Stephen M Abbott
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Owner of Wire HoldvCISO · AI governance · Secure delivery

One seat for cybersecurity and AI.

vCISO work, AI controls, and the occasional build. The point is a decision your people can run after I am gone.

+1 (775) 599-7046 View packages
16Years in enterprise technology
11Years in cybersecurity
15Live products
Fortune 100Operating scale

Credentials

  • Offensive Security Certified Professional
  • BA, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University

Packages

Four scoped ways in.

RetainMonthly

vCISO retainer

Part-time security executive. Roadmap, board risk, and the weekly operating cadence. Your team stays the team.

Included
  • Security strategy, roadmap, and operating cadence
  • Board-ready risk measures and decision support
  • Program governance, resilience, and incident readiness
  • Capability development for the internal team

A security program entering growth, transition, board scrutiny, or a reset.

Email to scope this
Enable4–6 weeks

AI enablement sprint

Pick the use cases, write the rules, name the owner. Four to six weeks.

Included
  • Use-case portfolio and adoption roadmap
  • AI policy and control architecture
  • Human approval, evidence, and rollback design
  • Agent governance and operating model

Teams with promising use cases but unclear ownership, controls, or measures.

Email to scope this
ModernizeScoped program

AI-native modernization

Fix the security and IT workflow, not only the stack.

Included
  • AI-native operating model and workflow redesign
  • Cybersecurity and IT process automation
  • Platform, data, integration, and resilience roadmaps
  • Technology rationalization and change enablement

Teams constrained by manual work, fragmented tooling, or legacy process.

Email to scope this
BuildScoped build

Delivery sprint

Build one approved use case so it can ship, then hand it to someone on your side.

Included
  • Architecture and implementation of the agreed use case
  • MCP servers, agent toolchains, or control automation
  • Evidence-driven remediation and operating documentation
  • Internal owner and adoption path

Teams with an approved use case that now needs architecture and implementation.

Email to scope this

Practice areas

Practice areas.

Executive advisory

vCISO & security leadership

An accountable security executive relationship for organizations that need experienced direction, governance, and board confidence.

Typical outcomes
  • Cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, and operating cadence
  • Board-ready risk measures and executive decision support
  • Program governance, resilience, and incident readiness
  • Security organization and capability development
Measured against
  • NIST CSF 2.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • SOC 2
  • CIS Controls v8
  • FAIR risk quantification

The full brief

Portrait of Stephen M Abbott

Background

Across enterprise cybersecurity roles, Stephen led organizations of up to 26 engineers, cut sensitive-data findings by 92% while tripling detection coverage, reduced open-source dependencies by more than 75%, and sustained 99.99% availability for critical transaction platforms.

He owns Wire Hold.

Board-facing risk, CTEM, application and software supply-chain security, security data platforms, resilience, and governed AI, with hands-on product and engineering work.

Read the full career record

Portfolio

Products built from idea to operating reality.

Each project below is tied to a live product, public repository, or operating storefront. Together they demonstrate secure engineering, AI orchestration, automation, commerce, and customer-facing delivery.

15 projects · refreshed Sep 21, 2026
SecurityIn progress

Wire Hold

vCISO and AI controls.

The firm I own. Site is going up at wirehold.com.

  • AI governance
  • Secure delivery
NIST CSF 2.0
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SecurityLive · Active development

security-recipes.ai

Turn CVE intelligence into verified, evidence-backed remediation teams can trust.

Open, self-hostable knowledge layer linking source-backed CVE research to bounded remediation recipes, required evidence, rollback guidance, and human-reviewed outcomes—built for security leaders who need traceable action, not another alert stream.

  • 266K+ CVEs
  • 167 reviewed workflows
  • 75 executable playbooks
PythonUpdated Sep 21, 2026
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47112 visitors
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3.8K1.5K cloners
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SecurityLive

OSS Dependency Explorer

Map multi-ecosystem dependencies and surface supply-chain risk before production.

Supply-chain visibility for security and engineering leaders: maps package dependencies across eight ecosystems and combines vulnerability, repository health, license, and SBOM analysis so risk is triaged before it ships.

  • 8 package ecosystems
  • REST + MCP
  • Optional 24h cache
JavaScriptUpdated Sep 14, 2026
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555 visitors
GitHub clones / 14d
15251 cloners
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AI systemsLive · Active development

Shiba Studio

Local-first studio to build, govern, and audit production-ready AI agents.

Unifies agent orchestration, workspace-aware coding, browser control, scheduling, integrations, memory, and auditable local workflows—so organizations automate with AI without surrendering data control or auditability.

  • 40+ built-in tools
  • Windows · macOS · Linux
  • Zero telemetry
TypeScriptUpdated Sep 14, 2026
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15310 visitors
GitHub clones / 14d
769152 cloners
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AI systemsLive · Self-maintaining

Stevo.AI

Governed AI operations that critique, revise, and ship only under CI controls.

Live proof of agentic content operations with control at every step: an AI advisor reframes copy under code-enforced factual guards, opens a pull request, passes CI, merges, and deploys—evidence for leaders evaluating governed AI enablement.

  • AI-operated weekly
  • CI-gated auto-merge
  • Daily project discovery
JavaScriptUpdated Sep 21, 2026
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281 visitors
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302101 cloners
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AI systemsv2.0 available

Pro Response

Improve enterprise writing quality inside Slack—without adding another workplace surface.

Routes each request across multiple model providers so quality, cost, and policy can be balanced, giving staff rewrite, translation, summary, and format help where they already work.

  • 14 writing modes
  • Slack · API · CLI
  • Multi-provider routing
PythonUpdated Jul 24, 2026
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132 visitors
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12563 cloners
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AI systemsLive

Spare Cycles

Orchestrate multi-provider inference through one front door—without vendor lock-in.

Contributors attach Claude, GPT, Grok, or local Ollama capacity behind an OpenAI-compatible interface, so teams can inspect routing, failover, and provider mixing without standing up their own mesh.

  • MIT licensed
PythonUpdated Jul 30, 2026
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51 visitors
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Products & venturesLive

Tiny Book Buddies AI

Idea to illustrated, narrated children's storybook—entirely in the browser.

A parent chooses a model provider; the studio writes the story, generates illustrations, narrates with word-level highlighting, and exports a finished video book. End-to-end consumer product, nothing to host.

  • 4 AI providers
  • Browser-only
  • MP4 export
TypeScriptUpdated Jul 17, 2026
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433 visitors
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461157 cloners
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Products & venturesLive

Sonny’s World

A bilingual English–Spanish learning playground for a small child, with living picture-book videos.

Letters, numbers, words, songs, and sign language are organized for a grandparent and a young child to sit and learn together.

  • English · Spanish
  • Ages 2–5
  • Living picture-book videos
React
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Products & venturesv3.7 available

mouseclicker.app

Record, replay, and humanize Windows click workflows from a single portable app.

Global hotkeys and humanized cursor movement sit on top of system-wide record and replay, with optional pattern generation from a cloud or local model.

  • ~100 KB executable
  • Windows 10 & 11
  • No installer
C#Updated Jul 17, 2026
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306 visitors
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Desert Wander Supply Co.

Southwest outdoor gear storefront for desert travel and EDC.

A merchandised retail catalog with hosted checkout and email capture, taken from a niche outdoor concept through payment and fulfilment as a live store.

  • Shopify storefront
  • 24+ products
  • Apparel · Outdoor · Pet
Shopify
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Products & venturesLive

DOGE Commerce Kit

Non-custodial toolkit for accepting Dogecoin in person or online.

Browser wallet tools, counter checkout, payment QR codes, on-chain confirmation, and a local order ledger keep acceptance under the merchant's control from the counter to the web.

  • No accounts
  • No processor custody
  • MIT licensed
JavaScriptUpdated Aug 16, 2026
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Arizona Now

Source-linked Arizona events and local-business listings.

Source-linked listings and a local-business directory can be browsed by city, calendar, or map, with featured placements for standout events and businesses.

  • Arizona events
  • Business listings
  • City · calendar · map
Python
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Products & venturesLive

Arrowhead Paesano

Automated weekly game-preview desk for the Arrowhead Paesano Chiefs channel.

Produces a sourced weekly preview with matchups, projections, and a shoot-ready run-of-show, and publishes channel playback from a checked-in snapshot so the property stays current between recordings.

  • No server or database
  • Automated weekly analysis
  • Static GitHub Pages delivery
PythonUpdated Sep 21, 2026
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252 visitors
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9854 cloners
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DOGE MINER

Mine to a Dogecoin pool while watching shares, hardware, and wallet state in one view.

Share acceptance, hardware telemetry, and on-chain wallet figures stay visible on one dashboard while work goes to a public pool, so hashing and wallet data are operated as a single product.

  • CPU + OpenCL GPU
  • Windows · macOS · Linux
  • No registration
PythonUpdated Aug 16, 2026
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366 visitors
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8157 cloners
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FAQ

Asked before the first call.

How does an engagement start?
With a call or an email about the problem. The first working step is a baseline of what is actually true today, and scope is agreed before any work begins.
Why are there no prices on the site?
Because scope drives price. No two programs start from the same place, so each package is scoped and quoted after a first conversation.
Who does the work?
Stephen M Abbott, through Wire Hold. One seat, not a bench — the person on the first call is the person who runs the engagement.
Do you work remotely?
Yes. The practice runs on Arizona time and works with clients anywhere. On-site time can be scoped into an engagement when it earns its place.
What standards is the work measured against?
Security work maps to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, and CIS Controls v8. AI work maps to NIST AI RMF 1.0, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act. Frameworks are the measuring stick, not the deliverable.
What happens when the engagement ends?
Every engagement closes with a transfer: documented decisions, working systems, and an internal owner who can run the program without the consultant.

Contact

Contact

+1 (775) 599-7046stephenabbott20@gmail.com

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