About
Small Business Trust Credentialing
Legacy Core™ gives small businesses a visible Trust Credential and a Public Business Trust Registry anyone can verify. Legacy Core is not a regulator.
The category we created
Why this matters now
The Trust Gap is what you can prove vs. what you assume. Customers, lenders, insurers, and regulators increasingly expect documented, verifiable cyber readiness. Most small businesses still lack a simple answer. Legacy Core built the credentialing pathway to close that gap in plain language.
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.
Our Mission
Making cybersecurity understandable for the businesses America depends on.
Legacy Core™ issues publicly verifiable Trust Badges for small businesses that handle client data. Most owners do not have a dedicated security team. The pathway turns cybersecurity expectations into a credential clients can check in the Public Business Trust Registry.
Plain-language cybersecurity
We turn complex security expectations into a credentialing pathway small business owners can finish and point to.
A public way to check readiness
The Trust Badge and public registry help clients 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.
Organizational credibility
Legacy Core is a BBB Accredited Business.
Customers and partners can confirm Legacy Core's business standing on the Better Business Bureau. View the BBB profile.
BBB accreditation applies to Legacy Core as a business. It does not indicate BBB approval, validation, or endorsement of Legacy Core Trust Badges or the credentialing program.
Standards philosophy
Aligned with frameworks. Honest about what we prove.
Orients to NIST CSF 2.0 and similar frameworks. Does not replace them or claim regulatory authority. Private credential, reviewed and issued, with live verification.
Aligned with frameworks, not pretending to be one
The Bronze credential orients to recognized small business cybersecurity readiness frameworks (including NIST CSF 2.0 and CIS Controls). It does not claim to be those frameworks, and it is not a regulatory standard.
A credentialing pathway, not a class
The pathway is structured around readiness, documented practices, and verifiable signals, rather than around abstract study or seat-time requirements.
Not a regulator
Legacy Core is not a regulator. Trust Badges are credentials issued by Legacy Core. They are not licenses, permits, or government endorsements.
Community focus
Local roots. National pathway.
Legacy Core is built for the small businesses your community relies on, in your area and nationwide, through the same evidence-first credentialing pathway.
Built for your area
Legacy Core serves professional services small businesses in your area and nationwide through the same credentialing pathway and Public Business Trust Registry.
Built with chamber and industry partners
Legacy Core works directly with chambers of commerce, business associations, brokers, accountants, and cybersecurity service providers who serve professional services small business.
Legacy Core owns its credential standard and issuance decisions. Read Standards Summary 2026.Q3 · Credential Integrity & Governance · Report a listing concern
Make trust visible.
Get Credentialed to start your pathway, or verify a business in the registry.