SOC operational · 24/7 coverage
Build · Defend · Operate

We ship software.
We hunt hackers.
Same team.

Kestrel is one team of engineers and security analysts. We ship your software with security built in, and watch it around the clock so threats meet a human, not a voicemail.

Built for lean teams in
FINTECHHEALTHSAASPUBLIC SECTOR
24/7
SOC coverage
12 min
Median triage
0
Security hires needed
SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001
Who it's for

You don't have a security team.
That's the point.

Most of the businesses we protect don't have a dedicated security person, and they shouldn't need one. You get a whole team that builds your software and watches your back, without hiring, training, or managing any of it.

Two disciplines, one team

Most vendors pick a side.
We own the seam.

The gap where software meets security is exactly where breaches live. So we own both sides of it.

01 / Build

AppEngineering

Product and platform teams that ship, with security wired in from the first commit.

  • Web, mobile & API apps, built to last
  • Built to run on the cloud (AWS · GCP · Azure)
  • Secure coding, reviewed line by line (Secure SDLC + CI/CD)
  • Old systems fixed or rebuilt (legacy rescue)
Explore App Engineering
02 / Defend

SecurityOperations

A managed SOC that watches, hunts, and responds, so a small team can defend like a big one.

  • Watched and defended around the clock (MDR)
  • Real people hunting threats, not just software
  • When you're hit, we take over (incident response)
  • Covers your logins, devices, and cloud
Explore Security Operations
Why Kestrel

We build software and hunt threats.
Nothing falls through the cracks.

Build and defend, together

The same people who ship your code are the ones watching it in production. Nothing slips through a handoff, because there isn't one.

One team
code to alert
Zero
vendor handoffs
See how the loop runs

Analyst-verified alerts

You won't babysit a wall of red dashboards. A real analyst reads every alert, cuts the noise, and hands you the few that actually matter.

12 min
signal to analyst
24/7
never a queue
Inside the SOC

Attacker's-eye view

We break what we build before an attacker can. You'd rather find the weak spot with us than find out the hard way.

Every release
pen-tested
OSCP · CRTO
certified team
How we test
How we operate

One loop,
from the first line of code
to the 3 a.m. alert.

Building and defending aren't two separate jobs. They're two halves of the same loop we run for you.

01

Map

We map what you run and where it's weak: what's exposed, what it depends on, and how much goes down if each piece fails.

02

Build

We ship product with security on by default: reviewed code, hardened pipelines, and the minimum access anything needs.

03

Watch

Your signals flow into our SOC, and we tune detection to your setup, not some off-the-shelf ruleset.

04

Respond

When it matters, humans act in minutes. Contain, eradicate, recover, then close the hole so it can't happen twice.

“We stopped choosing between shipping fast and staying safe. Kestrel's team writes our platform and watches it in production. Same people, same context. The night we got hit, a human was already on it before our on-call even paged.”
VP
VP of Engineering
Series C fintech · 4M end users
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Build with confidence. Sleep through the night.

Tell us what you're shipping and what you're worried about. We'll map the fastest path to both.