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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 cheaper things to buy insteadA 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 leaves little behind that anyone outside can check: it runs under NDA, and its whole output is that nothing happened. Three engagements where something survives.

  • 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 also where we rule ourselves out: for round-the-clock monitoring, a red team, or the ISO 27001 certification audit itself, a dedicated security firm is the right buy, and we would rather say that than sell around it.

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.
Trade-offA small senior practice: one security engineer plus a part-time senior consultant, sized to advise and to build rather than to watch. Trade-offThey find and report. Changing the code still lands on your engineers, on top of the roadmap they already owe you. Trade-offSlow and expensive to hire, and one person rarely covers 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

Not a program problem yet

Nothing here needs one. If what you owe an auditor or a customer is a single point-in-time answer, a penetration test is the cheaper buy. If the gap is the build and deploy path, that is DevOps.

Tell us anyway

One box is usually one control

A single symptom is normally one questionnaire or one missing control, and a program bought to close it arrives answering questions nobody has asked.

Talk it through

Worth 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 you could act on without us.

Book a discovery call

A 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 call

Assess 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 work

A security assessment is a photograph of a product that will look different in a month. The useful question is not what the report found, but what in your own release process would have caught it without us.

Tural MamedovCo-Founder and CEO, unicrew

04Capabilities

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

    A 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 DSS

    Roadmaps 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 pipeline

    Security 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 reaches

    Scanning 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

    Network 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 access

    The 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 methodology

    The 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 tabletops

    Playbooks, tabletop exercises, and log and attack-vector analysis after suspicious activity or a breach. A retained response desk that answers at three in the morning is a specialist firm's product; ours is the preparation before and the read afterwards.

05Trust

What the engagement hands over

A register you can argue with, a plan you could execute without us, 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 for your own engineers, or another firm entirely, to work through without us in the room
  • 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.

FrontendWhat your users touch
BackendServices, APIs, and business logic
CloudWhere it runs, and what it costs

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 here

    One 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 fix

    The 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
You already have findings

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.

Deepest expertise

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.

Deepest expertise

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, including the answer that a penetration test or a fixed-scope readiness sprint is the cheaper buy.

Let's talk

What happens after you contact us

  1. 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.
  2. A call about what is forcing the timingWhich product and environments are in scope, and what questionnaire, regulation or incident is driving this.
  3. An agreed scope, in writingThe standards in scope, the access we need, and a fixed timeframe, before you commit budget.
  4. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 one judgment we cannot 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

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12Questions

Cybersecurity consulting: frequently asked questions

Cost and duration get no number, because one security questionnaire and a full ISO 27001 readiness are not the same purchase. What is published instead 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.

There is no headline number, 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. What is left for us is the useful part: the controls themselves, the technical safeguards, and the documentation trail an examination asks to see, which is the work that came before any code on a HIPAA compliant consultation platform.

Below the category, because the assessment plus the remediation is a claim every full-service vendor can make, this page included. Four questions survive a sales call, and every one of them works on us too. What certification does the firm hold, and who audited it: ours is ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, audited by Quay Audit UK, and we do not hold SOC 2, 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, and that shape is exactly why monitoring, red teaming and the certification audit go to somebody else. Can the people who write the findings also merge the fix, because that decides whose backlog the remediation lands in. And open the review behind any client a vendor quotes, instead of reading the rating on top of it.

No. 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. 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.

Not for standalone security audits. What the reviews on this page cover is delivery work, each one linked to the interview it came from rather than to a rating, so any of it can be checked without asking us. The independent security signal closest to this page is a third-party read of our code that a client commissioned and then described on Clutch. After that it is 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.

Probably not, and that is a real answer rather than a modest one. If no regulation applies to you, no buyer is asking, and you store no personal or payment data, then waiting is a defensible call. What changes the arithmetic is that the cost does not disappear while you wait, it arrives all at once: the first enterprise questionnaire, the first regulation that catches you, or the first incident tends to turn up with a date attached. The cheap version of this is knowing which three things you would have to fix when that happens, which is a conversation rather than an engagement.

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