Security POD: Get the security expertise with a predictable delivery.

Maxima's Security Pod helps your security posture keep up with your product without a full-time security team on the payroll.

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Your security posture is held together by good intentions and annual tests.

For most engineering-led companies between 50 and 500 people, security lives in a familiar no-man's land. It's too important to ignore and too specialised for your engineering team to own properly. So it gets managed reactively and the gaps compound quietly between events.

  • No one owns the threat model, so it was written once, never updated, and no longer reflects your current architecture
  • Security is a gate at the end of the development cycle, not part of it. Vulnerabilities reach production before they're caught
  • SOC 2 evidence is gathered in a scramble before each audit, not maintained continuously throughout the year
  • No executive-level security reporting, so the board asks security questions your CTO can't answer with data

The consequence isn't always a breach. More often, it's a customer security questionnaire you can't answer, a SOC 2 audit that surfaces control failures you had months to prevent, or a compliance certification delayed because evidence wasn't collected continuously.

What a continuous security function actually looks like

Continuous threat modeling

Your threat model is maintained and updated as your architecture changes, not written once and filed away until the next pentest surfaces something it missed.

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Security baked into your pipeline

SAST, DAST, secrets scanning, dependency monitoring, and container image scanning are integrated into your CI/CD, so vulnerabilities are caught before deployment, not after.

IAM audits on a regular cycle

Access reviews run monthly. Permission drift identified and remediated. Privileged access managed and documented so your IAM posture doesn't silently degrade between quarters.

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Executive security reporting

A ready security posture summary every month, in language your executives and customers can read without a security background.

Three roles. Strategy, implementation, and compliance. All covered.

Effective security requires three distinct capabilities running in parallel: someone setting strategy and owning executive communication, someone implementing and maintaining technical controls, and someone managing the compliance evidence and audit trail. The Security Pod puts a dedicated owner on each one.

What the Security Pod produces every month

Security work is invisible when it's working, which makes it easy to underfund. The Security Pod makes its output visible and measurable every month through a defined set of deliverables.

Vulnerability mitigation log

Findings identified, remediated, and verified closed during the month.

IAM access review report

Permission drift identified, remediation actions taken, privileged access log.

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence package

Controls tested and evidence filed for the month, cumulative toward audit readiness.

Thread model update

Current-state threat model maintained and delta-documented as architecture changes.

CI/CD security posture update

Pipeline security controls reviewed, new scanning findings triaged and actioned.

Risk register update

Active risks reviewed, new risks added, remediated risks closed.

The right fit for the Security Pod

Companies pursuing SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 for the first time

Engineering organisations that need security in the pipeline, not bolted on at the end

Companies that need executive-level security leadership without a full-time CISO hire

Enterprise sales cycles where security questionnaires are a closing blocker

Security practitioners who have operated in regulated environments

Our security engineers have implemented controls and managed compliance programmes for enterprises in financial services and insurance, environments where a control failure has regulatory consequences, not just operational ones. That standard shapes how we approach security for every client we work with.

CMMI 3 certified

The documented, auditable process discipline that compliance frameworks require

EU + US + Asia

Delivery centres supporting both European and US regulatory requirements

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Executive security reports produced, so you always have a current view of your security posture

US-owned. Globally delivered. Governed to the standard that enterprise procurement and compliance auditors require.

What security and engineering leaders ask before engaging

How is a Security Pod different from a penetration test?
A penetration test is a point-in-time assessment. It finds vulnerabilities as they exist on the day of the test. The Security Pod is a continuous security function: it maintains your threat model, remediates vulnerabilities as they emerge, keeps SOC 2 and ISO 27001 evidence current month-to-month, and integrates security into your CI/CD pipeline so new vulnerabilities are caught before deployment. Annual penetration tests remain valuable and are complementary to the pod's work, the Security Pod handles the continuous posture between them.
What does DevSecOps integration actually involve?
DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security controls directly into the software development lifecycle rather than treating security as a separate gate at the end. The Cloud Security Engineer implements SAST (Static Application Security Testing) to scan code for vulnerabilities before merge, DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) against running environments, secrets scanning to catch credentials committed to repos, software composition analysis to flag vulnerable dependencies, and container image scanning in build pipelines. The goal is to shift security left, catching and remediating issues at the development stage, where they cost a fraction of what they cost post-deployment.
What compliance frameworks does the pod support?
The pod's standard coverage includes SOC 2 Type I and Type II readiness, ISO 27001 certification maintenance, and GDPR technical compliance controls. The Compliance Specialist owns evidence gathering, control testing, access log audits, and the ongoing framework upkeep required to maintain audit readiness between formal assessments. For companies pursuing initial SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, the pod builds the evidence collection process from the ground up. Other frameworks, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, are assessed on engagement.
How quickly can the Security Pod close compliance gaps?
It depends on your current posture. In the first month, the SecOps Lead conducts a gap assessment against your target frameworks and produces a prioritized remediation roadmap. The Cloud Security Engineer and Compliance Specialist then work against that roadmap in order of risk and audit impact. Companies with no existing SOC 2 programme typically reach Type I readiness in 3–4 months and Type II readiness after a full 12-month evidence collection cycle. Companies maintaining an existing programme typically see gaps addressed within the first two months of the retainer.
What happens to security posture knowledge when the engagement ends?
All security artefacts, threat model, policy documentation, risk register, compliance evidence packages, IAM audit logs, and DevSecOps pipeline configurations, remain yours throughout the engagement and at close. Nothing is held in a proprietary platform. The structured documentation the pod maintains means that if you bring security in-house, or transition to a different provider, there is a complete, current record of your security posture and control history to hand over.

Ready to make security a continuous function, not an annual event?

If your security posture depends on a pentest once a year and a compliance sprint before each audit, book a 30-minute session. We'll map your current state, identify the critical gaps, and show you what a continuous function covers.

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