Intangybl was not planned. It was produced — by a sequence of events that each pointed in the same direction. This is that sequence.
Getting into tech was already a reinvention. AVI-SPL was my first tech role — the arrival point of a deliberate career pivot, not a casual entry. Which is what made the layoff hit differently. It wasn't losing a job. It was losing the foothold that the reinvention had been working toward.
Being laid off does one useful thing: it forces the question of what comes next. For most people the answer is another version of the same role. For me it opened something different — a question about security, about depth, about whether the path forward was another position or something that didn't exist yet.
The layoff did not produce Intangybl directly. It produced the conditions that made Intangybl possible.
Per Scholas, Philadelphia. The program built my technical foundation — security practice, governance frameworks, penetration testing, hands-on lab work. CompTIA Security+. NIST CSF. The architecture of how organizations actually manage risk.
It also built something harder to name: the conviction that the people who understand both the terminal and the boardroom are the ones who move security forward. Most candidates are strong in one lane. Per Scholas made fluency in both possible. That intersection is the founding condition of Intangybl.
I applied for an internship at Bentley Systems. The application required a writing sample. The argument I made: if you can build a behavioral model of a person, you can simulate exactly how they would be targeted — before an attacker does it for real. Behavioral modeling as the missing layer in security awareness training.
I didn't get the internship.
Sitting with the writing sample afterward made something clear: the idea in that document was more valuable than any internship would have been. The security industry had not built what that document described. The behavioral science that would support it had existed for thirty years. Nobody had decided to operationalize it.
That decision was available.
So I built the product instead. Not as a pivot, not as a consolation — as a decision. The security awareness training industry asks: what do people know? I ask a different question: how are people structured to behave under the conditions that actually produce insider risk?
Those are not the same question. The gap between them is where Intangybl lives.
Veros is the platform. The IBRI is the methodology. Philadelphia is where I'm building it — one founder, from a layoff, through a training program, past a rejection letter, toward something the industry has not yet named.
I'm Ronald V. Edwards II — CompTIA Security+-certified IT Security Analyst, founder of Intangybl, Inc., and right now, the whole thing. There is no team yet. There is one person who identified the gap, built the methodology, deployed the platform, and is executing across every track. That person is me.
My background spans both ends of the security problem: hands-on technical practice — penetration testing, Kali Linux, Python, cloud security architecture — and governance and risk frameworks — NIST CSF, COSO ERM, SEC cyber disclosure requirements, GDPR, NYDFS. That intersection is not incidental. It is the founding condition of Intangybl's positioning. Security leaders who understand the terminal and the boardroom are rare. I built Intangybl to prove the point.
The long-term trajectory is toward CISO, founder, and strategic advisory roles. Intangybl is not a detour from that path. It is the path.
Intangybl is a Philadelphia-based behavioral risk intelligence company. Our primary buyer is the Chief Risk Officer — the executive whose mandate extends beyond what people know to how the organization is actually structured to behave.
The product is Veros. The methodology is the IBRI. The governing architecture is Aether. The scoring formula, dimensional weighting, and sector calibration framework are proprietary — available only under executed NDA.
What is available is the argument. The security industry has a ceiling it has not named. Intangybl has named it, measured it, and built an instrument for what lives above it.
If you are thinking about what comes after awareness training, this is where that conversation starts.