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Honest numbers, fixed before we start.

These are real 2026 US market rates for boutique security work — the kind a senior team actually charges, not a lowball that turns into a scanner report. Every sticker price is a starting point for a typical scope; after a short scoping call we confirm a fixed fee in writing. The number does not drift mid-engagement.

Four ways to buy: fixed-scope engagements, a monthly operations retainer, a prepaid incident-response hour bank, or a custom engagement you compose yourself below.

NODE://ENGAGEMENTS

Fixed-scope engagements.

Grouped by discipline. Each is a defined project with a written scope, a delivery window, and a fixed fee.

OFF Offensive We attack your systems the way a real adversary would — then hand you the map.
most booked

OFF-01

Web App & API Penetration Test

2–3 weeks

A manual, hacker-style assessment of one web application and its API surface — auth, business logic, injection, access control.

$14,500

starting price
  • Manual testing against OWASP Top 10 + business-logic abuse
  • Authenticated testing across every user role
  • API fuzzing and broken-object-level-authorization checks
  • Severity-rated findings with reproduction steps
  • Free remediation re-test within 90 days

OFF-02

External & Internal Network Test

1–2 weeks

Perimeter and inside-the-firewall testing — exposed services, segmentation, lateral movement, privilege escalation.

$9,800

starting price
  • External perimeter scan + manual exploitation (up to 25 hosts)
  • Internal/assumed-breach testing with credentialed access
  • Network segmentation and lateral-movement review
  • Active Directory privilege-escalation paths
  • Findings mapped to MITRE ATT&CK

OFF-03

Red Team Operation

4–8 weeks

A goal-driven, multi-vector simulation — phishing, physical, and technical — that tests whether your blue team actually catches us.

$48,000

starting price
  • Objective-based adversary emulation (e.g. "reach the crown jewels")
  • Phishing and social-engineering campaign
  • Custom tooling and evasion against your EDR
  • Purple-team readout with your defenders
  • Detection-gap report mapped to ATT&CK
DEF Defensive We build the detection, response, and hardening that keeps the attack from landing.
most booked

DEF-01

Detection Engineering Sprint

3–4 weeks

We stand up real detections in your SIEM or EDR — tuned to your stack, mapped to ATT&CK, tested against live attacks.

$18,500

fixed scope
  • Log-source inventory and coverage-gap analysis
  • Detection rules authored and tuned for your environment
  • ATT&CK coverage heatmap before and after
  • Alert-to-runbook mapping for your responders
  • Validation against simulated attacks

DEF-02

Cloud Security Hardening

2–3 weeks

A configuration review and hardening pass across AWS, Azure, or GCP — identity, network, data, and logging.

$12,500

fixed scope
  • CIS-benchmark review of your cloud accounts
  • IAM least-privilege and role-assumption audit
  • Network, encryption, and key-management review
  • Logging and guardrail baseline (CloudTrail / equivalents)
  • Prioritised remediation backlog with effort sizing

DEF-03

Security Program Assessment

2 weeks

A grounded read on where your security program actually stands, graded against NIST CSF — with a roadmap, not a lecture.

$9,500

fixed scope
  • NIST CSF 2.0 maturity scoring across all functions
  • Interviews with engineering, ops, and leadership
  • Tooling and control-coverage inventory
  • 12-month prioritised security roadmap
  • Board-ready executive summary
CMP Compliance We get you audit-ready without turning your whole roadmap into paperwork.
most booked

CMP-01

SOC 2 Readiness

6–10 weeks

Everything you need to walk into a SOC 2 Type I audit with confidence — controls, policies, evidence, and a dry run.

$24,500

fixed scope
  • Gap assessment against the Trust Services Criteria
  • Policy and control authoring tuned to your reality
  • Evidence-collection workflow set up in your tools
  • Auditor introduction and coordination
  • Pre-audit dry run with findings closed out

CMP-02

HIPAA Security Readiness

5–8 weeks

A defensible HIPAA Security Rule program for health-tech teams — risk analysis, safeguards, and the documentation regulators ask for.

$19,500

fixed scope
  • Formal HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis
  • Administrative, physical, and technical safeguard mapping
  • Policy set and workforce-training materials
  • Business-Associate-Agreement review
  • Remediation plan with owners and deadlines

CMP-03

PCI DSS Readiness

6–9 weeks

Scope reduction first, paperwork second. We shrink your cardholder-data footprint, then get you ready for the SAQ or QSA.

$21,500

fixed scope
  • Cardholder-data-environment scoping and reduction
  • Gap analysis against PCI DSS v4.0 requirements
  • Segmentation validation guidance
  • Policy, procedure, and evidence package
  • SAQ support or QSA coordination

NODE://OPERATIONS_RETAINER

Managed security, billed monthly.

Detection, response, and security leadership as an ongoing function. Billed monthly through Stripe; cancel with 30 days notice.

OPS-WATCH

Watch

Managed detection & response for small teams — 24/7 eyes on your endpoints, identity, and cloud.

$2,400 / month

  • MDR across up to 100 endpoints
  • 24/7 alert triage by human analysts
  • Monthly threat-hunt and posture report
  • Quarterly tabletop exercise
  • Email + Slack support, 1-hour SLA
popular

OPS-OPERATE

Operate

MDR plus a fractional security leader steering the program — the sweet spot for funded startups.

$6,200 / month

  • Everything in Watch, up to 250 endpoints
  • Fractional vCISO — roadmap, risk register, board reporting
  • Vendor and third-party risk reviews
  • Compliance maintenance between audits
  • Named analyst + 30-min response SLA

OPS-COMMAND

Command

A full outsourced security function for regulated, high-growth companies under real scrutiny.

$11,500 / month

  • Everything in Operate, unlimited endpoints
  • Dedicated vCISO with board attendance
  • Continuous detection engineering
  • Multi-framework compliance ownership
  • 15-minute critical SLA + named IR lead

NODE://IR_HOUR_BANK

Prepaid incident-response hours.

Buy the hours before you need them. When something breaks, the only call you make is the one that helps — hotline answered 24/7, bridge time under fifteen minutes. Reference rate $475/hour; banks price below it. Unused hours roll into tabletops and runbook work.

10IR-10
A starter block — breach-coach calls, log review, scoping a suspected intrusion.
$4,250$425 / hour
25IR-25
Our most-booked block — full forensic triage and containment for a contained incident. ◆ MOST BOOKED
$10,000$400 / hour
50IR-50
A deep block — sustained response, eradication, and post-incident reporting.
$18,750$375 / hour

NODE://ENGAGEMENT_BUILDER

Compose a custom engagement.

Pick a base engagement, bolt on the modules you need, and watch the estimate update live. Submit it and we will turn it into a fixed-fee proposal — the number you see is illustrative until we scope.

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NODE://FAQ

Before you sign.

Senior operators on our own team — never offshore contractors or a scanner with a logo. Artiom personally scopes every engagement and reviews every report before it leaves the building.