Dedicated cybersecurity team.
Offshore security engineers, penetration testers and DevSecOps engineers work only on your product, as a dedicated cybersecurity team. Azendo assesses and employs every one of them, and they work from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand. They work in your code, your pipeline and your cloud accounts, under your access rules. You decide what gets protected first.
What you get and what you pay.
With offshore staffing or staff augmentation, a security engineer joins your team and every question of management, coaching and growth comes to you. We take those on. We employ the engineers we assign, house them in our offices and keep their training current, and a service delivery manager checks in with you on delivery every two weeks.
Price examples
Junior level, full time, everything below included. Mid-level and senior levels are priced in your proposal. All 27 things included ››
- Security engineer From USD 3,100 per month
- Penetration tester From USD 2,700 per month
- DevSecOps engineer From USD 2,400 per month
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Service
We manage and develop the team
- A service delivery manager who oversees operations and delivery
- A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks
- Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports
- A Talent Success Manager for every team member
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HR
We are the employer
- Recruitment and technical assessment
- Employment contracts
- Salary and payroll
- Tax and social security
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Facilitation
We provide the workplace
- A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok
- A Workplace Experience Manager on site
- Team events through the year
- IT support
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Equipment
We supply the tools
- Laptop and hardware
- Software licences
- LinkedIn Learning access
- Device security and management
The monthly fee for a cybersecurity team.
You agree a monthly capacity in hours with us. The fee covers the security engineer's salary and every layer around it: the service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and development, the workplace, the equipment and the HR behind the employment. It is the same amount every month.
- One agreement and one invoice, with no upfront fee or management surcharge
- Holidays are already priced in, so April and May cost the same
- A capacity report every month, so you see the hours delivered
Hire security engineers we have tested first.
Every candidate goes through our assessment for the tools and clouds you run. We are just as strict on mindset and logical thinking, so very few security engineers get through.
- Roles and seniority
- Stack and domain
- Way of working
- Capacity and time to hire
Talk to our teamBook a scoping call - 25 Week 1 Sourcing Headhunted for your brief
- 12 Week 2 AI processing and screening Matched to your stack
- 5 Week 3 Technical testing Pass technical testing
- 1 Week 4 Mindset, culture and logic Proposed to you
Roles in a cybersecurity team.
Application, offensive, pipeline and cloud security each have a page below. DevOps and software engineers from our other service areas join when fixes need more hands.
What a dedicated cybersecurity team protects.
Companies hire security engineers when security becomes part of what their customers buy: enterprise deals ask for evidence, audits ask for controls and test reports ask for fixes. Offshore cybersecurity often means a vendor that scans once a year and sends a report. A dedicated security engineering team stays. The engineers we assign work in your sprints, review pull requests, run authorised tests against an agreed scope and fix what they find together with your own engineers. You keep the decisions and the code, and we look after the people, their training and the weekly reporting.
- Application securitySecure code review, dependency checks and fixes for the OWASP Top 10 risks in your codebase.
- Penetration testingAuthorised testing of your web app, APIs and infrastructure, within a scope agreed in writing.
- Security in the pipelineStatic analysis, dependency and container scans on every merge, with clear rules on what blocks a release.
- Cloud and identity securityLeast-privilege access, network rules and configuration reviews in your AWS, Azure or GCP accounts.
- Secrets managementKeys and credentials moved out of code and config into a vault, with rotation you can audit.
- Threat modelling and audit groundworkDesign reviews before code is written, and the controls and evidence your auditors and customers ask to see.
Stacks we work in
We hire for your stack and your clouds. With no bench to fill, the search follows what you need protected.
- OWASP Top 10
- Burp Suite
- OWASP ZAP
- Semgrep
- Snyk
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Trivy
- HashiCorp Vault
- Terraform
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- IAM
What a dedicated cybersecurity team is.
A dedicated cybersecurity team is a group of security engineers who work on one company's product, full time: secure design, code review, authorised testing and the security of the pipeline and cloud it runs on. They find weaknesses before attackers do and fix them with your own engineers. Azendo employs the team and runs delivery with you.
Where it pays off most
It pays off when security work keeps losing to feature work: a customer security questionnaire that takes weeks to answer, an audit on the horizon, findings from the last penetration test still open, or access rights that haven't been reviewed in a year. The same engineers stay with your product, so each fix builds on what they learned from the last one.
Who is on the team
- Security engineerSecure design, code review and fixes
- Penetration testerAuthorised testing of apps and APIs
- DevSecOps engineerSecurity checks inside your pipeline
- Cloud security engineerIdentity, network and cloud configuration
- Service delivery managerOversees delivery on our side and reviews it with you every two weeks
- Talent Success managerFor every specialist: a quarterly development plan and coaching tailored to it
- Your product ownerSets the priorities and accepts the work
Other ways to build a cybersecurity team, compared.
| Dedicated team, Azendo | Staff augmentation | Project outsourcing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Agreed monthly capacity from people who work only on your product | A person's hours, billed by the hour or the month | A defined scope, at a fixed price or on time and materials |
| Who manages the team | Azendo, day to day, with you setting the priorities | You do, day to day: Azendo's estimate is four to eight hours a week per specialist | The vendor's project manager |
| Who answers for delivery | Azendo, scored by you every Friday | You do | The vendor, against the agreed scope |
| How long people stay | On your product, and with Azendo for 3.3 years on average | Until the contract ends | Until the project is handed over |
| Best fit | A product that needs security work in every sprint | A short gap in a team you already run | One project with a clear end |
Try us, at zero risk.
- No deposit
- No upfront fee
- No commitment
We agree a time to hire with you. If we can't find the right people for your team within it, you walk away with no commitment and nothing to pay.
Get in touch"We are 100% committed in a partnership. We go above and beyond, which is why we can say that it is truly a managed service we offer."
Mikkel Schmidt, CEO and founder
Questions about a dedicated cybersecurity team.
What does a dedicated cybersecurity team do?
It builds security into one product full time: secure design and code review, authorised penetration testing, security checks in your pipeline and the configuration of your cloud accounts. With Azendo the security engineers are ours, managed from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and they work inside your sprints.
Do you monitor our systems around the clock?
No. The team works its agreed hours and shares several working hours with you every day. It builds the logging, alerts and runbooks your on-call setup relies on, and fixes the weaknesses behind incidents. Round-the-clock monitoring stays with your on-call rota or a monitoring provider, and our engineers make sure its alerts point at real problems.
How much does it cost to hire security engineers this way?
Security engineers start from USD 3,100 per month at junior level, full time, penetration testers from USD 2,700, and DevSecOps and cloud security engineers from USD 2,400. Every security engineer comes with delivery management, a Talent Success Manager and training, a desk and equipment in our office, and HR and payroll, all inside the fee. See how the monthly fee is built.
How do you run penetration tests safely?
Every test runs against a scope you approve in writing: which systems, which methods, which hours and who to call if something looks wrong. Tests that touch production are planned with your team. Findings arrive with steps to reproduce, a severity and a suggested fix, and each one is retested once the fix ships.
Will the team have access to our production systems?
Only the access you grant. The engineers work in your accounts under your identity and access rules, with least-privilege roles you can review and revoke at any time. Azendo's managers follow delivery through tracked hours, your weekly score and a monthly report, and stay out of your systems.
Can the team help us prepare for a security audit?
Yes, with the engineering side of it: the access reviews, logging, encryption, vulnerability management and change controls an auditor asks to see, and the evidence that they run. The audit and any certificate come from an accredited auditor, and your own team owns the policies.
Can security engineers work alongside other teams from Azendo?
Yes. Security and a dedicated cloud and DevOps team can run under one agreement, in the same sprints and with the same service delivery manager. A finding then reaches the engineer who can fix it the same day.
Do the security engineers work remotely?
Yes, and access stays where you put it. The offshore security engineers are employed by us and work full time on your product, in your repositories, pipelines and cloud accounts under the access you grant. They are in our offices most of the week, with up to two days from home through a secure VPN.
Service areas that join a cybersecurity team.
Each role joins under the same agreement, works in the same sprints and reports to the same service delivery manager. You add one when your product calls for it.
Cybersecurity team Security Engineer, Penetration Tester, DevSecOps Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer. The core of the team. On the team 
Cloud and DevOps Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability Add to the team → 
Software development Web platforms, APIs and integrations Add to the team → 
QA and test automation Test strategy and automated coverage Add to the team → 
Mobile development Native and cross-platform apps Add to the team → Let's scope your cybersecurity team.
Thirty minutes with a service delivery manager. You leave with a clear picture of the team you would need, what it would deliver and how we would hire it in four weeks.
- No deposit and no upfront fee
- No commitment until the right people are on your team
- If we can't find them inside the agreed window, you walk away at no cost
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