Service 01

Product Security Program Assessment

A principal-led assessment of Product Security maturity across governance, Secure SDLC, AppSec, DevSecOps, cloud-native delivery, vulnerability management, and leadership reporting.

Lean-team friendlyRemote-first · worldwideFrom $4,500
MaturitySecure SDLCGovernanceRoadmap
Starting priceFrom $4,500

Indicative USD baseline for a clearly bounded scope.

Typical delivery1–3 weeks

Calendar timing depends on access, evidence, target size, and stakeholder availability.

Commercial modelFixed scope

Scope, assumptions, deliverables, timeline, and price are confirmed before delivery begins.

Baseline scopeOne product or security program; maturity, governance, SDLC/AppSec/DevSecOps controls, metrics, risks, and a prioritized roadmap.

No surprise hourly overages on agreed packaged work. If the scope changes materially, additional work is agreed in writing before it starts.

When this service fits

Recognize the decision before choosing the scope.

Good fit when
  • Security practices have grown organically and there is no shared view of the current Product Security operating model.
  • An enterprise buyer, diligence process, major launch, or leadership transition is creating pressure for a defensible security baseline.
  • The team has scanners, controls, and backlogs, but priorities are fragmented or difficult to explain to leadership.
Questions this engagement answers
01

Where does meaningful product risk concentrate today?

02

Which gaps deserve action now, and which are maturity noise?

What we review

Focused on the controls that change real product risk.

The exact evidence set is tailored during discovery. A typical engagement covers the areas below.

  • Product Security operating model and ownership
  • Secure SDLC controls across design, build, release, and operations
  • Threat modeling and architecture review practices
  • AppSec testing, vulnerability lifecycle, and exception handling
  • DevSecOps, CI/CD, supply-chain, and cloud-native controls
  • Metrics, executive reporting, and improvement governance
Deliverables

A decision package — not a scanner export.

Recommendations are prioritized, contextualized, and structured so engineering and leadership can move from findings to action.

Executive summary and risk narrative

Included or adapted to the agreed engagement scope.

Product Security maturity scorecard

Included or adapted to the agreed engagement scope.

Gap and risk register

Included or adapted to the agreed engagement scope.

Control coverage map

Included or adapted to the agreed engagement scope.

Quick wins and prioritized remediation backlog

Included or adapted to the agreed engagement scope.

30/60/90-day plan and longer-term roadmap

Included or adapted to the agreed engagement scope.

“Structured against practical Product Security capabilities and informed by frameworks such as OWASP SAMM and NIST SSDF — translated into engineering actions rather than maturity theater.”Engagement principle
Engagement shape

Clear scope. Evidence. Priorities. Remediation.

01Discover

Goals, environment, constraints, evidence, and success criteria.

02Review

Technical and process assessment with targeted automation where useful.

03Prioritize

Risk, attack paths, engineering effort, and business context.

04Enable

Report, roadmap, workshop, and optional remediation validation.

Typical engagement: 1–3 weeks, depending on scope and evidence availability.

Client side of the engagement

Know what changes, what is needed, and what can follow.

Outcome

What changes after

  • Leadership and engineering share one evidence-backed view of current posture and priorities.
  • The remediation backlog is sequenced by product impact, ownership, and practical delivery constraints.
Inputs

What we need from you

  • A product and architecture overview plus representative SDLC/security evidence.
  • Access to the people who own engineering delivery, architecture, and security decisions.
Discuss this service

Bring the architecture, problem, or current security backlog.

We can define the smallest useful scope and a clear output before work begins.

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