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.

Tune in to this fireside chat with Zip Security Co-Founder & CEO Josh Zweig and Patrick Farwick, Co-Founder of Amomitto Security, and walk away knowing exactly how experts develop a program that covers all six starting blocks without slowing your team down. You'll learn ease of deployment with Zip that automates and enforces your identity, endpoints, and compliance, where to bring in a partner like Amomitto (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.

We'll discuss

• Compliance is a solid starting point, but it's mostly operational. SOC 2 and ISO do a good job pointing founders the right way, but a lot of the controls are process and paperwork, and there's a real gap between passing an audit and being hard to breach.
• Documented vs. enforced. Compliance confirms a control exists on paper; enforcement is whether it's actually doing its job. Logging is the classic case: SOC 2 wants logs, so people stand up a SIEM nobody reads. Same with MFA that's half rolled out or device policy that only hits some of the laptops — a good place to get into where MDM and MDR/EDR really shine.
• The boring stuff is usually what actually saves you. MFA and SSO stop more real attacks than a hardened app ever will, and phishing is still the top way in, so device trust and identity hygiene beat training people.
• Early architecture decisions compound. Standing up MDM at 10 people instead of migrating at 50, getting AWS Organizations structured before it's a single-account mess to untangle. Same pattern across identity, devices, and cloud, where doing it early is way cheaper than later.
• Building the 80% now and scaling it when you actually need to. You cover most of your risk for a fraction of the effort if you size it to where you are and expand at the right milestones. Anything that tanks velocity gets ignored, so a lot of this is staying fast while you build.
• Where day-to-day management fits in. Once identity, devices, and endpoints are set up, someone still has to keep patching, onboarding, offboarding, and responding to alerts, and that ongoing operational layer is where a lot of set-it-and-forget-it programs quietly fall apart.