SaaS & Startups
Your first security hire should be a firm, not a person.
The challenge
Startups face a brutal reality: enterprise customers and VCs demand SOC 2 Type II before theyll sign or wire. But hiring a full-time CISO and building a security program from scratch is expensive and slow. Identity sprawl is endemic — engineering teams spin up cloud resources, grant access broadly, and rarely clean up. Prod-access drift means former engineers retain keys to production. And when your entire revenue depends on closing enterprise deals, every security questionnaire delay costs money.
Top risks
- ! SOC 2 Type II readiness delaying enterprise deals and funding rounds
- ! Identity sprawl from rapid hiring and ad-hoc access grants
- ! Production access drift from former employees and contractors
- ! Cloud misconfiguration exposing customer data
- ! No incident response plan for customer-facing service disruptions
Our approach
Cynteri deploys a SOC 2 compliance program in weeks, not months. We implement identity lifecycle management with automated offboarding, deploy CSPM for cloud infrastructure, and set up continuous evidence collection that makes every security questionnaire a copy-paste exercise. Our SOC monitors your production environment alongside your corporate stack. And when a prospect asks about your security posture, you get a board-ready answer in hours, not days.
Key services for SaaS & Startups
SOC 2 Type II readiness program with continuous evidence collection, policy authoring, and auditor liaison.
CSPM, IaC scanning, IAM review every 30 days, and cost anomaly detection across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Okta/Entra ID deployment, MFA/SSO, automated joiner-mover-leaver workflows, and quarterly access recertification.
Emergency containment, forensic collection, and customer-facing breach notification support.
Tell us what needs protection.
Thirty minutes. No slide deck.
You will talk to a senior engineer on the team that would actually defend your stack — not a sales development rep.
- No NDA required for the first call
- We will send a written summary within 24h
- If we are not a fit, we will tell you who is