Abbott
Aegon
Airbnb
Amazon
American Airlines
AmerisourceBergen
Anthem
Apple
AT&T
AutoNation
AutoZone
Bank of America
Baxter
BP
Bridgestone
Capital One
Cardinal Health
Centene Corporation
Ceridian
Cisco
CNA
Costco Wholesale
CVS Health
Disney
Emerson
Farmers Insurance
Federal Reserve System
Fifth Third Bank
Fresenius Medical Care
Gates
General Electric (GE)
Harley-Davidson
HBC (Hudson's Bay Company)
HCSC (Health Care Service Corporation)
Ingram Micro
Johnson Controls
Kaiser Permanente
Lenovo
Levi's
Marathon
McCormick
McKesson
MGM
Morningstar
Motorola
NBC
New York Life
NielsenIQ
Nike
Northern Trust
Prudential
Ricoh
Saks Fifth Avenue
SC Johnson
Snapchat
Spectrum
Stanford University
Target
Tesla
Transamerica
Trek
UnitedHealth Group
Vail Resorts
Visa
Wells Fargo
Westinghouse
Wintrust
Wynn
XPO Logistics
Industries
Cybersecurity staffing by industry.Sector fluency from the first briefing.
Six vertical practices, four service lines, and a senior bench that already knows the frameworks, the audit calendar, and the titles that genuinely exist inside each sector. Every search brief opens on the constraint rather than the job description.
The practices
Six sectors, and what actually breaks in each one
Vertical fluency is a hiring advantage only when it changes the brief. In each of these sectors the constraint arrives before the requisition does: an examination date, a freeze window, a clearance, an authorization boundary, a safety case. Practices are organized around those constraints.
Financial Services
Banks, insurers, and payments firms hiring against an examination calendar rather than a hiring calendar.
Healthcare
Health systems, payers, and providers where a security decision and a clinical decision are the same decision.
Technology
Software, SaaS, and platform companies where product security and corporate security are two separate hiring problems.
Public Sector and Defense
Agencies, primes, and defense industrial base suppliers where clearance and authorization decide the shortlist.
Critical Infrastructure
Utilities, energy, water, and transport operators where the plant floor and the SOC have to agree.
Retail and Consumer
Retailers, restaurant groups, and consumer brands hiring around peak freeze and payments compliance.
All industries served
The six practices above carry the deepest client history, and they are not the limit of the work. Manufacturing, logistics, telecommunications, life sciences, hospitality, and professional services all sit inside the active portfolio, currently spanning [STAT: industries_served_count] industries.
Service map
How the four service lines land inside each sector
The offer does not change by industry. The brief does. Select a sector to read how executive search, staffing, project delivery, and AI work are scoped against it.
Financial Services
Regulated environments reward specificity. The brief names the regime, the examination date, and the control that has to have an owner.
- Executive Placement
- Bank and insurer CISO, BISO, and technology leadership search, run confidentially while an incumbent is still in seat.
- Precision Staffing
- Direct hire, contract, and contract to hire coverage for identity, risk, and application security roles inside regulated environments.
- Professional Services and SOW
- IAM and PAM delivery, vCISO advisory, and GRC assessment scoped as a statement of work rather than added headcount.
- AI Talent and Strategy
- AI talent for model risk, fraud analytics, and the governance layer examiners have started asking about.
Healthcare
Clinical constraint governs everything. The candidate who has run a real diversion event screens differently from the candidate who has read about one.
- Executive Placement
- Health system CISO and technology leadership search, including interim cover during an incident or a transition.
- Precision Staffing
- Contract and direct hire coverage for identity, segmentation, and clinical application security teams.
- Professional Services and SOW
- Assessment, penetration testing, and IAM delivery scoped to a project, with HIPAA obligation written into the engagement.
- AI Talent and Strategy
- AI talent for clinical data, diagnostic tooling, and the privacy review that has to move alongside it.
Technology
Security has become a revenue function here. Compliance evidence closes deals, and the hire who produces it is infrastructure.
- Executive Placement
- CISO, CTO, and VP of security search for software companies, including first security leader hires at scale-up stage.
- Precision Staffing
- Product security, detection, and platform hiring at the pace a release calendar actually sets.
- Professional Services and SOW
- Penetration testing, application security assessment, and IAM delivery for teams that need work completed rather than headcount added.
- AI Talent and Strategy
- AI engineering talent and AI strategy support for teams shipping model-backed features.
Public Sector and Defense
The constraint is rarely the skill. It is an active clearance, a reciprocity path, or a sponsor willing to carry the wait, and the plan names which one applies.
- Executive Placement
- Program and agency security leadership search, scoped to clearance level and contract vehicle from the first conversation.
- Precision Staffing
- Cleared and clearable contract staffing for authorization, engineering, and monitoring roles.
- Professional Services and SOW
- Assessment, penetration testing, and IAM delivery scoped as a statement of work against a defined authorization boundary.
- AI Talent and Strategy
- AI talent for mission analytics, with the governance posture review boards expect to see.
Critical Infrastructure
Availability and safety outrank confidentiality here, and a candidate who cannot say why is not ready for the environment.
- Executive Placement
- Utility and operator security leadership search, including leaders who have carried both a compliance program and a control room.
- Precision Staffing
- Contract and direct hire coverage for OT engineering, compliance, and monitoring roles at site and enterprise level.
- Professional Services and SOW
- OT assessment, segmentation design, and penetration testing scoped to safety constraints rather than a standard test window.
- AI Talent and Strategy
- AI talent for anomaly detection and asset intelligence across operational networks.
Retail and Consumer
A security hire made in October contributes in February. Timing is part of the brief, not an afterthought.
- Executive Placement
- Retail and consumer CISO and technology leadership search, planned around the peak calendar.
- Precision Staffing
- Contract and direct hire coverage for payments, fraud, and e-commerce security, timed to land before freeze.
- Professional Services and SOW
- PCI readiness, penetration testing, and IAM delivery scoped as a statement of work.
- AI Talent and Strategy
- AI talent for fraud modelling, demand signal work, and the customer data governance behind both.
Next step
Two ways this starts
A briefing takes twenty minutes and ends with a written search plan or a scoped statement of work. Sector context is assumed rather than explained.
Hiring leaders
An open role, a leadership gap, or a team that has to scale before an audit, a launch, or a peak season. The brief names the constraint and the plan follows it.
Project sponsors and procurement
Defined deliverables, a fixed scope, and a vendor that can answer the security questionnaire it is being asked to satisfy. Delivery runs under a statement of work.
In Their Words
What it's like to work with RED SKY.
And what it's like to work here.
Feedback from enterprise security leaders, technology executives, and the people inside RED SKY.
RED SKY is in the company of very few in a crowded cybersecurity and IT industry. Truly flush with innovators and problem solvers, with one of the highest client-centric levels of care that I have ever witnessed. They truly listen, then take action and get results.
The process was streamlined. You understood our business needs, partnered with us, and you delivered top executive and non-executive level talent. I've worked with staffing firms all over North America; you've certainly demonstrated that you're a leader.
It was apparent he cared both about the company and the people whose position he was filling, all the time working hard to make sure the applicant has all the info to put their best foot forward. This is truly the way to place people in positions to succeed.
Everyone here is great. We work hard, but we laugh a lot and have fun. The money combined with the company culture is what will make me stay here for years to come.
Listened to our needs, was fair and ethical in our business dealings, and found us extremely qualified candidates. Personable, professional, and someone who gets the job done using creative approaches when traditional ways are not working.
I have had a great working relationship with RED SKY for many years. They take the time to understand my requirements and find people who meet my needs quickly. Always responsive. I would highly recommend them for your staffing needs.
A driven leader going beyond expectations in finding folks to meet project and staffing needs. Took the time to understand my needs and then leveraged the resources of RED SKY Consulting to assist and get fantastic results.
The ability to make great money, progress in your career, get training, and have work life balance is here. The people are fun, very friendly, and we work in a collaborative team environment. The culture and values are solid.
Always professional, responsive, and more importantly there with the solutions we need, when we need them. They've been a great asset for me in the last two companies I have worked for and I will undoubtedly lean on them in the future.
You know when you receive the candidate information, they will be the highest quality and best fit possible. I used them to find my security architect and could not have found a more perfect candidate.
RED SKY has a deep network of highly skilled individuals even in the tightest of markets. RED SKY does impeccably what I need a partner to do: solve problems.
All of us work harmoniously with each other, and you can be sure that help will come if you need it. Sometimes you don't even need to ask.
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