IRON Built by someone who has guarded things that matter.
Iron Lion AI Consulting exists for one reason: good firms are adopting AI the way they would never adopt a new hire. No vetting, no supervision, no file. We fix that.
- ●UNITED STATES NAVY VETERAN · GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
- ●FEDERAL CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONAL
- ●CERTIFIED AI CONSULTANT (CPD ACCREDITED PROGRAM)
- ●COMPTIA SECURITY+ · ISC2 CC
- ●BS, COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS (INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY)
- ●NIST RMF · FISMA · HIPAA · ISO 27001
- ●FEATURED EXPERT, AI IN THE FIELD · AUTHOR OF "UNPROTECTED"
Keri "Isiah" Turner
Isiah served in the United States Navy during the Global War on Terror, aboard the USS Duluth and the USS Nimitz, from 1999 to 2008. He has spent the years since as a cybersecurity professional in the federal space, protecting systems where failure was not an option and documentation was not optional.
He holds CompTIA Security+ and ISC2 CC certifications, a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems with a focus in Information Systems Security, and a Certified AI Consultant credential from a CPD Standards Office accredited program. His working vocabulary is NIST RMF, FISMA, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, which is to say the language regulators speak.
In 2026 he was the featured industry expert on the cover of AI in the Field: The Human Side of AI, credited as AI Risk Strategist and Cybersecurity Professional. His chapter, "Unprotected," makes the argument that Iron Lion was founded to act on: the danger in small-firm AI is not recklessness. It is the absence of a defense.
Why a lion
A lion does not chase everything that moves. It watches, it chooses, and when it moves the matter is settled. That is the posture Iron Lion brings to AI risk: no panic, no vendor theater, no forty-page policy binder nobody reads. Find what is exposed. Fix what matters. Be able to prove it.
The LION Model
Locate every place AI touches the business, including the places nobody admits to. Identify each exposure in plain language: legal, regulatory, reputational, financial. Operationalize controls the team will actually follow. Neutralize the risk on an ongoing basis, because the tools change monthly and the rules change quarterly.
Who we serve, and who we do not
Iron Lion serves private companies, professional practices, nonprofits, associations, and state and local organizations that use AI without a compliance department: law firms, medical and dental practices, financial and advisory firms, real estate brokerages, staffing agencies, and small businesses. Iron Lion does not pursue federal government contracts.
How we work
Every engagement starts with the Defend Score, a free two-minute diagnostic, and a 20-minute conversation. From there the ladder is simple: a written Risk Report, the full Defensibility Audit, a Governance Build, and for firms that want us on call, a founding retainer. You climb when you are ready. Nobody gets sold a rung they do not need.
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