Bespoke Security Services
Tailored managed research security expertise for your specific institutional threat model.
No two research portfolios are identical, and cookie-cutter templates leave critical blind spots. IPTalons provides highly customized, expert-led managed services to support your compliance team, audit researcher disclosures, and defend your intellectual property.
Custom Research Security Programs
Virtual Chief Research Security Officer (vCRSO) Support
Get access to senior research security executives without the overhead of a full-time hire. Our vCRSO managed service provides strategic guidance on compliance program design, federal funding audits, security policy drafting, and executive threat briefs. Perfect for growing universities, research parks, and corporate labs.
COI & Affiliation Veracity Checks
Verify the accuracy of researcher Conflict of Interest (COI) and Conflict of Commitment (COC) disclosures. We conduct deep-dive validation audits cross-referencing researcher-reported details against international publication indexes, patent registries, and foreign corporate records to identify hidden or undisclosed affiliations.
Deep Dive Analytical Threat Reports
When a potential foreign influence risk is flagged, our analysts produce comprehensive, board-ready open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigative reports. These deep dives detail publication networks, patent assignments, foreign talent program contracts, and institutional affiliations to facilitate risk mitigation planning.
MV-RSP Auditor's Tool & Gap Analysis
Assess your program against the Minimum Viable Research Security Program (MV-RSP) framework. Our auditors catalog your institutional controls in travel security, cybersecurity, export controls, and disclosures to build a detailed gap analysis mapping exactly to NIST IR-8484 and NSPM-33 guidelines.
Research Policy Review & Implementation
Align your internal governance policies with rapidly evolving federal mandates. We audit existing intellectual property agreements, visiting scholar contracts, travel guidelines, and disclosure forms, then draft and help implement defensible policies that pass federal sponsor audits.
SBIR/STTR FOCI Vetting
Screen early-stage companies and sub-awardees for Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI). We identify foreign equity stakes, voting controls, and advisory board ties that could trigger security flags under S. 3971, providing remediation strategies to secure your funding.
Why choose Bespoke Managed Services?
Deliver massive static reports that gather dust in binders without ongoing support.
Generalist compliance consultants who lack specific research intelligence experience.
Ad-hoc flat billing rates with zero alignment to software integration or actual tool support.
No software-driven risk validation, leaving you to manually verify findings.
Actionable roadmap implementation backed by virtual leadership to drive changes.
Specialists in open-source research threat tracking, publication vetting, and patent analysis.
Flexible advisor-on-demand hours integrated with CSR platform tools like RedBook.
Automated screening loops combined with deep analyst intelligence for 100% confidence.
Design Your Custom Compliance Strategy
Speak with our principal analysts today to construct a custom managed service plan that matches your specific research and funding framework.