Security and SOC 2 for AI startups selling into regulated industries

The buyer changed before your product did. A few years ago an AI feature was a differentiator. Now the prospect's security team treats it as new risk, and they ask about it before they sign. For a startup selling into a regulated industry, that conversation is the deal.

You do not have a security team yet, and hiring one is slow and expensive. Zero Day Security stands in as that function. We are practitioners, not resellers, and we are vendor-neutral, so the work is judged on what it does for you, not on what we are trying to sell.

The security questionnaire is now the deal-blocker

Enterprise procurement runs on questionnaires, and an AI product draws extra ones: how the model handles their data, where it sends prompts, what your agent can touch, and whether a customer's input can make it act against them. A vague answer stalls the deal. A wrong answer ends it.

We give you the diagnosis plainly. Scanning and discovery show what you have and where it is weak, but they stop nothing at runtime, and some of the hardest gaps in an AI product are architecture, not something a tool fixes. We will tell you which is which, and we will tell you when a problem has no product that solves it.

Your security function, without the headcount

Most startups at this stage need two things that usually come from different hires. They need someone senior to own the security story, set priorities, and stand in front of the buyer's security team. They also need someone to actually watch the systems day to day. We provide both as one engagement.

• AI reviews and red teaming: adversarial testing of your models, agents and tool integrations, mapped to the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative and OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
• vCISO and fractional CISO: a senior security leader on retainer who sets the program, owns the answers in your questionnaires, and joins the calls that decide the contract.
• Managed security and MDR: security operations and monitoring run for you, so detection and response exist before an incident, not after.
• SOC 2 and compliance readiness: get the controls and evidence in place to unblock enterprise deals, with ISO 27001 and ISO/IEC 42001 when the buyer asks for AI governance specifically.

Move fast, safely

The instinct to slow down and lock everything before you ship is as dangerous to a startup as moving recklessly. The goal is not to stop the roadmap. It is to know where the real risk sits, fix what matters in the order that matters, and have honest answers ready when the buyer asks.

That is the work: see the AI risk in your product, put controls in place that hold up at runtime, and reach SOC 2 and the questionnaires without losing your pace. We diagnose for everyone and prescribe for clients, so the free assessment shows you what is wrong, and the engagement is where we help you fix it.