Recurring security design guidance for engineering teams, including scoped technical task-order support, documented decisions, and implementation handoffs for both commercial delivery and government programs.
Commercial engineering teams and agency or prime-contractor program teams needing recurring architecture decisions, technical task-order support, and clear handoffs.
3-month initial term
$3,500/month
Published price is a commercial starting estimate, not a Schedule rate. Government work requires a separately negotiated SOW or task-order scope and price.
Government or federal contracting work is scoped and priced separately through a negotiated statement of work or task order; published prices are not Schedule rates.
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.
For government programs, recurring technical task-order design support can be bounded by named systems, decision forums, design artifacts, roles and access, response windows, acceptance evidence, and handoff. The scope and price are negotiated separately; commercial estimates are not government rates.
The initial term is three months with weekly syncs and agreed response boundaries. Government task-order support separately defines systems, roles and access, deliverables, acceptance evidence, and handoff; commercial estimates do not set task-order rates.
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 commercial term. Government task-order scope, cadence, design artifacts, roles and access, acceptance evidence, and pricing are negotiated separately.