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Hexagon Consulting

Federal cloud security expertise, embedded where your team needs it.

Hexagon implements NIST 800-53 and DISA STIG controls in cloud-native environments, tests that they actually hold, and gets teams ready for 3PAO assessment as an embedded technical SME, not an outside vendor.

Led by Sid Palaparthi, a ~15-year federal/DoD security veteran

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Why Hexagon

Controls should work, not just exist.

Hexagon doesn't stop at documentation. We implement controls as working configurations, test that they actually hold under real conditions, and remediate what fails, so the environment is ready before a 3PAO or agency assessor ever looks at it.

Who Hexagon helps

Prime contractors

Your team has a federal cloud delivery contract, and NIST 800-53 or STIG depth it does not have in-house yet.

Hexagon embeds as SME/architect, directing and validating the work without displacing your engineers or adding vendor-management overhead, a non-competing force-multiplier.

Prime contractors

Your team has a federal cloud delivery contract, and NIST 800-53 or STIG depth it does not have in-house yet.

Hexagon embeds as SME/architect, directing and validating the work without displacing your engineers or adding vendor-management overhead, a non-competing force-multiplier.

SaaS & cloud companies entering the federal market

You are entering or pursuing federal work, and NIST 800-53, STIG-derived hardening, and the 3PAO process are new territory.

Hexagon translates what federal compliance actually requires into concrete engineering work, hands-on, without a full compliance team you do not need yet.

SaaS & cloud companies entering the federal market

You are entering or pursuing federal work, and NIST 800-53, STIG-derived hardening, and the 3PAO process are new territory.

Hexagon translates what federal compliance actually requires into concrete engineering work, hands-on, without a full compliance team you do not need yet.

Differentiators

Verification of outcomes, not attestation of settings

Hexagon tests whether a control is actually enforced and producing its intended security outcome, not just present in configuration, surfacing failures that pass documentation review but fail assessment.

Verification of outcomes, not attestation of settings

Assessment-informed engineering

Fifteen years on the evaluator side of DoD and Federal assessments shapes how Hexagon engineers and documents controls from the start, not just at the end.

Assessment-informed engineering

Fifteen years on the evaluator side of DoD and Federal assessments shapes how Hexagon engineers and documents controls from the start, not just at the end.

Retained, reusable validation tooling

In-house, read-only validation tooling confirms controls are explicitly enforced rather than merely correct by default, and stays reusable across engagements to catch drift over time.

Retained, reusable validation tooling

In-house, read-only validation tooling confirms controls are explicitly enforced rather than merely correct by default, and stays reusable across engagements to catch drift over time.

Prime-friendly delivery model

Hexagon integrates into an existing prime contractor or Government delivery team as a specialized engineering and validation resource, directing implementation without displacing staff or competing for scope.

Prime-friendly delivery model

Principal

Sid Palaparthi

~15 years across federal/DoD and commercial cybersecurity. Former GS-14 at the Defense Health Agency, directing enterprise RMF authorization and Zero Trust implementation across a $10M security program.

Hands-on with NIST 800-53 implementation, GCP/GKE security architecture, container hardening, and the verification tooling behind Hexagon's approach.

Sid spent years on the evaluator side of DoD compliance programs, that judgment now shapes how Hexagon prepares clients for assessment.

At a global telecommunications manufacturer, he built and led a vulnerability management program that cut open exposures by roughly 59%.

CISSP

GCIH

Security+

CEH

M.S. Cyber Security

Hexagon client work

Confidential Financial Services Client

Assessment-readiness engagement for a confidential financial services client.

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NIST 800-53 and STIG controls, implemented and verified, ready for assessment.

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Hexagon Consulting

sid@hexaconsultllc.com

240-678-7288

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