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.
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.
Trust Badge Tiers
Bronze — awareness credential, sold direct.
Instant Verification
Example verification
Summit Ledger CPA Group
Riverside, CA · Finance
LiveCredential ID LC-SL4RG · Verify this example
Every Trust Badge on the registry was reviewed by a person before it went live.
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.
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.
Every Trust Badge links to a live registry listing. Silver and Gold are never self-attested.
Not a complaint history — documented evidence of the safeguards you have in place today.
The trust question changed. The way businesses answer it should too.
Who we work with
In collaboration with
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.
events together
recurring collaboration
Coming up together
July 30, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM · Temecula Chamber of Commerce, Temecula, CA
April 21, 2026, 5:15 AM – 6:00 AM · Hemet, CA
Logos shown with permission. A partnership reflects collaboration — not an endorsement of any individual credential.
A 90-second overview
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
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.
Who it’s for
We concentrate on firms that handle sensitive client data. If customers, lenders, or partners ask how you protect information — and you need an answer they can verify — Legacy Core is built for you.
Client tax and financial data that partners ask you to prove you protect.
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Matter files and privileged communications under vendor security questionnaires.
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Patient data expectations from insurers, referrals, and patients themselves.
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Fiduciary trust that benefits from a verifiable readiness signal.
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Carrier and client conversations that need more than “we take security seriously.”
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Any small business that handles client trust and wants a credential others can verify.
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This Month’s Trust Signal
Each month we translate cybersecurity intelligence into one practical trust action for small businesses.
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
Official-source updates enter a human review queue before they appear here. Proposed actions are labeled separately from final requirements.
CISA added CVE-2026-18577, an N-able N-central authentication-bypass vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on August 3, 2026.
HHS published a proposed rule that would revise HIPAA Security Rule requirements for electronic protected health information.
The June 3, 2026 compliance date for smaller entities covered by the SEC's amended Regulation S-P has passed.
Protection Habit of the Week
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.
Reviewed 7/26/2026 by Christopher Green. Official guidance: CISA — Back Up Business Data ↗
Illustrative scenarios
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
Most Solo Bronze owners complete the pathway in a few weeks. Review timing depends on artifact quality — not a countdown clock.
01 · Day 0
15 minutes. Diagnostic only — surfaces your Trust Gap in plain language.
02 · Week 1–3
Work the 15-part readiness pathway at your pace. Produce artifacts for review.
03 · Review
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.
04 · Live
Credential issued, verification URL live, business listed in the public registry.
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:
hands-on security leadership, not theory
the legal side of protecting client information
the standards CPAs hold themselves to
how regulated industries verify what's real
Governance details will be published only after members and documents are confirmed.
Product demo
This is what partners and clients see when they check a Trust Badge.
Step 1 of 3
Email signature, proposal footer, or website badge — one link.
Try a live lookuplegacycore.com/verify
Credential ID
LC-SL4RG
Business
Summit Ledger CPA Group
Tier
Bronze · Active
Status
Looking up…
Public Business Trust Registry
The Public Business Trust Registry gives clients and partners a direct way to check a credential's current status.
Riverside, CA
Finance
LC-SL4RG
Corona, CA
Healthcare
LC-CF5DN
Transparent pricing
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
Everything a growing team needs to get credentialed together.
Secure annual checkout via Stripe.
Need the full comparison? View all plan details
Renewal
Annual
$199/year
Monthly
$19/month
Earned tiers
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
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.
— Chris Green, Founder & CEO
Questions? I read every email. contact@legacycore.com
Book 15 minutes with meTake the free Trust Audit to see where you stand — then follow a clear pathway to a credential your ecosystem can verify.
