Small Business Trust Credentialing
Earn the Check. Build the Trust.
Protect what you built. Legacy Core gives small businesses a visible Trust Credential, a Trust Mark to display, and a public registry record customers, partners, vendors, and insurers can verify.
A credential shows completed readiness for your level and active status. It is not a guarantee against cyber incidents.
Public Business Trust Registry
Verify a Business
Trust should be verifiable. Search by business name or credential ID to see credential level, status, and issue details in the Public Business Trust Registry.
Customers, partners, vendors, and insurers can check a credential without calling the business. Open the registry
How trust works
Build readiness. Earn your mark. Verify the trust.
A visible trust signal for small business. Turn cybersecurity readiness into something customers can see.
Protect
Protect what you built. Build cybersecurity readiness that fits a small business.
Earn
Complete the credentialing pathway for your level. Legacy Core reviews before a Trust Badge is issued.
Show
Don't just say it. Show it. Display your Trust Mark where customers and partners can see it.
Verify
Anyone can confirm status in the Public Business Trust Registry: Verified, Expired, or Not Found.
Example credential
The Trust Mark your customers can check
After you earn a credential, you get a Trust Mark to display and a registry record with your credential ID. Clients open the link and see Verified, Expired, or Not Found.
Bronze Trust Mark
Display on your site, proposals, and email signature.
Example verification
Summit Ledger CPA Group
Riverside, CA
LiveCredential ID LC-SL4RG · Verify this example
Illustrative example. Search the registry for live credentials.
Why Legacy Core
Anyone can say they take cybersecurity seriously
A questionnaire wants your word. Legacy Core gives you a credential someone else can check. Complete the pathway, earn the mark, and let the registry do the talking.
Live credentialing pathway demo
Playing · Step 1
Trust Audit in progress
Summit Ledger CPA Group · diagnostic only
Who can access customer data?
Owner + two staff
Do you have MFA on email?
Partially. Personal only.
Backup tested in last 90 days?
Not sure
Trust Gap signal
Access control and backups need attention before credential review.
Trust Marks
The mark means something
A Legacy Core Trust Mark is not a sticker you print yourself. It ties to a reviewed credential and a live registry record.
What it means
- You completed the credentialing pathway for your tier.
- Legacy Core reviewed your documented readiness before issuing the mark.
- Your business has an active listing in the Public Business Trust Registry.
- Anyone can confirm status without calling you.
What it does not mean
- It is not a government credential or regulatory approval.
- It does not promise that nothing will ever go wrong.
- It is not something you can self-declare at Silver or Gold.
- It is not issued because you bought software, monitoring, or a partner package.
Why now
Get ahead of rising trust expectations.
Clients, partners, vendors, and insurers ask more questions about data protection than they used to. A Trust Credential gives you something visible to show, and a registry record they can check on their own.
A credential shows completed readiness requirements for your level and active credential status. It is not a promise that nothing will ever go wrong.
- Send a verification link instead of writing answers from memory.
- Show a Trust Mark on your site, proposals, and client packets.
- Let insurers and partners confirm status without a phone call.
Trust Marks
Bronze, Silver, and Gold
Each level reflects completed readiness requirements and active credential status. Higher levels require additional validation.
Bronze
Build the foundation.
Complete the baseline credentialing pathway. Earn your first Trust Badge and a registry listing.
Silver
Strengthen your readiness.
Requires additional validation through an Alliance Partner-supported or independent review pathway. Cannot be self-declared.
Gold
Demonstrate a higher level of maintained readiness.
Recognizes continued readiness over time. Requires evidence and review. Cannot be self-declared.
A Legacy Core credential does not guarantee against cyber incidents or establish full legal compliance. Learn about Trust Marks
How credentialing works
From pathway to verified credential
Start the pathway
Begin with Get Credentialed for Bronze. Work through the readiness assessment for your level.
Document your readiness
Complete the credentialing pathway. Legacy Core reviews your responses before a Trust Mark is issued.
Earn your Trust Mark
After review, you receive a Trust Mark and a public registry listing with your credential ID.
Let anyone verify
Customers, partners, and insurers can check your credential in the Public Business Trust Registry.
You do not have to buy cybersecurity implementation or a specific security product from Legacy Core to earn a credential.
Alliance Partners
Credibility from the community around you
Legacy Core works with chambers, brokers, CPAs, and cybersecurity service providers who serve small business. Alliance Partners may help with implementation when a business wants that help. Buying partner work does not guarantee a badge. Legacy Core determines whether a credential has been earned.
Alliance PartnersChambers and business associations introduce credentialing to their members.
Insurers and advisors refer clients who need a visible trust signal.
Earn the Check. Build the Trust.
Get Credentialed to start your pathway, or verify a business in the Public Business Trust Registry.