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Gociux is a security engineering consultancy for fintech and regulated EU companies. Managed detection, compliance that survives audits, and pipelines that ship securely — built by engineers who run this in production every day.

The problem

Security teams are drowning in noise.

Every day brings a flood of new vulnerabilities. Almost none of them matter to you — but finding the ones that do is a full-time job most teams don't have headcount for.

3,000+
CVES PER MONTH

published to the National Vulnerability Database — each one a triage decision somebody has to make

~5%
EVER EXPLOITED

the rest is noise — knowing which five percent applies to your stack is the entire job

15 min
TO FIRST SCANS

attackers start probing for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within minutes, not days

1
MISSED PATCH

is all it takes on an internet-facing payment system — the asymmetry is the whole game

Services

Built like an operations team. Priced like a project.

Productized engagements with fixed scope and clear deliverables — no open-ended consulting retainers that never end.

Flagship · monthly

Managed SIEM & Detection

Your own dedicated detection stack — no shared multi-tenant black box — deployed, tuned, and watched by people who run SIEM at PCI DSS Level 1 scale. Custom rules for your threat model, M365/EDR/cloud logs integrated, monthly tuning and threat reports.

brute-force · 185.220.x.xBLOCKED
payment API · client trafficCLEAN
phishing URL · 12 mailboxesQUARANTINED
legacy auth attempt · tenantDENIED
integrity check · core hostsVERIFIED
Engagement · 4–8 weeks

Compliance Engineering

PCI DSS and GDPR controls built into infrastructure — evidence generated continuously, not assembled in a panic before the audit. Gap assessment, remediation, audit support end to end.

Engagement · 2–3 weeks

Security Assessments

External & internal review, M365/Entra tenant hardening, attack-surface mapping.

<48h
from call to first findings
15+
years in IT & security
L1
PCI DSS level we operate at
24/7
detection coverage delivered
100%
EU data residency
DevSecOps
SAST, DAST & secrets scanning wired into your CI
Process

How an engagement runs.

Three phases, fixed scope, no dependency on us at the end.

ENGAGEMENT PHASE
01 / 03
Assess
finding what actually matters before touching anything

Map the real attack surface

Architecture review, log-coverage audit, and a prioritized findings list — measured against your threat model and your auditors' expectations, not a generic checklist.

findings reportrisk rankingremediation roadmap

Deploy and integrate

SIEM clusters, detection rules, compliance controls, pipeline scanners — built in your environment, as code where possible, documented as runbooks where not.

running systemsinfra as coderunbooks

Make your team the owner

Knowledge transfer and tuning sessions until your engineers run everything confidently without us on the call. Ongoing support optional, dependency never.

trainingdocumentationclean exit
Why Gociux

Operators, not auditors.

Most consultancies hand you a PDF and leave. We come from the other side of the table — engineers who carry the pager in a regulated payment environment, building the same controls we recommend.

  • /01

    Production-tested advice

    Every recommendation is something we already run under real attack traffic and real audit scrutiny.

  • /02

    Fixed scope, real deliverables

    Engagements end with running systems, runbooks, and a team that owns them — not a dependency on us.

  • /03

    EU-native

    GDPR, NIS2 and EU data-residency aren't an afterthought; they're the default architecture.

Detection

Designed and operate a 4-node SIEM cluster behind HAProxy for a Level 1 payment environment — 40+ custom decoders and rules, Microsoft 365 and EDR telemetry integrated.

Incident response

Live phishing campaign contained across an entire tenant within the hour — malicious URLs quarantined, mail-flow rules and tenant block lists hardened against the next wave.

Pipeline security

SAST, secrets and dependency scanning wired directly into CI, with findings routed automatically into the SIEM — developers see issues before reviewers do.

Endpoint fleet

Encryption, LAPS and compliance baselines rolled out via Intune across multi-country EU offices — recovery keys escrowed, drift continuously monitored.

recent engagements · details anonymized under NDA
The alternatives

Why not just…?

Every option below is legitimate. Here is, honestly, where each one is strong — and where we are.

Big consultancy
MSSP
In-house hire
Gociux
Who does the work
junior staff,
partner oversight
shared SOC
analysts
your hire — if
you can find one
senior engineers only —
no junior bench
Pricing model
open-ended
day rates
per-seat
subscription
salary +30%
overhead
fixed-scope
engagements
Operates in production at PCI DSS L1
EU data residency, GDPR-native
You own everything at the end
Time to first findings
weeks
onboarding
queue
months
to hire
<48 hours
Common questions

Asked before every engagement.

How does a first engagement start?+
A free 30-minute call where we look at your attack surface together. If there's a fit, you get a fixed-scope proposal with deliverables and a price — findings typically start within 48 hours of signing.
Do we have to commit to a retainer?+
No. Assessments and compliance engagements are fixed-scope projects with an end date. Managed detection is monthly, cancellable, and designed so your team could take it over — we earn the renewal, it's not contractual gravity.
Who actually does the work?+
Senior engineers with daily production experience in PCI DSS Level 1 payment environments. The team you meet on the first call is the team that delivers — no handoff to a junior bench after the contract is signed.
How do you handle our data and NDAs?+
We work inside your infrastructure, under your access controls — your data doesn't leave your environment. NDAs are standard before any technical discussion, and everything stays in the EU.
Can our team run it after you leave?+
That's the design goal. Every engagement ends with running systems, documentation, runbooks, and training sessions until your engineers operate everything confidently without us on the call.
Do you only work with fintech?+
Fintech and payments are where our production experience is deepest, but the same engineering applies to any regulated EU company — healthcare, SaaS handling sensitive data, critical infrastructure under NIS2.
Get started

Find out what an attacker would find first.

A free 30-minute assessment call. We'll look at your attack surface together and tell you honestly whether you need us — sometimes the answer is no.

or email us directly

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