Cybersecurity Consulting Services for a product that keeps changing after the assessment.
Cybersecurity consulting is expert help deciding what to secure first, implementing it, and proving to an auditor or an enterprise buyer that you did.
- 120+Projects delivered across 12 countries since 2012
- 100+Senior in-house engineers, six countries
- 5.0Unified rating across 61 client reviews on Clutch
- ISO 27001Certified security practice, audited by Quay Audit UK
- ISO 9001Certified quality management, audited by Quay Audit UK
01Overview
Who buys this, and what usually forces it
Usually the person who owns the product rather than a security specialist, and usually because somebody outside has started asking. A customer sent a security questionnaire and a deal is waiting on it. A regulation applies and nobody can say which controls you already meet. Someone else is about to read your code. Or the product grew and the rules moved under it. unicrew runs the assessment and, where you want it, the remediation: same engineers, same repository, one contract.
- Findings arrive as pull requestsThe people who write the findings can change the code, so closing them is something you buy rather than a document you hand somewhere else.
- Certified against the standard we ask you to meetunicrew runs ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 itself, audited by Quay Audit UK, so the controls we recommend are ones we get examined on.
- A senior practice, sitting inside deliveryOne dedicated security engineer plus a part-time senior security consultant, working inside the teams that ship your code. Security judgment sits next to the people who can act on it.
- Three smaller places to startA penetration test if the system is stable and you want it attacked. A readiness sprint if one questionnaire is the whole problem. DevOps if the gap is the release path.
02Proof
Security work we can point at
Security work runs under NDA, and its best output is that nothing happened. These three engagements left a record anyone outside can check: a client's own review, a build written to the HIPAA Rules, and a third-party read of our code.
- WaiverKing grew, and its compliance kept upCraig Elsdon-Dew, CEO of WaiverKing, on Clutch: "As our customer base has grown, they’ve ensured that the platform is capable of taking on our growth and maintaining security compliance. Those regulations have changed over the years and Artelogic has updated them." The rules moved; so did the code.Since 2014when that engagement started, on a platform whose regulations have changed more than once since
- CancerDocs was written to the HIPAA Rules, not retrofitted to themunicrew built CancerDocs, a platform for private online cancer consultations. Before development started, the team made an in-depth study of the HIPAA Rules: access control, audit controls, integrity, person or entity authentication, and environmental and transmission security. The safeguards in the build came out of that study.HIPAASecurity Rules studied in depth before the first line of code on that platform
- Booked It had somebody else read our codeTheir CEO, Brad Nobbs, wrote it up on Clutch: "We have had the code audited by a 3rd party who was extremely complimentary of the work." He commissioned that read, not us, on the platform we refactored for him.3rd partyread the code on that booking platform at the client''s own initiative
03Compare
Us, a security firm, or a hire?
Decide on who has to change the code once the findings land, not on who finds the most. That is where security inside delivery earns its place: the engineers who assess the risk also merge the fix, in the repository your team already uses, and re-test everything they close.
| Security inside deliveryunicrew | A security firm or MSSPSpecialist | A security engineer in-houseHire |
|---|---|---|
| Best forRisk that lives in software you are building or already run, where a finding only counts once it is a merged pull request. | Best forRound-the-clock monitoring, a red team, breach response on retainer, or the certification audit itself. | Best forSecurity that is continuous and central to the product, when you can keep a senior hire busy and current. |
| What it asks of youA repository, a tracker and someone who can review a pull request, because the fixes arrive as code. | What it asks of youEngineer time on your side, since they find and report and the code change still lands on your team, on top of the roadmap it already owes you. | What it asks of youA slow, expensive search, and one person expected to cover application security, cloud and compliance at once. |
| You end up owningMerged fixes, a hardened pipeline, and the report behind them. | You end up owningA findings report, and the remediation backlog under it. | You end up owningThe role, the salary, and a single point of failure. |
Quick self-check
Tick the ones that describe your product today.
0 of 4 true
Start with a test or DevOps
With none of these, a penetration test gives an auditor or a customer the point-in-time answer they ask for. If the gap is the build and deploy path, that is DevOps.
Talk it throughOne box is usually one control
A single symptom is normally one questionnaire or one missing control. Thirty minutes settles which, so the work answers the question you have actually been asked.
Talk it throughWorth scoping a readiness review
Two boxes, and security is sitting beside how your software gets made rather than inside it. A fixed-scope readiness review is the smallest way to find out, and it ends in a report and a ranked roadmap your own engineers can act on.
Book a discovery callA security engagement is the right shape
Three boxes, and what you need is an engagement rather than a report. The risk sits in software you are still changing, so an assessment dated today expires the sprint after it lands. Scope is what is left to settle.
Book a discovery callAssess first, and budget for the remediation
All four. This profile goes wrong when it is split between a firm that reports and a team that builds, because the findings queue behind the roadmap your engineers already owe you. Remediation stays a separate decision here.
Talk about the workA product keeps changing after its security assessment, so we build the checks into your own release process. With dependency scanning, secret scanning and review gates in the pipeline, a change is checked before it ships.
Tural MamedovCo-Founder and CEO, unicrew04Capabilities
Where a security engagement actually goes
Eight areas, from a fixed-scope readiness review to remediation merged into your repository. Each one is advice you can act on and work we can do, and you decide which of the two you are buying.
- Security and compliance readiness assessment
Security and compliance readiness review
Report plus roadmapA fixed-scope review against the standards your buyers actually check: ISO 27001 practices, the enterprise questionnaires that gate deals, and GDPR or NIS2 in Europe. It ends in a written report and a roadmap ranked by what unblocks the deal first.
- Security compliance management
Compliance management
GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSSRoadmaps and audit-readiness support for ISO 27001 (a managed approach to information security), GDPR (EU personal data), HIPAA (protected health information), PCI DSS (cardholder data) and NIS2 (essential and important entities in the EU). We map what you already have against what each standard expects, then say which gaps an examiner will stop on.
- DevSecOps consulting
Secure SDLC and DevSecOps
Checks inside the pipelineSecurity checks moved into the build and release path, so a change is checked before it ships instead of reviewed after it breaks: dependency and secret scanning, review gates, and access that grants each job only what that job needs. Where the pipeline itself is the problem, that is DevOps.
- Vulnerability management services
Vulnerability management
Ranked by what it reachesScanning and prioritized remediation across application and infrastructure. The prioritization is the point: findings ranked by how easily each one could actually be exploited and how far the damage would spread, rather than by a scanner's severity label, so your team fixes the three that matter before the thirty that do not.
- Security architecture review
Secure architecture and design reviews
Before it goes liveNetwork segmentation, access boundaries, and an honest answer about where the line sits between what your system trusts and what it checks, before a feature or integration goes live. On a research SaaS for the legal industry that meant databases and data flows encrypted at rest and in transit, no system-administrator access to user data at all, and a build that followed the OWASP standards.
- AI application security review
AI application security
Prompt injection, model accessThe risks that arrive with an AI feature: prompt injection, where text the model reads becomes an instruction it follows, data leakage through model context, and access control over what the model is allowed to call. Secure design for an MCP server means OAuth 2.1 on every endpoint rather than a static API key, validation on every tool call, and a server that can reach only the services it needs. We wrote the guide.
- Offensive testing
Penetration testing
OWASP-aligned methodologyThe offensive check inside a security program, run to a documented OWASP-aligned methodology across web applications, networks, cloud and APIs. It is also a purchase on its own, with its own page and its own scope.
- Incident response readiness
Incident readiness and breach investigation
Playbooks and tabletopsPlaybooks, tabletop exercises, and log and attack-vector analysis after suspicious activity or a breach. The work covers both ends of an incident: the preparation before it, with playbooks your team has rehearsed, and the read afterwards.
05Trust
What the engagement hands over
A register you can argue with, a plan your own engineers can execute, and, where we do the work, proof that a finding closed rather than moved.
- ArguableA findings register ranked by riskEach position shown with the reasoning that put it there, so the order is something you can push back on
- PortableA written report and a sequenced roadmapSequenced so your own engineers can work through it start to finish, or hand any part of it to ours
- Re-testedEvery finding we close, checked againBecause a finding marked done and a finding actually closed are not reliably the same thing
06Stack
Stacks we secure
Every name here is one we have shipped production code in, which is what turns a security review of it into a code review rather than a checklist. A .NET service on AWS gets read, not scanned.
07Engagement
Three ways to buy this, and how each is billed
The scope is settled in writing before any of them starts, and we tell you which one fits rather than asking you to pick now.
A fixed-scope readiness review
Start hereOne product, an agreed list of standards, a fixed timeframe and a price settled before work starts. It ends in a written report and a ranked roadmap, and it is finished at that point unless you decide otherwise. There is no minimum engagement period.
- Best when
- A questionnaire, a regulation or an audit date is already in front of you
- You pay
- Outcome based, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
Remediation by the same engineers
Ship the fixThe findings exist and nobody has capacity to merge them. Our engineers implement the fixes in the repository and tracker your team already uses, then re-test everything they close.
- Best when
- The report is written and the backlog is not moving
- You pay
- Billed hourly, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
Security attached to delivery rather than reviewed once a year: design review on new features, checks inside the build, and someone who already knows the system when the next questionnaire lands.
- Best when
- The product keeps changing and the review has to keep up
- You pay
- Billed monthly, per team member
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
We re-test what is still open before we add to it
A scan report, an expired questionnaire or a test somebody ran last year is a starting point rather than a plan. Whichever model you pick, we re-test what is still open, rank it by how easily it could be exploited and what a failure would cost you, and hand back a roadmap your own engineers could execute. If what you want is a fresh offensive test instead, that is penetration testing.
08Industries
Industries we secure software in
Regulated and operations-heavy sectors, where a security mistake stops being a bug and becomes a reportable event. These six are where we have already delivered software, so the systems are ones we have built rather than ones we have read about.
Logistics and transportation
Systems that move freight and vehicles around the clock, where an outage costs more than a disclosure would and the ranking of findings has to reflect that. Shift work, handheld devices in the field and subcontractor logins are where the access model gets tested.
Hospitality and leisure
Booking and membership products that take card payments and hold member records in the same place they have to keep serving through a peak weekend. Cutting the scope of what holds that data usually beats hardening all of it.
Healthcare
Patient-facing products and integrations with clinical systems under HIPAA, where who may reach protected health data is an architecture decision rather than a setting. That is how one consultation platform was built.
Fintech and payments
Where money moves, the question an auditor asks first is which systems ever touch cardholder data and who can reach them. On bookkeeping automation for a financial advisory firm, encryption and account protection were requirements from day one rather than a later hardening pass.
E-commerce
B2B and B2C storefronts where customer data and payment flows live in the same system, including a European manufacturer selling into seven EU countries across both.
Commodity trading (CTRM/ETRM)
Confidentiality between counterparties is the product. On a private B2B trading platform, one goal was to keep all negotiation, communication and contract signing inside the marketplace, to reduce the risk of losing confidential information and to avoid hidden deals.
Tell us what is forcing this, and we will tell you what to secure first
Thirty minutes on the questionnaire, the regulation or the incident that started this. You come out with a straight answer on what to secure first, and on whether a penetration test, a fixed-scope readiness sprint or a full engagement is the place to start.
What happens after you contact us
- We reply within one business dayIt comes back with either the two or three things we would have to see to scope this, or the name of a smaller purchase that answers your question.
- A call about what is forcing the timingWhich product and environments are in scope, and what questionnaire, regulation or incident is driving this.
- An agreed scope, in writingThe standards in scope, the access we need, and a fixed timeframe, before you commit budget.
- NDA, then a start dateSigned before any access at all. Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
09Delivery
How does a cybersecurity engagement work?
Five stages: scope, assessment, ranking and readout, remediation, then staying ready. Scoping decides more than the assessment does, because a review answering one questionnaire and a review across ISO 27001, GDPR and NIS2 are different purchases.
- ScopeWe agree which product, environment and standards are in scope and what is driving the need, so both scope and timeframe are fixed up front rather than mid-engagement. From you we need one call with whoever actually owns the obligation.You getAn agreed scope, the standards in scope, and a fixed timeframe, in writing before work starts.
- AssessmentThe application, the environment around it and the process that changes both, checked against whichever standards the scope named, and against the AI surface too where the product has one. NDA before any access. For the assessments and audits we work from read-only, least-privilege access, agreed with your technical contact before anything starts. From you we need that access, plus a few hours with whoever knows the system best.You getA findings register, every issue rated by how easily it could be exploited and what a failure would cost the business.
- Rank and read outEvery finding comes back in an order, and the order weighs two things: what it would take to exploit, and how much it matters to whatever review or regulation is in front of you. We walk it through live with the people who would do the work rather than dropping it into an inbox. From you we need the one judgment only you can make, which is what a failure would actually cost your business.You getA written report plus a sequenced remediation roadmap your team or ours can execute.
- RemediateOptional, and always a separate decision. Our engineers implement the fixes in your codebase and pipeline: secure SDLC changes, vulnerability fixes, architecture and access-control work. On build engagements we take least-privilege access agreed with the client's technical contact, read-only wherever the work allows, and no write access to production systems during discovery. From you we need a repository, a tracker, and somebody who can review a pull request.You getMerged fixes, a hardened pipeline, and a re-test of every finding that was closed.
- Stay readySecurity stays attached to delivery instead of becoming a document: design review on new features and integrations, dependency and pipeline checks inside the build, playbooks kept current. From you we need us in the room while a new integration is being designed, rather than after it ships.You getSecurity review inside your release process, updated playbooks, and the evidence trail ready for the next examination.
10Client voices
What clients say about working with us
They’ve been helping us grow our platform together since the beginning, from a couple hundred companies to around 2,000. Artelogic has been front and center in this process.
We scoped out the workflow for the platform. Using this foundation, Artelogic’s executing our requirements and developing the platform. Artelogic executed flawlessly according to our plan thus far. Their work ethic is impressive.
Our platform has been refactored to Laravel ensuring the code base is more stable, easier to maintain and easier to add new features. Their professionalism and quality of work have stood out in the partnership. We have had the code audited by a 3rd party who was extremely complimentary of the work.
We’ve done a fair amount outsourcing to a lot of different places, and so far, they’re far and away the best. The quality of their code and developers, as well as their communication, compatibility, and reliability really stand out. I’m secure in the quality of these guys’ work.
They implemented a range of website features, including a specific payment processing functionality. They developed everything in PHP. They greatly improved our customer experience. I enjoy the way our platform works now. Working with Artelogic gave me confidence in our technical solutions and allowed me to focus more on business.
11Case studies
Delivered work behind this practice
unicrew was Artelogic until the rebrand, and the older client reviews on this page were written under that name; they are reproduced as the clients wrote them. Both studies below are engagements those same clients describe.
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SaaSWaiverKing: Software Development for Waiver Form CreatorWaiverKing is a document management business serving primarily the health and fitness industries. The platform is partnered with MindBody Online, one of the largest business-systems providers for gyms and yoga studios.Weeks to hoursTime for an update to reach live
HospitalityHighly Adjustable Platform for entertainment industriesunicrew developed a platform for Booked It that enhanced the customer experience for nightclub, entertainment center, and festival goers.600+Businesses using the platform
12Questions
Cybersecurity consulting: frequently asked questions
Cost and duration are scoped per engagement, because one security questionnaire and a full ISO 27001 readiness are not the same purchase. What is published here is how the work is billed and how soon it can start.
A cybersecurity consultant assesses risk, designs the security strategy, and helps an organization prevent, detect and respond to threats: secure architecture, compliance readiness, incident response planning, ongoing risk management. At unicrew the consultant does not stop at the report, because the same people can implement the remediation in your codebase and pipeline.
Every engagement is quoted against its own scope, because the same scope on two different products is not the same job. Four things move it: how many products and environments are in view, which standards you answer to (one questionnaire is a much smaller piece of work than ISO 27001 plus GDPR plus NIS2), how much evidence already exists to reuse, and whether we implement the fixes or hand them over. A fixed-scope review is quoted per project, outcome based. Remediation is billed hourly, quoted per project. A security engineer inside your team is billed monthly, per team member. The number is agreed before anything starts, and there is no minimum engagement period.
The readiness review is a fixed-scope sprint, so the timeframe is settled at scoping alongside the price and the deliverable, and you have all three before you commit to any of them. One product against one questionnaire is short. Several environments and several regulations take longer, and which one you are buying is settled at scoping rather than discovered in week six. Remediation runs on its own schedule, sized against the roadmap the review produces. Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
No, and a recommendation that starts with a migration is one we would have to justify twice. The stacks we secure are the ones we build in: .NET and ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js, Angular, React and Vue, on AWS with Docker containers, MS SQL, MySQL or PostgreSQL. The work happens inside your repository, your pipeline and your issue tracker, so a secure SDLC change arrives as a pull request your own reviewers approve rather than as a document asking somebody to find time.
We work through GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and, for EU entities, NIS2: assessing the gaps, supporting the documentation, implementing the technical controls. Because unicrew has been through a multi-stage ISO 27001:2022 audit itself, the advice comes from people who have sat on the other side of the audit table. We are precise about the limits: ISO 27001 maps to roughly 70 to 80 percent of NIS2's baseline requirements (Reed Smith, January 2026), and we work the remaining distance with you.
Getting you ready is ours; issuing the certificate is an accredited body's, and nobody else's. HIPAA is a different shape again, and worth saying plainly: HIPAA has no certification body. Compliance is a continuing obligation of the covered entity, not something a development partner can confer. Ours is the work an examination looks at: the controls themselves, the technical safeguards, and the documentation trail it asks to see, which is the work that came before any code on a HIPAA compliant consultation platform.
Compare on four questions that survive a sales call, and we answer all four before you sign. What certification does the firm hold, and who audited it: ours is ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, audited by Quay Audit UK, which the next answer covers in full. How big is the security practice and who inside it does the work: ours is one dedicated security engineer plus a part-time senior security consultant, working inside delivery. Can the people who write the findings also merge the fix, because that decides whose backlog the remediation lands in: ours can. And the review behind any client a firm quotes: every review on this page links to the interview it came from.
unicrew holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK, and ISO 27001:2022 is the internationally accepted equivalent in US security reviews. GDPR and NIS2 are covered too. Where a client needs SOC 2, we can build the controls and assemble the evidence trail the audit asks for; the report itself comes from the accredited auditor who performs it.
Reviews from security work inside our delivery engagements, each linked to the interview it came from rather than to a rating, so any of it can be checked without asking us. WaiverKing's CEO describes the platform keeping its security compliance current as the regulations changed, and a client commissioned a third-party read of our code and described it on Clutch. Behind them sit the certification we hold and the builds themselves: a HIPAA compliant consultation platform, and a multi-factor authentication platform whose data layer we re-architected.
Whoever you decide, and it is a decision you make after the report rather than before it. The roadmap is sequenced so your own engineers could work through it start to finish. Where you would rather they did not, ours do it in the repository and pipeline you already use: secure SDLC and DevSecOps changes, vulnerability remediation, architecture and access-control work, with every finding we close checked again afterwards. The reason this page exists is that those two options usually come from two different companies.
A small step now: knowing which three things you would have to fix when the first enterprise questionnaire, regulation or incident arrives. That is a conversation rather than an engagement, and it is worth having early, because the cost does not disappear while you wait, it arrives all at once and tends to turn up with a date attached. With no regulation, no buyer asking and no personal or payment data stored, that conversation is all you need until one of those changes.