About
Closing the Trust Gap for the small businesses your community relies on.
Legacy Core™ is America's Small Business Trust Credentialing Authority, building the small business trust credentialing category, with framework-informed pathways and live verification your clients can check in one click.
The category we created
Why this matters now
The Trust Gap is what you can prove vs. what you assume. Customers, lenders, insurers, and regulators increasingly expect documented, verifiable cyber readiness. Most small businesses still lack a simple answer. Legacy Core built the credentialing pathway to close that gap in plain language.
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.
Our Mission
Making cybersecurity understandable for the businesses America depends on.
Legacy Core™ is building the small business trust credentialing category in the United States. We exist to make cybersecurity feel less intimidating and more actionable for the local firms, practices, agencies, and service providers that form the backbone of American communities. Most small businesses have limited time, limited resources, and no dedicated security team. Our role is to turn rising cybersecurity expectations into a clear credentialing pathway. Visible readiness signals and Trust Badges clients can verify.
Plain-language cybersecurity
We turn complex security expectations into practical actions small business owners can explain, adopt, and maintain.
Community trust infrastructure
The Trust Badge and public registry help communities recognize businesses that are taking cybersecurity readiness seriously.
Built for small business reality
Legacy Core is designed for organizations with limited resources, growing technology exposure, and a need to show clients that trust is being earned.
About Legacy Core
Built for owners who get asked for proof
Small businesses are being asked to prove more and document more about cybersecurity. Most of the tools and frameworks in the market were not built for Main Street owners.
Legacy Core translates those expectations into a plain-language system a small business can actually use. Technical readiness becomes something a customer, partner, lender, or insurer can check.
Founder credibility
Legacy Core is led by a founder focused on closing the gap between cybersecurity expectations and small-business reality. The job is not to add more fear. It is to give local businesses a clearer path to a credential their clients can verify.
The Legacy Core ecosystem
A working loop after the badge, not a one-time checklist.
Legacy Core connects small businesses, reviewed credentials, and vetted Alliance Partners. Partners may implement security. Legacy Core determines whether a Trust Badge has been earned.
- Step 1
Understand the Trust Gap
Start with a free Trust Audit or enter the credentialing pathway. The Trust Audit is diagnostic only. It does not issue a credential.
Start Your Free Trust Audit - Step 2
Earn a reviewed Trust Badge
Complete the applicable credentialing requirements. Legacy Core reviews eligibility under the applicable credential standard. The result is a Trust Badge listed in the Public Business Trust Registry.
Get credentialed - Step 3
Choose a vetted Alliance Partner
Select from the Alliance Partner Directory: established MSSPs, cyber insurance advisers, CPAs, and service providers reviewed by Legacy Core.
See partners - Step 4
Implement the right work
Alliance Partners may implement security. They cannot purchase, guarantee, or self-award a Trust Badge. Legacy Core determines whether the credential has been earned.
- Step 5
Keep strengthening readiness
Businesses can continue improving cybersecurity maturity over time. Silver and Gold cannot be earned through self-attestation. Partners implement. Legacy Core decides.
Partner with us
Vetted Alliance Partners
Established implementers. Not generic lead lists.
Legacy Core is a credentialing authority, not an MSP. After credentialing, businesses work with partners who already serve professional services firms. Alliance Partners may participate in referral and ecosystem opportunities.
Partners are reviewed before directory listing. They cannot purchase, guarantee, or self-award a Trust Badge. Self-attestation by businesses is never accepted.
- MSSPs & managed security providers
- Cyber insurance & commercial risk advisers
- CPAs, bookkeepers & business advisers
- Chambers & professional associations
Standards philosophy
Aligned with frameworks. Honest about authority.
Orients to NIST CSF 2.0 and similar frameworks. Does not replace them or claim regulatory authority. Private credential, reviewed and issued, with live verification.
Aligned with frameworks, not pretending to be one
The Bronze credential orients to recognized small business cybersecurity readiness frameworks (including NIST CSF 2.0 and 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 is structured around readiness, documented practices, and verifiable signals, rather than around abstract study or seat-time requirements.
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
Local roots. National pathway.
Legacy Core is built for the small businesses your community relies on, in your area and nationwide, through the same evidence-first credentialing pathway.
Built for your area
Legacy Core serves professional services small businesses in your area and nationwide through the same credentialing pathway and Public Business Trust Registry.
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.
Start with a readiness baseline.
The Trust Gap readiness assessment shows what documented evidence your business could assemble. Diagnostic only. Not a credential.