Ongoing, strategic security guidance embedded within your engineering team to ensure security is built-in by design without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Mid-sized engineering organizations needing senior security leadership to guide internal teams on complex architectural decisions.
3-month initial term
$3,500/month
Final scope depends on system count, complexity, compliance target, and access readiness. Pricing is presented as a starting estimate, not a guaranteed quote.
This retainer is for an engineering organization that has meaningful security decisions every week but not enough demand, budget, or timing for a full-time security architect. It can support a growing platform, a cloud migration, or a product team handling sensitive data.
It is a fit when security review is currently an interruption, an informal approval, or a late-stage blocker. A recurring advisor creates a dependable place for architecture questions, design tradeoffs, vendor decisions, and risk acceptance to be handled.
The retainer starts with a short decision backlog and a map of the systems and teams that need the most leverage. Regular working sessions then address architecture proposals, data flows, identity boundaries, vendor choices, and changes that could alter the threat surface.
Guidance is intentionally close to delivery. Reviews can cover a design document, API boundary, deployment pattern, security control, or exception request. Recommendations explain the risk, the proportionate control, and how engineers can verify the implementation.
The practice also helps establish repeatable review habits: a lightweight intake, clear risk acceptance, escalation criteria, and records that survive staff or priority changes. This reduces dependence on an individual memory or a last-minute security gate.
A retainer provides advisory capacity, not unlimited implementation labor or a promise that every production decision is approved by Vyer.Net. Internal owners retain change authority and accountability.
The initial term is three months with weekly advisory syncs and agreed response boundaries. Work is prioritized from the shared backlog; urgent incident response, extensive hands-on engineering, and formal audit opinions require separate scope.
Each cycle leaves behind decisions and reusable guidance rather than only meeting notes.
A retainer can be paired with focused work when a decision needs deeper analysis:
A project answers a defined question in a fixed window. A retainer reserves recurring advisory capacity so new architecture and delivery decisions can be reviewed as they arise, with a shared backlog and agreed working cadence.
The retainer can include selected design or code-review guidance when that is the highest-leverage use of the reserved capacity. It is not an unlimited code-review service; the review boundary and turnaround expectation are agreed with the team.
The client’s engineering and product owners retain decision authority. Vyer.Net explains risk, options, and verification steps, while the organization accepts or mitigates risk within its own operating model.
The published starting structure is a three-month initial term. The cadence and priorities are set during intake, then revisited as the architecture backlog and business needs change.