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Beyond Compliance: The Answer to What’s Next for Your Security

The Workstreet GUARD Framework gives SaaS and AI companies a structured maturity roadmap to evolve from baseline compliance to security as a business differentiator.

Guide: Compliance Foundations

Uphold: Security Process Development

Align: Business Integration

Reinforce: Advanced Risk Management

Drive: Strategic Advantage

The Strategic Security Journey for SaaS and AI Companies

GUARD: A SaaS and AI native cybersecurity maturity model built for today's tech companies.

THE CHALLENGE

Why Traditional Security Frameworks Fail Modern SaaS Companies

Today's trust landscape requires a purpose-built approach beyond one-size-fits-all compliance written by accountants, auditors, and researchers.

Security ROI Uncertainty

SaaS leaders struggle to justify security investments beyond compliance when they can't clearly articulate how enhanced security translates to business value.

The “What’s next?” Problem

SOC 2 is table stakes. Yet after achieving SOC 2, companies lack a clear maturity pathway that aligns security investments with business growth stages, leaving companies without an answer for “what do I do next?”.

The AI Governance Gap

Go from zero to 3CPAO and start selling to the federal government and contractors in record time.

The GUARD Advantage: Security Evolution Aligned with Company Growth

A maturity framework built for how modern SaaS and AI-powered companies actually operate and scale.

Assessment & Planning

We start with your business so we know the “why”. We then evaluate your security posture and market requirements to develop a tailored roadmap.

AI-Powered Implementation

We execute a shared success plan based on your GUARD roadmap to implement stage and technology appropriate AI-powered security services.

Continuous Optimization

As you mature, and AI improves, we continuously update your dynamic roadmap and optimize security services and solutions to improve your posture.

THE MATURITY JOURNEY

Five Stages of SaaS Security Evolution

GUIDE: Compliance Foundations

Establishing minimum viable security controls anchored on compliance-driven security. Perfect for early-stage SaaS startups (Seed, 20-100 employees) pursuing first SOC 2 certification or responding to enterprise security questionnaires. Security is project-based rather than program-based with manual processes predominating.

UPHOLD: Security Process Development

Building operational security processes with regular testing, continuous monitoring, and formalized responsibilities. Ideal for growth-stage companies (Series A-B, 50-250 employees) with multiple compliance certifications serving enterprise customers. Security shifts from project-based to program-based with dedicated personnel and regular validation.

ALIGN: Business Integration

Security embedded in business processes and development lifecycles with a risk-based approach that informs executive decisions. For established SaaS enterprises (Series B-C, 250-1,000+ employees) operating in regulated industries where security champions exist across different business units and security is viewed as a competitive differentiator.

REINFORCE: Advanced Risk Management

Sophisticated quantitative risk analysis with specialized controls for specific threats including AI security governance. For large enterprise SaaS organizations with global presence where security is data-driven with threat intelligence informing strategy and machine learning applied to security operations.

DRIVE: Strategic Advantage

Security as a strategic differentiator that drives business value through customer trust and operational excellence. For market-leading platforms where security is a key brand attribute, with autonomous security capabilities, predictive threat detection, and security innovation driving new business opportunities.

What our customers say

"Can't say enough good things about Workstreet - they fully solved my security problems and a number of other security/compliance work that fell on me. At one point this stuff was my number one blocker and now I don't even think about it anymore."

Everett Berry

Head of GTM Engineering, Clay

"Besides doing the actual work, they provided great recommendations and advice when we had any questions. Working with them saved us a ton of time and eliminated any worries about whether we are doing this well. I'd partner with them again in a heartbeat."

Una Japundza

CRO, HeyTaco

"We've been consistently impressed by the expertise, responsiveness, and communication style of our vCISO... Having their support has definitely saved us time, but beyond that, it's also given us more confidence and peace-of-mind in how we navigate increasingly complex requirements."

Ari Bader-Natal

CTO, Sparkwise

"Workstreet's team has dramatically improve our team's compliance operations. From leading our work on GDPR and HITRUST, to managing one-off compliance requests, their team is knowledgeable and flexible, enabling us to quickly build critical security infrastructure as we have grown."

Benji Gellman

Chief of Staff, ReflexAI

"The speed with which we were able to get our engagement initial letter, the thoroughness with which we were able to figure out everywhere that we needed to patch any vulnerabilities and ensure our system was enterprise grade, and then the fast turnaround to get SOC 2 done, I think in like two weeks is what it was, was awesome."

Sahil Mansuri

Co-founder & CEO, Bravado

"Workstreet's security questionnaire help has been a game changer. Saved me a ton of time and I see the team taking on my slight feedback. Allows us to move 10x faster with security questionnaires."

Shreman Shrestha

Enterprise, Granola

"Our team has been really happy with the speed and responsiveness from you all. Several of our AEs have mentioned being extremely impressed relative to what they saw at their past companies. Excited to keep working together here."

Roman Ugarte

GTM Engineering, Cursor

Ready to Transform Security into a Growth Advantage

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