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Cybersecurity for software development firms.
Agencies, product studios, and contract dev shops carry client risk on every engagement. Strong tenant isolation, SBOM hygiene, and supply-chain integrity are differentiators — and increasingly contract requirements.
- Sector
- Agencies · Studios · Dev shops
- Top risk
- Client-data spillover
- Common ask
- Client security questionnaires
- Engagement
- Program + SOC 2
What's included
Threats we routinely see in this sector
Client-data spillover between teams
Shared tooling, shared identity, shared infrastructure across client engagements.
Sensitive credentials in source
Long-lived API keys, customer credentials, .env files in repos — your repos and theirs.
Supply-chain / dependency risk
Compromised packages reaching client production via your builds.
Contractor / 1099 lifecycle gaps
Access provisioning and deprovisioning for project-based contractors.
Client security questionnaires
Increasingly common in enterprise-client procurement.
How it works
How we typically engage
- 01Start
Risk + tenant-isolation review
Where client data lives, who touches what.
- 02Quarter 1
Hardening sprint
Secrets management, dependency scanning, contractor lifecycle.
- 03Quarter 2+
SOC 2 + ongoing
SOC 2 for enterprise-client procurement + MDR.
Outcomes
What clients in this sector walk away with
- Tenant-isolated client environments
- Secrets management operating
- Dependency / SBOM hygiene
- Contractor lifecycle automation
- SOC 2 Type I for enterprise-client procurement
- Client-questionnaire answer library