For growth-stage SaaS companies where the next enterprise deal depends on real security substance.

Security built to withstand scrutiny.

Fifteen years in IT, DevOps, and security operations taught us what happens when a compliance consultant hands you a binder and walks away. The enterprise deal stalls. The questionnaire sits unanswered. Your CTO is still the one staying late to figure out why the auditor is asking about logging. We started this firm to be the people we wish our clients had called first.

30+

Companies through SOC 2 and comparable programs

Comprehensive

From kickoff to audit-ready

100%

Audit completion rate. Stayed through every one.

Founded by Eugene de Fikh and Oren Golan. Both founders work on every engagement. No junior analysts, no handoffs, no bait-and-switch.

The Problem

You've been here before.

The Questionnaire Problem

The enterprise deal is stalling and you don't know why

It's Friday afternoon and you're deep in product work when the email comes in. Your biggest prospect just sent a 200-item security questionnaire and they need it back by Wednesday. Your compliance tool shows green across the board, but half these questions are about things the tool doesn't even track: your access control model, your incident response plan, how you handle key rotation. You start answering and realize you're guessing. The deal has been sitting for three weeks and your board is watching.

The Bandwidth Problem

Your CTO is acting as the CISO on top of everything else

Nobody was hired to own security. It landed on the CTO because they were the most technical person in the room, and now they're doing compliance work on top of shipping product, managing the team, and reporting to the board. Last quarter it ate 40% of their time. They're filling out vendor questionnaires, arguing with HR about onboarding policies, and fielding auditor questions they shouldn't have to answer. They took this job to build software. This isn't it.

The Consultant Problem

The last firm gave you a binder, not a program

The last consultant showed up, ran a gap assessment against a framework, and handed you a spreadsheet of findings. Sixty pages. Color coded. Entirely useless. They couldn't explain any of it to your engineers and they didn't touch your infrastructure. You paid $15k for a PDF that told you what you already knew was broken, and nothing about how to fix it. The audit passed. The next enterprise security review didn't.

There's a version of this where security isn't a fire drill every quarter, where your enterprise deals close because the program behind them is real. That's what we build.

Our Approach

We don't start with the framework. We start with your infrastructure.

Most compliance consultants work backward. They open a framework, map your systems to it, and hand you a spreadsheet of gaps. The output is documentation. The result is a program that passes an audit and falls apart under the first real security review. We work the other direction. We assess your actual infrastructure, design the security architecture around what's real, implement the controls, and configure the systems. Compliance falls out as a byproduct of that work, not as the starting point. The difference shows up the first time an enterprise buyer's security team asks a question that isn't on the audit report. Our clients have answers for those questions because the program underneath is real.

You might already have the tool. Here's what the tool doesn't build.

Platforms like Vanta and Drata are good at what they do. They automate evidence collection, monitor controls, and give you a dashboard that shows green. What they don't do is design the security program that the dashboard is measuring. They won't architect your access control model or configure your logging strategy or build your incident response process. That's a different kind of work, and it's the work most companies still need done even after the tool is set up. Most companies that come to us already have a compliance tool. The tool shows green. The enterprise deal is still stalling.

We're not replacing the tool. We're building what the tool measures.

Your compliance tool is doing its job. The question is whether there's a real program underneath it. If you're not sure, that's the conversation we should have.

Why Compliance Simple

This is what different looks like.

We touch the infrastructure

Most firms stop at documentation. We actually log into your AWS console, review your IAM policies, configure your controls, and build the evidence collection into your existing systems. When the auditor asks how something works, we can show them because we're the ones who set it up.

Two founders, same room as you

Eugene is on every call with your auditors and your enterprise buyers. Oren is in your infrastructure configuring controls and building automation. There's nobody between you and the people doing the work. If something goes wrong at 9 p.m. on a Thursday, you're texting the person who built it.

We've sat in your chair

We've been the CTO getting the Friday afternoon questionnaire. We've been the engineer explaining to a non-technical CEO why compliance is going to take longer than two weeks. We've been on the other side of the auditor's table. That's why we build programs that survive contact with reality, not just programs that look good on paper.

Your engineers stay focused on product

Our automation platform handles 80%+ of manual evidence collection. That means your team isn't pulling screenshots, exporting logs, or chasing down access review records every quarter. They're shipping product. That's what you're paying them for.

How It Works

How we get you from exposed to audit-ready.

Assess

We map what you actually have. Not what your documentation says you have, not what your tool reports. The real infrastructure, the real controls, the real gaps. This takes a week, not a quarter.

Architect

We design the security program around your systems. Access control models, logging, encryption, incident response. Every control has a reason and maps to a real risk, not a framework checkbox.

Implement

We configure the controls, write the policies, and wire up the evidence collection. We're in your cloud console, not in a slide deck. This is where most firms send you a PDF and say good luck.

Audit

We stay through the whole thing. We manage the auditor, prepare the evidence, and handle the back-and-forth so your team doesn't have to.

Integrate

Most clients keep us. The audit is done but the program keeps running: quarterly reviews, ongoing questionnaire support, fractional CISO leadership. Your board gets a security update every quarter that you didn't have to write.

The Founders

Both founders on every engagement.

No junior handoffs, no account managers. You work directly with the people who built the company.

Eugene De Fikh

Founder & Fractional CISO

Eugene leads security strategy, compliance program design, and the relationship with auditors and enterprise buyers. For the past 15 years he has worked with growth-stage companies feeling security pressure for the first time, turning that pressure into structure. He builds security programs that hold up under scrutiny and support revenue instead of blocking it.

Oren Golan

Co-Founder | Engineering Leader | Ex-Amazon

Oren handles engineering, product security, and the automation that eliminates the manual work most firms still do by hand. He spent years building secure, scalable applications at Amazon and multiple startups. He still writes code, which means he speaks the same language as the engineering teams he partners with.

Services

One firm. Three layers of value.

Security Architecture and Compliance

Cloud security design
Access control models
Logging strategy
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 alignment
Policy development
Evidence design
Audit prep and support

Security Operations and Leadership

Fractional CISO oversight
Vendor risk management
Enterprise questionnaire support
Quarterly reviews
Incident response planning
Board-level reporting

Technical Security and Engineering

Product security reviews
Secure SDLC
Infrastructure hardening
Security-focused automation
Technical architecture consulting

FAQ

Questions we hear on every first call.

How is this different from just using Vanta or Drata?

Those platforms automate evidence collection and monitor controls, and they're good at that. What they don't do is design the security program underneath. We build the architecture, implement the controls, and configure the infrastructure. The platform measures what we build. Most of our clients use both.

What does an engagement actually look like?

It depends on where you are. A company with no security program that needs SOC 2 in 8 weeks looks very different from a company that's already compliant and needs ongoing fractional CISO leadership. We scope every engagement to the actual situation, and the first call is where we figure out which one you are.

How much does it cost?

Engagements range from $25k to $100k+ depending on scope and timeline. We don't name a number until we understand what you're dealing with. The first call is free and there's no obligation attached.

How fast can you get us audit-ready?

Most first-time SOC 2 clients are audit-ready in 6 to 8 weeks from kickoff. That depends on the state of your existing infrastructure and how much needs to be built versus configured. We'll give you a realistic timeline on the first call.

Do you replace our compliance tool?

No. We work alongside it. If you have Vanta, Drata, or something similar, we integrate with it. If you don't have one yet, we'll tell you whether you need one based on your situation. We're not a platform. We're the people who build what the platform measures.

You already know the program isn't ready.
Let's fix that.

Bring us the questionnaire you can't answer. The deal that's stalling. The audit you're not ready for.

Schedule a Strategy Call

30 minutes with Eugene. We'll know if this is fixable.

Engagements range from $25k to $100k+. Most clients stay.