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Senior practitioner experience, translated into focused client outcomes.

RogueNation Solutions is a small professional consulting firm established in 2021. Engagements are practitioner-led, scoped around defined outcomes, and documented in clear executive and technical deliverables.

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Principal experience

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

Selected experience narratives

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.

Federal / SLED

Cybersecurity Architecture & Modernization

Challenge
Public-sector organizations needed to modernize security architecture while navigating identity, cloud, zero-trust, operational, and governance dependencies.
Approach
Assessed architecture and operating considerations, connected technical findings to mission and risk priorities, and advised stakeholders on modernization paths.
Outcome and deliverables
Executive recommendations and phased adoption roadmaps designed to turn current-state findings into prioritized, sequenced action.

Government / Public sector

Security Operations & Threat Visibility

Challenge
Security teams needed stronger visibility and operating workflows across telemetry, detection, threat intelligence, logging, and response.
Approach
Supported SIEM/SOAR and security-operations modernization, including detection, telemetry, threat-intelligence integration, workflow considerations, and logging/data-retention requirements.
Outcome and deliverables
Modernization guidance, architecture decisions, operational workflows, and reporting approaches intended to improve security visibility and support better operational decisions.

Government / Public sector

Cloud & AI Security Advisory

Challenge
Organizations adopting cloud and generative AI needed to balance innovation with identity, sensitive-data, governance, model/tool, and threat risks.
Approach
Advised on cloud and AI security architecture, AI risk, data protection, governance, threat modeling, secure operating patterns, and workforce considerations.
Outcome and deliverables
Risk-informed architecture and governance guidance that connects AI adoption decisions with cybersecurity, data protection, and operational accountability.

Public sector / Nonprofit

Security Awareness & Executive Education

Challenge
Leaders and workforces needed practical guidance that translated cyber threats, fraud, and AI risk into decisions people outside the security team could act on.
Approach
Developed and delivered workshops, executive briefings, security-awareness content, practical exercises, and role-relevant guidance.
Outcome and deliverables
Training and knowledge-transfer materials designed to strengthen risk awareness, improve decision-making, and leave clients with reusable guidance after the engagement.

Why RogueNation

  • 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.

Bring the problem. We’ll help define the right engagement.

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

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