The virtual cybersecurity department for startups.
Replace your compliance tool, fractional CISO, and patchwork in between.
Humans, powered by AI.
Sargam Bansal, Co-Founder & CEO
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Replace your compliance tool, fractional CISO, and patchwork in between.
Most founders learn about a gap when a prospect asks a question they can't answer. Katla Pulse flips that — it monitors your real environment every day, scores it across seven security domains, and tells you the three things worth fixing this week. Not a questionnaire. Not a certificate. The actual state of your security, this morning.
01 / 04 · Dashboard — Three live scores across Security Health, Audit Readiness, and Breach Resilience. Updated every morning.
Security Health, Audit Readiness, Breach Resilience. Read from your real environment every 24 hours.
Every gap is a specific user, device, or resource. What the risk is, what the worst case looks like, the one move that closes it.
Upload the security review blocking your deal. Answered from live signal, not guesswork. 48-hour turnaround.
Most security vendors sell one of these. Founders are left to assemble the rest.
Security strategy, policies, risk management, board and investor reporting.
Application security, infrastructure security, secure architecture, working alongside developers.
24/7 monitoring, endpoint protection, incident response, threat detection.
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS. Audit management. Evidence collection. Auditor liaison.
Customer security questionnaires. RFP and contract review. Customer security calls. Sales enablement.
Business continuity, disaster recovery, tabletop exercises, incident response playbooks.
Cyber threat intelligence, regulatory monitoring, vendor and third-party risk.
Building all seven in-house takes years and millions.
SOC 2 is a driver's license. It proves you passed a test once. It doesn't make you a safe driver. BlackKatla is the safe-driving program — and SOC 2 is just one of the licenses we help you get along the way.
A CISO earns $300,000–$500,000 per year before equity. That's the salary alone — before tools, before team, before the two years it takes to build a real program. BlackKatla is the full department, running from week one, at $144,000 per year.
From $12,000/month · Scope-dependent · Schedule a call for details.
Most engagements begin within two weeks of kickoff.
Most startups face two real alternatives. Here's how each compares.
Most security programs take years to build because nobody owns the outcome. We do. From day one, Katla Pulse is live in your environment — reading your posture, surfacing findings, answering questionnaires. The 90 days are how we build the program around it.
Katla Pulse connects to your identity, endpoint, and cloud infrastructure. Early in week one you have a live security score. We name every gap, rank it by impact, and tell you which ones will kill a deal or an audit.
Policies written to match your actual controls. Governance backbone in place. SOC 2 (or HIPAA, or PCI-DSS — whichever applies) scoped and the audit timeline set. Your vCISO is your named security leader from this point forward.
Huntress EDR deployed across your fleet. Cloud baselines set. Identities secured. Evidence collection running automatically. Katla Pulse scores moving.
Tabletop exercise. Full audit-readiness review. Every control tested. Every evidence request answered. By week 12 you're ready for a SOC 2 audit, an enterprise security review, or a Series B due diligence — whichever comes first.
24/7 monitoring runs from week one. The department doesn't stop when the audit does.
BlackKatla is named for Iceland's most feared subglacial volcano — dormant beneath ice, overdue, catastrophically powerful when it moves. In security, the breach that destroys companies is never the one you expected. It's the one building silently for years. We are the team that sees what's building before it surfaces.
Whether you're staring down a SOC 2 deadline, prepping for a Series B, or just got a 200-question security questionnaire from a prospect — tell us what's pressing. We'll give you a direct answer.
We'll respond personally within 4 hours.