Founder-led since 2013 / 14 countries

The Consultancy Where the Person You Meet Does the Work. Fixed Scope, Fixed Price, Report Before You Pay.

Cybersecurity consulting for companies that have to prove their security to a customer, an auditor, an insurer or a regulator. No junior bench, no vendor commissions, and no report that ends in "consider implementing".

Scope agreed in writing first. For assessments, you pay after you read the report.

200+ assessments since 2013No vendor commissionsMonth to month
Alexander Sverdlov, founder of Atlant Security
Alexander SverdlovFounder, Atlant Security

Runs every engagement personally. The constraint on how many we take, and the reason the work is consistent.

Why Companies Leave Their Last Consultancy

Almost every client arrives with one of these three stories.

You were sold a partner and got a graduate

The pitch meeting has the name on the door. The delivery has someone eighteen months out of university reading a checklist you could have bought. You pay partner rates for both.

The report arrives and nothing changes

Two hundred pages, a heat map, and a recommendation to "consider implementing" the thing you already knew was broken. Nobody is accountable for it being fixed.

The advice points at a product

A consultancy with vendor commissions finds problems its partners happen to solve. You cannot tell which findings are real and which are pipeline.

Three Ways the Engagement Runs

Most consultancies sell one shape of work and bend your problem to fit it. These are the three that actually match how security problems arrive.

1

Fixed-scope project

A defined piece of work with a written scope, a price agreed before it starts and a date. An audit, a readiness programme, a risk assessment, a penetration test. For assessments you read the report before any invoice is issued.

2

Ongoing security leadership

A named person holding the security function on a monthly basis: roadmap, board reporting, vendor questionnaires, incident decisions. Month to month, with thirty days notice. No minimum term to start.

3

Specific expertise, on call

You have a team and need a second opinion, an architecture review, or someone to sit opposite an auditor. Bought in hours against a pre-agreed rate, with no retainer.

What You Get, In Writing

  • A written scope agreed before work starts, with the price on it
  • Findings that name the system, the exposure and the fix, not a maturity score
  • A remediation plan with owners and dates, in your language not ours
  • Evidence packaged the way your auditor, insurer or customer asks for it
  • Direct access to the person doing the work, not an account manager
  • A debrief your engineers attend, not just a slide deck for the board

The constraint we do not hide

One person doing the work means a limit on how many engagements run at once. When the calendar is full, the honest answer is a date rather than a junior.

That is the trade. You get consistency and someone who remembers your environment, and in exchange you sometimes wait two weeks. Most clients consider that the better deal after their last consultancy.

Compared With the Usual Consultancy Offer

 A large firmAtlant Security
Who does the workPartner sells, graduate deliversThe person you meet on the first call
PricingDay rates, scope creep, change ordersFixed price agreed before work starts
PaymentInvoiced on milestones regardlessFor assessments, after you read the report
Vendor incentivesReseller margins and partner tiersNone. No commissions from any vendor
DeliverableA long report and a heat mapA fix plan with owners and dates
Minimum commitmentAnnual contractMonth to month, thirty days notice

Find Out What This Would Cost You

One call, thirty minutes, with the person who would do the work. You leave with the three things most likely to be exposed in your environment, a straight answer on whether we are the right firm for it, and a fixed price if we are.

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Cybersecurity Consultancy FAQ

What does a cybersecurity consultancy actually do?
Three things, usually in this order. It establishes what your real exposure is, through an assessment or audit rather than a questionnaire. It builds or fixes the controls that close the gaps that matter, in priority order. Then it holds the security function on an ongoing basis, or hands it to your team with enough documentation that they can run it. A consultancy that only does the first part leaves you with a report and no change.
How is a consultancy different from hiring a cybersecurity consultant?
Scope and continuity. A consultant is usually engaged for a specific piece of work and leaves when it is done. A consultancy relationship covers the whole arc: the assessment, the remediation, the evidence your customers ask for, and the security leadership between engagements. At Atlant Security the distinction is smaller than at most firms, because the same person runs all of it.
How much does cybersecurity consulting cost?
Scope decides it, and the honest number is on each service page. Fixed-scope assessments start in the low thousands and are quoted in writing before anything begins. Ongoing security leadership is priced monthly. For small pieces of ad-hoc work outside a package, there is a standard hourly rate. You approve the number before work starts, and for assessments you pay after you have read the report.
Do you take commissions from security vendors?
No. Atlant Security holds no reseller agreements, partner tiers or referral commissions with any security vendor. That matters because it is the only way you can be sure a recommendation to buy something is about your risk rather than our margin. Where a tool is genuinely the right answer we will say so and tell you what we would pay for it.
How quickly can you start?
A scoping call happens within a few days. Fixed-scope assessments typically begin within one to two weeks of the scope being agreed, because there is no bench to allocate and no internal approval chain. Incident work starts immediately.
Do you work with companies outside Europe?
Yes. Work has been delivered in fourteen countries since 2013, including for banks, payment institutions, government bodies and critical infrastructure operators. Regional regulator programmes in the Gulf and Asia are run against the specific control catalogue the local supervisor assesses against.
What size of company do you work with?
Most clients are between twenty and five hundred people: large enough that a breach would be material and that enterprise customers audit them, small enough that a full in-house security team is not proportionate. Smaller companies are usually better served by a fixed-scope engagement than by an ongoing retainer.
Who actually does the work?
Alexander Sverdlov, former Microsoft Security Consulting team, CISSP, with 200+ security assessments across 14 countries since 2013. There is no junior bench and no account management layer. That is a deliberate constraint on how many engagements run at once, and it is the reason the work is consistent.

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