Clayton Cybernetics is an American cybersecurity company. We find out whether your networks, devices, data, web apps, APIs and code are safe from attackers, and fix what we find.
Clayton Cybernetics is a new company built on a long record. Its engineers have spent many years designing, securing and running technology for organizations ranging from small startups to one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, and more than 100 organizations have trusted the team with their infrastructure.
We formed the company in 2026 to bring that experience together under one name, with American leadership and clear accountability, and to serve businesses that deserve enterprise-grade work at a size that fits them.
Our seal carries an engraved portrait of our Chief Executive Officer, in the tradition of the American portraits engraved on currency and official seals. It is a promise, not decoration: a named person stands behind every engagement, and answers for it.
We serve companies across the United States and abroad. Our security, disaster recovery and AI services are delivered wherever our clients operate; on-site managed services are available in South Florida.
The record is practical. The team built the technology of a coworking pioneer's first New York buildings, ran the U.S. offices of a global conglomerate for nearly a decade, and built an email platform serving more than 100,000 mailboxes. Those jobs taught the same lesson: reliability comes from simple designs, documented and tested.
Security became the common thread. Our researchers practice responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities found in the course of authorized work and research, and we built disciplined, authorized testing into every service. AI is the newest layer: we have trained local language models, built automation, and are a partner of a leading US AI company.
Global infrastructure is a core capability, not a side line. Our engineers have built multi-region networks that run BGP at the edge, absorb denial-of-service floods, move traffic across 100G datacenter fabrics and tie sites together with WireGuard and IPsec mesh VPNs. Clients feel it as a network that stays up and stays separated, wherever their offices and data happen to be.
Hands-on datacenter work is part of who we are. Our engineers have racked servers, pulled fiber and labeled cables in colocation facilities themselves, at operators such as Equinix, Digital Realty and Iron Mountain Data Centers among others, and they still do. That is why our network and server designs account for weight, heat, airflow and the length of a patch cord, not only for diagrams. See Datacenter & Colocation Builds.
The leadership team is small by design. Each executive owns a clear area, from client relationships to technical delivery to finance, and every client knows exactly whom to call. We believe that accountability is easier to deliver when it has a name attached.
Chief Executive Officer
Christopher leads the firm and its client relationships. He sets commercial strategy, owns every client engagement at the executive level and is the person our clients call when they need an answer from the top.
Chief Technology Officer
Steve leads technical delivery across every practice: infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI and software. He sets engineering standards, oversees assessments and penetration tests, and is accountable for the uptime and security of the systems we run for clients.
Chief Financial Officer
Anthony leads the firm's finances. He manages contracts, invoicing and billing, vendor payments and financial reporting, and is the point of contact for every question about an invoice or an agreement.
Automation takes over routine work, but someone must still answer for the result, so our model keeps people accountable: security monitoring and incident response with a named engineer behind them, and human approval for every change an agent proposes. Our own delivery runs on automation under that rule, with each action logged and reviewable.
Our security background decides what we do about AI. We prepare company data before a copilot is switched on, write the policies and keep the evidence regulators and clients ask for, and test copilots, agents and MCP integrations the way an attacker would. When information is too sensitive for a public AI service, we host private AI on infrastructure the client controls. We name the standards we work to, such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the MCP security best practices, and we describe what we do rather than promise outcomes.
Our approval model for AI agents: what runs on its own, what needs a person, and what is never automated.
Read our approval modelOur team, our judgement and our accountability are American. We build, operate and answer for our work here.
There is no task we execute that does not consider network and data security first.
We imagine where, when and how problems will happen, and we act before they do. Prevention always costs less than remediation.
We document everything as we build it. Your documentation is current on the day we hand it over, and every day after.
Redundancy and disaster recovery are designed into every engagement, not sold as an extra.
We deliver every service with the utmost respect for our clients, their staff and their time.
Direct answers to the questions we hear most. Something else on your mind?
Send us a messageChristopher Clayton is CEO, Steve Gates is CTO and Anthony Sousa is CFO. Christopher leads the business and client relationships, Steve leads engineering and security, and Anthony handles finance and billing. You can reach each of them from our contact page.
Clayton Cybernetics was founded in 2026. The team behind it has worked together on infrastructure, security and software projects for years. Our experience page describes that work.
Yes. Our team, judgement and accountability are American.
Security in every task, acting before problems do, documentation, redundancy and respect. In practice that means we build the safe option first, fix issues before they reach you, write down what we do and keep a second path for anything critical. We treat clients' people and data with respect.
Call (305) 404-9404, or toll-free at (800) 767-8566, or use the contact page. Paying clients receive a response to every message within 15 minutes. You can also book a time with us on the booking page.
Speak with a security engineer today. The first assessment call is free and confidential.
