Cybersecurity Consulting Services for a product that keeps changing after the assessment.
We provide cybersecurity consulting for product and engineering leaders developing and improving software. We assess risk and compliance readiness, design secure architecture and implement the remediation you choose in your codebase and release pipeline.
- 150+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
Security readiness for your next product decision
We help product and engineering leaders plan security work around a launch, product change or compliance requirement. Start with a defined review or engineering scope; the findings inform the next investment.
- Review a defined scopeWe agree the applications, data and environments to review, then return control evidence and risk priorities for your next decision.
- Work with your control ownersYour compliance and legal owners identify applicable requirements. We connect them to the technical controls and evidence in the selected scope.
- Choose the engineeringYou choose which recommendations we implement. The agreement names the work, its acceptance checks and who carries the remaining actions.
- Choose a focused starting pointA penetration test validates selected attack paths. A readiness sprint addresses a defined compliance objective. DevOps supports build and release controls.
02Proof
Security requirements carried into software
Our software engagements show security requirements carried into design and ongoing development, alongside independent scrutiny of code quality.
- WaiverKing: adapting a platform as regulations changeCraig Elsdon-Dew, CEO of WaiverKing, in his 2022 Clutch review: "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."Since 2014when that engagement started, on a platform whose regulations have changed more than once since
- CancerDocs: requirements before developmentBefore development, we studied the HIPAA Rules in depth for CancerDocs, a private cancer consultation platform. That study shaped access and audit controls, integrity and person or entity authentication, plus environmental and transmission security.HIPAASecurity Rules studied in depth before the first line of code on that platform
- Booked It: independent review of code qualityOn the booking platform we refactored, CEO Brad Nobbs described a third-party code audit in his 2022 Clutch review: "We have had the code audited by a 3rd party who was extremely complimentary of the work."3rd partyread the code on that booking platform
03Compare
Who should own your security work?
Choose around the security responsibilities you need: product engineering, specialist assessment or a continuing internal role.
| Security inside deliveryunicrew | A security firm or MSSPSpecialist | A security engineer in-houseHire |
|---|---|---|
| Best forReview and security engineering for a software product, with remediation integrated into its delivery process when commissioned. | Best forA specialist assessment or testing mandate, with any monitoring, response or certification services contracted to a qualified provider. | Best forContinuing internal responsibility for security strategy, product decisions and control ownership. |
| What it asks of youAgree targets and requirements, nominate control owners, and choose who implements and accepts each action. | What it asks of youDefine the objective and independence requirements; agree implementation ownership and any continuing service obligations. | What it asks of youRecruit for the responsibilities you need and provide authority, budget and collaboration with product and compliance owners. |
| You end up owningA prioritized security plan and the code changes and validation evidence selected in your agreement. | You end up owningThe agreed assessment or service outputs, with remediation and operational responsibilities assigned in the contract. | You end up owningAn internal security function and responsibility for its priorities, development and continuity. |
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Start with a test or DevOps
If your goal is a point-in-time offensive assessment, scope a penetration test. For build and release controls, discuss DevOps. We help define the objective before recommending the work.
Talk it throughDefine the first security decision
Use the selected requirement to scope a focused review or engineering task. We agree the question it should answer and the evidence or change you need.
Talk it throughScope a readiness review
A readiness review connects these requirements to the controls and evidence in your product. It gives you priorities and a roadmap, with implementation ownership agreed separately.
Book a discovery callPlan review and continuing engineering
A changing product needs security decisions carried into its delivery process. Agree the first review, then choose the architecture or release-control work it identifies.
Book a discovery callReview first, then choose remediation
Assess the requirements and existing findings together. The roadmap defines the work for your engineers or ours; implementation and validation are separate scope decisions.
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
Security advice, and the engineering to act on it
Commission security review and advice to choose your priorities, or scope engineering to implement the controls and fixes you select.
- Security and compliance readiness assessment
Security and compliance readiness review
Report plus roadmapWe review the selected product and available control evidence against requirements agreed with your responsible owners. The written report identifies gaps and priorities for an enterprise questionnaire, ISO 27001 readiness or another defined objective.
- Security compliance management
Compliance management
GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSSWe map existing controls and documentation to the requirements your compliance and legal owners identify. The scope can address ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS or NIS2 readiness, with a roadmap for technical changes and evidence to assemble.
- DevSecOps consulting
Secure SDLC and DevSecOps
Checks inside the pipelineWe build dependency scanning, secret scanning and review gates into the selected release path. Access gives each pipeline job the permissions it needs; your team agrees how checks affect a release.
- Vulnerability management services
Vulnerability management
Ranked by what it reachesWe assess selected application and infrastructure findings for how easily they could be exploited and what a failure would cost the business. The backlog records priorities and remediation ownership, so engineering effort follows the risks you choose to address.
- Security architecture review
Secure architecture and design reviews
Before it goes liveWe review network segmentation, access boundaries and data flows before a feature or integration is built. A research SaaS for the legal industry used encryption at rest and in transit, with no system-administrator access to user data, and decided to follow OWASP security standards.
- AI application security review
AI application security
Prompt injection, model accessWe review prompt injection, where text the model reads becomes an instruction, data leakage through model context and permissions for tools the model can call. For MCP servers, the selected design review covers OAuth 2.1, input validation for tool calls and limits on service connections, using our secure design guide.
- Offensive testing
Penetration testing
OWASP-aligned methodologyWe agree an authorized offensive assessment of selected web applications, APIs, networks or cloud targets. It uses a documented OWASP-aligned methodology, with permissions and operating boundaries defined separately from a readiness review.
- Incident response readiness
Incident readiness and breach investigation
Playbooks and tabletopsWe prepare playbooks and tabletop exercises for the scenarios and response roles you agree. A separately scoped investigation examines available logs and attack vectors after suspicious activity or a breach.
05Trust
What the engagement hands over
Use the risk-ranked findings to choose the security work for your product roadmap.
- 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-testedCompleted remediation checked within the agreed validation scopeBecause a finding marked done and a finding actually closed are not reliably the same thing
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Three ways to buy security work, and how each is billed
Choose a review, a defined remediation scope or ongoing security engineering, with outputs and acceptance agreed before work starts.
A fixed-scope readiness review
Start hereDefine the applications and requirements you want reviewed. You receive a written report and ranked roadmap at an agreed price and timeframe; further engineering is a separate purchase. There is no minimum engagement period.
- Best when
- You want priorities for a product change, questionnaire, regulation or audit
- You pay
- Outcome based, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
Remediation by the same engineers
Ship the fixCommission the selected fixes in your existing repository and pipeline. We agree implementation ownership and the validation needed to accept the completed work.
- Best when
- You have findings and want agreed remediation implemented
- You pay
- Billed hourly, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
A security engineer works with your product's ongoing delivery. Agree responsibility for feature design review, release checks and control evidence as the software changes.
- 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
Use existing findings to scope the next work
We review the findings and evidence you already have, then agree which need further assessment or remediation. A fresh offensive assessment has its own penetration testing scope.
08Industries
Industries we secure software in
We apply software delivery experience to the data, access and operating requirements of these industries.
Logistics and transportation
We review access and availability requirements for freight and vehicle systems, including field devices and subcontractor logins. Operational priorities help your owners rank the findings.
Hospitality and leisure
Booking and membership products combine card payments with member records. We define which services handle that data and how their controls fit the platform's operating requirements.
Healthcare
We scope controls around the health data your product handles and the requirements your responsible owners identify. A consultation platform was designed from an in-depth study of the HIPAA Rules.
Fintech and payments
Financial software needs clear boundaries around data and account access. On bookkeeping automation for a financial advisory firm, encryption and account protection were requirements from day one.
E-commerce
We review customer-data access and payment boundaries across connected B2B and B2C storefronts. Our work includes a European manufacturer selling into seven EU countries across both.
Commodity trading (CTRM/ETRM)
Security policy and access control govern confidentiality between counterparties. 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.
Plan the security work for your next product change
Tell us which product, requirement or security decision you want to address. We help define the first review or engineering scope; a penetration test or fixed-scope readiness sprint addresses a focused assessment objective.
What happens after you contact us
- We reply within one business dayWe identify the product context and materials needed to discuss a security scope.
- Discuss the product and its requirementsYour product and compliance owners define the objective, affected environments and any applicable requirements.
- An agreed scope, in writingReview targets, outputs, permissions, timeframe and acceptance, with implementation and validation chosen explicitly.
- NDA, then a start dateNDA before access. Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
09Delivery
How does a cybersecurity engagement work?
Your product and control owners agree what can be reviewed or changed, and who accepts the work. Remediation, validation and continuing support are commissioned within their own defined scopes.
- ScopeWe define the product, environments and security objectives, including the requirements and control owners. You provide product context and the people authorized to approve scope and acceptance.You getA written scope defining the review, its requirements, outputs and acceptance.
- AssessmentWe review the selected application, environment and release controls against the agreed requirements, including AI features where selected. 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. You provide access and existing control evidence through that contact.You getA findings register with evidence and reasoning for each risk rating.
- Rank and read outWe relate the findings to likely exploitation, business impact and your review objective. Your product and control owners confirm the priorities and choose who takes each action.You getA written report plus a sequenced remediation roadmap your team or ours can execute.
- RemediateOptional, and always a separate decision. We implement the selected fixes in your codebase and pipeline under agreed permissions. You provide a repository, tracker and reviewer; together we define the validation needed to accept the completed remediation.You getImplemented fixes and the checks agreed for their acceptance.
- Stay readyUnder a continuing scope, we review selected new features and integrations, maintain release checks and update playbooks. You provide the roadmap and involve the security engineer in the design decisions assigned to the role.You getRelease controls, playbooks and control evidence maintained within the agreed continuing scope.
10Client voices
Client reviews of our engineering work
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
Software behind the client accounts
The waiver and booking platforms show the wider engineering behind the client accounts above. unicrew was formerly Artelogic, the name used in those older reviews.
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SaaSWaiverKing: Software Development for a Waiver Form CreatorWaiverKing is a document management business serving primarily the health and fitness industries. The platform integrates with Mindbody Online, one of the largest business-systems providers for gyms and yoga studios.Weeks to hoursTime to release an update to production
HospitalityAdaptable booking platform for entertainment venuesunicrew developed a platform for Booked It that enhanced the customer experience for nightclub, entertainment center, and festival goers.600+Businesses using the platform
12Questions
Questions about cybersecurity consulting
Answers on cybersecurity scope, pricing, timelines and the responsibilities to settle before work starts.
A cybersecurity consultant assesses selected risks and controls, sets priorities and advises on security improvements. At unicrew, you can also commission the architecture, release-control changes and remediation the review identifies.
Cybersecurity consulting cost follows the agreed targets, requirements and outputs. Existing control evidence and the engineering or validation you commission also affect scope.
- Fixed-scope review: outcome based, quoted per project.
- Remediation: billed hourly, quoted per project.
- Integrated security engineer: billed monthly per team member.
We agree the quote before work starts. There is no minimum engagement period.
Duration is agreed when we define the security scope, outputs and acceptance.
The selected applications, requirements and available evidence shape the review schedule. Implementation and validation have their own agreed timelines.
Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
No. We start with your existing stack and tools. Any replacement is an explicit architecture decision based on the review.
We examine your code, pipeline and tracker before recommending changes. If you commission engineering, we agree how code review and acceptance work inside those tools.
We help with compliance readiness by mapping the selected requirements to technical controls and supporting evidence.
Your compliance and legal owners determine which requirements apply. We review existing controls, prioritize gaps and implement the technical changes you commission. The report records what was reviewed and what remains for the responsible owners to decide.
No. Our work is readiness and technical implementation; ISO 27001 certification is an accredited body's decision.
For HIPAA, HHS states that private Security Rule certifications do not discharge an organization's legal obligations. Your responsible owners determine applicability and ongoing compliance.
Our consultation platform illustrates how requirements shape the design.
Compare the proposed scope, evidence, implementation responsibility and independence requirements.
- Review: we name targets, requirements and outputs before work starts.
- Implementation: your engineers or ours take the actions you commission.
- Validation: we agree the checks and who accepts their evidence.
- Independence: the scope records any requirement to separate implementation from assessment.
The linked client reviews let you check those delivery accounts.
unicrew is ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK.
These are organizational certifications. They do not certify your product or substitute for the assessment your requirements call for.
Our public references cover software engineering with security requirements, alongside independent code-quality review.
Clients describe engineering that kept a platform current as regulations changed and an independent code audit. Our consultation platform case describes development guided by HIPAA requirements. These are engineering references, rather than reports from a penetration testing engagement.
A multi-factor authentication platform illustrates related security-focused engineering.
Your engineers or ours implement the remediation you select.
The review produces priorities and a roadmap. We agree the fixes, permissions and implementation owner before engineering starts, then define validation and acceptance for that work. A purchase limited to review leaves implementation with the owner you choose.
Yes. A focused security review helps you understand the risks in your product before external requirements arrive.
We scope it around the data you hold, who can access it and the changes you plan. The output is a prioritized set of decisions; you choose which controls or engineering to commission.