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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 Market Leading Technology Companies

GUARD is a proprietary cybersecurity maturity model developed by Workstreet

THE CHALLENGE

Why Traditional Security Security Frameworks Fail Modern Companies

Trust has never been more dynamic than it is today. Leading Companies require a purpose built approach beyond a one-size-fits-all compliance program.

Blind Spots Are Inevitable

Most organizations don't know what they don't know leaving critical vulnerabilities undiscovered until it's too late.

Security Complexity Overwhelms

The rapidly evolving threat landscape and regulatory environment create a challenging maze for companies to navigate effectively.

Requirements Change With Growth

What works for a startup fails for scale-ups, and enterprise solutions crush smaller companies—security needs fundamentally transform at each business stage.

The Guard Advantage

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

Anticipatory Security

We look around the corner for emerging threats and regulatory changes ensuring your security posture addresses tomorrow's challenges, not just today's requirements.

Expertise Across the Growth Spectrum

Our framework scales with your evolution. We provide specialized guidance with cutting-edge expertise in AI governance and emerging technologies.

Optimized ROI at Every Stage

We implement precisely what you need when you need it delivering measurable business value through accelerated market access, reduced overhead, and security investments that directly support growth objectives.

THE MATURITY JOURNEY

Our Security Maturity Framework for Modern Companies

GUIDE: Compliance Foundations

Establish minimum viable security controls anchored in compliance requirements. We solve your blind spots with project-based security essentials for first SOC 2 certification and enterprise questionnaires—making complex security requirements manageable for resource-constrained teams.

UPHOLD: Security Process Development

Transform project-based security into a formal program with continuous monitoring and regular testing. We navigate growing complexity through operational security processes with dedicated oversight creating stability as your security requirements multiply with scale.

ALIGN: Business Integration

Embed security across business processes and development lifecycles with cross-functional accountability. We help you adapt security to your unique growth stage by implementing risk-based approaches that inform executive decisions turning security from a cost center into a business enabler.

REINFORCE: Advanced Risk Management

Implement sophisticated quantitative risk analysis with specialized controls for emerging threats including AI governance. We provide stage-appropriate expertise to address complex security challenges bringing advanced capabilities precisely when your organization needs them.

DRIVE: Strategic Advantage

Position security as a strategic differentiator that drives business value through customer trust. We optimize your security ROI through autonomous capabilities and predictive threat detection—transforming security from a requirement into a competitive advantage that opens 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

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