About

Senior cybersecurity, built like a practitioner shop — not a sales floor.

SEC.co was founded on a simple bet: that mid-market and enterprise teams want senior cybersecurity work without the consultant-shop overhead. We run a U.S. SOC, an offensive testing team, an advisory practice, and an incident response retainer — staffed by people who have done the work in production.

Mission

We exist to keep good companies operational under adversarial pressure — and to make cybersecurity feel like a working partnership, not a procurement event.

That means owning the unglamorous parts of the job — the runbook, the on-call rotation, the board readout, the auditor binder. It means saying so when a control isn't worth the cost. And it means showing up at 3am when it matters, with a senior engineer answering the phone.

What we believe

Four principles, in tension on purpose

These show up in how we hire, how we scope, and how we say no to work that isn't the right fit.

01

Senior or nothing

Every engagement is led by a practitioner who has owned the work in production — not a presales engineer handing off to juniors.

02

Plain language

We write executive readouts that a board reads in five minutes — and an engineer can act on the same afternoon.

03

Independent of vendors

We integrate with the tools you already pay for. No reseller margin. No platform lock-in.

04

Show, don't sell

Pilots, references, and a free risk checklist beat any slide. The right answer to most questions is a 2-week assessment.

Leadership

Who runs each practice

Headshots and bios coming soon — these are the seats, not the placeholder names.

Founder & CEO
Strategy, governance, board-level engagements
Head of Security Operations
24/7 SOC, MDR, threat hunting program
Head of Offensive Security
Red team, pen testing, app & API security
Head of Advisory
vCISO program, compliance, risk advisory
Head of Incident Response
IR retainers, emergency engagements, forensics
Head of Engineering
Security automation, detection engineering, internal tooling
Where we work from

Three U.S. offices, one virtual SOC

Our analysts are U.S. citizens, U.S.-based, and operate under U.S. data-sovereignty constraints. Important for federal, defense, and regulated industries.

Pacific
Seattle, WA
Headquarters · SOC operations
Central
Austin, TX
Advisory & compliance practice
Eastern
Arlington, VA
Federal & defense practice

The shortest path to working with us is a 30-minute call.

Tell us what you're trying to get done. We'll tell you whether we're the right fit — and if we're not, who probably is.