Cybersecurity advisory, audit and testing
Securing your business. Protecting your future.
Helping organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, manage digital risk and build resilience, with board-level advisors and hands-on specialists in one Illinois firm.
- Mapped to NIST, ISO/IEC 27001 and CIS
- Remote-first, on-site by agreement
Aligned to the frameworks auditors expect
- NIST CSF
- NIST SP 800-53
- ISO/IEC 27001
- CIS Controls
- OWASP Top 10
- ISA/IEC 62443
About us
One firm, from the boardroom to the source code.
Laila Business Services LLC is an Illinois-based consulting firm that combines cybersecurity advisory, audit and technical security assessment with senior business, operations and program-delivery leadership.
We pair executive-level advisors with hands-on technical specialists, so the same team can brief your board on cyber risk, audit the controls behind it, and test the applications and systems that carry it. Every engagement starts with an agreed scope, named deliverables and a reporting rhythm, and we build relationships that outlast a single report.
- Based in
- Oak Lawn, Illinois
- Delivery
- Remote-first, on-site by agreement
- Engagements
- Assessments, projects, ongoing support, subcontract
Cybersecurity services
Security services mapped to the standards that matter.
Delivered as a short assessment, a defined project or ongoing support, with outputs your board, auditors and engineers can all use.
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Program and risk assessments
Find out how mature your security really is and what to fix first, with maturity scoring, gap analysis and a prioritized roadmap.
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Audit and compliance readiness
Prepare for certification and regulatory scrutiny with control testing, evidence review and readiness reporting.
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Virtual and fractional CISO
Senior security leadership without a full-time hire: strategy, governance, board reporting and key risk indicators.
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Application security and penetration testing
Find and fix weaknesses before attackers do, with exploit validation, clear remediation guidance and secure SDLC support.
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Vulnerability management
Turn scanner output into a ranked, tracked list of real risks through validation, prioritization and remediation tracking.
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AI security and governance
Adopt and build AI-enabled products securely, with secure-by-design requirements and a practical governance model.
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Third-party risk management
Know which suppliers carry risk into your organization through vendor assessments, due diligence and assurance reporting.
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OT/ICS and critical infrastructure
Maturity assessments, architecture assurance and resilience roadmaps for industrial systems that cannot fail.
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Incident response and resilience
Be ready to respond and recover, with response readiness, continuity planning and executive crisis exercises.
Business and operations consulting
Alongside security, we support the business and delivery side of technology programs, led by an executive with more than 30 years of operations experience.
- Business strategy and management
- Operations and optimization
- Program and project management
- Managed IT and service delivery
- Digital transformation and AI advisory
- Change management
- Outsourcing and vendor management
- Risk management and governance
- Business development and expansion
- Executive and leadership advisory
Energy, rail, aviation, ports and logistics: critical-infrastructure sectors our consultants have worked across.
Why choose us
Executive judgment, hands-on delivery.
- Boardroom to technical detail
- One firm can brief executives on cyber risk, audit the controls behind it, and test the applications that carry it.
- Risk-based and business-focused
- Findings are ranked by business impact, so budgets go to the risks that matter most.
- U.S.-aligned frameworks
- Assessments map to NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls and OWASP.
- Critical infrastructure depth
- Experience across energy, rail, aviation, ports and logistics, including OT/ICS environments.
- Delivery at scale
- Our program lead has managed teams of up to 75 people and budgets of up to $100M.
- Practical, actionable outputs
- Prioritized roadmaps, executive dashboards and decisions leaders can act on.
Quick self-check
Where would you start?
Rate your organization against the six functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. The lowest bar is usually where an engagement pays back first.
A conversation starter, not an assessment. Nothing you choose leaves this page.
Start with Respond.
Incident response and resilience: response readiness, continuity and recovery planning, crisis exercises.
Discuss this resultOur team
The people who do the work.
Three consultants cover the range from executive advisory to hands-on technical testing. Full profiles are available on request.
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Samer AbuLaila
Executive business and program delivery
30+ years managing technology operations, managed IT services, enterprise applications and transitions across the U.S. and the Middle East.
Ph.D. · MBA · B.S. Electrical Engineering Technology
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Sherif Rashwan
Cybersecurity advisory, audit and assessment
20+ years advising boards and executives on cybersecurity strategy, audit, risk and resilience, with deep critical-infrastructure and OT/ICS experience. Currently fractional CISO for a cloud-first FinTech.
M.Sc. · CISSP · CISM · CRISC · ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
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Ahmed Rashwan
Application security and penetration testing
Web application testing against the OWASP Top 10, secure SDLC support and vulnerability assessment, plus compliance work for a government entity.
BSc (Hons) First Class · Security+ · ISC2 CC · eJPT
Our approach
A clear path from risk to resilience.
Every engagement starts with an agreed scope, named deliverables and a reporting rhythm.
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Understand
We learn your business, your obligations, your security requirements and the decisions you need to make.
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Assess
We evaluate controls, applications and operations against the right framework, then rank risks by business impact.
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Strengthen
We recommend and help implement improvements, from policy and governance to fixes in code.
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Support
We stay on as fractional CISO, program oversight or periodic reassessment, so progress holds.
Ways to engage
- Short-term assessment
- Gap assessments, audits, roadmaps and executive briefings.
- Project-based
- Defined scope and deliverables, such as a penetration test.
- Ongoing support
- Fractional or virtual CISO, program and vendor oversight.
- Subcontract
- Named experts under a prime contractor's engagement (C2C).
Contact
Let's build a more secure future for your business.
Connect with Laila Business Services to discuss your cybersecurity requirements and explore how we can support your organization.
- Phone+1 (630) 664-6665