Get monitoring and incident response designed to strengthen your security posture. All the benefits of an internal team at 30% less cost.
BOOK A CALL2 weeks
Average time to deploy monitoring
30%
Less costly than internal SecOps
100%
Compliance-ready monitoring
Flat
Monthly cost, no hidden overhead
We handle сompliance frameworks end-to-end, setting up and managing the tools, detecting anomalies, and delivering audit-ready operations without the cost of hiring an internal SecOps team.
SOC 2
Stay audit-ready with monitoring controls that align with SOC 2.
ISO 27001
Certify faster with continuous monitoring and incident response.
HIPAA
Maintain compliance with ongoing protection of patient data.
GDPR/CCPA
Show regulators you detect and respond to data risks in real time.
PCI DSS
Pass audits by meeting requirements for cardholder systems.
NIST CSF
Be audit-ready with monitoring aligned to US security frameworks.
NIS2
Meet requirements with documented monitoring and incident handling.
ISO 22301
Support audits with monitoring and reporting processes.
Protagonist acts as your security team, handling monitoring, incident response, and process implementation, so you can focus on building your product while staying secure and audit-ready.
Monitoring setup
We configure tools across endpoints, servers, and cloud services in 2 weeks, giving you metrics at less cost than running internal infrastructure.
Incident response
Our team detects anomalies, resolves incidents with guaranteed response times, and secures user access with role-based permissions.
Policies & frameworks
We implement enterprise-ready incident response planning, logging standards, and vulnerability scanning, ensuring your security is consistent.
Training & awareness
We provide onboarding training, professional content, and optional LMS-based courses to keep your team prepared and independent.
Reporting & ongoing support
Monthly and quarterly reports give you visibility into your infrastructure, while our experts provide hands-on support.
What our clients are saying about us
Protagonist empowers teams to build with confidence, ensuring every product is secure, compliant, and ready to scale.
“The project was well-managed from start to finish. What stood out most was their ability to combine deep technical expertise with a pragmatic and business-oriented approach.”
“The issues they found were clearly relevant to our production environment and were explained in a way that made them easy to prioritize.”
“Their deep expertise in cybersecurity, particularly in the context of modern software architecture, was outstanding.”
“We were impressed by Protagonist’s deep expertise, hands-on experience, and strict delivery processes.”
“Protagonist has delivered a clear list of compliance-related improvements, which we have implemented. The team has provided valuable recommendations, giving us a better understanding of how to handle security and privacy topics in future software releases. They work independently.”
Security is a cycle of deployment, monitoring, response, and resilience. At Protagonist, we manage that cycle end-to-end in 4 steps.
Step 1
Duration: 2–8 weeks
Deployment
We lay the groundwork for your security operations by installing monitoring tools, integrating your systems, and building full visibility across your infrastructure.
Step 2
Delivery: Joint workshop
Improvement
Our experts close gaps in your security and automate repetitive tasks. This stage focuses on strengthening protection, minimizing human error, and aligning your systems with your business and compliance requirements.
Step 3
Delivery: ongoing
Continuous monitoring
We monitor your environment, investigate alerts, and act fast when a threat is detected. You’ll have guaranteed response times written into your contract, so each incident will be solved fast.
Step 4
Delivery: on demand
Training & resilience
Our experts can equip your team with the knowledge and skills to recognize risks and respond to them. Training is practical, continuous, and designed to build long-term resilience.
We close gaps, enforce controls, and keep you audit-ready at a fraction of the cost of hiring internal staff.
Threat detection & incident response
We monitor your systems in real time, investigate anomalies, and respond within clear timeframes. Every step is documented so you can show auditors exactly how incidents are handled.
Identity & access management
We centralize and secure access to critical systems, enforce least-privilege rules, and manage onboarding/offboarding automatically to prevent gaps.
Vulnerability & patch management
We scan your environment regularly, prioritize risks, and deploy patches safely, keeping your systems secure without disrupting operations.
Configuration management
We baseline systems against CIS/NIST standards and enforce secure configurations, detecting and remediating drift for a consistent security posture.
Compliance built into SecOps
Protagonist aligns security operations with compliance requirements from day one, making sure every control is both enforced and provable, whether it’s SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, or other framework.
Continuous monitoring & reporting
We integrate metrics into dashboards and reports that your team and auditors can access anytime, giving full visibility into your security posture.
Explore how our clients achieved audit-ready security, prevented incidents, and passed SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits.
In 6 months, your systems are monitored, incidents are resolved quickly,
and your environment stays compliant, while your team focuses on
building the product.
Building security in-house takes time, budget, and a lot of hiring. Other vendors may give you engineers, but they can leave, and no one takes responsibility for the results. With Protagonist, you get a team that owns the outcome.
What you need | Protagonist | Internal teams | Staffing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership | We take full responsibility for monitoring, incidents, and compliance | You’re in charge of everything, from hiring to ongoing management | You get people, but not outcomes — delivery is still on you |
| Reliability | We add more experts as needed so you get high-quality service any time | Coverage gaps when staff are sick, on leave, or stretched thin | Engineers can go anytime, leaving you to scramble |
| Speed | Immediate start, no need to hire or train | Months of hiring and onboarding before results | Quick to start, but you spend time managing and aligning them |
| Flexibility | Whether you need just one senior expert or a whole crew, we adjust to match your workload | Fixed capacity, tied to who’s on your payroll | You get who they assign, not always the right fit |
| Talk with us |
Our SecOps services are built for SMBs that need enterprise-grade monitoring without the expense of running a full in-house SOC. With us, you get the tools, people, and processes under one subscription.
Deployment
$3K
Monthly
Deliverables:
Monitoring and Improvement
$3k
Monthly
Deliverables:
Support
$3K
Monthly
Deliverables:
Get monitoring, incident response, and compliance coverage without building an internal SecOps team. On our first call, we’ll show how we can secure your systems and close gaps fast.
Free Consultation
30-minute SecOps assessment
Quick audit
Overview of monitoring, incident response, and compliance coverage
Custom plan & cost
Estimated timeline and cost for your environment
Your first call with us is FREE. And packed with value.
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Yes. Security is built into everything we do. We follow mature, well-defined processes with clear roles and secure workflows, including segregation of duties, so your operations remain protected.
Yes, we can be an official vendor with fully transparent contracts.
Our subscription model is often more cost-effective than a full in-house SecOps team. We provide mature processes, giving you enterprise-grade security without the overhead. Plus, we share monitoring and automated incident response tools across clients, making our service less costly than running your own setup.
Absolutely. We seamlessly integrate with your team, provide additional experts when needed, or act as the full SecOps team for your CISO.
We have our own toolset to quickly scale processes, but we are fully flexible. If you prefer commercial or specific tools, we’ll adapt.
Unlike hiring individual engineers who might leave, we take full responsibility for delivering results. You get a reliable team, whether a single senior expert or a full SecOps team, and we can scale up or down as needed.
Yes. We have a broad pool of experts and can provide senior specialists for tasks your internal team can’t cover right now.
Yes. Security is built into everything we do. We follow mature, well-defined processes with clear roles and secure workflows, including segregation of duties, so your operations remain protected.
