# Forward-deployed security engineering

Think of it as a highly competent security hire you can bring in on demand. No months-long search, no ramp-up quarter: we arrive ready to build and start changing things in the first week.

We work inside your tools, your repositories and your incident channel, on-site in Toronto or remote. We start by wrangling your data, build what fixes the problem, and leave behind systems your team can run.

## When it fits

-   You ship quickly, often with AI-generated code, and nobody owns security full time.
-   Customers, auditors or government buyers are asking questions you cannot answer with evidence yet.
-   You already have a pentest provider and a compliance tool, but nobody connects the findings to the code.
-   You want AI in your security program, with an accountable human verifying what it does.

## How it works

We build and prepare everything along the way. A person always makes the final call before anything moves on.

1.  ### Get access
    
    Read-only access to the systems that matter, agreed with your team on day one.
    
2.  ### Wrangle the data
    
    Assets, owners, findings and access pulled out of a dozen tools into one picture, in days rather than months.
    
3.  ### Build the fixes
    
    Pull requests, pipeline changes and automation, written and tested by us.
    
4.  Human checkpoint
    
    ### Your engineers review and merge
    
    You stay in control of what ships.
    
5.  ### Keep it moving
    
    Change reviews, evidence collection and monitoring keep running between releases.
    

## What we do while embedded

-   ### Security foundation review
    
    Read-only access to GitHub, cloud, CI/CD, identity and compliance material. We map applications, environments, secrets, tenant isolation and deployment paths, then rank what matters.
    
-   ### Fixes, not tickets
    
    We write the pull requests ourselves: IAM tightening, secret removal, pipeline hardening, dependency upgrades and configuration changes, reviewed by your engineers.
    
-   ### Continuous change review
    
    Significant product changes get a security review before they ship. Agents watch repositories and infrastructure between reviews and raise what needs a human.
    
-   ### Evidence that holds up
    
    Controls are validated against what is actually deployed, not what the policy says. Evidence collection is automated so audits stop being a fire drill.
    

## How engagements run

1.  01
    
    ### Foundation sprint
    
    One to four weeks. Review, fix the highest-priority issues directly, and hand over a ranked backlog and monitoring plan.
    
2.  02
    
    ### Embedded
    
    Month to month. Your on-demand security hire for change reviews, remediation, architecture decisions and customer security questions.
    
3.  03
    
    ### Managed
    
    If we built it, we can run it: the automation and agents keep working and improving after the build.
    

## What you get

-   A security owner without a full-time hire
-   Merged fixes and a ranked backlog, not a PDF
-   Answers for customer and auditor security questions
-   Systems your team understands and can take over

## Often paired with

-   [Accelerated Patching & Remediation](/services/accelerated-patching)
-   [Secure Software Factory](/services/secure-software-factory)
-   [Secure Infrastructure](/services/secure-infrastructure)

## Tell us what's stuck.

If we can materially improve the outcome, we'll come back with a concrete first step. On-site in Toronto or remote.

[Start a conversation](/contact)

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Source: https://shadesec.com/services/forward-deployed-security-engineering