See the Threat Before It Becomes a Loss
Fidelis finds the people and pathways that put your research, technology, and reputation at risk, and helps you close them before harm is done.
For companies, universities, research institutions, and civilian organizations that face serious threats with no dedicated team of their own to counter them.
Most Organizations Are on Their Own
Government agencies and the military have dedicated teams whose job is to spot and stop this kind of targeting. Most companies, universities, and research institutes have no one in that role, yet they hold the people, research, technology, and trusted relationships that foreign intelligence services, competitors, and motivated individuals pursue. Few employ anyone whose job is to recognize that targeting, and fewer can call on a counterintelligence capability when they do.
Government counterintelligence support for organizations outside government is eligibility-gated and capacity-limited. The FBI's private-sector programs serve cleared facilities and Fortune 1000 security executives; DCSA serves cleared facilities only, and by its own assessment is resourced to oversee about 25 to 30 percent of them (GAO-26-107861, April 2026). Everyone else receives awareness bulletins. The 2024 National Counterintelligence Strategy asks for a whole-of-society approach and scalable private-sector partnerships. Fidelis exists for the organizations that strategy asks to build their own capacity.
The discipline built for this problem is counterintelligence. Governments use it to protect their people, information, and operations from those who would steal, sabotage, or undermine them. The same discipline works for any organization worth targeting. Fidelis defines it plainly: counterintelligence is the practice of identifying threats and actively removing their ability to inflict harm.
How an Engagement Begins
Most engagements begin with a bounded first step rather than an enterprise review: a focused threat and exposure assessment of one program, technology, relationship, or concern, or an executive framing session that defines what must be protected and the decision leadership faces. Scope, access, information handling, and review terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
The result is a written judgment leadership can defend. Evidence, assumptions, alternatives, and gaps are stated plainly, and each recommended action is tied to a specific finding and an owner.
Fidelis does not investigate employees, provide legal advice, or guarantee the elimination of risk. It works inside the client's authority, weighs innocent explanations, and never presumes guilt.
How Fidelis Works
One sequence. Four products, each engaged on its own, each answering a single question.
Understand the threat
The Threat Estimate: who would target you, what they want, and how they operate, drawn from publicly available sources and from your internal information under handling terms agreed in writing.
Map the exposure
The Risk & Vulnerability Assessment: where people, information, and technology are genuinely exposed.
Reduce it
The Risk & Vulnerability Mitigation Strategy: the processes, controls, and escalation routines that close the gaps, in priority order, with Fidelis supporting your teams through implementation.
Sustain it
The Evaluation & Training Plan: tabletop exercises and red team exercises authorized in writing with stop conditions that test the protection, and hands-on training for your people built around your specific threat.
Each product is a separate engagement with its own scope, deliverable, and agreement; the sequence is the order in which they build on one another.
Who Fidelis Advises
Commercial and Institutional
Insider risk, technology and research protection, vendor and third-party risk, and targeted-threat resilience for organizations whose people, research, and technology are worth targeting.
Federal and Defense
Counterintelligence program development, policy, and training for federal departments, programs, and mission partners that face foreign-intelligence and insider threats without an organic capability of their own.
CISANDRA: A Complete CI Team for an Office of One
Most organizations that face serious threats have one person, at most, whose job includes counterintelligence. CISANDRA, the on-site counterintelligence tool suite Fidelis installs and supports, helps that small office support a large mission. It gives one person what a full team provides: a curated reference foundation, the organization's own analytical memory, and Sandy, an analytical partner who works alongside them by text or voice.
Led by Its Founder
Spencer L. Morris spent 21 years in the United States Marine Corps in counterintelligence and human-intelligence assignments, followed by senior counterintelligence leadership responsibilities at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He designs and leads every Fidelis engagement personally.
Fidelis is independent by design. It does not perform the work it reviews, sell a product as the answer to its own findings, or report through the parties whose claims need checking. When you engage Fidelis, you work with its founder directly.
Talk to Fidelis
If you are carrying exposure you cannot see clearly, inside your workforce, your partnerships, or your technology, start a confidential conversation. Most engagements begin with a bounded assessment of one program, relationship, or concern, scoped in writing before work starts.