“Don’t let security block sales ever again”.
Executive CISO.
Get started on your own with our Playbooks.
Prefer a turn-key experience? We rollout & run these long-term.
How Big is Security?
What’s the business benefit of security, and how much work is it to get “enough” done?
Sales Sales Sales.
That’s why we’re doing it.
B2B customers expect it. Full stop.
Why does Security matter to the Business?
Sheldon Brow, CEO (FinTech)
Security is NOT that difficult…
If you have templates, and
if you’ve done it a few times before.
What’s the hardest part of rolling out Security?
Steve Henry, CEO
18 Docs
Customized from Templates
PROCESSES & PROCEDURES
70 Pages
Your “Security Bible”
SIG LITE
122 Tasks
To Pass Security Diligence
INITIAL ROLLOUT
22 Tasks
To Maintain
ONGOING SECURITY
How To Get Started
Phase 1: MVP
How To Start
Complete our Top 10 assessment, fix anything missing.
Goals
Make sure the Top 10 Security MVP items are done.
When You’re Done
You’ll have a clear, 4-Phase Security Roadmap.
Time. Effort. Budget.
Phase 2: Docs & AWS
How To Start
Appoint a CISO to own this stage.
Follow our video playbooks (coming Aug 2024).
Goals
1. Write your processes & procedures.
2. AWS environment separate + secure CI/CD.
When You’re Done
Sales will have a “security webpage” on your site to show their prospects.
Phase 3: Go Live
How To Start
Your CISO works with owners of each group to Go Live with your security processes.
Goals
Implement & follow all the processes & procedures you wrote in Phase 2.
When You’re Done
You will pass any Customer Security Diligence Questionnaires.
Phase 4: SOC-2
How To Start
Select an auditor, then prepare evidence for the audit (~2 months).
Goals
1. Complete a SOC-2 Type I audit.
2. Security processes are permanently followed.
When You’re Done
You have a SOC-2, and it’s a permanent part of your org.
How ScalePoynt Does It
Early Stage MVP
Pre-Raise Discount (~70%)
MVP Rollout
- Dedicated CISO
- Phase 1 “Security MVP”
- Architecture Review
- Roadmap + Budget
- Customer-Facing CISO
Executive CISO
Turn-Key Executive
Internal CISO
- Dedicated CISO
- 4-Phase Security Rollout
- Processes & Procedures
- Security Task Management
- SOC-2 Prep
Customer-Facing
- Customer-Facing CISO
- Security Questionnaires
- Customer Security Packets
- Website Security Page
4 ScalePoynt “Secrets to Success”
We want Security to run smoothly, and not be an ongoing “compliance pain”.
Here’s a few pieces of our “secret sauce” to make sure that happens.
SIG Lite
Your 70+ page “Security Bible” for your complete security posture. Why?
Prospects. Show the Table of Contents as a quick demo to prospects to show your security is real.
Auditors. You’ll use this to knock off half the 220+ items in your SOC-2 audit.
Rollout Plan
We’ve templated this from top to bottom for SaaS startups.
So, you can keep your team focused on roadmap.
You can track our progress in your tools, but we need very little of your involvement until we “go live”.
Cloud Security Templates
Half of the security work is your AWS setup.
Our DevOps Team automates your AWS rollout with 45 Terraform modules. Fast, scalable, secure.
Doing this yourself would take years (as it did for us to build) — deploying it takes mere hours.
Customer CISO
It makes a meaningful difference when you can tell your prospective customers “just ask my Security CISO”.
We make sure you show up prepared, have sales material for security, answer your questionnaires, and help review contracts as well.
Ask a Founder
Security alone is “table stakes”.
Our Portfolio Founders share what they valued most.
“If you show up like every other startup, you’re going to get treated like every other startup. It’s going to be long cycles. And security & compliance is going to block you.”
Aly Dhalla
CEO & Co-Founder, Finaeo
“Don’t devalue your time by trying to do it yourself.”
Sheldon Brow
Founder & CEO,
Pocket Finance
FAQ: The Little Details That Matter
No. Hard no. Trust that you’re bringing in experts that know what they’re doing, and they’ve done this before. We have templates and approaches for everything. Think of it like sending in a SWAT Team – we come in efficient, organized, and on a mission; we’ll let you know when you’re needed. 🙂
We believe that if a CEO “has 5 problems, we’d like to make it 4”. We act as an executive function within your ogranization, and run this top to bottom. Our goal is to free up your teams’ time, and make this as light-weight and easy as possible. There are a few others in the market, whereas we find they provide “support” and “options on how to approach it” – we are of the belief that “you’re not looking for help, you’re looking to make this problem go away”
We work on long-term engagements (12-month contracts). We build, run, maintain, and grow the areas we provide expertise in. Success for us means taking an expertise area fully off your hands, allowing your team to focus where they need to be: on product & customer.
These tools have value, but they do not “build your security program”. They can help streamline an audit, once your entire program is in place. They also require a lot of expertise for “tuning”, as they are very opinionated (since algorithmic), which creates additional work an overhead. There is a time and place for them, but we do not recommend that at the start.
Absolutely. Customer-facing CISO.
For security positioning, questions, questionnaires, and even security-related guidance in contracts.
It’s not always required, but we find it goes a long way in your sales cycles when your customers see you’ve invested in a CISO; and the trust it can instill in your overall company (beyond just security), with professional executive presence, can be genuinely meaningful.