Virtual Product Security Engineer

Security That Builds With You

Integrate Security Into Every Sprint, Every Feature, Every Release. Get an embedded AppSec and CloudSec expert who works directly with your developers — sprint by sprint — ensuring your product is secure from design to deployment.

Why a Virtual Product Security Engineer?

Your product moves fast. New features ship weekly, pipelines evolve, and infrastructure scales. But security often lags behind.

Traditional Approach

✗Hiring full-time product security talent is expensive and slow
✗Traditional audits arrive too late — after deployment
✗Security treated as a checkpoint, not a process

Our Model

On-demand, high-caliber AppSec expertise embedded part-time
Proactive design and architecture reviews during development
Security integrated into every sprint and release

This is not consulting. It's partnership.

A real security engineer, working within your dev rhythm.

What You'll Gain

Proactive design and architecture reviews

Continuous security risk visibility

Developer-ready sprint remediations

Audit-ready compliance artifacts

Secure SDLC integration

Real-time collaboration portal

What Your Fractional Engineer Does

Your embedded engineer functions as your virtual AppSec team, covering the full product security lifecycle

Threat Modeling & Design Review

Facilitate data flow mapping and architecture analysis

Identify threats and design-level vulnerabilities early
Provide mitigation strategies aligned to OWASP ASVS, STRIDE, and NIST
Design-phase security validation

Security Architecture

Review new and existing service architectures

Define secure patterns for microservices, APIs, and cloud-native apps
Evaluate IAM, network segmentation, and data protection designs
Ensure configurations align with CIS and cloud benchmarks

Secure SDLC Integration

Embed SAST, DAST, and SCA into CI/CD

Automate dependency and open-source risk checks
Build security gates that don't slow your team
Define vulnerability triage and SLA workflows

Configuration & Infrastructure Reviews

Evaluate IaC templates (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm)

Validate security posture of cloud resources
Review API, container, and Kubernetes configurations
Infrastructure security best practices

Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing

Perform focused pentests on new releases and critical features

Validate business logic flaws and exploitability
Deliver prioritized, developer-ready remediation steps
Real-world attack simulation

Continuous Monitoring & Reporting

Track vulnerabilities across lifecycle

Generate monthly or sprint-based risk reports
Maintain evidence for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness
Executive and technical reporting

Developer Enablement

Train dev teams on secure coding best practices

Conduct live review sessions to explain vulnerabilities and fixes
Create reusable security guidance and checklists
Foster security-first culture

Why Choose Defentorre

Proactive Security

Catch vulnerabilities during design and development, not after deployment

Cost-Effective

Fraction of the cost of hiring full-time AppSec talent

Sprint-Level Integration

Works within your development rhythm and sprint cycles

Developer Empathy

Practical, fix-first approach that empowers your team

Audit-Ready Evidence

Documentation accepted by auditors and insurers

Scalable Model

Expand scope or add specialists as your product evolves

Our Commitment to Excellence

Engineer-Led Expertise — Senior AppSec, CloudSec engineers only
Audit-Ready Evidence — Reports accepted by auditors and insurers
Developer Empathy — Practical, fix-first approach

How It Works

Kickoff

Align on architecture, repositories, and team workflows

Embed

Engineer joins your sprint boards and standups

Secure

Continuous assessment, configuration, and code review

Report

Deliver sprint or monthly risk summaries

Scale

Expand scope or add specialists as product evolves

Deliverables You'll Receive

Threat models & architecture reviews

Secure SDLC & pipeline documentation

SAST, DAST, and SCA integration reports

Configuration & infrastructure assessment reports

Pentest and validation results

Developer training & remediation guidelines

Audit-ready summary mapped to OWASP / NIST / SOC 2

Ready to Embed Security Into Your Product?

Get fewer vulnerabilities post-release, security integrated into every sprint, and developers who naturally code securely.