Cybersecurity Consulting
Cybersecurity consulting and secure software development: security audits, penetration testing, cloud and infrastructure security, and compliance.
Reviewed by Igor Gazivoda, Co-founder & CEO of StepTo · Updated
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. See our fintech compliance rebuild case study for a real example, recertified on schedule with reconciliation cut from days to hours.
What Cybersecurity Services Do We Provide?
- 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 Do We Work?
StepTo works in four stages: assess, prioritise, remediate, then prevent.
- 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 Choose StepTo?
StepTo is a Belgrade-based partner whose certified security engineers remediate findings hands-on rather than only advising, in CET hours, across application code, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.
- 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.
What Do Security Teams Ask Before Hiring Consultants?
Security teams typically ask what an audit covers, how findings are prioritised, whether the consultants fix issues or only report them, and how compliance evidence is produced.
- 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.