Sentinel Vault
For counties, cities & public-sector agencies

Cybersecurity awareness training, built by someone who works these cases.

Sentinel Weekly is the 52-week security awareness program for small and mid-sized public-sector agencies. No gotcha tests, no 3-year contracts, and built by an active law-enforcement cyber-fraud supervisor.

52 weekly episodesSLCGP-eligibleAudit-grade evidenceCancel anytime
The problem

Small jurisdictions are now the primary ransomware target.

Atlanta. Baltimore. Dallas. Columbus. New Orleans. Knox County. Lincoln County. The list of cities and counties paralyzed by ransomware grows every quarter, and the attackers have shifted down-market. Small municipalities and special districts are now considered easier, more profitable targets than the large cities that have hardened their defenses.

Most agencies under 500 employees have one or two IT staff covering everything from email to GIS to payroll. Security awareness training is a side duty. Or it doesn’t exist at all.

Why it fits the public sector

Designed for agencies without a dedicated security team.

Founder

Built by a working sergeant

Active law-enforcement cyber-fraud supervisor. Every episode is informed by attacks that came across the desk last quarter. Not a vendor's marketing team trying to write what they think attackers do.

Cadence

Five minutes a week, year-round

One short story per week, delivered to every employee. No annual day-long workshop, no scramble to schedule training before an audit. Your IT director has zero ongoing admin after the cohort code goes out.

Evidence

Audit-grade compliance documentation

Per-employee weekly completion timestamps, HMAC-verified report IDs, two-signature attestation. The same artifact satisfies cyber-insurance renewal and CIS-Controls or NIST CSF assessors.

No tricks

No gotcha phishing tests

Frontline staff already feel surveilled. We don't run sim-phishing campaigns. 2025 academic research shows they breed resentment and don't change behavior. We test understanding through quizzes, not bait.

Flexibility

No three-year lock-in

Annual subscription, cancel anytime, 14-day refund window. We'll work with your procurement office on a one-year PO if Stripe billing isn't on the approved-vendor list yet.

Industry-fit

Public-sector scenarios, not generic SMB

Stories run inside fictional county and city offices: vendor invoice fraud at public works, voice-cloned calls impersonating the city manager, USB drops in the parking lot, ransomware at the dispatch center.

Who’s teaching
Pete Hish, Sentinel Vault founder
Taught by Pete Hish · Founder

A working cyber-fraud supervisor, not a vendor consultant.

US Army veteran. Active sergeant supervising a cyber and fraud investigations team at a large Southern California law-enforcement agency. Ten-plus years inside the cases that hit small businesses, families, and public-sector agencies first. The training is shaped by what actually goes wrong, not what vendor decks predict.

Certified Cybersecurity SpecialistCertified Cyber Fraud SpecialistCalifornia POST Certified Instructor
Public-sector demo

Book a 15-minute demo for your IT director.

You’ll see a sample episode, the admin dashboard, the compliance report your assessor will receive, and we’ll walk through SLCGP eligibility and procurement options.