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Bastion

Eliminate security vulnerabilities before enterprise audits block sales

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Enterprise engineering teams lose months of deal cycles and pay up to $50k per manual penetration test, only to receive 100-page PDF reports that languish in Jira as unprioritized backlog noise.

Bastion automates continuous red-teaming across cloud environments and translates exploit vectors directly into safe, auto-verified GitHub Pull Requests. By safely simulating multi-stage attack paths in isolated staging sandboxes, Bastion proves exploitability before alerting engineering teams. This slashes remediation times from 45 days down to 15 minutes while automatically generating audit-ready compliance evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Bastion transforms application security from an expensive annual compliance bottleneck into an automated continuous deployment guardrail for high-growth software companies.

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Problem
  • When I prepare for SOC 2 Type II or enterprise sales audits, I want to complete mandated penetration testing, but third-party security firms cost $30k+ per audit and take 6 weeks to deliver static PDF reports.
  • Why Now: Enterprise buyers increasingly mandate continuous penetration testing and automated vulnerability verification before signing 6-figure software contracts.
  • When I triage automated scanner alerts, I want to fix critical vulnerabilities, but 85% of scanner findings are non-exploitable false positives that waste 20+ engineering hours weekly.
  • When I receive security audit findings, I want to patch backend code quickly, but developers lack the specialized security context required to write custom exploit remediations.
  • Existing Alternatives: Legacy static scanners like Snyk and Veracode, boutique human pentesting agencies, and manual Jira spreadsheet tracking.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Autonomous continuous red-teaming for cloud-native software teams.
  • Continuous staging penetration engine that simulates live multi-step attack vectors without impacting production availability.
  • Contextual pull-request generator that crafts automated code patches and verifies fixes in ephemeral CI/CD pipelines.
  • Real-time compliance dashboard that converts verified fixes directly into audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Series A to Series C B2B SaaS VPs of Engineering needing SOC 2 pentest reports to close enterprise deals.
  • Direct outbound targeting of DevSecOps leaders on LinkedIn facing immediate SOC 2 audit deadlines.
  • Technical co-marketing partnerships with compliance automation platforms like Vanta, Secureframe, and Drata.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free Tier (Static Repo Scan & 1 Staging Pentest)
  • Developer ($1k/mo for continuous staging audits)
  • Enterprise ($3.5k/mo for custom sandbox exploits, SOC 2 reporting, and dedicated SLA).
  • One Metric That Matters [OMTM]: Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR) verified critical vulnerabilities.
  • Market Sizing: 15k mid-market B2B SaaS startups in US/EU requiring yearly pentests; targeting 2% year 1 penetration at $24k ARR yields $7.2M Year 1 ARR.
Scale Costs
  • Isolated cloud sandbox container infrastructure for running safely isolated live attack payload simulations.
  • Proprietary database of zero-day attack payloads and continuous CVE exploit proof updates.
  • SOC 2 Type II compliance audits and enterprise cyber insurance underwriting for automated fix safety guarantees.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.5
  • world-class CISO and Cyber Enterprise Architect with $100M+ ARR experience
    9.5
  • world-renowned DevSecOps Lead and VP of Engineering
    9.8
  • leading SaaS Growth Investor and Enterprise Security Scout
    9.2
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