Bronze Trust Badge
Entry-level credential for businesses establishing a verifiable cybersecurity readiness baseline.
What it signals: the business has completed Legacy Core foundational readiness review and is listed in the public registry.
The Trust Gap
If a client asked how their data is protected — what would you point to?
Legacy Core™ is a cybersecurity trust credentialing platform for small businesses. Understand your risks, earn a verifiable credential, and connect with vetted Alliance Partners who help implement the right services.
Assessment first. Credential second. Vetted partners when you are ready to implement.
Trust Badge Tiers
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Bronze is sold direct. Silver and Gold are earned outcomes — never purchased.
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Understand your risks before you pursue the badge.
The Readiness Assessment is a short, non-technical baseline across everyday cybersecurity practices — passwords, phishing, devices, data protection, and incident preparedness.
The category we created
The Trust Gap
The Trust Gap is the distance between how secure a small business actually is and what its clients can verify. Most professional services firms feel it long before they have language for it — and that gap is where business is quietly lost.
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.
The Legacy Core ecosystem
A trust ecosystem — not a one-time checklist.
Legacy Core connects small businesses, verifiable credentials, and vetted Alliance Partners into one loop: understand the risk, earn the credential, implement the right services, and build community trust over time.
- Step 1
Understand your risks
Start with the non-technical Readiness Assessment. See where your business stands across passwords, phishing, devices, data protection, and incident preparedness — before you buy anything.
Take the assessment - Step 2
Earn a verifiable credential
Complete the credentialing pathway, pass Legacy Core review, and receive a Trust Badge listed in the Public Business Trust Registry — something clients can verify in seconds.
Get credentialed - Step 3
Choose a vetted Alliance Partner
Select from the Alliance Partner Directory: established MSSPs, cyber insurance advisers, CPAs, and service providers vetted by Legacy Core — not a random vendor list.
See partners - Step 4
Implement the right services
Because the assessment and credential made the gaps visible, implementation conversations start with context — not fear-based upselling. Partners deliver MSSP, insurance, and advisory work that matches real readiness needs.
- Step 5
Grow the ecosystem together
Alliance Partners earn referral compensation for businesses they introduce and support. Businesses progress toward Silver and Gold with partner attestation when evidence exists — building community trust infrastructure, not one-off transactions.
Partner with us
Vetted Alliance Partners
Established businesses that implement — not generic lead lists.
Legacy Core is a credentialing platform, not an MSP. After credentialing, businesses work with partners who already serve professional services firms — with referral compensation for partners who introduce and support credentialed clients.
Partners are reviewed before directory listing. Attestation without evidence is never accepted. Self-attestation by businesses is never accepted.
- MSSPs & managed security providers
- Cyber insurance & commercial risk advisers
- CPAs, bookkeepers & business advisers
- Chambers & professional associations
Authoritative Definitions
Category-defining terms from Legacy Core
We define the language of small business trust — so your clients know exactly what your credential means.
Definition
What is the Trust Gap?
The distance between how secure a small business actually is and what it can verify.
Definition
What is a Trust Badge?
A verifiable credential in Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers.
Definition
Small Business Cybersecurity Credential
A verifiable designation distinct from enterprise audit frameworks.
Bronze. Silver. Gold.
The Credentialing Pathway
Bronze is the entry credential — sold direct. Silver and Gold are earned outcomes that a business demonstrates over time, never purchased direct.
- Bronze
Bronze Trust Badge
Entry credential for professional services small businesses establishing a verifiable cybersecurity readiness baseline.
Sold direct
Sold direct
Begin the credentialing pathway and earn Bronze through Legacy Core directly.
$699
- Silver
Silver Trust Badge
Intermediate credential for businesses operating documented controls and ongoing readiness review.
Earned — never sold direct
Alliance Partner attestation
Earned at no additional cost when an Alliance Partner attests to controls and supplies supporting evidence.
Free with Alliance Partner attestation + evidence
Third-party verification
Earned through independent verification by a CISSP-credentialed reviewer or qualified MSSP.
$299
- Gold
Gold Trust Badge
Advanced credential for businesses demonstrating mature, sustained cybersecurity readiness practices.
Earned — never sold direct
Alliance Partner attestation
Earned at no additional cost when an Alliance Partner attests to mature controls and supplies supporting evidence.
Free with Alliance Partner attestation + evidence
Third-party verification
Earned through independent verification by a CISSP-credentialed reviewer or qualified MSSP.
$299
Trust Badge tiers
Three tiers signal progression in small business cybersecurity readiness. Each tier links to a public verification page.
Silver Trust Badge
Intermediate credential for businesses operating documented controls and ongoing review.
What it signals: documented controls, periodic review, and continued alignment with small business cybersecurity readiness expectations.
Gold Trust Badge
Advanced credential for businesses demonstrating mature, sustained cybersecurity readiness practices.
What it signals: sustained controls, periodic third-party touchpoints, and a track record of credential renewal in good standing.
Public Business Trust Registry
Trust that is verifiable in seconds, not pages of marketing claims.
Every credentialed business appears in the Public Business Trust Registry with a tier, status, and verification link.
One-click verification. Every Trust Badge links to a live status page.
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Public Business Trust Registry
Independent Oversight Through the Trust Standards Council
The registry is intended to be supported by a Trust Standards Council made up of skilled professionals across cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and business operations — creating separation between platform operations and credential oversight.
- Independent review of readiness standards
- Separation between platform operations and credential oversight
- Ongoing updates to modules and assessment criteria
- Alignment with evolving cybersecurity expectations
- Long-term credibility of the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Trust Badge levels
Transparent pricing
Transparent pricing. Earned tiers.
Pay once for Bronze. Progress toward Silver and Gold with vetted Alliance Partner support — never purchased direct.
Bronze
Entry credentialBronze
$699one-time
Sold direct. The entry credential and registry listing.
- Foundational readiness review aligned with recognized small business cybersecurity frameworks
- Trust Badge issuance with verification link
- Public Business Trust Registry listing
- Credentialing pathway content and onboarding
- Renewable annually with continued readiness review
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Renewal
Stay credentialed
Annual
$199/year
Monthly
$19/month
- Continued registry listing in good standing
- Updated Trust Badge issuance with current verification link
- Annual readiness check-in and pathway updates
Earned tiers
Silver & Gold
Never sold direct. Two paths to either tier.
Alliance Partner attestation
Free with Alliance Partner attestation + evidence
Third-party verification
$299
Self-attestation is never accepted for Silver or Gold.
Our Mission
Making cybersecurity understandable for the businesses America depends on.
Legacy Core exists to make cybersecurity feel less intimidating and more actionable for small businesses: 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 translate recognized cybersecurity practices into plain-language steps, visible readiness signals, and a credentialing pathway clients can understand.
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.
Start with clarity. Build trust that lasts.
Take the Readiness Assessment to understand your risks, pursue the credential when you are ready, and connect with vetted Alliance Partners who help implement the right services.