Bronze Trust Badge
Entry-level credential for businesses establishing a verifiable cybersecurity readiness baseline.
What it signals: the business has completed Legacy Core foundational readiness review and is listed in the public registry.
If a client asked how their data is protected — what would you point to?
Legacy Core™ is America’s Small Business Trust Credentialing Authority. We make your cybersecurity posture visible, verifiable, and worth trusting.
Find out where your Trust Gap is — before a client finds it for you.
The category we created
The Trust Gap
The Trust Gap is the distance between how secure a small business actually is and what its clients can verify. Most professional services firms feel it long before they have language for it — and that gap is where business is quietly lost.
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.
Authoritative Definitions
Category-defining terms from Legacy Core
Definition
What is the Trust Gap?
The distance between how secure a small business actually is and what it can verify to clients, partners, and insurers.
Definition
What is a Trust Badge?
A verifiable cybersecurity credential in Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers, issued after a structured Readiness Assessment.
Definition
What is a Small Business Cybersecurity Credential?
A verifiable designation for non-technical owners — distinct from enterprise certifications like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Bronze. Silver. Gold.
The Credentialing Pathway
Bronze is the entry credential — sold direct. Silver and Gold are earned outcomes that a business demonstrates over time, never purchased direct.
- Bronze
Bronze Trust Badge
Entry credential for professional services small businesses establishing a verifiable cybersecurity readiness baseline.
Sold direct
Sold direct
Begin the credentialing pathway and earn Bronze through Legacy Core directly.
$699
- Silver
Silver Trust Badge
Intermediate credential for businesses operating documented controls and ongoing readiness review.
Earned — never sold direct
Alliance Partner attestation
Earned at no additional cost when an Alliance Partner attests to controls and supplies supporting evidence.
Free with Alliance Partner attestation + evidence
Third-party verification
Earned through independent verification by a CISSP-credentialed reviewer or qualified MSSP.
$299
- Gold
Gold Trust Badge
Advanced credential for businesses demonstrating mature, sustained cybersecurity readiness practices.
Earned — never sold direct
Alliance Partner attestation
Earned at no additional cost when an Alliance Partner attests to mature controls and supplies supporting evidence.
Free with Alliance Partner attestation + evidence
Third-party verification
Earned through independent verification by a CISSP-credentialed reviewer or qualified MSSP.
$299
Trust Badge tiers
Three tiers signal progression in small business cybersecurity readiness. Each tier links to a public verification page.
Silver Trust Badge
Intermediate credential for businesses operating documented controls and ongoing review.
What it signals: documented controls, periodic review, and continued alignment with small business cybersecurity readiness expectations.
Gold Trust Badge
Advanced credential for businesses demonstrating mature, sustained cybersecurity readiness practices.
What it signals: sustained controls, periodic third-party touchpoints, and a track record of credential renewal in good standing.
Public Business Trust Registry
Trust that is verifiable in seconds, not pages of marketing claims.
Every credentialed business appears in the Public Business Trust Registry with a tier, status, and verification link. A prospective client can confirm a business is credentialed without ever leaving the room — and without taking the business’s word for it.
Public-safe by design
The registry exposes only fields approved for public display. Owner contact, payment data, and review history stay private.
One-click verification
Every Trust Badge links to a live verification page that shows credential status in real time.
Designed for professional services
Built around how CPAs, attorneys, medical and dental practices, financial advisers, and insurance agencies actually earn client trust.
For Alliance Partners
Help the small businesses you serve close their Trust Gap.
Chambers of commerce, business associations, insurance brokers, accountants, and cybersecurity service providers join the Alliance Partner Directory to attest to client readiness and refer credentialed businesses to their networks.
Founder
Why Legacy Core exists
I built Legacy Core to close the Trust Gap for the small businesses my community relies on — the CPAs, attorneys, medical and dental practices, financial advisers, and insurance agencies whose clients deserve to verify, not just hope.
Chris Green
Founder, Legacy Core
Professional credentials
ISC2 Cybersecurity (CC) credential and the Google Cybersecurity Certificate.
Community leadership
Membership Chair, ISC2 Southern California Inland Empire Chapter.
Operational background
16+ years of operational and people-development experience across hospitality, logistics, Meta, and Google — building the credibility behind a small business trust standard.
Make your security visible. Earn the credential your clients can verify.
Pay once for Bronze. Earn Silver and Gold free as your readiness matures with an Alliance Partner, or invest in third-party verification.