Pyramid Systems Announces Strategic Cybersecurity Partnership with Fortalice Solutions

The Pyramid × Fortalice partnership pairs:

• Pyramid’s federal IT delivery — AI (including AIR-Quire), cloud (AWS Government Competency), DevSecOps, modernization, analytics, and identity management across 30 years of federal client work.
• Fortalice’s cybersecurity practice — threat intelligence, security operations, identity protection, incident response, and the broader cybersecurity advisory expertise built under Theresa Payton’s leadership.

The combined capability stack lets federal clients engage a single delivery team for the breadth of work that historically required multiple specialized contractors to coordinate.

Federal cybersecurity is a moving target. The 2025 federal AI Executive Orders, evolving FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 requirements, accelerating identity and biometric interoperability mandates, and ongoing nation-state threat activity all increase the demands on agency security and IT teams simultaneously.

Single-domain contractors struggle to keep pace across that breadth. The Pyramid × Fortalice partnership is purpose-built for the agencies trying to.

Federal clients of either firm now have access to the combined capability set under unified delivery. Specific areas where the partnership compounds:

• AI security and AI compliance — meeting the federal Unbiased AI EO with both AI delivery expertise and security review depth.
• Identity management — combining Pyramid’s federal IAM work (including the Biometric Interoperability Transition Tool) with Fortalice’s identity protection practice.
• Cloud and DevSecOps — federal AWS environments delivered by Pyramid with Fortalice cybersecurity hardening and continuous monitoring layered in.
• Incident response readiness — preparation, simulation, and response support for federal agency security incidents.

Fortalice Solutions is a global cybersecurity firm founded by Theresa Payton, the former Chief Information Officer at the White House. The firm provides cybersecurity advisory, threat intelligence, incident response, and identity protection services to government, enterprise, and high-profile individual clients. Theresa Payton is widely recognized in the cybersecurity community and frequently appears as a subject-matter expert in major media coverage of cybersecurity issues.