Dedicated cybersecurity team.
Security engineers, penetration testers and DevSecOps engineers work only on your product, as a dedicated cybersecurity team. Azendo employs, trains and manages them from its own offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand. They work in your code, your pipeline and your cloud accounts, under your access rules. You decide what gets protected first.
What you get and what you pay.
With offshore staffing or staff augmentation, the provider finds a security engineer and the managing is left to you. We do it as a full service. The security engineers are ours: we employ them, assign them to you full time, give them an office and equipment, train and coach them, and run delivery with you every week.
Price examples
Mid-level, full time, everything below included. Junior and senior levels are priced in your proposal. All 27 things included ››
- Security engineer From USD 4,000 per month
- Penetration tester From USD 3,600 per month
- DevSecOps engineer From USD 3,900 per month
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Service
We manage and develop the team
- A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery
- A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
- Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
- A Talent Success Manager for every specialist
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HR
We are the employer
- Recruitment and technical assessment
- Employment contracts
- Salary and payroll
- Tax and social security
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Facilitation
We provide the workplace
- A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
- A Workplace Experience Manager on site
- Team events through the year
- IT support
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Equipment
We supply the tools
- Laptop and hardware
- Software licences
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Device security and management
One monthly fee. Everything around the security engineer is in it.
You agree a monthly capacity in hours with us. The fee covers the security engineer's salary and every layer around it: the service delivery manager who runs the team, training and development, the workplace, the equipment and the HR behind the employment. It is the same amount every month.
- One agreement and one invoice, with no upfront fee or management surcharge
- Holidays are already priced in, so April and May cost the same
- Capacity moves up or down at the next monthly cycle
Your cybersecurity team, tailored down to every detail.
We select every person for your stack, your product and the way your team works. When the right security engineers are not already with us, we headhunt them and test them ourselves before you meet them.
- Roles and seniority
- Stack and domain
- Way of working
- Capacity and start date
- 25 Week 1 Sourcing Headhunted for your brief
- 12 Week 2 AI processing and screening Matched to your stack
- 5 Week 3 Technical testing Pass technical testing
- 1 Week 4 Mindset, culture and logic Proposed to you
Any role your roadmap needs.
These four are the cybersecurity roles with their own pages. Beyond them we assign specialists across eleven disciplines, on the same agreement and with the same service delivery manager.
What a dedicated cybersecurity team works on.
Companies hire security engineers when security becomes part of what their customers buy: enterprise deals ask for evidence, audits ask for controls and test reports ask for fixes. Offshore cybersecurity often means a vendor that scans once a year and sends a report. A dedicated security engineering team stays. The engineers we assign work in your sprints, review pull requests, run authorised tests against an agreed scope and fix what they find together with your own engineers. You keep the decisions and the code, and we look after the people, their training and the weekly reporting.
- Application securitySecure code review, dependency checks and fixes for the OWASP Top 10 risks in your codebase.
- Penetration testingAuthorised testing of your web app, APIs and infrastructure, within a scope agreed in writing.
- Security in the pipelineStatic analysis, dependency and container scans on every merge, with clear rules on what blocks a release.
- Cloud and identity securityLeast-privilege access, network rules and configuration reviews in your AWS, Azure or GCP accounts.
- Secrets managementKeys and credentials moved out of code and config into a vault, with rotation you can audit.
- Threat modelling and audit groundworkDesign reviews before code is written, and the controls and evidence your auditors and customers ask to see.
Stacks we work in
- OWASP Top 10
- Burp Suite
- OWASP ZAP
- Semgrep
- Snyk
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Trivy
- HashiCorp Vault
- Terraform
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- IAM
Matched to what you run today, agreed at scoping.
What a dedicated cybersecurity team is.
A dedicated cybersecurity team is a group of security engineers who work on one company's product, full time: secure design, code review, authorised testing and the security of the pipeline and cloud it runs on. They find weaknesses before attackers do and fix them with your own engineers. Azendo employs the team and runs delivery with you.
Where it pays off most
It pays off when security work keeps losing to feature work: a customer security questionnaire that takes weeks to answer, an audit on the horizon, findings from the last penetration test still open, or access rights that haven't been reviewed in a year. The same engineers stay with your product, so each fix builds on what they learned from the last one.
Who is on the team
- Security engineerSecure design, code review and fixes
- Penetration testerAuthorised testing of apps and APIs
- DevSecOps engineerSecurity checks inside your pipeline
- Cloud security engineerIdentity, network and cloud configuration
- Service delivery managerRuns the team on our side and answers for delivery
- Talent Success managerFor every specialist: a development plan and coaching every month
- Your product ownerSets the priorities and accepts the work
Other ways to build a cybersecurity team, compared.
| Dedicated team, Azendo | Staff augmentation | Project outsourcing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Agreed monthly capacity from people who work only on your product | A person's hours, billed by the hour or the month | A defined scope, at a fixed price or on time and materials |
| Who manages the work | A service delivery manager, with you setting the priorities | You do, day to day: Azendo's estimate is four to eight hours a week per specialist | The vendor's project manager |
| Who answers for delivery | Azendo, every week | You do | The vendor, against the agreed scope |
| How long people stay | On your product, and with Azendo for 3.3 years on average | Until the contract ends | Until the project is handed over |
| Best fit | A product that keeps growing, with a roadmap that runs for years | A short gap in a team you already run | One project with a clear end |
"We don't hand you a security engineer and step back. We build the team around your product, and we stay in it every week."
Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder
Questions about a dedicated cybersecurity team.
What does a dedicated cybersecurity team do?
It builds security into one product full time: secure design and code review, authorised penetration testing, security checks in your pipeline and the configuration of your cloud accounts. With Azendo the security engineers are ours, managed from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and they work inside your sprints.
Do you monitor our systems around the clock?
No. The team works its agreed hours and shares several working hours with you every day. It builds the logging, alerts and runbooks your on-call setup relies on, and fixes the weaknesses behind incidents. Round-the-clock monitoring stays with your on-call rota or a monitoring provider, and our engineers make sure its alerts point at real problems.
How much does it cost to hire security engineers this way?
Security engineers start from USD 4,000 per month at mid-level, full time, penetration testers from USD 3,600, and DevSecOps and cloud security engineers from USD 3,900. The fee covers the engineer and everything around them: delivery management, a Talent Success Manager and training, the office and equipment, HR and payroll. See how the monthly fee is built.
How do you run penetration tests safely?
Every test runs against a scope you approve in writing: which systems, which methods, which hours and who to call if something looks wrong. Tests that touch production are planned with your team. Findings arrive with steps to reproduce, a severity and a suggested fix, and each one is retested once the fix ships.
Will the team have access to our production systems?
Only the access you grant. The engineers work in your accounts under your identity and access rules, with least-privilege roles you can review and revoke at any time. Our managers stay out of your systems and follow delivery through tracked hours, weekly reports and your delivery score.
Can the team help us prepare for a security audit?
Yes, with the engineering side of it: the access reviews, logging, encryption, vulnerability management and change controls an auditor asks to see, and the evidence that they run. The audit and any certificate come from an accredited auditor, and your own team owns the policies.
Can security engineers work alongside other teams from Azendo?
Yes. Security and a dedicated cloud and DevOps team can run under one agreement, in the same sprints and with the same service delivery manager. A finding then reaches the engineer who can fix it the same day.
Disciplines that join a cybersecurity team.
Each discipline joins under the same agreement, works in the same sprints and reports to the same service delivery manager. You add one at the next monthly cycle, when the roadmap calls for it.