Built by engineers who
got tired of compliance theater.
We started HSD because we watched too many companies stuck in a broken model: hire a compliance consultant, get policies nobody reads, pay an auditor, panic when things fail, repeat. There had to be a better way. So we built one.
From frustrated engineers
to compliance company.
Our founding team spent years inside fast growing tech companies watching the same compliance struggles play out. Engineering pulled off product work to wrangle audits. Expensive consultants delivering reports nobody had bandwidth to act on. Security tools generating alerts that overwhelmed already stretched teams.
The compliance tooling market offered software that tracked controls and collected some evidence automatically. That helped, but solved maybe 30 percent of the actual problem. The other 70 percent . the hands on engineering work of implementing controls, fixing infrastructure gaps, writing meaningful policies, and coordinating with auditors . still fell on teams already at capacity.
We built HSD to close that 70 percent gap. Our model is simple. We bring the platform and the engineers. We handle the entire lifecycle so our clients never have to choose between shipping features and passing audits.
Principles
that show up in every engagement.
Ownership over output
We measure ourselves by outcomes, not deliverables. A gap report sitting in someone's inbox is not a result. A passed audit is. Every engagement is structured around the outcome a client needs.
Radical transparency
Our clients see the same dashboards we see. Every control status, every open finding, every remediation timeline. If something is behind, you will know the same day we do.
Engineer empathy
We are engineers ourselves. We know what a 200 page compliance mandate feels like when you have a launch next week. Our processes are built to minimize disruption to engineering velocity.
Pragmatic security
Perfect security does not exist. Appropriate security calibrated to your risk profile and business context absolutely does. We implement controls that fit where you are today.
Engineers first.
Always.
Sarthak K.
Founder & CEO
Former cloud security lead at a Fortune 500 consultancy. Personally designed compliance programs for 40+ organizations.
Vikram P.
Head of Engineering
Built and scaled platform engineering teams at two unicorn startups. Specializes in Kubernetes, CI/CD architecture, infra automation.
Ananya R.
Director of Compliance
Former Big Four auditor turned compliance engineer. Has led 80+ SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI engagements.
Dev M.
Head of Security
Offensive security specialist with red team experience for financial institutions. Leads our pentest practice and architecture reviews.
Certified across the stack.
Not LinkedIn decorations. These represent proven depth in the technologies and frameworks we deploy for clients every day.
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