Solve · Security
Buttoned up. Audit-ready. First time.
Your biggest enterprise deal is asking for ISO 27001 or SOC 2 and you're three months from a deadline you can't move. We've done this dozens of times. We close the gaps, wire the evidence, and walk you to the certification line — without grinding engineering to a halt.
Audit-ready in 8 to 16 weeks, with controls your engineers actually run — not a binder of policies nobody reads.
The problem
Enterprise deals don't close without a certificate. And the auditor is already on the calendar.
Somewhere between your first enterprise pilot and your tenth, a SIG or CAIQ questionnaire lands in your sales team's inbox. Forty pages. Hundreds of questions about controls you've never formally documented. The deal pauses. Then it pauses again. Then someone in legal mentions ISO 27001 or SOC 2 and the room goes quiet, because nobody on the team has done one before.
By the time it gets serious, the auditor is booked for 90 days out and the team is trying to retrofit evidence onto a system that was never built to produce it. Access reviews are screenshots in a Notion page. Change control is 'we mostly use PRs'. Incident response is a Slack channel and goodwill. Policies, if they exist, were copy-pasted from a template and contradict how the team actually works.
Signals you'll recognise
- Sales is losing or stalling deals on the security questionnaire.
- An audit is scheduled and nobody owns the evidence pipeline.
- Your controls live in someone's head, a Notion page, and a Slack channel.
- Past attempts produced binders of policy that don't match what engineering actually does.
Our approach
Certification as engineering work. Not paperwork theatre.
We treat compliance the way good engineering teams treat reliability: as a property of the system, not a document about it. The first two weeks are a hard, prioritised gap analysis against the standard you're certifying to — not a 200-page PDF, a Kanban board of fixes ordered by audit risk and effort.
Then we close the gaps where they live: in your IdP, your cloud accounts, your CI/CD, your ticketing system. Policies get written short, plain, and matched to how the team actually works — so engineers don't roll their eyes and auditors don't roll their pens. Evidence collection is automated through Drata, Vanta, or native cloud tooling, so audit time isn't a screenshot scramble.
We run a full internal dry-run audit before the real one. Surprises happen there. Then we sit with you through Stage 1 and Stage 2, translating auditor questions into engineering answers, clearing findings inside the SLA. You walk out with the certificate — and a controls posture you can maintain without us.
What you get
Concrete, shippable, owned by your team.
Gap analysis you can act on
A prioritised, engineer-readable gap list mapped to the controls. No 200-page PDF — a Kanban board of fixes ordered by audit risk and effort.
Policies that match reality
Short, plain-English policies tailored to how your team actually works. Auditors love them. Engineers tolerate them.
Technical controls, implemented
MFA, SSO, access reviews, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, change control — wired into the systems you already use.
Evidence pipeline
Continuous evidence collection via Drata, Vanta, or native cloud tooling. No screenshots-at-audit-time scramble.
Incident response, exercised
A real IR plan you've actually run a tabletop on. Auditors ask. We'll have an answer.
Audit shepherding
We sit with you through the audit calls, translate auditor questions into engineering answers, and clear findings fast.
How we do it
No theatre. Just the work.
Scope and gap
Decide the certification scope (which entity, which systems, which standard). Two-week assessment produces a prioritised gap list with effort estimates.
Close the controls
We pair with your team to implement the technical controls and write the policies. Auditor-ready evidence is collected as we go — not at the end.
Dry run
A full internal audit before the real one. Findings get fixed. Surprises happen here, not in front of the auditor.
Stage 1 + Stage 2
We sit with you through the formal audit, manage auditor Q&A, and clear findings inside the SLA. You walk out with the certificate.
After certification
Level up: the Security Pathway
Passing the audit is the floor, not the ceiling. The Security Pathway is how you build a posture that improves quarter on quarter — and Protivis is how you run it.
Next step
Got an audit on the calendar?
Tell us the standard, the deadline, and a sentence on what you've done so far. We'll come back with a realistic read on whether you'll make it — and what it takes.