Frequently asked questions

Yalgar Consulting is a Dallas–Fort Worth cybersecurity and AI consulting firm that helps mid-market companies find and fix security gaps, govern AI adoption, and get audit-ready — with senior practitioners who do the work themselves. Engagements start with a paid Security & AI Risk Diagnostic and continue as a fixed-fee project or the Fractional CISO retainer.

Yes. Yalgar Consulting LLC is a Texas limited liability company that trades as Yalgar Consulting Company. The founder and owner is Yash Patel. The firm is based in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, and the website is https://yalgar.com.

Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas. The diagnostic includes two on-site workshop days inside the metroplex, or two full remote days when travel does not fit the schedule. On-site days are part of the fee, and we travel outside DFW for the right engagement with travel billed at cost and no markup.

Most clients have $20M–$500M in revenue and 50 to 500 employees, usually with one to five sites. The work fits mid-market companies in logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and technology. A firm with sales, driving, clinical, or administrative staff outside the operation may run to roughly 1,000 total, and we do not exclude a company because total headcount passes 500.

A 30-minute call. You describe the trigger, the systems in scope, and what a win would be worth, and we ask who owns the budget. Then we tell you whether the paid Security & AI Risk Diagnostic makes sense. There is no deck and no proposal on that call.

$9,500 for one site, $12,500 for two, and $14,500 for three or more. It runs 15 business days with two on-site or two full remote workshop days and a 90-minute readout on day 15. The report includes a NIST CSF control-gap list, a risk-ranked roadmap, an AI use-case inventory, and a first 90 days plan. The fee is paid at kickoff.

No. No industry certification is claimed beyond the Drexel degree: Yash holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing & Security Technology from Drexel University. The firm does not present itself as an auditor, an assessor, or a certification body. Where a certification is required, we say so and help the client find the right provider.

Testing is scoped and managed with vetted testing partners. We define the scope, coordinate the test window, review the findings, and translate them into fixes your team can ship. We do not perform the exploitation work ourselves and do not present ourselves as an assessor.

Yes. We build the control set once, map the evidence to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and run the readiness work so an auditor sees a defensible file rather than a late scramble. The work covers access, change management, vendor risk, logging, backups, and incident response. We do not issue the audit opinion and we are not the auditor.

An inventory of every AI tool and use case in the business, a risk tier for each, and a written acceptable-use policy that tells staff what is allowed and what is not. We review vendors and data flows, map the work to NIST AI RMF, and prepare EU AI Act readiness where customer or market exposure requires it. The output is evidence a board or a customer can read, not a binder.

Yes. Most of the diagnostic can run remotely through two full remote workshop days, and we travel for the right engagement with travel billed at cost. The work is built for mid-market companies anywhere in the United States. Working from the Dallas–Fort Worth time zone keeps scheduling simple for teams in most US regions.

Yash Patel does the work. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing & Security Technology from Drexel University and has hands-on Amazon fulfillment experience, which is operational context rather than a security credential. There is no junior team and no handover after the sale. On larger scopes we bring in a named testing partner or specialist only with the client's approval.

A full-time CISO is a permanent hire with salary, benefits, and a search that takes months. The Fractional CISO retainer is $9,500 a month for two days a week on a 90-day initial term. You get senior security judgment in weeks, and the paid diagnostic sets the scope from evidence rather than from a job description.