Secure369 Solutions · Practitioner-Led

Startup Security Health Check

Know where you actually stand — in two weeks, for a fixed fee, with a practitioner who tells you the truth.

Before you spend six months and a significant budget on ISO 27001, SOC 2, or a VAPT programme, know what you are actually dealing with. The Secure369 Security Health Check is a fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagement that gives startups and growing companies an honest assessment of their security posture, their top 10 risks, and a prioritised plan for what to do next — without the upsell pressure.

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The Problem

Why this matters now

Most startups do not know where to start with security. A customer asks for a VAPT report. An investor asks about your security programme. A new engineer joins and asks "what is our security posture?" The honest answer is usually "we do not know" — and that is the right starting point. A security health check gives you a baseline from which every subsequent security investment can be measured and justified.

Who this is for

Built for teams at this stage

Pre-Series A and Series A startups building their first security baseline
Companies that have received their first enterprise security questionnaire
Founders who want an honest view of their security before an investor due diligence
Teams that have grown from 10 to 50+ people and security has not kept pace
Companies that had a security incident and want to understand what else is exposed
Anyone who answers "we do not have a security programme" and wants to change that

What Secure369 examines

Every area we cover

✓Identity and access management — who has access to what, with what level of privilege

✓Cloud configuration — top 20 highest-risk misconfigurations across your cloud environment

✓Application security — authentication, session management, API exposure (interview-based)

✓Data security — what sensitive data you hold, where it lives, and how it is protected

✓Endpoint and device management — MDM coverage, patch status, device encryption

✓Third-party and SaaS risk — which tools have access to your data and at what scope

✓Incident response readiness — do you have a plan, a contact, and a communication chain

✓Security awareness — does your team know what a phishing email looks like

✓Compliance obligations — which regulations apply to you and what your exposure is

✓Security debt — what has been deferred and what the cost of deferral is

Deliverables

What you receive

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Security Health Score

An honest 0–10 score across 8 domains — with the evidence and reasoning behind each score, not a vanity metric.

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Top 10 Risk Register

The 10 most material risks to your business, ranked by likelihood and impact — written in business language, not technical jargon.

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90-Day Security Roadmap

A prioritised, actionable plan for the first 90 days — what to fix first, what to defer, and what to budget for in the next 6 months.

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Practitioner Debrief Call

A 90-minute call with the practitioner who ran the assessment — walk through every finding, ask every question, get straight answers.

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Board-Ready Summary

A one-page summary of your security posture and roadmap — formatted for a board presentation, investor update, or enterprise security questionnaire.

Indicative timeline

How the engagement runs

Intake & Context

Day 1–2

Questionnaire completion, key stakeholder interviews, environment overview. No access required at this stage.

Technical Review

Day 3–8

Cloud configuration review (read-only access), SaaS inventory, data flow mapping, documentation review.

Risk Analysis

Day 9–10

Findings consolidated, risk-ranked, and structured into the health check report.

Report Delivery & Debrief

Day 11–14

Report delivered, 90-minute debrief call with founding team or CTO. All findings explained, all questions answered.

Practitioner credentials

Who delivers this work

Every Secure369 engagement is led by a practitioner who has held the role, passed the audit, and operated the control — not a consultant reading from a framework document. Our team carries credentials built in the field, not only in a classroom.

Delivered to 40+ startups across India and the United States

CISM, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer credentials

Former startup founders and CTOs on the assessment team

Experience across fintech, healthtech, edtech, SaaS, and deeptech

DPDP Act and IT Act compliance practitioners

No upsell pressure — fixed fee, fixed scope, honest output

Anonymised results

What clients have achieved

All examples are anonymised and presented with client permission. Specific figures are withheld where requested.

Founder discovered employee had admin access to production after leaving the company

Health check revealed 4 former employees with active cloud credentials. Access revoked within 24 hours of the debrief.

Series A investor security question answered with the health check report

Startup used the Security Health Check report and 90-day roadmap as their investor security response. No further diligence questions raised.

Startup avoided a DPDP Act violation before it became one

Health check identified that a third-party analytics tool had broad access to user PII without a data processing agreement. Remediated before the DPDP Act notification obligation applied.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions

A health check is a structured assessment designed for startups — faster, fixed scope, fixed fee, and designed to give you a starting point rather than a comprehensive evidence package. It tells you where you stand and what to do next. A full security audit (ISO 27001, SOC 2) is the right follow-on once you know your baseline.

For the cloud configuration review, we need read-only access to your cloud environment. For everything else, the assessment is interview-based and documentation-based. We tell you exactly what access we need before the engagement starts.

The Security Health Check is a fixed-fee engagement. Contact us for the current fee schedule — it is designed to be accessible for pre-Series B startups. We do not offer this as a loss-leader for a follow-on upsell.

The 90-day roadmap gives you a clear first step. Most clients either start executing internally, engage Secure369 for a specific remediation programme, or use the report to justify a security hire. The board-ready summary is used for investor updates and enterprise security questionnaires.

Yes. The health check identifies your compliance gaps and gives you the baseline needed to scope a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 programme accurately. Many clients use it as a first step before committing to a full certification programme.

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