About
Closing the Trust Gap for the small businesses your community relies on.
Legacy Core™ is a private credentialing authority — founder-led, framework-aligned, and built so the businesses that earn the credential are the businesses your clients can actually verify.
Mission
Make small business cybersecurity readiness visible, verifiable, and worth trusting.
Most professional services small businesses are doing more than their clients give them credit for — and less than their clients believe they should. Legacy Core exists to close that gap with a credentialing pathway that produces a real, reviewable, public credential.
The category we created
Why this matters now
The Trust Gap is the distance between how secure a small business actually is and what its clients can verify. Professional services clients have started asking the question — and most businesses do not have a verifiable answer. Legacy Core is the answer.
Feel See Discover Trust Act
- Step 1
Feel
The unease of not being sure what to say when a client asks how their data is protected.
- Step 2
See
Recognize the Trust Gap — the distance between how secure you actually are and what your clients can verify.
- Step 3
Discover
Understand the readiness signals professional services clients quietly look for before they refer.
- Step 4
Trust
Adopt a credentialing pathway that orients to recognized frameworks and produces verifiable evidence.
- Step 5
Act
Display a Trust Badge that links to a public registry record any client can verify in seconds.
Founder
Why Legacy Core exists
I built Legacy Core to close the Trust Gap for the small businesses my community relies on — the CPAs, attorneys, medical and dental practices, financial advisers, and insurance agencies whose clients deserve to verify, not just hope.
Chris Green
Founder, Legacy Core
Professional credentials
ISC2 Cybersecurity (CC) credential and the Google Cybersecurity Certificate.
Community leadership
Membership Chair, ISC2 Southern California Inland Empire Chapter.
Operational background
16+ years of operational and people-development experience across hospitality, logistics, Meta, and Google — building the credibility behind a small business trust standard.
Standards philosophy
Aligned with frameworks. Honest about authority.
Legacy Core orients to recognized cybersecurity readiness frameworks. It does not claim to be those frameworks, and it does not claim regulatory authority. The credential is what it is: a private credential, reviewed and issued, with a public verification page.
Aligned with frameworks, not pretending to be one
The Bronze rubric orients to recognized small business cybersecurity readiness frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls). It does not claim to be those frameworks, and it is not a regulatory standard.
A credentialing pathway, not a class
The pathway content is structured around what a credential review actually evaluates — readiness artifacts, documented practices, and verifiable signals — rather than around lessons or modules.
A private credentialing authority
Legacy Core is a private credentialing authority, not a regulator. Trust Badges are credentials issued by Legacy Core. They are not licenses, permits, or government endorsements.
Community focus
Inland Empire first. National in design.
Legacy Core is built where it is needed first — among the small businesses of the Inland Empire — and designed for any professional services small business in the country to credential through the same pathway.
Anchored in the Inland Empire
Headquartered in the Inland Empire and serving Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Hemet, Riverside, Corona, and the surrounding region.
Built with chamber and industry partners
Legacy Core works directly with chambers of commerce, business associations, brokers, accountants, and cybersecurity service providers who serve professional services small business.
The credential your community can verify.
Start with Bronze. Earn Silver and Gold over time. Stay listed in a registry your clients can check in seconds.