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Every case study represents a real business that faced a critical security challenge — and emerged stronger because of our partnership. These are not hypotheticals. These are measurable outcomes, documented methodologies, and verifiable results.
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From Zero to SOC 2 Certified in 90 Days
Apex Financial Group
A growing fintech company with 85 employees needed SOC 2 Type II certification to close enterprise deals, but had no formal security program, no dedicated security team, and a 90-day deadline from their largest prospect. Their technology stack spanned three cloud providers with dozens of SaaS integrations, none of which had been assessed for security controls. Previous attempts to hire a full-time CISO had failed due to the competitive talent market, and the company was at risk of losing a $2.4M contract that would define their growth trajectory.
Time to certification
90 days
Ransomware Contained in 4 Hours, Business Saved
MedFlow Health Systems
A healthcare SaaS company with 150 employees detected unusual activity on a Saturday night. By Sunday morning, ransomware had begun encrypting servers containing electronic health records for 30,000 patients across 45 healthcare providers. The attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in their VPN appliance, and the threat actor had established persistence across multiple systems. HIPAA breach notification timelines were ticking, and the company faced potential regulatory fines exceeding $1M if patient data was confirmed exfiltrated. Their internal IT team had no incident response experience and was overwhelmed.
Containment time
4 hours
Securing a Manufacturing Supply Chain
Sterling Manufacturing
A precision manufacturing firm with 300 employees and $120M in annual revenue discovered their operational technology (OT) network was directly connected to the corporate IT network with no segmentation whatsoever. CNC machines, PLCs, and SCADA systems were accessible from any workstation on the corporate network. A competitor in their industry had just been hit by a devastating cyberattack that caused $40M in losses and three weeks of production downtime. Their largest customer — a defense contractor — had issued an ultimatum: demonstrate compliance with NIST 800-171 within six months or lose the contract worth $18M annually.
Vulnerabilities fixed
47
Penetration Test Prevents $3M Data Breach
Cascade Retail Group
A multi-location retail chain with 42 stores processing over 10,000 credit card transactions daily needed PCI DSS Level 2 compliance to continue processing payments with their acquiring bank. They had never conducted a penetration test and had no visibility into their actual security posture. Their e-commerce platform had been built five years ago by a development team that had since disbanded, and their POS systems were running end-of-life software across multiple locations. A recent industry report had named retail as the #2 most targeted sector for data breaches, and their acquiring bank was threatening to increase processing fees by 40% without PCI compliance.
Critical vulns found
12
Protecting Critical Energy Infrastructure from Nation-State Threats
GridPoint Energy Services
GridPoint Energy Services operates power distribution infrastructure across three states, managing ICS/SCADA systems that control substations, distribution automation, and generation assets serving 800,000 customers. A classified threat briefing from the Department of Energy warned of active nation-state campaigns targeting energy sector OT systems using techniques similar to those used in the Ukraine power grid attacks. Their existing security was limited to perimeter firewalls with no visibility into east-west OT traffic, no anomaly detection on industrial protocols like DNP3 and Modbus, and significant gaps in their NERC CIP compliance posture. The board demanded a comprehensive OT security program within nine months.
Assets monitored
2,400+
Building Security-First Cloud Infrastructure for Rapid Scale
NovaTech Solutions
NovaTech is a B2B SaaS platform processing sensitive financial data for 300+ enterprise customers. After closing a Series B funding round, they needed to scale from 50 to 200 employees while simultaneously achieving SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification to satisfy enterprise customer requirements. Their AWS infrastructure had grown organically without security guardrails — IAM policies were overly permissive, secrets were stored in environment variables, container images were never scanned, and there was no centralized logging or monitoring. Three enterprise prospects representing $5M in ARR had paused contract negotiations pending security certification.
Certifications achieved
2
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