You don't have a security team. You have engineers who are also your security team.

80% of startups have one or fewer employees dedicated to security. A breach at your stage costs $3.31 million on average. Hyrax gives you continuous security remediation without a security hire.

Sources: DigitalOcean, "Small Businesses and Cybersecurity," March 2023. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023.

The startup security gap

38% of startups have zero employees dedicated to security. You're probably one of them.

DigitalOcean's 2023 cybersecurity survey of 554 founders and C-suite executives found that 38% of startups and SMBs have no employee - not even part-time - responsible for security. An additional 42% have exactly one. Your engineers are shipping features and handling security findings when they surface. That split attention is where vulnerabilities accumulate.

DigitalOcean, "Small Businesses and Cybersecurity," March 2023.

A breach at your stage costs $3.31 million. That's not a number most startups survive.

IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 found that organizations with fewer than 500 employees saw an average breach cost of $3.31 million - a 13.4% increase from the prior year. For a startup pre-profitability, that number is existential. Security vulnerabilities that accumulate in a sprint backlog are deferred liability, not just technical debt.

IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 (Ponemon Institute, 2023).

Your engineers already spend 13.5 hours a week on debt. Security triage adds to that.

Stripe's Developer Coefficient study found developers spend an average of 13.5 hours per week on technical debt maintenance - roughly a third of their working week. At a 5-person engineering team, that's the equivalent of nearly 2 full-time engineers working on debt instead of product. Every SAST finding that enters a triage queue without autonomous resolution compounds that number.

Stripe, "The Developer Coefficient," 2018 (Harris Poll survey of 1,000+ developers).

How Hyrax addresses each

Security coverage without a security hire

-Hyrax scans continuously and executes fixes autonomously - no AppSec headcount required
-Governance rules self-generate from your codebase - no manual rule authoring or security expertise needed to get started
-Compute cost scales with finding volume - no per-seat pricing on a 5-person team

Breach risk reduced without slowing shipping

-Findings execute as PRs the day they're introduced - not weeks later after accumulating in a backlog
-The 13-step verification validates fixes before any code ships - broken fixes don't land in production
-Continuous scanning means vulnerabilities don't sit undetected for the industry-median 258 days (IBM 2024)

Debt decreases instead of accumulating

-Hyrax's Improve workflow works through existing debt between sprints - without sprint allocation
-Engineers review and merge Hyrax PRs; they don't triage or generate fixes
-Every fix Hyrax executes generates a governance rule that prevents the same class of issue from reintroducing

The math on deferred security remediation

What it costs to wait

Cost category	Deferred state	With Hyrax
Security headcount	You need a dedicated hire to triage and close findings	Hyrax handles triage and execution - no additional headcount required
Developer time	13.5 hrs/week per engineer on debt maintenance (Stripe, 2018)	Security debt decreases continuously - dev time shifts toward product
Breach exposure	$3.31M average breach cost for sub-500-employee orgs (IBM, 2023)	Findings close at introduction - exposure window measured in hours, not months
Audit readiness	No evidence trail; QSA or investor diligence requires manual assembly	Every fix is a PR with finding, diff, tests, approver, and timestamp
Fundraising risk	Security posture gaps surface in technical due diligence	Demonstrable SAST coverage and autonomous remediation are checkboxes, not gaps

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