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Small business and startups

A governed security team for companies that cannot staff a round-the-clock SOC.

Give a small team round-the-clock triage, SOC 2 and cyber-insurance evidence, and safer AI use, on the hardware they already have or through an MSSP.

Sector problems

What this environment has to get right

  • Attacks arrive at night and on weekends, and there is no budget for a 24/7 SOC.
  • Endpoint, email, cloud, and logs live in different consoles.
  • SOC 2, cyber-insurance questionnaires, and customer security reviews land on founders and IT generalists.
  • Staff use public AI tools and paste customer data into prompts.

Regulations and frameworks

How AI SOAR supports the evidence, not the determination

Mappings help you collect and organize evidence. An assessor, examiner, auditor, or authorizing official still decides whether the obligation is met. The platform does not certify an organization or file a regulatory notice.

FrameworkWhat it asks forHow the platform helps
FTC Safeguards RuleOfficial source ↗Non-bank financial firms, such as certain lenders, tax preparers, and dealers, keep a written security program and notify the FTC of qualifying breaches.Policy drafts, control evidence, and incident timelines support the written program. People still make notifications.
State privacy lawsOfficial source ↗State laws, including California's privacy rules, expect businesses to protect consumer data and, on published timelines, to address automated decision-making.Policy and AI governance records document the controls and the approved uses.
PCI DSSOfficial source ↗Anyone who stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data protects it under the current PCI DSS.Assessment, code and application testing, and log workflows map findings to the requirements in scope.
SOC 2Official source ↗B2B software and service companies show controls to customers and auditors.Evidence is collected across the audit period. Policy and narrative drafts wait for a founder or officer to approve them. The auditor issues the report.
CMMC Level 1Official source ↗DoD suppliers that handle federal contract information meet the basic safeguarding requirements in FAR 52.204-21 and can support a self-assessment.CMMC preparation collects the evidence for the in-scope requirements. It does not certify the company.
Cyber-insurance questionnairesInsurers ask for evidence of MFA, endpoint coverage, backups, and incident-response testing.Identity checks, endpoint coverage, and a tabletop exercise feed a report the owner reviews before it goes to the broker.

Typical workflows

Illustrative missions, with a person still in control

These workflows show how documented capabilities apply. They are not customer case studies, and they do not describe a guaranteed outcome.

A weekend phishing compromise

Problem
On a Saturday, an employee enters credentials into a phishing page and the attacker signs in from another country.
What the platform does
Email security flags the message, identity detection flags the impossible travel, and Autonomous SOC prepares a session revoke and password reset.
Human approval
The owner or on-call contact approves the account change.
Evidence
An incident timeline and an action audit for the insurer or the customer.

A first SOC 2 audit

Problem
The first enterprise customer requires SOC 2, and there is no compliance staff.
What the platform does
Controls are mapped to the Trust Services Criteria and evidence is collected through the period. Policy drafts, including an AI use policy, wait for approval.
Human approval
Founders approve every policy and narrative.
Evidence
Control mappings, approved policies, and the evidence the auditor asked to see.

A cyber-insurance renewal

Problem
The questionnaire asks about MFA, endpoint coverage, backups, and whether the incident plan has been tested.
What the platform does
Identity checks, endpoint coverage, and a tabletop are assembled into one report.
Human approval
The owner reviews the report before it is sent to the broker.
Evidence
A report tied to the checks that were run, rather than unchecked yes-or-no answers.

Agent roles and workflows

Autonomous SOC · email security · identity threat detection · SOC 2 evidence · policy drafting

Select the installed agents and test their models, tools, permissions, and connectors before authorizing the mission. The available catalog depends on your deployment and release.

Agent verification and testing →

Requirements in context

FTC Safeguards Rule · SOC 2 · PCI DSS · CMMC Level 1 where applicable · state privacy laws

Set applicability for your assets, jurisdictions, and system boundaries. Connect control owners, current policies, technical tests, exceptions, and review decisions.

Explore regulatory evidence workflows →

A practical route from scope to evidence

  1. 01

    Scope and connect

    Define the customer profile, authorized assets, and responsible owners. A governed security team for companies that cannot staff a round-the-clock SOC.

  2. 02

    Test and investigate

    Use Autonomous SOC, email security, identity threat detection workflows with approved credentials and mission limits. Preserve source evidence and failures alongside findings.

  3. 03

    Remediate and verify

    Assign corrective work, obtain approvals, capture changes, and retest. Export the evidence, exceptions, and status history for business owners and assessors.

Questions for this sector

Answers you can take to a scoping call

Can a small business get round-the-clock monitoring without hiring a SOC?+

Yes. Autonomous SOC triages, investigates, and prepares response at all hours. High-impact actions wait for someone on your team, or for the MSSP operating the tenant, to approve them.

What does a small deployment look like?+

The same platform can run on a single server for a pilot or a small team and can grow as you add compute. There is no separate product for small business. Exact sizing depends on the models, tools, and retention you select.

Does it help a startup reach SOC 2?+

It maps controls to the Trust Services Criteria and collects evidence across the audit period. Your auditor issues the report. Draft policies stay pending until a person approves them.

Can we keep the EDR and email tools we already pay for?+

Yes. Endpoint and email connectors cover common platforms such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Wazuh, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, where those connectors are enabled. Open-source detection tools can cover a smaller network.

Does it replace the person who approves a payment or a password reset?+

No. It prepares the action and the evidence. A person approves high-impact changes.