Cybersecurity Strategy,
Scalable Growth

At CS Center Stage, we provide strategic advisory, consulting, and interim leadership to both enterprises and cybersecurity startups.

Through our dual specialization we partner with any organization to provide cybersecurity strategy assessments, advisory services, and vendor management expertise to help refine security postures, optimize technology investments, and drive successful implementations.

For startups, we help founders, operators, and GTM leaders develop and execute enterprise-ready cybersecurity strategies that drive adoption and business growth. Our focus is helping these startups build meaningful partnerships with their customers to drive mutual growth.

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In today’s evolving threat landscape, cybersecurity must be more than reactive—it needs to be strategic, measurable, and aligned with business value. Whether you're a growing enterprise or a cybersecurity startup, navigating this complexity requires clarity and expertise.

Our goal is to help you align cybersecurity with business outcomes, ensure your investments are delivering value, and lay the foundation for secure, scalable growth.

Advisory Services

Building a strong cybersecurity program isn’t just about deploying tools—it’s about creating a strategic, value-driven ecosystem between vendors and customers. Our Advisory service helps organizations—whether startups or enterprise security teams—establish a platform for effective collaboration, aligned outcomes, and long-term success.

For startups, we provide guidance on how to engage enterprise buyers by aligning with real-world security priorities and demonstrating business impact. For enterprise security teams, we help optimize vendor relationships and ensure you're getting more than just technology—you're getting partnerships that drive results. At the heart of this service is a shared mission: to ensure cybersecurity investments are rooted in trust, transparency, and measurable value.

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Consulting Services

We help organizations define and refine their cybersecurity strategy through targeted assessments and strategic planning. Whether you're facing a fragmented security landscape, scaling your internal program, or preparing for board-level reporting, we provide an objective view of where you stand—and where you need to go. With deep expertise in Identity Security and adjacent domains, we help you prioritize investments, close capability gaps, and align your security roadmap to business outcomes.

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Cyber Portfolio Optimization

In a world where security budgets face growing scrutiny, talent is scarce, and the threat landscape evolves rapidly, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your cybersecurity investments are delivering real business value.

Our Cyber Portfolio Optimization service helps you evaluate your existing security programs, tools, and initiatives to understand what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus. We align your portfolio to measurable outcomes, identify redundancies, and surface opportunities to do more with less—ensuring your security investments are resilient, efficient, and directly tied to business impact.

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Our Team

CS Center Stage was founded to help cybersecurity organizations—both emerging startups and established teams—build, evaluate, and optimize their security strategies and partner ecosystems.

Led by Principal Consultant Sean Connolly, a seasoned executive with over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and identity security, CS Center Stage specializes in helping companies align their security investments with business outcomes. Sean has built and led global presales, customer success, and professional services teams at high-growth startups, working with some of the largest enterprise customers in the world.

We bring a unique blend of technical expertise and business insight to every engagement—whether we’re helping a startup refine its go-to-market approach, guiding a security team through a program assessment, or advising on vendor alignment and value realization.

At our core, CS Center Stage is committed to helping organizations transform cybersecurity into a strategic driver of value, not just a cost center. Through thoughtful strategy, outcome-driven planning, and hands-on support, we empower our clients to scale with confidence, clarity, and measurable impact.

Cybersecurity Strategy, Scalable Growth

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Cybersecurity Strategy,
Scalable Growth