Sr Engineer-as-a-Service Subscription
Access to senior-level engineering expertise on a subscription basis for cybersecurity implementation and support.
In scope
- Security architecture design
- Tool implementation and configuration
- Security automation development
- Infrastructure hardening
- Technical mentoring
You receive
- Monthly engineering reports
- Implemented security controls
- Automation scripts and tools
- Architecture documentation
- Knowledge transfer sessions
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Part-Time Engineer
$8.5K / mo
20 hours per week of senior engineering support
- — Full-time availability
- — More than 1 engineer or specialism at once
- — On-call or after-hours support
- — Tool and cloud licence costs
Full-Time Engineer
$16K / mo
40 hours per week of senior engineering support
- — Parallel workstreams across several specialisms
- — On-call or after-hours support
- — Tool and cloud licence costs
Engineering Team
$28K / mo
Access to a team of senior engineers
- — Security leadership or vCISO duties
- — Tool and cloud licence costs
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a advisory & fractional leadership engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Onboarding & baseline
Current program, risks, commitments and stakeholders reviewed.
You see · Access to leadership and existing documents.
02Priorities & roadmap
A risk-ranked roadmap agreed with leadership.
You see · Decisions on priorities and budget.
03Ongoing cadence
Regular working sessions, decisions and deliverables to the agreed scope.
You see · A named advisor and a standing rhythm.
04Reporting to leadership
Board and executive reporting in business terms.
You see · Board-ready updates.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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Research
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The Revolut Breach Is a Case Study in Confusing Authentication With Authorization
Revolut disclosed customer data to attackers who spoofed a government agency's email domain for five months. The root cause was not weak email security but a workflow that treated a valid domain as proof of a valid request.
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Excessive Agency Moved to #3: What the 2026 OWASP LLM Top 10 and the Agent Control Standard Change For Your Program
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threat-intelligence · Sep 1, 2026
The Coding Agent Is the Intrusion Tool: Aurora Ransomware, Cursor, and the End of "AI Writes Malware" as the Threat Model
Between April and May 2026, an Aurora ransomware affiliate did not ask an AI to write malware. It pointed a commercial coding agent at live victim networks and had it perform reconnaissance, credential theft, and Active Directory escalation against at least ten organizations — roughly 30-50% faster than the same operator working alone. The safety bypass was one word: "test."
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