.

Security advice should fit the environment it has to operate in.

Mission, governance, budget, procurement, workforce, and regulatory constraints change what a practical recommendation looks like.

  • Government

    Federal, state & local

    Federal, state, and local organizations balancing mission, compliance, modernization, and operational risk.

  • Nonprofits

    Mission-driven organizations

    Focused security and AI guidance designed for constrained resources and mission accountability.

  • Education

    K–12 & higher education

    K–12 and higher-education security, workforce, policy, and curriculum needs.

  • Healthcare

    Public & mission-driven healthcare

    Security and AI considerations where sensitive information, continuity, and public trust intersect.

  • Small business

    Practical security & AI adoption

    Right-sized security, AI governance, and training without assuming a large internal security team.

  • Cross-sector

    Leadership & workforce

    Briefings, tabletops, acceptable-use guidance, and curriculum for whoever is in the room.

Who we serve, in detail

A firm built on substance, not scale.

RogueNation Solutions was established in 2021 to translate senior practitioner experience into practical advisory, assessment, training, and implementation support.

  • Senior-led

    The Principal remains accountable for scope, stakeholder communication, quality, and major deliverables.

  • Integrated risk lens

    Cybersecurity, AI governance, fraud risk, operations, policy, and workforce considerations are evaluated together where they intersect.

  • Action-oriented

    Assessments are designed to end in priorities, roadmaps, policies, implementation decisions, and knowledge transfer—not findings alone.

  • Right-sized

    A low-overhead model supports focused assignments while allowing specialists to be added when scope requires additional depth.

A repeatable five-phase delivery model

  1. Initiate & Define

    Scope, outcomes, stakeholders, schedule, and data needs.

  2. Discover & Baseline

    Evidence review, interviews, workflows, technology, risks, and pain points.

  3. Assess & Benchmark

    Gaps, root causes, controls, risk, and operational friction.

  4. Design & Prioritize

    Recommendations, future state, policy, metrics, and roadmap.

  5. Communicate & Enable

    Executive presentation, final deliverables, knowledge transfer, and implementation planning.

Work directly with the Principal.

Direct access to the person doing the assessment, not a rotating bench of junior staff.

James B. Lewis, Ph.D., CFE

Founder and Principal, RogueNation Solutions

Founder and Principal with senior cybersecurity and security-architecture experience, including work supporting public-sector customers across federal, state, local, education, and federal-health environments.

  • Cybersecurity Architecture
  • Zero Trust
  • Identity
  • SIEM/SOAR
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Cloud Security
  • AI Governance
  • Certified Fraud Examiner
  • Training

These examples describe work performed by the Principal across prior professional roles and consulting experience. They demonstrate relevant practitioner capability; they are not represented as RogueNation corporate contracts unless explicitly identified as such. Client names and confidential contract details are intentionally omitted.

Read the experience narratives

Practical guidance from the field.

Questions buyers ask first.

Who do you work with?

Government agencies (federal, state, and local), nonprofits, K–12 and higher-education institutions, public and mission-driven healthcare organizations, and small businesses.

Where are you based?

RogueNation works from Charlotte, Washington, DC, and Tampa, and with clients virtually.

Who does the work?

Engagements are senior-led. The Principal remains accountable for scope, stakeholder communication, quality, and major deliverables, and specialists are added when scope requires additional depth. You get direct access to the person doing the assessment, not a rotating bench of junior staff.

What do we get at the end of an engagement?

Engagements are scoped around defined outcomes and end in clear executive and technical deliverables: priorities, roadmaps, policies, implementation decisions, and knowledge transfer, not findings alone.

Do you provide 24/7 monitoring or build AI models?

No. RogueNation is built for senior advisory, roadmap, governance, and training work. It doesn’t staff managed detection and response, and it doesn’t build or fine-tune AI models. If that’s what you need, we’ll say so plainly.

Is the experience on this site RogueNation past performance?

The experience narratives describe work the Principal performed across prior professional roles and consulting experience. They are not represented as RogueNation corporate contracts unless explicitly identified as such.

How do we get started?

Book a 20-minute discovery call to talk through the decision, risk, or outcome you need help with. Paid consults of 30 minutes ($90), 1 hour ($150), and 2 hours ($275) are also available to book directly.

Bring the decision, risk, or outcome you need help with.

We’ll help determine whether RogueNation is the right fit and what a focused engagement should look like.

Or email info@roguenation.io