Annual Security Retainer
Quarterly VAPT slices, retests, and priority response
Year-round testing cadence plus advisory hours.
An annual retainer that schedules web/API/cloud checks across the year, includes critical/high retests, and reserves advisory hours — ideal for startups maturing into mid-market compliance.
- Madhapur, Ayyappa Society, Hyderabad
- Manual finding validation
- Free critical/high retest
- View sample reports
- OSCP
- CEH
- CISSP
- CISA
What Annual Retainer covers
An annual retainer that schedules web/API/cloud checks across the year, includes critical/high retests, and reserves advisory hours — ideal for startups maturing into mid-market compliance.
When teams engage us
Annual Security Retainer helps EdTech, FinTech, SaaS, Healthcare IT, e-commerce, colleges, and mid-market teams reduce breach risk with accountable Cynarks engineers — not slideware.
Scoped & authorized
Clear rules of engagement and blast-radius limits before any testing or monitoring starts.
Business-ranked findings
Issues ordered by exploitability and business impact, not scanner volume.
Remediation partnership
Engineers available for clarification and retest of critical/high items where the SKU includes it.
Evidence for audits
Reports and dashboards your compliance and customer-security teams can reuse.
Security as a calendar, not a fire drill.
We lock a yearly plan: which systems each quarter, how retests work, and how many advisory hours you can pull for launches.
Scoped phases with named outputs.
Four phases · 12 months · quarterly slices · each phase ends with named outputs you can hold us to.
OWASP · NIST CSF · agreed SOW cadence
Scope & access
Confirm assets, success criteria, contacts, and emergency stop conditions.
- Statement of work
- ROE / access checklist
- Success metrics
Execute
Run the assessment or managed rhythm with daily/weekly status as agreed.
- Working notes
- Interim critical alerts
- Evidence pack
Report & debrief
Deliver ranked findings, executive summary, and remediation workshop.
- Technical report
- Executive brief
- Remediation plan
Retest / cadence
Verify fixes or continue the retainer monitoring cycle.
- Retest notes
- Open-item tracker
- Next-period plan
What we test and harden
Flaw classes and disciplines we prioritize on every annual retainer engagement.
Cadence planning
Quarterly scopes tied to product releases.
Retest SLA
Critical/high verification windows baked into the year.
Advisory hours
Architecture reviews and questionnaire support.
Launch gates
Pre-go-live checks for major features.
Executive updates
Quarterly risk summaries for leadership.
Upsell path
Add MSS monitoring without restarting vendor search.
Tools we use on this work
What you receive
Named artifacts you can open, share with auditors, and hand to engineering — not vague promises.
Executive summary
Business-readable risk narrative for leadership and boards.
Technical findings
Reproduction steps, evidence, and CVSS/business context where applicable.
Remediation roadmap
Prioritized fixes with owners and suggested sequencing.
Evidence appendix
Screenshots, logs, and configs redacted for safe sharing.
Retest / cadence notes
Verification of critical/high fixes or monthly MSS status.
Client portal updates
Status visible to authorized client users when the engagement is on ops portal.
What we typically confirm
Flaw classes we most often validate on this engagement type — so scope conversations stay realistic.
Annual 'one big pentest' that misses mid-year launches
Findings left open with no retest owner
Security questionnaires answered inconsistently
No reserved hours for emergency reviews
Scope frozen while the product doubles in size
Board only hears about security after an incident
Teams scramble for evidence during customer audits
Retainer unused because nobody owns the calendar
What we need from you
A short checklist so kickoff is not delayed. Most items take under an hour — and everything shared is covered by NDA from the first call.
Signed authorization / ROE before testing or monitoring starts
Named technical and business contacts with escalation paths
Asset list and environment access (VPN, cloud roles, builds)
Maintenance windows for invasive tests where required
Willingness to assign remediation owners within two weeks of report
Annual Retainer FAQ
EdTech, FinTech, SaaS, Healthcare IT, e-commerce, colleges/universities, mid-sized enterprises, and tech startups that need accountable security delivery from Hyderabad.
Services often paired with this
Planning a VAPT, red team, or cloud review?
Talk to a Cynarks engineer in Hyderabad. We map in-scope apps and networks, propose a realistic test window, and outline deliverables — so you know exactly what the engagement covers before you commit.
Madhapur · +91 73373 81478 · security@cynarks.com