Skip to main content

About Us

At Steel Patriot Partners, we are your ultimate partner when it comes to cybersecurity compliance, governance, operations, and engineering needs. 

StateRAMP Member Steel Patriot Partners

Our team of experts provides an in-depth analysis of your programs (cybersecurity or compliance) and develops a strategic plan to help you achieve your governance goals. We communicate and offer guidance along with a hands-on keyboard approach to technical and non-technical leaders in a language that is easy to understand. 

Our main priority is to become your trusted partner and help you improve your organization’s technological maturity. We achieve this by ensuring cybersecurity standards are met, establishing strong governance visibility, and enhancing your security baseline – all of which contribute to your business success.

To serve as an integrated, trusted partner to organizations that want to improve cybersecurity governance and attain general and industry-specific compliance standards by:

  1. Refocus your time and effort on servicing your clients instead of managing compliance
  2. Make sound business decisions based on trusted solutions to meet your client’s needs
  3. Attract and retain customers with successful audits of your cybersecurity procedures and practices
  4. Sleep better at night instead of worrying about how your sensitive data is used
  5. Reduce internal expenses by outsourcing compliance and cybersecurity while decreasing your business risk
JasonFord-founder-SteelPatriotPartners-1

Jason Ford

As the co-founder and CEO of Steel Patriot Partners, he focuses on driving growth, architecting cybersecurity compliance solutions to simplify an organization's operations, and finding new solutions and services to offer clients. Drawing on his experience as one of the first cloud service provider operators in FedRAMP, he leads government services for Steel Patriot Partners for clients seeking FedRAMP, NIST, CMMC, or other related government frameworks.

Jason is a technology entrepreneur who focuses on IT operations, cybersecurity, business operations growth, compliance, and the technology impacts of cloud solutions. He is passionate about delivering IT solutions that maximize business productivity and operational effectiveness while maintaining information integrity and security.

“Steel Patriot Partners’ Agnostic solutions make cybersecurity and compliance attainable. Our approach to cybersecurity is to facilitate digital transformation rather than impede it.”

 

Before co-founding Steel Patriot Partners, Jason co-founded BlackMesh in 2004, which focused on delivering application services with security compliance in public and private clouds. He successfully exited BlackMesh in 2017. During his time there, Jason navigated GSA's FedRAMP program in 2014, PCI DSS, SOC2, and HIPAA, to assist security-focused clients with their digital transformation to managed cloud services. Post-acquisition, Jason stayed as CISO and CTO to continue to drive security initiatives along with technology direction for the newly formed post-acquisition company until 2019, establishing FedRAMP governance for all past and future acquisitions. 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Business transformation
  • IT Operations
  • Cybersecurity Operations
  • Compliance
  • IT Architecture and Design

Education:

  • MA, Telecommunications and Business, George Mason University
  • BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
SPP-Mood Board-8 (1)-1

Amy Ford

As the co-founder and COO of Steel Patriot Partners, Amy drives growth, leads compliance services, and ensures client success with their governance, compliance, and risk programs. Amy's extensive experience in human resources and operations uniquely positions her to understand and interpret client needs. Her daily focus for Steel Patriot Partners is leading the governance risk and compliance (GRC) services with clients seeking FedRAMP, NIST, CMMC, HITRUST, SOC2, ISO27001, ISO42001, and other related frameworks. Other focus areas for her are third-party risk programs and risk assessments.

Amy's career is dedicated to comprehensively understanding an organization's operations and the risks that can impact it. Her enthusiasm lies in resolving problems and providing practical solutions that benefit businesses, drawing on her experiences in managing human resources, finance, technology teams, and highly available customer support departments. 

“Building cybersecurity compliance programs that successfully meet business goals and grow revenue is what I love. There is nothing better to see an organization use compliance for more than a checkbox to grow their business.”

Before co-founding Steel Patriot Partners, Amy managed and led IT teams that provided 24/7 customer support and operations for a FedRAMP cloud service provider and further oversaw human resources activities. She built solutions to solve compliance gaps found in FedRAMP, PCI DSS, and HIPAA for multiple government agencies, leveraging the platform for public-facing government web applications.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Business transformation
  • IT Operations
  • Client Support
  • KPI and Metrics
  • Business Risk Analysis

Education:

  • Business Administration, Liberty University
  • PHR, SHRM
  • HITRUST Certified CSF Practitioner

Discover how modular implementation creates business value while achieving prompt certification.

Explore modular implementation that will plugin to existing resources and progress.