A Southern California cybersecurity consultancy for growing businesses. One monthly retainer. Real engineers. Total transparency on where every hour goes.
One flat monthly fee, sized to your stack and program. You decide how the hours are spent — advisory, configuration, compliance, or alert response — and unused hours roll over, so nothing goes to waste. You always see exactly how the time was used.
A no-cost intro call to learn your needs, budget, and goals — and for you to get a feel for us.
A scoping review of your tools, gaps, and goals. No guesswork, no generic checklist.
A flat monthly fee built around the hours and services your program actually needs.
Config, advisory, compliance, triage — handled async by email, calls when it helps.
A simple monthly statement: hours by category, what got done, what's left.
Think of us as your on-demand security team — there for any and all security needs, whether that's a little help for your in-house team or running the whole show. Mature stack, partial, or nonexistent, we meet you where you are and build forward within your budget.
No stack yet? We assess your budget and resources, design a practical roadmap, and help you pick the right tools — not the priciest.
EDR, SIEM, DLP, identity, conditional access, firewalls — we deploy, harden, and tune what you already own.
We monitor alerts from your products and respond in agreed business-hours windows. You decide what you hear about.
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX — evidence, policy authoring, control design, and audit prep without the scramble.
A standing line to senior expertise: vendor reviews, architecture calls, and where to spend your next dollar.
When alert volume climbs, we build SOAR automation and tune detections so the retainer focuses on what matters.
We run scans with your tools — or help you find the right ones — then prioritize what to fix first, not just hand you a noisy report.
A comprehensive review of your security stack and posture, with a clear, plain-English overview of what's working and what's exposed.
Security policies, org standards, and the documentation auditors and customers ask for — drafted to fit how your business actually runs.
Our team has secured public companies, municipal government, pro sports, biotech, retail, and managed-security environments — multi-cloud, Zero Trust, modern AI workloads, and the hardware underneath them. That depth means we right-size, never over-sell.
We've deployed and configured nearly every major security product across regulated, high-stakes environments — so we know what each one is actually good for, and what's just marketing.
Conditional access, federation, MFA, and least-privilege design across multi-cloud tenants.
Threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response tuned to your real environment.
Model access controls, sensitive-data guardrails, and third-party AI risk review.
Audit readiness, evidence collection, and policy authoring mapped to your frameworks.
Device, firmware, and supply-chain security review — plus hands-on hardware advisory most security shops can't offer.
PractSec is a Southern California team of cybersecurity, IT, and hardware engineers with years of hands-on experience across regulated industries — from public companies to municipal IT. We started this to bring real expertise to growing businesses at a reasonable price point and a pricing model that actually makes sense.
That means three things, every time: senior expertise, a flat retainer, full transparency. Async-first — reachable by email, on a scheduled call when it helps, and available in person across SoCal when it counts.
Alert monitoring is one of the services we offer — a real part of what we do, just not the whole picture. Every engagement is built around your specific needs and environment; no two look the same. Our real edge is that we've worked with and configured nearly every security product out there, so we see straight through the marketing. We know which tools fit which environments and budgets, and we build your stack and strategy around what actually works — not what's being sold hardest.
Not exactly — and that's the point. MDR locks you into a fixed monitor-and-respond model. PractSec is more dynamic: we plug into your existing security team or triage process rather than replacing it, and we flex across whatever you actually need. That might mean tuning noisy alerts, advising on strategy, recommending products to close coverage gaps, or handling triage when it helps — often all of the above. Think of us as one all-in-one security partner, not a single bolted-on service.
Even better. We work alongside in-house teams and existing triage processes — extending your capacity, not stepping on it. We can own the pieces you'd rather offload, advise on the rest, and define clearly who handles what so nothing falls through the cracks.
We start from scratch with you. We assess your budget, resources, and risk, then build a practical roadmap and recommend the right tools to close your real coverage gaps — without over-buying. You get a solid program sized to where your business actually is.
One flat monthly retainer, sized to your stack and goals after a short scoping review. You decide how the hours are spent — advisory, configuration, compliance, triage, whatever matters most that month. Unused hours roll over, so you're never re-buying time you already paid for. Certain after-hours actions, like critical alert response outside business hours, draw from your retainer at a slightly higher rate. Every month you get a simple statement showing exactly how the time was used.
Whatever you tell us you need. After-hours alert support, improving your existing security stack, building your program from the ground up, advising on SOAR or SIEM, tuning product configurations, closing coverage gaps — you set the priorities, and we apply your hours where they do the most good. The mix can change month to month as your needs do.
We respond during agreed business-hours windows, and you choose how much you want to hear about — criticals only, or everything. If you need true around-the-clock coverage, we'll help you set it up and oversee it as your advisor, rather than selling you a noisy pager you don't need.
Tell us where you are today. We'll set up a free intro call, learn your needs and budget, and show you what a retainer would look like — no pressure, no jargon.