Cybersecurity Consulting
StepTo helps companies protect their applications, infrastructure, and customer data with proactive security auditing, penetration testing, and hands-on remediation. Our nearshore security engineers in Belgrade, Serbia work in your timezone (CET) at 40-60% below typical Western European and US rates. The difference from a pure advisory firm: we are engineers, so we do not just find vulnerabilities — we fix them and build the automated guardrails that keep them from coming back.
Our Cybersecurity Solutions
- Security audits & penetration testing — code review against the OWASP Top 10, dependency scanning, and testing of the running application, with a prioritised report.
- Cloud & infrastructure security — IAM hardening, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and policy-as-code across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Secure development & remediation — fixing vulnerabilities, implementing OAuth 2.0 / OIDC auth, and adding security checks to your CI/CD pipeline.
- Compliance enablement — closing technical gaps for GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, with demonstrable engineering evidence.
- Incident response & recovery — containment, root-cause analysis, recovery, and post-incident hardening, on retainer or on demand.
How We Work
- Assess — review the application, infrastructure, and threat model to find where real risk lives.
- Prioritise — rank findings by severity and exploitability so effort goes where it matters first.
- Remediate — fix and verify issues hands-on, not just document them.
- Prevent — add automated scanning, secure defaults, and monitoring so the system stays secure as it changes.
Why StepTo
- Certified security engineers who remediate, not just advise.
- Real-world threat experience across fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce.
- Coverage from application code to cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- CET-timezone collaboration for fast response during high-stakes situations.
- 40-60% cost savings versus Western European and US firms at equivalent seniority.
FAQ: Cybersecurity
- What does a security audit with StepTo actually cover?
- A typical engagement combines several layers: a code-level review against the OWASP Top 10, dependency and supply-chain scanning, authentication and authorization review, cloud configuration review (IAM, network, storage), and penetration testing of the running application. You receive a prioritised report that rates each finding by severity and exploitability, with concrete remediation steps — and, because we are engineers first, we can implement the fixes, not just hand you a list.
- Do you do hands-on remediation or just advisory?
- Both. Many security consultancies stop at the report. We can take findings through to fixed-and-verified, because the same senior engineers who find the issues can implement secure authentication, patch vulnerable code paths, harden infrastructure, and add the automated checks that prevent regressions. This is a major advantage when your internal team is already stretched.
- Can you help us prepare for SOC 2, GDPR, or HIPAA?
- Yes. We map your application and infrastructure to the relevant controls — access management, encryption, logging and monitoring, data handling, and incident response — and close the technical gaps. We work alongside your compliance or auditor of record to make sure the engineering evidence (configurations, policies-as-code, audit logs) is in place and demonstrable when the audit happens.
- How do you secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure?
- We apply least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, encryption in transit and at rest, centralised logging and alerting, secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code so security configuration is version-controlled and reviewable. For hybrid and legacy environments we secure the connective tissue — VPNs, API gateways, and identity federation — which is where a lot of real-world risk actually lives.
- Can you respond to an active incident or breach?
- We offer both proactive retainers and incident support. In an active incident we help contain the threat, preserve evidence, identify the entry point and blast radius, and drive recovery, then run a blameless post-incident review and harden the system against recurrence. Setting up a relationship before an incident makes response dramatically faster — but we can engage during one as well.
- How much does cybersecurity consulting cost?
- Because our certified security engineers are based in Serbia, you get senior expertise at 40-60% below comparable Western European and US rates. A point-in-time audit and penetration test is usually a fixed-scope engagement, while ongoing secure-development or retainer support is commonly delivered through a dedicated team from $15K-25K/month for three engineers. We scope after an initial review of your stack and risk profile.