Financial institutions
Exam findings closed with evidence for credit unions and community banks.
For financial institutions →Infrastructure and security engineering · Metro Detroit
Infrastructure and security, delivered with proof.
Compliance readiness, network and security engineering, and verified AI systems for credit unions, defense suppliers, and regulated businesses. Where a claim on this page can be checked against a source outside this website, it carries a mark. Follow the marks.
The trust layer
We wrote the trust layer ourselves. Third Level IT authored VIRP, an open infrastructure trust protocol published through the IETF draft process E1 and independently reviewed by outside engineers. E2 The same discipline runs through everything we deliver: claims backed by evidence, systems that prove what they did.
What we do
Three services, one standard
Delivered by the engineer who answers the phone, verified against device output, and filed as evidence your examiner can open.
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Compliance readiness
Gap assessments and remediation for GLBA, NCUA, NIST 800-171, and CMMC. We map your controls to real evidence, fix what is missing, and leave you ready for the examiner.
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Network and security engineering
Firewalls, routing, segmentation, SIEM. Fortinet partner. E3 We run our own gear in our own colocation facility, so we operate what we recommend. E4
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Custom AI systems, built and verified
AI-powered software that runs on hardware you own. Every system ships with tests that prove it works, and nothing leaves your building unless you decide it does.
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Industries
Who we work with
Defense contractors
Scoped CUI enclaves designed, built, and documented for the assessor.
For defense contractors →Municipal and utility
Segmented OT networks, hardened remote access, and evidence for the state.
For municipal and utility →The founder
The founder is the engineer
Nate Howard spent fifteen years at enterprise integrators, Presidio and Sentinel Technologies, designing and securing networks for Fortune 500 environments. He wrote VIRP because infrastructure ran on assertion, and he runs Third Level IT the way the protocol works: publish the claim, attach the evidence, invite the check. When you call, you get the person who designed your network.
More about how we work →“Your regulator doesn't grade effort. It grades evidence. I build infrastructure that produces it.”
Evidence
Check the claims
Each mark on this page resolves to a source outside this website. Unmarked statements are ours to defend in conversation.
- E1 Authored VIRP, an open infrastructure trust protocol published through the IETF draft process IETF Datatracker ↗↩
- E2 Independently reviewed by outside engineers Acknowledgments, draft-howard-virp-06 ↗↩
- E3 Fortinet partner Fortinet partner locator ↗↩
- E4 We run our own gear in our own colocation facility thirdlevel.ai ↗↩
One conversation
Facing an exam, an assessment, or a system nobody can prove?
Email or call. We'll tell you within one conversation whether we're the right fit, and if we're not, we'll point you to someone who is.