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Establish the baseline
Map the core product, assess the main repository, validate important findings, and retain one reviewed evidence record.
Security for growing companies
Run product security before you can staff every specialty.
ZeroQuarry gives founders, engineering leaders, and lean security teams a repeatable way to assess releases, absorb external reports, drive fixes, and answer customer security questions.
One product to a portfolioOne operating recordHuman control points
startup://security-baselineprocessing
REPOSITORYmain product
RELEASEcurrent build
PRESSUREfirst enterprise buyer
ZEROQUARRYLean security baselineCover the product before staffing every specialtyactive
PRIORITYtop product risk
FIXowner and patch
EVIDENCEbuyer-ready history
begin with one product boundary and expand as the company grows
Capabilities
Security that grows with the product
A team establishing its first baseline needs visibility. A team managing recurring delivery, inbound reports, and multiple product owners needs consistent execution and traceable evidence. The loop is the same; depth and governance increase with the work.
02
Put security into delivery
Add PR or scheduled coverage, route accepted findings into engineering, and operationalize external report intake.
03
Standardize decisions and evidence
Apply consistent lifecycle states, adversarial review, repository controls, retests, and asset-level assurance evidence.
04
Human authorization
Keep live-target authorization, accepted risk, external sharing, and production merge approval with accountable people.
05
Flexible model and data boundaries
Use account defaults, bring-your-own provider keys, private Git credentials, and enterprise deployment controls as requirements mature.
06
Evidence from the work
Let projects, audit history, finding decisions, and retests produce the record customers and auditors ask for later.
How it runs
The first four weeks
A practical sequence for a team standing up its first real security program.
Week 1
Create the product map and complete a source baseline on the highest-value service.
Week 2
Validate important findings, connect engineering handoff, and retest one fix.
Week 3
Add CI or a schedule to one repository and tune a practical gating policy.
Week 4
Assess a release artifact or staging target and prepare a reviewed evidence pack.
Outcomes
Coverage before you hire for it
A security story you can take to a buyer, built on work that is already happening.
Coverage without immediate headcount
Automate repeatable assessment and coordination while reserving human time for authorization, context, and risk decisions.
A buyer-ready security story
Show how software is tested, how findings are handled, and how fixes are verified. A scanner inventory cannot answer those questions.
A program that can mature
Start with one product loop and add controls, ownership, and evidence as the organization grows.
Evaluation FAQ
Questions from a team without a security leader
What this replaces, what it does not, and where to start if you are five people.
Does ZeroQuarry replace a security leader?
It automates substantial assessment and operations work, but it does not replace business accountability, live-testing authorization, risk ownership, or production change approval.
Where should a startup begin?
Begin with the repository containing the most important customer data or trust boundary. Complete the full loop from assessment to validated decision to one verified fix before expanding coverage.
Can this support customer security reviews?
Yes. Projects, reports, finding states, audit history, retests, and the Evidence Room make it easier to provide current, scoped assessment evidence.
Related workflows
First coverage
Stand up your first baseline
Run a first assessment this week and see your product the way an attacker would.