AI & Technology Companies · Cybersecurity, compliance and GRC, in plain English

Close the enterprise deal. Get SOC 2 without stalling the roadmap.

Your first big customer asks for SOC 2 before they sign. We run the controls, collect the evidence and get you Type I ready fast, Type II ready without a year of screenshots, and add ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 from the same control set when the next buyer asks. A 24/7 security team is included, not an add-on.

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A story we hear too often

The week the enterprise deal waited on a token nobody remembered issuing

the co-founder and CTO of a 28-person AI startup

Nadia’s company is 28 people in a West Loop warehouse, a product that reads contracts for insurers, and a first enterprise deal that has been ‘in procurement’ for nine weeks. The security questionnaire is done. The Type I is scheduled. The customer’s CISO has one more question.

On a Monday the CISO forwards an advisory: a third-party chat integration used by hundreds of SaaS companies has had its OAuth tokens stolen, and attackers are pulling customer data out of every CRM the tokens touch. The CISO asks whether Nadia’s company uses it. It does. A marketing hire added it eleven months ago.

In the version that stalls the deal for a quarter, nobody knows what the token could reach, the CRM holds the customer’s contact data from the pilot, the answer to the CISO is ‘we are looking into it,’ and the evidence for the Type I now has an exception in it.

In Nadia’s version, every integration and token was in the inventory the assessment built, with its scope next to it. The engineer on watch revokes the token in twenty minutes, pulls the CRM access logs and finds nothing left. Nadia sends the CISO a one-page account by Monday afternoon. The deal closes the following week; the CISO tells procurement the response was the reason.

The CISO asks whether Nadia’s company uses it. It does. A marketing hire added it eleven months ago.

What changes the ending

An inventory of every integration, token and vendor with its scope, reviewed quarterly (CIS Controls 2 and 15, Software Inventory and Service Provider Management)
Access logs on the CRM, the cloud and the code pipeline that can answer ‘what did it reach’ in an hour (CIS Control 8, Audit Log Management)
A named engineer with authority to revoke and a response plan that produces a customer-ready account the same day (CIS Control 17, Incident Response Management)

Show me this running for my business

The questions owners are afraid to ask

Ask them anyway. Here are the answers.

A customer’s CISO just asked whether a breached vendor touches our data. How fast do we have to answer?

The same day, with specifics: which integration, what scope, what the logs show, what you revoked. That answer is only possible if the integration inventory and the access logs existed before the advisory, which is the first thing the assessment builds.

Our engineers paste code and customer data into AI tools. Is that a SOC 2 problem?

It is a SOC 2 problem, a customer-contract problem and, in the latest DBIR, the third most common insider data-loss action, with source code the most common thing uploaded. A policy, approved tools and upload monitoring turn it into a documented control instead of an exception.

What if a departing engineer keeps access to the repo and the production cloud?

Offboarding is a control auditors sample and attackers count on. Central identity, access ending the hour notice is given, and quarterly access reviews close it; the evidence vault records that it happened.

What you hold, and why someone wants it

Your data protection needs, by the data.

Customer data in the product and the CRM

The reason the enterprise customer asked for SOC 2. Encryption, access limits, logging and a tested response plan protect it.

Source code and models

The company’s value, and the most common data type leaked to consumer AI tools in the latest DBIR. Repo access controls, secrets management and an AI-use policy protect them.

Cloud accounts and the deployment pipeline

One misconfiguration or one exposed key away from an incident. Secure configuration, MFA and continuous monitoring protect them.

Integrations, OAuth tokens and vendors

Every third-party connection is a path into the CRM or the product; 48% of breaches involved a third party. An inventory with scope and quarterly review protects them.

Employee identities and devices

Laptops with production access, at home and in coffee shops. Central identity, device management and offboarding protect them.

45%

of employees are now regular AI users on corporate devices, up from 15% a year earlier; 67% use non-corporate accounts

Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

48%

of breaches involve a third party, up 60% year over year. Your vendors are your attack surface, and you are your customers’

Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

31%

of breaches start with an exploited vulnerability, the number one way in and the first thing a SOC 2 auditor checks you manage

Source: Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

What applies to you

The rules, in one page, with the dates that matter.

SOC 2 (AICPA Trust Services Criteria)

AICPA

Attestation over security, plus availability, confidentiality, processing integrity or privacy as buyers require; Type II is the enterprise-procurement default.

SOC 2

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023

ISO / IEC

ISMS certification for global buyers; AI management system certification increasingly requested beside SOC 2.

The 27001:2022 transition completed October 31, 2025.

ISO 27001 ISO 42001

US state privacy laws

State attorneys general and the California CPPA

Twenty comprehensive laws in force in 2026; California adds cybersecurity audits, risk assessments and automated decision-making rules from 2027.

State privacy

Colorado SB 26-189

Colorado attorney general

Replaced the Colorado AI Act; transparency and adverse-decision notice duties from January 1, 2027.

NIST AI RMF

EU AI Act and GDPR

European Commission and national authorities

High-risk obligations deferred to December 2, 2027 under the Digital Omnibus; GDPR applies now to any EU users.

GDPR NIST AI RMF

Verified September 2026 from the regulators' own publications. We map all of it to one control set so evidence is produced once.

A note on authority: the regulator, auditor or certifying body has the final say on whether you comply. We help interpret the requirements, scope what applies, gap-assess against what is published today, and keep you compliance-ready and secure as the guidance evolves. We hold no regulatory authority and do not certify.

The threat picture

What actually goes wrong, and what we do about it.

A security questionnaire that stalls a six-figure deal for a quarter.
Source code and customer data flowing into consumer AI tools with no policy behind them.
Cloud misconfiguration and unpatched dependencies, found first by an attacker instead of your pipeline.

It happened to businesses like yours

From August 8 to 18, 2025, an attacker used stolen OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift chat integration to pull data out of hundreds of companies’ Salesforce instances; Google’s Threat Intelligence Group advised every customer to treat their tokens as compromised.

August 2025 · Google Threat Intelligence Group

In 2024 a financially motivated group used stolen credentials with no MFA to pull data from about 165 organizations’ Snowflake cloud-data accounts, including Ticketmaster and AT&T.

April to June 2024 · Mandiant, Google Cloud

Public incidents, listed to show the pattern, never to shame a victim.

Protect, for a ai & tech business

We protect your people, every device, the servers and the website. Day and night.

We protect every employee’s inbox, where the spoofed investor, the fake vendor invoice and the token-phishing lure arrive.
Every laptop, in the office, at home and on the road, with production access or without.
The servers, the cloud accounts and the code pipeline, with logs that answer what was reached.
The website, the product and the customer-facing APIs.
The cloud apps: identity, CRM, source control, ticketing, email and every integration with a token.
Day and night, with an AI agent that contains a threat in seconds and a named human engineer watching.

Think of it as a per-employee service, like payroll. Except that this is the one corner that, if you cut it, can empty the account and take the business with it. We have your back.

How Protect works →

What you are looking at: the AI agent watches every part of the business, contains a threat the moment it appears, and a named human engineer confirms it and calls you. Compliance evidence updates on its own.

Where we start

Cybersecurity and Data Protection Assessment for AI and Technology Companies

Built on the CIS Controls v8.1 IG1 and mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, scoped from what a startup stands to lose: the enterprise deal, the customer’s data and the code. The output is the control set your Type I is built on and the inventory that lets you answer a CISO the same day.

Inventory of every device, cloud account, repository, integration and OAuth token, with scope next to each (CIS Controls 1, 2 and 15)
Cloud and pipeline configuration review against the CIS benchmarks, with secrets and keys accounted for (CIS Controls 4 and 16)
Identity and access review: central identity, MFA everywhere, offboarding evidence, quarterly access reviews (CIS Controls 5 and 6)
Logging that can answer ‘what did it reach’ across the CRM, the cloud and the code pipeline (CIS Control 8)
AI-use policy and approved tools for engineers, with upload monitoring, mapped to ISO 42001 and the NIST AI RMF (CIS Control 3)
Framework map (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, state privacy) with distance to each and a ranked remediation plan that feeds the readiness package

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Packages

Built for ai & tech businesses, with the price on the page.

SOC 2 Readiness: Type 1 and Type 2

Enterprise and government buyers ask for SOC 2 before they sign.

Fixed feescoped in 30 minutes
Type 1 readiness: 4 to 8 weeks

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Mock Audit Package: SOC 2, HIPAA or CMMC

We run your audit before your auditor does: the same evidence requests, the same interviews, the same sampling, the same findings language.

Fixed feescoped in 30 minutes
1 to 3 weeks depending on framework and scope

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Cyber and Data Protection Assessment

A complete read on your exposure: every endpoint, server, cloud account and identity inventoried, controls tested against CIS and NIST CSF 2.0, threats mapped to your industry, and a plan ranked by what would actually hurt.

Fixed feescoped in 30 minutes
1 to 3 weeks

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Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), simplified

The discipline the largest institutions run, sized for a business that cannot hire a department for it.

Governance, Risk and Compliance is how a bank or a hospital system decides what to protect, proves it is protected, and shows a regulator the evidence. We ran it for those institutions. We now run it for the 30-person supplier, the medical practice and the defense subcontractor, because that is where the supply chain is thinnest and where a breach does the most damage, sometimes to more than one company.

Governance

Who owns security, which policies are real, and what the owner signs. One page, not a binder.

Risk

What could stop the business, ranked by likelihood and cost, refreshed as the threats change, not once a year.

Compliance

The evidence a regulator, a prime contractor or a customer asks for, produced once and kept current every day.

A defense contractor with 40 people is a link in a national supply chain. A breach there is not a small-business story; it is a national-security one. The same is true, at a smaller scale, for the accounting firm that holds 900 client returns and the clinic that holds 12,000 patient records.

Questions owners ask

Straight answers.

SOC 2 Type 1 or Type 2 first?

Type I proves controls are designed and in place at a point in time, and can be earned in weeks, which unblocks a deal. Type II proves they operated over a period, usually three to twelve months, and is what larger buyers ultimately want. Most companies do Type I now and roll into the Type II window immediately.

Do we need ISO 42001 if our product uses AI?

Not yet by law in the US, but enterprise buyers increasingly ask for it beside SOC 2, and it maps neatly onto the NIST AI RMF and your existing 27001 controls. We add it from the same evidence when a buyer asks.

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