Enterprise buyers
A questionnaire, a report request, or a contractual security exhibit stands between you and the signature.
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Growth-Stage & Startup Companies
Clear the security review that is holding up the deal
Growth-stage companies reach the point where security becomes a sales requirement. Enterprise buyers send questionnaires, ask for a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certificate, and write security obligations into contracts. We map the program your market requires and prepare you for the examination, so your team builds it once.
The pressure
What brings this buyer to an independent advisor
Investors and boards
Diligence asks what the security program is, and the answer has to be more than an intention.
No internal security function
Engineering is absorbing the work, and nobody owns the program or the evidence behind it.
What we assess
What an engagement examines
- Where the program stands against the framework your market requires, and what to fix first.
- The specific obstacles blocking named enterprise deals, worked back from the buyer's actual requirements.
- Product and application security, including the APIs and cloud footprint customers ask about.
- Whether your controls can produce evidence a questionnaire or an auditor will accept.
What changes
What is different afterwards
- A roadmap sequenced by risk reduction, certification dependency, and revenue impact rather than by framework order.
- A trust center and a maintained questionnaire library, so the same review is not answered twice from memory.
- Readiness for the examination, with an independent auditor engaged to issue the report.
- Senior security leadership at a commitment level the company's stage can carry.
Practices
Most often engaged
Certification Readiness
Reach a clean SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or HITRUST report without the audit becoming the project.
View practicevCISO and Fractional Leadership
Senior security leadership at the commitment level you need, without a full-time executive hire.
View practiceProduct and Application Security
Find what an attacker would find in your product, your APIs, and your cloud, before a customer's security review does.
View practiceCyber Risk and Maturity
Measure maturity against NIST CSF or CIS, quantify exposure in dollars, and know what to fix first.
View practiceQuestions
Frequently asked questions
How early should a company invest in security compliance?
Most companies begin when enterprise customers start asking for security assurances or a SOC 2 report, often around the first significant enterprise deals. Starting with a right-sized program before that point is less expensive than retrofitting controls under deal pressure.
Can we achieve SOC 2 without a full-time security team?
Yes. Many growth-stage companies achieve SOC 2 with a fractional security leader, well-chosen tooling, and clear ownership of controls across engineering and operations. We provide the leadership, the program design, and the audit preparation while your team operates the controls.
Start with a confidential conversation
Thirty minutes on where your program stands, what is being asked of it, and what would have to be true for the answer to hold up.