Foundational Security for Startups With Enterprise Ambitions

A good early-stage security program comes down to having a handful of great security tools fully enforced: identity, endpoints, cloud, code and pipeline, observability, and resilience. Most teams go deep on one and leave the rest wide open, which is how they get breached while feeling secure.

In this fireside chat, Zip Security Co-Founder & CEO Josh Zweig and Patrick Farwick, Co-Founder of Amomitto Security, break down how to build a program that covers all six starting blocks without slowing your team down — where Zip automates and enforces identity, endpoints, and compliance, where a partner like Amomitto comes in (SIEM, incident response, cloud and application testing), and how getting that split right turns into fewer stalled deals the next time an enterprise prospect's security review lands on your desk.

What you'll take away

• Why SOC 2 and ISO point founders the right way but leave a real gap between passing an audit and being hard to breach
• The difference between a control that's documented and one that's actually enforced — and why half-rolled-out MFA and unread SIEM logs are the classic traps
• Why the boring fundamentals (MFA, SSO, device trust, identity hygiene) stop more real attacks than any hardened app
• How early architecture decisions on identity, devices, and cloud compound — and why standing them up at 10 people is far cheaper than retrofitting at 50
• How to build the 80% now and scale it at the right milestones, without tanking your team's velocity
• Where day-to-day management (patching, onboarding, offboarding, alert response) fits in — and where set-it-and-forget-it programs quietly fall apart