About
Matt Edwards - CISO, Cybersecurity Advocate, and Team Leader
Matt Edwards is a recognized cybersecurity authority who actively consults with enterprises and SMBs on protecting critical systems from modern threats. With over 25 years of experience spanning IT services, software development, and compliance frameworks, Matt has become a trusted voice for organizations that need practical security, audit readiness, and clear executive guidance.
As President of Cocoon CS, Matt helps organizations achieve privacy and security compliance with frameworks such as CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and PIPEDA while building scalable, secure environments. He is also the architect and lead software developer of the Cocoon CS compliance platform, where policies, evidence, workflows, and control ownership are designed to become sustainable operating practices.
Matt is also the driving force behind EZ Support, a technology solution provider offering help desk, sales, and cybersecurity software, along with fractional support services that help teams implement, operate, and improve those systems.
He is the author of the Cuddler.dev software development methodology, a schema-guided approach for AI agents that need controlled, auditable, and repeatable outputs across software, documentation, and governance work.
Matt's work connects offensive security, defensive operations, compliance evidence, and software delivery. Whether he is advising a leadership team, validating attack paths, designing an evidence workflow, or helping a business recover clarity around its IT environment, the goal is the same: make security understandable, provable, and operationally useful.
Bio
Matt Edwards is a CISO, cybersecurity advocate, software developer, and team leader who helps organizations protect critical systems, meet privacy and security obligations, and build scalable environments that stay secure and audit-ready.
What Matt Does
CISO & Security Leadership
Matt advises leadership teams on right-sized cybersecurity programs, risk decisions, vendor and customer assurance, and executive-ready reporting. The work is grounded in practical controls that teams can operate, measure, and improve.
Compliance & Privacy Programs
Through Cocoon CS, Matt helps organizations operationalize CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, PIPEDA, and related frameworks with policies, evidence workflows, control mapping, and audit-ready artifacts.
Penetration Testing
Matt leads penetration testing, attack-path validation, and control review work across applications, cloud, identity, and business systems. The outcome is not a findings dump; it is a clear path from risk evidence to remediation and proof of improvement.
Secure IT Operations
Through EZ Support, Matt helps businesses adopt and operate help desk, sales, and cybersecurity software, pairing those tools with fractional support services so teams can get practical coverage without building every capability in-house.
TrackThat Companies
Through TrackThat, Matt helps founder-led product companies turn working products into scalable operating systems. These companies support that mission across compliance, secure IT operations, AI workflow automation, and childcare operations infrastructure.
- Cocoon CS - privacy and security compliance platform with reusable playbooks, evidence workflows, and audit-ready artifacts.
- EZ Support - help desk, sales, and cybersecurity software supported by fractional services that help teams implement, operate, and improve their technology systems.
- Boostware - practical, secure AI workflow automation with human checkpoints that help MSPs and teams turn know-how into repeatable AI-assisted processes.
- Day Guardian - an operating system for Canadian childcare operators that centralizes enrolment, ratios, compliance, monitoring visits, financials, and reporting.