Intelligence. Secured.

Augmented Intelligence. Total Cyber Resilience.

NexAI Cyber combines executive leadership, operational governance, and augmented intelligence to help organizations understand material risk, strengthen accountability, and improve resilience before, during, and after disruption.

We help turn fragmented cyber investments into clearer priorities, stronger execution, and measurable resilience.

The Problem is not awareness, it’s execution.

Most organizations are not underinvested. They are overextended by fragmented tools, rising expectations and unclear ownership. NexAI bridges these gaps and helps organizations execute with greater clarity and control.

Threat actors move faster than human teams can respond

Cyber, compliance, privacy, and AI risk often evolve faster than controls and accountability.

Tool sprawl creates blind spots and inconsistent processes   

How NexAI Closes the Gap

NexAI Cyber combines executive cyber leadership, operational governance, and augmented intelligence to help clients turn complexity into action.

Clarify Ownership

We help clients define who owns what across cyber, compliance, AI, and resilience.

Operationalize governance

We turn policies, controls, and reporting into a working operating model, not shelfware.

Improve resilience outcomes

We help clients strengthen readiness, reduce friction, and make better decisions before, during, and after disruption.

NexAI applies lessons drawn from more than 2,000 incident response engagements to help clients identify meaningful exposure, strengthen decision-making, and improve resilience at scale.

It is not just technology. It is experience applied at scale through augmented intelligence.

  • Cyber Risk and Resilience

    Understand where the business is exposed and what leadership should address first.

    NexAI evaluates cyber risk through the lens of business disruption, regulatory exposure, third-party dependencies, and recovery capability. The result is an executive-level view of material risk and a practical plan for reducing it.

    Best for organizations that are:

    • Unsure whether current security investments address the most important risks

    • Preparing for regulatory, insurance, customer, or board scrutiny

    • Relying heavily on an MSP, MSSP, cloud provider, or other third parties

    • Experiencing growth, acquisition, leadership change, or technology transformation

    • Seeking an independent assessment of management’s current security posture

  • Managed Governance & vCISO

    Turn assessment findings and compliance obligations into a actively managed operating program.

    NexAI provides the leadership, structure, reporting, and execution support needed to sustain progress without requiring the client to build a large internal governance organization.

    Best for organizations that:

    • Have security tools but lack program leadership

    • Have findings that are not being consistently remediated

    • Need ongoing regulatory or audit readiness

    • Cannot justify or recruit a full-time CISO and GRC team

    • Need better coordination across IT, legal, risk, compliance, operations, and vendors

    • Need clearer reporting for executives or the board

  • AI Governance & Security

    Enable AI adoption while maintaining control over data, decisions, vendors, and accountability.

    NexAI helps organizations understand where AI is being used, evaluate the risks, establish practical governance, and validate that AI controls continue to operate as intended.

    Best for organizations that:

    • Know employees are using AI but lack an enterprise inventory

    • Are deploying Microsoft Copilot or another enterprise AI platform

    • Are evaluating AI vendors or integrating AI into products and workflows

    • Need to protect confidential, client, financial, health, or intellectual-property data

    • Face board, customer, regulatory, or investor questions about responsible AI

    • Have AI policies but cannot demonstrate that the policies are being followed

  • Cyber Command and Recovery

    Prepare leadership to make effective decisions before and after a cyber crisis.

    NexAI helps organizations develop, validate, and activate the leadership, legal, technical, operational, and communications capabilities required before a material cyber event.

    Best for organizations that:

    • Have an incident response plan that has not been tested

    • Have tested the technical team but not executive leadership

    • Face regulatory or cyber-insurance testing requirements

    • Are uncertain about decision rights during an incident

    • Need help planning coordination among IT, counsel, insurers, forensic firms, communications, and executives

    • Have experienced a cyber event and need an independent post-recovery review

Our Team

Russell Safirstein

Russell Safirstein is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NexAI Cyber, where he helps organizations strengthen cyber resilience, improve governance, and prepare for the operational risks created by rapid technology and AI adoption.

Russell brings more than three decades of experience across cybersecurity, enterprise risk, governance, incident response, and executive leadership. Before founding NexAI Cyber, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Redpoint Cybersecurity, which was acquired by Mitsui in 2024. His earlier experience includes building and leading technology, cybersecurity, risk, and advisory businesses, as well as working in financial reporting, internal controls, audit, and compliance.

President & CEO

Stephen Hampton

Stephen Hampton is a Partner and leads Cyber Resilience Services at NexAI Cyber, where he leads the firm’s cyber resilience capabilities across North America and Europe.

Stephen brings extensive experience in cybersecurity services, client leadership, business development, and the coordination of complex cyber-attack response and recovery engagements. He has worked with organizations, insurance carriers, law firms, and strategic partners to help clients navigate ransomware, operational disruption, and other high-impact cyber events.

Partner - Cyber Resilience
Partner - Head of Business Development

Alan Hofman

Alan Hofman is a Partner at NexAI Cyber, where he leads business development and helps organizations identify practical ways to strengthen cyber resilience, governance, and operational readiness.

Alan works with business leaders, referral partners, private equity firms, and mid-market organizations to understand their cyber, compliance, and AI governance concerns and connect them with the right NexAI capabilities. He focuses on building trusted relationships, developing strategic partnerships, and helping clients move from an initial concern or assessment need to a clear path forward.

About NexAI Cyber

NexAI Cyber is a human-led cyber resilience and governance firm built for organizations navigating growing cyber risk, regulatory pressure, operational complexity, and rapid AI adoption.

Our team brings experience across incident response, executive leadership, risk, compliance, recovery, and governance. Collectively, we have supported more than 2,000 incident response engagements, providing a practical understanding of how organizations prepare, where decision-making breaks down, and what enables more effective recovery. We work alongside leadership, technology, legal, risk, compliance, and operations teams to turn fragmented findings and obligations into clearer ownership, stronger operating discipline, and durable resilience.

Our role is not to add another disconnected tool or produce another static report. It is to help clients understand what matters, determine what to do next, and sustain progress over time.

What changes when NexAI is in place

We help clients move from reactive security to more coordinated, evidence-driven resilience.

  • Clearer priorities: Leadership understands material exposure and what should be addressed first.

  • Stronger accountability: Ownership, decision rights, and remediation responsibilities are defined.

  • Better readiness: Technical and executive teams are better prepared to respond and recover.

  • Lower governance friction: Evidence, reporting, and oversight become easier to maintain.

  • More confident AI adoption: AI use is visible, governed, validated, and monitored.

Strategic leadership, not just service delivery

NexAI connects cyber, governance, AI, compliance, legal, and business priorities into a more sustainable operating model. We do not treat resilience, governance, and technology risk as separate conversations. We help clients align them so decisions are clearer, reporting is stronger, and programs are easier to run.

  • Human-Led Expertise

  • Integrated Delivery

  • Operational Execution

  • Executive Clarity

NexAI Cyber enables clients to modernize security and build lasting operational resilience.

Start with the problem that matters most

You do not need to redesign your entire cyber program to begin. NexAI offers focused entry points that clarify current exposure, establish priorities, and create an actionable path forward.

How do clients engage NexAI?

  • Governed AI Readiness Review: Understand where AI is being used, what information may be exposed, and which governance controls should come first.

  • Cyber Posture Assessment: Gain an independent, business-focused view of material cyber risk, control gaps, and remediation priorities.

  • Resilience & Recovery Review: Evaluate whether leadership, technology, legal, communications, and recovery capabilities are prepared for a material cyber event.

  • Managed GRC + vCISO Launch: Turn existing findings, compliance obligations, and leadership priorities into an actively managed governance program.

Whether you need stronger cyber resilience, more operational governance, clearer leadership visibility, or a governed approach to AI, NexAI can help you define the right starting point and next steps.

Ready to bridge the gap between tools and outcomes?

Start with the risk that matters most.

Let’s define the right starting point for your cyber, governance, or AI risk priorities.

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