Proof demanded before scale
A young FinTech is asked to prove its security long before it can spare anyone to prove it. Enterprise customers wanted assurance over Pactio’s controls before they would sign, transatlantic deals expected SOC 2, and investors were running their own diligence on top. Three kinds of scrutiny arrived at once, at a company whose engineers were needed on the product.
One backlog, ordered by risk
CyPro started by establishing what was actually true. A senior consultant assessed the controls as they stood, then placed every gap into a single backlog ranked by the harm it could cause rather than the clause it offended. Remediation worked down that list, worst first, so exposure fell fastest where it mattered most. Evidence of each fix was captured once and mapped to both frameworks, which is what allowed ISO 27001 and SOC 2 to be pursued in parallel rather than as two separate programmes. Both landed within seven months, and Pactio’s overall cyber risk came down along the way.
Why prioritisation is the whole game
This is the discipline our scanning service is built around. A scan can return hundreds of findings, and on its own that list slows a team down as often as it speeds one up. The value sits in a practitioner deciding which findings are genuinely exploitable, which ones an auditor will ask about, and which can safely wait, then handing over a short queue worth acting on. Pactio’s engagement was a broader security programme, but the mechanism that made it work, one risk-ranked backlog serving several demanding audiences at once, is exactly what a well-run vulnerability programme should give you every month.
