Cyber Security Services

A scoped penetration test or security assessment typically runs $8K to $40K, depending on how many applications, networks, and cloud accounts are in scope. Ongoing security engineering is priced per engineer per month and runs on the same two-week sprint cadence as our build teams. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price after a free discovery call, no obligation.

Testing usually takes one to three weeks, plus roughly a week to write the report and a retest once you have fixed what it found. A single web application can be done in days. Hundreds of hosts, internal networks, and several cloud accounts push it toward the longer end.

A vulnerability assessment is mostly automated scanning that lists known weaknesses across a wide surface. A penetration test is a person attempting, with your written permission, to chain those weaknesses into real access. Start with an assessment if nobody has looked yet. Commission a penetration test when you need to know which findings an attacker could genuinely use.

Once a year is the common floor, and most compliance frameworks expect at least that. Test more often if you ship weekly, handle payment or health data, or have just changed your infrastructure, identity setup, or public-facing code. A major release earns its own test rather than waiting for the annual one.

Cyber security companies generally provide risk assessments, penetration testing, application and cloud security, identity and access management, security monitoring, incident response, compliance readiness, and staff training. Softaims delivers all of it with security engineers assigned to your team under contract, rather than reselling you a product license.

Yes, and we do not start without it. Every engagement runs on a signed authorization naming the systems in scope, the testing window, the techniques permitted, and who to call if something breaks. We test only assets you own or can demonstrate you control, and where your cloud or SaaS provider requires its own testing approval, we want that in writing too.

You do, 100%. The report, the evidence, the test data, and any remediation code we write are assigned to you in the contract. We sign an NDA before anything sensitive is discussed, keep findings encrypted and readable only by the assigned engineers while work is live, and delete our copies on the schedule you set at closeout.

Type I commonly takes 3 to 6 months and Type II 6 to 12 months, because Type II needs an observation window of at least three months. Readiness is where the time actually goes: gap analysis, control implementation, and evidence collection. The examination itself is the short part, and a licensed CPA firm, not Softaims, issues the report.

We fix the vulnerabilities we find, which is the reason to hire engineers instead of a scanning vendor. The same team can take the remediation tickets, write the patches, correct the configuration, and retest. If your developers would rather own the fixes, the findings carry enough detail that nobody has to guess what we meant.

Yes. We take on incident response engagements covering containment, forensic analysis, and recovery, and we work alongside your legal and insurance contacts because they usually drive the notification clock. A retainer signed in advance gets you a named team and agreed response times, which is a far better starting position.