Security Baseline Sprint
A compact first engagement for a product team that needs clarity quickly.
- Product and architecture baseline
- Top risks and control gaps
- Prioritized 30/60/90-day plan
Bulwark Advisory · Product SecuritySecure the product.
Secure the product.
Keep the momentum.
Senior Product Security expertise for startups, scale-ups, and growing software companies — without the overhead of building a large in-house security function first.
Built for lean product teamsFounder-led by Ivan PiskunovRemote-first · worldwide
AWSKubernetesSoftware Supply ChainThreat ModelingProduct SecuritySecure SDLCAppSecDevSecOpsAWSKubernetesSoftware Supply ChainThreat ModelingProduct SecuritySecure SDLCAppSecDevSecOps
15+ yearsCybersecurity background
Lean-team fitStartups · scale-ups · SMB software
Technical + strategicEngineering through leadership
Proof in publicBooks · KB · code · field guides
Built for smaller software companies
Security depth without enterprise overhead.
A practical fit for teams that are shipping fast, selling to larger customers, preparing for diligence, or reaching the point where ad-hoc security stops scaling.
Launch & Enterprise Readiness
For teams moving up-market, launching a major product, or facing customer security scrutiny.
- Secure SDLC and CI/CD review
- Cloud / Kubernetes security
- Evidence and remediation roadmap
Fractional Product Security
Ongoing senior security direction when a full-time Product Security leader is not yet the right hire.
- Roadmap and operating cadence
- Architecture and risk decisions
- Metrics and engineering enablement
Core services
Protect how software is designed, built, released, and operated.
Focused engagements that can stand alone or combine into one Product Security program.
01 / PROGRAM
Product Security Program Assessment
Know where your Product Security program stands — and what to improve first.
MaturitySecure SDLCGovernance
Explore service02 / DESIGN
Secure Architecture & Threat Modeling
Find architectural risk before it becomes a production vulnerability.
ArchitectureThreat ModelingAPI
Explore service03 / DELIVERY
DevSecOps & CI/CD Security
Turn security checks into scalable engineering controls — not pipeline friction.
CI/CDAppSecRelease
Explore service04 / CLOUD
AWS & Kubernetes Security
Review cloud identities, workloads, clusters, infrastructure, and delivery paths.
AWSKubernetesIaC
Explore cloud security05 / TRUST
Software Supply Chain Security
Protect dependencies, builds, artifacts, provenance, and release trust.
SBOMSCASigning
Explore service06 / LEADERSHIP
Fractional Product Security Leadership
Senior Product Security direction without waiting to build a full internal function.
StrategyMetricsEnablement
Explore serviceLean-team automation
Turn raw security data into decisions.
For teams that do not need a heavyweight ASPM, SIEM, or custom platform, lightweight automation can normalize scanner exports and engineering data into practical Product Security views.
DefectDojoSAST / DAST / SCACSV · JSON · SARIFExcel / Web dashboards
PRODUCT SECURITY SIGNALnormalized
Critical risk debt↓ 31%prioritized backlog
Release confidence87%control coverage
Remediation load42hestimated effort
Budget view$effort → cost model
Export→Normalize→Prioritize→Visualize→Decide
Why this model
Senior judgment where automation stops.
Automated tooling is useful for breadth. The value is deciding what matters to the product, where attack paths exist, what engineering should fix first, and what leadership needs to know.
01 / directPrincipal-led
Senior Product Security involvement from discovery through final decisions.
02 / practicalEngineering-friendly
Controls designed to fit how a lean software team actually ships.
03 / focusedRight-sized scope
Start with the smallest engagement that can answer the real decision.
04 / measurableBusiness-aware risk
Technical findings translated into priorities, tradeoffs, and measurable progress.
Global delivery
Remote-first. Available worldwide.
Engagements are designed for distributed product and engineering teams across time zones. Geography changes logistics — not the quality of the security work.
Typical fit: North America, Europe, the UK, Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and other English-speaking or internationally operated software teams.
Discuss location and scopeNorth AmericaEurope / UKMiddle EastAfricaLatin AmericaAsia-PacificGlobal teams
Proof in public
Methods backed by published work.
The consulting approach is supported by an open Product Security knowledge base, technical guides, engineering projects, and published security writing.
Knowledge BaseProduct Security
Kubernetes Security
Product Security
Knowledge Base
Operating models, Secure SDLC, threat modeling, DevSecOps, cloud, Kubernetes, supply chain, metrics, and leadership field notes.
Explore the knowledge basePublished BookKubernetes Security
Guide
A 156-page technical guide covering Kubernetes attack surface, security controls, attack scenarios, and CKS-oriented practice.
View publicationEngineering NotesDevSecOps Notes Box
Reusable security notes and practical references across AppSec, pipelines, cloud, containers, and delivery security.
Open repositoryField GuideGitLab CI/CD Hardening
A practical guide to trust boundaries, runner risk, secrets exposure, deployment governance, and audit readiness.
View resourcesOpen SourceK8-Shield
Kubernetes security checks and hardening-oriented tooling built around practical cluster review.
Open projectComing Soon · 2026EVSE & Electric Vehicle Product Security Casebook
Defense-oriented Product Security for EV charging platforms and software-defined vehicle ecosystems — cloud, APIs, identity, CI/CD, firmware, OTA, telemetry, device trust, and recovery.
Preview casebookCloud Attack LabAWS SSRF → IMDS Research
A hands-on lab showing how SSRF can expose EC2 metadata credentials and turn application-layer weakness into cloud IAM risk.
Read technical labStart small
Discuss a project →Bring the product, the risk, or the question.
We can define a narrow first scope, create useful evidence quickly, and expand only if the problem justifies it.