{Layer10} is named for what we do: we're the tenth layer - security oversight that wraps around every other layer of your business. The Business Stack is how we see the companies we protect: not as servers and software, but as physical assets, operations, financial systems, intellectual property, people, customers and vendors, reputation, compliance obligations, and strategic direction. Each one is a layer of value. Each one needs protection.
Oversight is the baseline. When your business needs hands-on help - managing endpoints, running vulnerability scans, configuring security tools - we reach into any layer and operate. Build to fit means you decide where oversight stops and operations starts. We match your reality, not a brochure.
L1–3 are how you run the business. L4–6 are how you build it. L7–9 are how you lead it. L10 protects every one.
Your facilities, equipment, inventory, and supply chain. The foundation layer - everything your business physically relies on. A lock on the server room door is layer-1 security. So is vendor access to your warehouse.
OSI parallel → Physical layer (the wire)The stack groups naturally into three phases of business maturity.
Assets, Operations, Financial. These are the layers every business must have to exist at all. Security here means protecting the ability to operate - keeping the lights on, the supply chain moving, the cash flowing.
Intellectual Property, People, Customers, Vendors & Data. These are the value-creation layers. IP is what makes you unique. People are how you execute. Customers are why you exist. Security here means protecting competitive advantage and revenue.
Reputation, Compliance, Strategy. These are the strategic layers. Your brand, your license to operate, your direction of travel. Security here means protecting trust, staying out of regulatory trouble, and enabling confident growth.
{Layer10} grew out of networking. The OSI model - seven layers from physical wire to application logic - is how engineers think about communication. We extended it to ten because security doesn't stop at the application layer. The Business Stack translates that same idea: if your business were a network, here's how we'd protect it.
This is a metaphor, not a protocol. It's how we think - not a standard you need to learn.
Most security providers show you their product and work backward to your problem. We start with your actual business layers - what you build, how you operate, where your value lives - and build the security from there. The Business Stack keeps us honest: if we can't name which layer of your business we're protecting, we haven't thought hard enough about what you need.
We also use AI to accelerate our own operations - threat correlation, report drafting, pattern detection - and every output is reviewed by a human who has run incident response. AI is a tool; we keep it in its toolbox.
Thirty minutes. We'll walk through your layers - physical to strategic - and show you what protection looks like at every one.