Legacy Core™

Legacy Core™

Close the Trust Gap with a credential Main Street can verify in one click.

Every credential is human-reviewed before issuance and listed in a public registry anyone can verify. Aligned with NIST CSF 2.0 + CIS Controls v8 — sized for small business, not enterprise audits. No compliance mandate. No class to sit through.

Legacy Core Bronze Trust Badge

Summit Ledger CPA Group

LC-SL4RG

Bronze Trust Badge

Issued by Legacy Core — America’s Small Business Trust Credentialing Authority

Every Trust Badge on the registry was reviewed by a person before it went live.

The Question You Can't Look Up

For over a century, the public has been able to look up whether a business treats its customers fairly. A registry. A seal. A place to check before you trust.

But trust has a new question now — and there's nowhere to look it up.

“How is my data protected here?”

Your clients hand you their financial records, health information, and personal details every day. When they wonder how that information is protected, there is no registry to check. No badge to look for. No answer.

That's the Trust Gap: the distance between how seriously a business takes data protection and what its clients can actually verify.

Legacy Core™ closes it.

A familiar idea, built for today's trust question.

Legacy Core™ is America's Small Business Trust Credentialing Authority. Start with a free Trust Audit, earn a Bronze Trust Badge through human-reviewed readiness, and progress to Silver or Gold as verified cybersecurity practices mature. Every active credential can be checked in the Public Business Trust Registry.

Framework-informed by NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS Controls v8. Readiness you can show—not legal compliance.

Not a rating handed to you. Not a sticker you buy. A credential you earn — and your clients can check.

Give your clients a credential they can verify.

  • Verifiable, not claimed.

    Every Trust Badge links to a live registry listing. Silver and Gold are never self-attested.

  • Forward-looking.

    Not a complaint history — documented evidence of the safeguards you have in place today.

  • Built for the data era.

    The trust question changed. The way businesses answer it should too.

Who we work with

Working with the institutions your community already trusts.

In collaboration with

Provident Bank logo

Bringing verifiable cyber trust to Main Street — together with Provident Bank.

Legacy Core teams up with Provident Bank to help the small businesses they serve across the Inland Empire understand where they stand on cyber readiness and earn a credential their own clients can verify. It’s a recurring community effort — not a one-time appearance.

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Coming up together

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Logos shown with permission. A partnership reflects collaboration — not an endorsement of any individual credential.

A 90-second overview

See what Legacy Core does — and why it matters.

A quick overview of how a small business earns a Trust Badge and how anyone can verify it in one click. No jargon, no fine print — just the idea in plain language.

In the community

Legacy Core Scams & Fraud

August 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM · VFW

Legacy Core™ will join Provident Bank and the VFW on August 27 for a practical fraud-prevention session designed for seniors. Attendees will learn how to recognize common scams, protect their personal and financial information, and respond safely to suspicious calls, messages, and payment requests.

This Month’s Trust Signal

Staying current so your business can stay trusted.

Each month we translate cybersecurity intelligence into one practical trust action for small businesses.

July 2026High risk

SEC Reg S-P: Small RIAs Had a June 3 Compliance Deadline

As of June 3, 2026, SEC-registered investment advisers under $1.5B AUM must maintain a written incident response program and notify clients within 30 days of a qualifying breach. This Trust Signal is to document your IRP — not just draft it.

Recommended action

Confirm your written incident response program is adopted, dated, and assigned to a responsible owner.

Legacy Core Intelligence Center

Current official updates, reviewed for small-business relevance.

Official-source updates enter a human review queue before they appear here. Proposed actions are labeled separately from final requirements.

Protection Habit of the Week

Test one backup restore

Restore one important file from backup and record whether the test worked.

A backup is useful only when the business can recover the data it needs.

  1. Choose a representative non-sensitive file.
  2. Restore it to a safe location.
  3. Record the date, result, and owner for any follow-up.

Reviewed 7/26/2026 by Christopher Green. Official guidance: CISA — Back Up Business Data

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Illustrative scenarios

Illustrative ways businesses can use a Trust Badge

These examples illustrate possible use cases. They are not customer testimonials.

  • Include a registry verification link when clients ask about security practices.

    Summit Ledger CPA Group (Sample organization)

    CPA firm · Bronze Trust Badge

  • Share a registry listing with proposals so prospective clients can verify the credential.

    Marden & Cole Law Office (Sample organization)

    Law office · Silver Trust Badge

  • Use the Trust Badge as a path to the live registry record, not as a stand-alone claim.

    Westgate Insurance Advisors (Sample organization)

    Insurance agency · Bronze Trust Badge

Browse live listings in the Public Business Trust Registry.

Time to badge

From Audit to live listing.

Most Solo Bronze owners complete the pathway in a few weeks. Review timing depends on artifact quality — not a countdown clock.

  1. 01 · Day 0

    Free Trust Audit

    15 minutes. Diagnostic only — surfaces your Trust Gap in plain language.

  2. 02 · Week 1–3

    Credentialing pathway

    Work the 15-part readiness pathway at your pace. Produce artifacts for review.

  3. 03 · Review

    A person reviews every application.

    Your artifacts are reviewed by a human against the published Bronze rubric. No automated approvals, no rubber stamps. Self-attestation is never enough — that's what makes the badge worth verifying.

  4. 04 · Live

    Trust Badge + registry

    Credential issued, verification URL live, business listed in the public registry.

Reviewed by people. Independent governance in development.

No algorithm issues a Trust Badge. Every credential application is reviewed by a person against a published rubric — and self-attestation is never enough.

Every credential is human-reviewed. Legacy Core is establishing an independent Trust Standards Council. Confirmed members and governance documents will be published as seats are finalized.

Planned council disciplines include:

  • Cybersecurity practice

    hands-on security leadership, not theory

  • Privacy & data law

    the legal side of protecting client information

  • Accounting & financial controls

    the standards CPAs hold themselves to

  • Compliance & risk

    how regulated industries verify what's real

Governance details will be published only after members and documents are confirmed.

Read Credential Integrity & Governance →

Product demo

How Trust Badge Verification Works

This is what partners and clients see when they check a Trust Badge.

Step 1 of 3

Client scans or clicks

Email signature, proposal footer, or website badge — one link.

Try a live lookup

legacycore.com/verify

Credential ID

LC-SL4RG

Business
Summit Ledger CPA Group

Tier
Bronze · Active

Status
Looking up…

Public Business Trust Registry

Give your clients a credential they can verify.

The Public Business Trust Registry gives clients and partners a direct way to check a credential's current status.

Transparent pricing

Transparent pricing. Plans for every team size.

Pick the seat count that fits — Solo, Team 2–5, Team 6–10, or Growth. Every plan includes the Legacy Core credential and Trust Badge. Silver and Gold are earned over time.

For small teams

Team 2–5

2 to 5 users
$1,990/year

Everything a growing team needs to get credentialed together.

Bronze
Silver
Gold
Credential & Trust Badge included at every plan size
  • Up to 5 user seats
  • Shared team dashboard
  • Role-based access
  • Priority email support
  • Team onboarding session
Start the Free Trust Audit

Secure annual checkout via Stripe.

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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 after Bronze.

Alliance Partner attestation

Free with Alliance Partner attestation + evidence

Third-party verification

$299

Self-attestation is never accepted for Silver or Gold. See badge tiers

Browse resources · Level up to Silver & Gold · By industry

Why Legacy Core exists

Chris Green · Founder & CEO

I'm Chris Green. I grew up in Silicon Valley, surrounded by technology — but my career didn't start there.

I started in the real economy: sales, hospitality, firefighting, logistics, EHS, business operations. Different industries, but the same thing kept happening in every one of them — I was the person they asked to train the new hires, run the seminars, and take complicated processes and turn them into something anyone could follow. That became my craft long before I ever touched cybersecurity: translation. Taking what's complex and making it usable.

I've also been a small business owner. And I'll be honest about something: back then, cybersecurity was never a thought for me. I was doing what most owners do — hoping for the best. Nobody was talking to businesses like mine.

Read the full story →

— Chris Green, Founder & CEO

Questions? I read every email. contact@legacycore.com

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Start closing your Trust Gap today.

Take the free Trust Audit to see where you stand — then follow a clear pathway to a credential your ecosystem can verify.