From continuous compliance to 24/7 threat monitoring, we operate as your managed security partner — extending your team with senior expertise across compliance, cloud, SecOps, testing, and SDLC.
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Customer security reviews
keep getting longer
Frameworks keep
multiplying as you grow
Senior security hires take
6–9 months you don’t have
We extend your team with senior security expertise across the full stack — compliance, cloud, SecOps, testing, and SDLC — operating as an integrated extension of your in-house function, with one accountable lead and defined SLAs.
Problem
Compliance load
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS — each new market segment adds another framework. Your team is maintaining controls and answering customer security reviews instead of building product.
Posture drift
Cloud configurations drift, vulnerabilities pile up across services, and incident response runbooks haven’t been tested in months. The risk is visible to customers and regulators — and it’s growing faster than your team can close it.
Specialist scarcity
A complete security function needs a CISO, compliance lead, cloud security architect, IR responder, and pen tester — five specialist hires that take 12+ months to recruit and don’t pay back individually.
Solution
Continuous compliance
We operate your SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR programs as a continuous function — controls maintained, evidence collected, audits passed on schedule.
Security operations across the full stack
Compliance, cloud posture management, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and 24/7 monitoring — operated by one integrated team with measurable SLAs and one consolidated report.
A senior security team, on call
Fractional CISO leadership plus security engineers, compliance specialists, and pen testers — a full functional team available faster than you can hire one.
What our clients are saying about us
Protagonist empowers teams to build with confidence, ensuring every product is secure, compliant, and ready to scale.
“The project was well-managed from start to finish. What stood out most was their ability to combine deep technical expertise with a pragmatic and business-oriented approach.”
“The issues they found were clearly relevant to our production environment and were explained in a way that made them easy to prioritize.”
“Their deep expertise in cybersecurity, particularly in the context of modern software architecture, was outstanding.”
“We were impressed by Protagonist’s deep expertise, hands-on experience, and strict delivery processes.”
“Protagonist has delivered a clear list of compliance-related improvements, which we have implemented. The team has provided valuable recommendations, giving us a better understanding of how to handle security and privacy topics in future software releases. They work independently.”
“Protagonist’s work resulted in a prioritized list of actionable findings and a remediation backlog, which led to a reduction in high-severity issues and an overall improvement in security. The team was communicative, delivered on time, and provided clear evidence and reproduction steps.”
We integrate with your existing security and engineering teams, learn your systems, and operate as your managed partner — with defined ownership, measurable SLAs, and the breadth to cover every capability your in-house team can’t. No ‘that’s not our scope.’
Operational
ownership
We don’t just hand you findings — we remediate. Vulnerabilities closed, controls implemented, evidence collected, audits passed. You see the work, the artifacts, and the outcomes.
Built for mid-market and enterprise complexity
We work with SaaS, tech, and regulated companies — where security is a board-level concern but doesn’t yet justify a 50-person internal team.
Integrates with
your stack
We work inside the tools your team already uses — SIEM, IaC, ticketing, CI/CD — so security operations adapt to your engineering culture, not the other way around.
Full lifecycle
coverage
Compliance, cloud, SecOps, testing, and SDLC — one provider across the full security lifecycle, one accountable lead, one consolidated monthly report.
Five integrated practice areas. Most engagements run three or more in parallel under one accountable lead.
COMPLIANCE & READINESS
We operate your compliance program as an ongoing function — controls, evidence, policies, and auditor liaison — across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIS2.
Cloud Security
We deploy and operate cloud security posture management (CSPM), identity hardening (IAM), and infrastructure monitoring across AWS, GCP, and Azure — and remediate findings, not just report them.
MANAGED SECURITY & SECOPS
Round-the-clock monitoring, threat detection, and incident response — with on-call senior responders, defined SLAs, and tested runbooks. Your security operations, fully managed.
SECURITY TESTING
Manual and automated testing across web, mobile, API, and cloud — delivered with prioritized findings, reproduction steps, and developer-ready remediation. Reports are customer-shareable and pass enterprise procurement review.
S-SDLC & DEVSECOPS
Threat modeling, security architecture review, and automated security testing integrated into your CI/CD — paired with developer training targeted at the real risks in your stack.
Most teams try a platform, struggle to operate it, and engage us anyway. Building a full in-house function takes 12+ months and a $2M+ run-rate. Here’s how the three options compare across what mid-market security buyers actually care about.
|
What you need |
Protagonist |
Security platforms |
In-house hiring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set up time |
1-2 weeks |
1–2 weeks for tool live |
6-12 months |
| Total cost |
$20K+ for managed security |
$20K-50K/year + your time |
$2M+/year for full team |
| 24/7 response |
Yes, named on-call team |
Not included |
Only if you build a rotation |
| Expertise depth |
Full security team expertise |
Generic best practices |
Depends on who you hire |
| Focus |
Full functional team across all domains |
Tooling-defined best practices |
Limited to disciplines you’ve hired for |
| Accountability |
Defined SLAs, named lead, monthly reports |
Software-only — gaps are yours |
Distributed across the team |
| Work with us |
How we’ve helped SaaS and tech companies operate audit-ready security programs at scale.
Most engagements combine three or more practice areas under one accountable lead. Three common starting points:
Enterprise ready
For SaaS and tech companies that need audit-ready posture for enterprise customers
Starting at
$2K/month
Enterprise-ready in 90 days
Deliverables:
Complete coverage
For companies that want to replace an entire security team
Starting at
$4K/month
Full security program in 120 days
Deliverables:
Secure development
For engineering organizations that need security embedded in delivery
Starting at
$2K/month
Secure development pipeline in 45 days
Deliverables:
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We’ll map your current posture
and recommend the right engagement model.
Discovery call
30-minute call to map current posture and priorities
Scoped assessment
We outline gaps, owners, and timelines against your specific compliance and operational targets
Engagement proposal
Defined scope, SLAs, deliverables, and pricing aligned to your roadmap
First call is free. Bring your hardest security question.
Book a callFrom scoping to managed security operations. The typical first six months of an engagement.
Platforms give you dashboards and expect you to figure out the rest. We become your security team. They show you what’s broken — we fix it. They give you compliance checklists — we handle the entire process. Think of platforms as security software, and us as your security department.
Perfect. We work with your existing stack rather than forcing you to switch. Our job is to fill gaps and make everything work together, not sell you more tools. We’re vendor-agnostic — we recommend what’s best for your business, not what we sell.
Our typical engagement is with SaaS and tech companies between 50 and 2,500 employees. We also support enterprise security teams that need expert capacity in a specific function — pen testing, compliance program management, or 24/7 SOC operations. The fit is companies with real security obligations where staffing every capability in-house isn’t practical.
We operate the program; your team is involved in scoping, approvals, and decisions. Plan for 3–5 hours per week from a designated security or engineering owner after setup. We handle the rest.Engagements are typically 6 or 12 months with a 30-day exit clause. Average client tenure is 18 months. We’re comfortable continuing as a long-term partner or handing the program off to an in-house team when you’re ready to staff it.
No. We typically recommend 6-month initial engagements to see real results, but you can cancel anytime. Most clients stay with us for 12-24 months, then either continue with us or transition to internal teams as they scale.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, NIST CSF, and NIS2. We operate programs across all of them and can support cross-framework mapping when you’re maintaining several at once.
You get a named security lead as your primary point of contact, backed by specialist engineers, compliance leads, and pen testers as the work requires. The lead owns the outcomes and reporting; the specialists deliver the work.
If you’ve followed our program and we’ve signed off on audit readiness, we continue working with you through remediation to a passing outcome at no additional cost. Our compliance KPIs are tied to your audit results.
Yes. Our Managed Security & SecOps offering includes round-the-clock monitoring, on-call senior responders, and tested incident response runbooks. Response SLAs are defined in the engagement contract.
All engagements include an NDA and data processing agreement. We follow least-privilege access — we only see what’s needed for the work — and don’t replicate or store your sensitive business data on our infrastructure. All team members are background-checked, and we maintain our own SOC 2 program internally.
Platforms give you dashboards and expect you to figure out the rest. We become your security team. They show you what’s broken — we fix it. They give you compliance checklists — we handle the entire process. Think of platforms as security software, and us as your security department.
