A senior IT and security seat at less than half the loaded cost of a full-time hire.

Healthcare remained the costliest industry for breaches in IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach 2025 study, at $7.42 million on average. That number is not your forecast; it is a warning label. Most medical device startups carry cyber insurance with conditions that the company maintains specific security controls. We help you select a broker, prepare the underwriting questionnaire, and document the controls the carrier will evaluate before submission. We help you prepare; the carrier underwrites.

Hospital, lab, payor, and provider vendor security questionnaires are the single biggest unbudgeted line item between regulatory clearance and first revenue. The retainer maintains a vendor security response library so the second questionnaire reuses what the first one created. The first one still takes weeks; the second one starts from a baseline.

Compliance certification from zero takes 12 to 24 months depending on framework and prior posture. HITRUST r2 with significant remediation runs the longer end. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II typically run 6 to 18 months. Companies that start in week one are better positioned to defend the Series B timeline. Companies that start nine months before the round assemble the evidence under deadline pressure.

MSPs and cybersecurity vendors have one job: sell you more. We have the opposite job. We sit on your side of the table when those vendors pitch.