B2B software companies
Practical security questions for teams without an internal security department.
Answer security questionnaires with proof, not promises.
Cybersecurity Assessments for Small Software and SaaS Companies
Your customers depend on your software. Their security questions deserve documented answers. Understand the controls protecting your application, cloud environment, and customer data—and identify the gaps that matter before a customer review or procurement deadline.
Who this is for
Small teams building software for other businesses.
For small B2B software companies, SaaS providers, records-management and workflow vendors, and teams handling sensitive customer or personal information.
SaaS providers
Practical security questions for teams without an internal security department.
Records-management and workflow vendors
Practical security questions for teams without an internal security department.
Questions your customers may ask
Turn security questions into an evidence plan.
Who can access production systems and customer data?
How are privileged accounts protected?
How is customer access separated and controlled?
How are software changes reviewed and released?
How are vulnerabilities identified and addressed?
What evidence supports backup and recovery readiness?
How are incidents and relevant suppliers managed?
Where to look
Assess the product environment and the business behind it.
Corporate accounts, development systems, production infrastructure, and customer-facing applications can present different risks. Detailed source-code review, penetration testing, and extensive architecture testing require an expressly agreed scope.
Customer security questionnaires
Customers may ask who can access production, how privileged accounts are protected, and what evidence supports your answers. A defined review helps separate documented controls from assumptions.
Cloud and production access
Corporate accounts, development systems, production infrastructure, and customer-facing applications can present different risks. Review the identities, permissions, and boundaries connecting them.
Development and release practices
Code repositories, CI/CD systems, secrets, dependencies, and release approvals influence how changes reach customers. The right scope examines the practices that matter to your environment.
Customer data boundaries
Understand which roles, services, and support workflows can reach customer information, and how access is reviewed, logged, and removed.
Recovery and incident readiness
Customers and leadership may need evidence of backups, restore testing, monitoring, incident response, and supplier management.
Procurement and vendor onboarding
An independent assessment can support a procurement response when the requesting organization accepts the agreed scope and report.
Before you buy a review, clarify what your customer actually requested, the scope, and who will accept the deliverable.
Choose a starting point
Match the review to the question.
Free Exposure Review: publicly observable exposure.
Business Security Baseline: essential business controls within its existing published scope.
Independent Security Review: a defined review shaped around specified systems and customer or procurement requirements.
Explore Independent Security ReviewsOngoing staff practice
Test the sign-in and sharing requests your team receives.
The Managed Human-Risk Program can use controlled source-repository invitation, cloud sign-in, and customer-support impersonation lures. Combine monthly or quarterly simulations with auto-assigned micro-learning, per-user dashboard trends, and quarterly readouts. Use participation records to describe the training your team completed.
Scope a managed program for your software teamNeed a broader SaaS or procurement-specific review?
The Business Security Baseline is intentionally limited to its published scope. Visitors with customer-specific requirements can discuss an independent review instead.