Verity for cybersecurity companies

You find the problems in other companies. Verity makes sure none slip through in yours.

A security services firm sells expert time and trust. The time is booked across engagements and the trust depends on findings being tracked, reports being right and client data being handled with care. Scope, findings, retests and retainers sit in separate tools. Verity ties them to each client engagement.

Verity in one line

One system that follows each engagement from scope to report to retest, shows who is booked where and keeps every finding and retainer hour accounted for.

See your cybersecurity company in Verity See the 14 problems we solve

Free: we set up a working demo of your own business, on your own data, within 7 days. You pay only if your team decides to use it.

Built for a firm of ten to a few hundred with consultants who dislike admin. Records come from the engagement work itself.

Verity / Firm / This week

All engagements

Live

Engagements

18

6 starting

Consultants free

3

next 2 weeks

Open criticals

7

across 5 clients

Not yet invoiced

₹14.8 L

work done

Estimated against actual days, last 6 tests

  • Web application118%
  • Mobile application96%
  • Network104%
  • Cloud review140%

Cloud reviews have run 40 percent over estimate in the last three engagements.

Reprice
  • Certification for two consultantsExpires 14 Nov, tender needs bothRenew
  • Retainer, Asha Bank84 of 100 hours used, renews in 40 daysTalk

Illustrative screen with sample figures. Yours is set up with your own clients, consultants, engagements and retainers.

How it runs today

Most security firms are good at finding issues and loose at tracking them.

An engagement starts with a scope in an email or a statement of work. By the time the test runs, the scope has moved, the client's contact has changed and test accounts are late.

Findings live in the consultant's notes and a report template. Their status after delivery, meaning who fixed what and what was retested, is held in the client's tracker or nobody's.

The market is short of skilled people. A 2026 DSCI and SANS report found that 73 percent of enterprises and 68 percent of providers say skilled candidates are in limited supply, and 84 percent of organisations need one to six months to fill a security role.

What most cybersecurity firms run on

  • Statements of work in email
  • Spreadsheet of consultant bookings
  • Findings in a reporting tool or document templates
  • Ticket tool for retainers
  • Timesheet sheet and an accounting package

Each tool is good at one job. None tells you whether a finding was fixed, who is free next month or whether a retainer is about to run out of hours.

14 problems, one by one

Where a security firm loses margin and trust.

These are the situations security firm owners and delivery heads describe. For each one: what it looks like, what it costs, and what Verity does about it.

  1. 01Engagements

    Scope is agreed in email and drifts

    What it looks like

    A test is sold for one web application and three APIs. During the test the client adds a mobile app and a staging environment, verbally.

    What it costs you

    Unpaid days, an over-run test and a report that is hard to defend when the client says the extra work was included.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each engagement records its scope, exclusions, days sold and approved changes. A change creates a change request with days and price, and the engagement shows days sold against days used.

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  2. 02Sales

    Quotes are priced on gut feel

    What it looks like

    A senior consultant estimates ten days from experience. Last time a similar test took fifteen.

    What it costs you

    Fixed-price tests that lose money and discounts given without knowing what the work really cost.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each engagement keeps estimated and actual days by activity. Verity shows how past tests of the same type ran, so the next quote starts from data.

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  3. 03People

    Consultants are double-booked or idle

    What it looks like

    The best web tester is booked on two engagements in the same week while two juniors are free. Nobody saw it until Monday.

    What it costs you

    Delays, overtime and idle people, in a market where skilled candidates are hard to find. In 2026, 84 percent of organisations reported taking one to six months to fill a security role.

    How Verity fixes it

    Consultants have skills, certifications and bookings. Verity shows load by week, clashes and who is free for a new engagement by skill.

    See the screen
  4. 04Engagements

    Tests wait on the client

    What it looks like

    The test window opens on Monday. VPN access, test accounts and a contact for questions arrive on Thursday.

    What it costs you

    Days lost, a test squeezed to fit the old deadline and a lower quality report.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each engagement has a list of what the client must provide, with dates. Verity warns before the start if items are missing and records delay so it can be charged or explained.

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  5. 05Findings

    Findings are tracked in documents, not as items

    What it looks like

    Forty findings from a test sit in a document. Three months later the client asks which are still open. Someone searches old emails.

    What it costs you

    Hours spent answering a simple question and a client who thinks you do not follow up.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each finding is a record with severity, affected asset, owner on the client side, status and dates. Verity shows open findings by client, severity and age.

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  6. 06Reports

    Report review is a bottleneck

    What it looks like

    Three reports wait for a senior reviewer who is also testing. Versions go back and forth by email.

    What it costs you

    Late deliveries that delay the client's own audit, and errors that slip through a rushed review.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each report moves through draft, review and release with an owner and a due date. Verity shows the review queue and flags reports waiting more than a set time.

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  7. 07Findings

    Retests are forgotten or done for free

    What it looks like

    The client says critical issues are fixed. A retest is promised but not scheduled, then asked for at the last moment before an audit.

    What it costs you

    Unplanned work, unpaid days and a client who is not sure the fix is real.

    How Verity fixes it

    A fix claim creates a retest task with an owner and a date. The retest is an item on the engagement with days and price, and the finding closes only after a retest result is recorded.

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  8. 08Security

    Client data and evidence are handled loosely

    What it looks like

    Screenshots, credentials and extracts from a client system sit in a consultant's laptop folder and a shared drive.

    What it costs you

    A security firm that leaks client data loses its reputation. Clients also ask how evidence is stored and when it is destroyed.

    How Verity fixes it

    Evidence is attached to the engagement with access limited to the team and a retention date. Verity records who viewed or changed it and lists evidence due for deletion.

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  9. 09Retainers

    Retainer and incident response hours burn unseen

    What it looks like

    A client buys 100 hours of incident response support for a year. Ad hoc calls use hours that nobody logs, and the client is surprised at the invoice.

    What it costs you

    Unbilled hours, disputes and renewals missed because nobody saw the balance.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each retainer shows hours bought, used and remaining, with each request logged against it. Verity warns at 80 percent and lists retainers near renewal.

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  10. 10Retainers

    After-hours incidents are handled by whoever picks up

    What it looks like

    A client calls at midnight with a suspected incident. The on-call roster is in a chat group. The first person who answers takes it, whether or not they have the skills.

    What it costs you

    Slow response, the wrong people on the job and a client who counts the hours to first reply.

    How Verity fixes it

    The on-call roster, response times promised and incident records sit in one place. Verity shows who is on call and records time to first response and handover steps.

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  11. 11Compliance

    Certifications and empanelment lapse

    What it looks like

    A consultant's certification expires the week a client's tender needs it. The firm's own empanelment renewal is in someone's calendar.

    What it costs you

    A tender that cannot be bid, or a client's audit that finds the firm out of compliance. Regulated buyers such as banks and insurers are the main group that asks for empanelled auditors.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each person's certifications and the firm's empanelments and registrations are records with expiry dates. Verity reminds ahead of time and lists engagements that depend on them.

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  12. 12Money

    Billing misses time and milestones

    What it looks like

    Fixed-price milestones, time-and-materials hours and retainer overage are tracked in three places. An invoice goes out late or short.

    What it costs you

    Unbilled work and cash that arrives weeks after it should.

    How Verity fixes it

    Each engagement shows milestones, hours worked and what has been invoiced. Verity lists work done but not invoiced and invoices overdue with a task for the account owner. Billing stays in your accounts software.

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  13. 13Compliance

    The firm has its own reporting duties

    What it looks like

    As a company handling client data, the firm itself is bound by incident reporting and log retention rules. Nobody has written down who does what.

    What it costs you

    A fine or an embarrassing gap after an incident. The CERT-In directions require reporting within six hours of noticing a qualifying incident and keeping at least 180 days of logs in India.

    How Verity fixes it

    The firm's own incident steps, owners and log retention checks are tasks with dates. Verity records what happened and when during an incident.

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  14. 14People

    Knowledge walks out with the consultant

    What it looks like

    A senior tester leaves. His scripts, tricks and client notes were on his laptop and in his head.

    What it costs you

    Slower tests, repeated mistakes and a junior team that starts from zero.

    How Verity fixes it

    Methods, checklists, past findings categories and client notes are records the whole team can search, with access by role. A handover lists what the leaver owned.

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The numbers behind it

The numbers that make these problems worth fixing.

From published sources, with the source named under each figure. Your own numbers will differ, and showing you yours is the first thing Verity does.

  • 73% and 68%

    of enterprises and cybersecurity providers say skilled cybersecurity candidates are in limited supply.

    DSCI and SANS, 2026

  • 84%

    of organisations need one to six months to fill a cybersecurity role, with only 3 percent filling one in under a month.

    DSCI and SANS, 2026

  • 6 hours

    the reporting window the CERT-In Directions set for qualifying cyber incidents, counted from when the organisation notices or is notified.

    AM Legals, 2025

  • 180 days

    the minimum period for which security logs must be retained in India under the same Directions.

    AM Legals, 2025

The talent figures are from a 2026 report by DSCI and SANS. The CERT-In rules are from a law firm's guide because the official text was not read, and the guide does not state the issue date. They show the pressures on the sector, not what your firm will see.

What you will actually see

The screens you would use every day.

Six views, each for one job. Clients, consultants, engagements and retainers are set up in your own terms.

Screen 1 of 6

The managing partner's weekly view

Engagements running, consultants free, findings open, retainer hours and work not yet invoiced on one screen, with the items that need a decision listed below.

Fixes

  • 02 Quotes are priced on gut feel
  • 12 Billing misses time and milestones
  • 14 Knowledge walks out with the consultant

Verity / Firm / This week

All engagements

Engagements

18

6 starting

Consultants free

3

next 2 weeks

Open criticals

7

across 5 clients

Not yet invoiced

₹14.8 L

work done

Estimated against actual days, last 6 tests

  • Web application118%
  • Mobile application96%
  • Network104%
  • Cloud review140%

Cloud reviews have run 40 percent over estimate in the last three engagements.

Reprice
  • Certification for two consultantsExpires 14 Nov, tender needs bothRenew
  • Retainer, Asha Bank84 of 100 hours used, renews in 40 daysTalk

Screen 2 of 6

Engagements from scope to report

Each engagement moves across the board with its scope, days sold and days used, client dependencies and report status. Delays caused by the client are recorded.

Fixes

  • 01 Scope is agreed in email and drifts
  • 04 Tests wait on the client
  • 06 Report review is a bottleneck

Verity / Engagements

By stage

Scoping2

  • E-306 Mobile app, Greenleaf BankScope in draft, 12 daysAwaiting client
  • E-310 Cloud review, Acme FoodsEstimate 8 daysQuote

Testing2

  • E-298 Web app and APIs, Beta PayDay 7 of 10, VPN access late 3 daysDelayed
  • E-301 Network, Delta TelecomDay 3 of 9On track

Report and retest2

  • E-290 Report, Gamma RetailIn review 4 daysReview
  • E-285 Retest, Zenith InsurancePromised for FridayBook

Screen 3 of 6

Findings from first report to retest

Every finding with severity, asset, client owner and status, from first report to retest. The client can ask what is open and the answer is one filter away.

Fixes

  • 05 Findings are tracked in documents, not as items
  • 07 Retests are forgotten or done for free

Verity / Findings

Open items by client

FindingClientSeverityAgeStatus
SQL injection in loginBeta PayCritical9 daysFix claimed
Weak TLS configurationDelta TelecomMedium41 daysOpen
Missing rate limitingGamma RetailHigh21 daysRetested, closed
Exposed storage bucketAcme FoodsCritical3 daysOpen

7 critical findings are open across 5 clients, the oldest 33 days.

Review

Screen 4 of 6

Who is booked where, by skill

Consultants by skill and certification with load by week. Clashes, idle time and who can take a new engagement are visible before the week starts.

Fixes

  • 03 Consultants are double-booked or idle

Verity / Staffing

Next 4 weeks

ConsultantSkillsWeek 1Week 2Week 3
AnilWeb, API100%130%60%
PriyaCloud, network80%80%100%
ImranMobile40%40%40%
SnehaWeb100%100%20%

Anil is booked at 130 percent in week 2. Imran has 60 percent free and mobile skills.

Rebalance

Screen 5 of 6

Retainers, hours and on-call

Retainer hours bought, used and left, requests logged against them and the on-call roster. Time to first response is recorded for every incident.

Fixes

  • 09 Retainer and incident response hours burn unseen
  • 10 After-hours incidents are handled by whoever picks up

Verity / Retainers

Hours and response

ClientHoursUsedRenewalAction
Asha Bank1008440 daysTalk
Zenith Insurance60225 monthsOK
Delta Telecom12011912 daysOver
  • On call this weekPriya, then Sneha from ThursdaySet
  • Incident I-47, Asha BankFirst response in 22 minutesClosed

Screen 6 of 6

Certifications, evidence and the firm's own duties

Certifications and empanelments with expiry, evidence kept for each engagement with retention dates, and the firm's own incident and log tasks.

Fixes

  • 08 Client data and evidence are handled loosely
  • 11 Certifications and empanelment lapse
  • 13 The firm has its own reporting duties

Verity / Compliance

Firm and people

  • Two consultant certifications expire 14 NovBooked for exam 8 Nov
  • Empanelment renewalDue in 70 days, managing partner
  • Evidence for E-285 deleted per policyDone 10 Oct
  • Quarterly log retention checkDone 1 Oct, 180 days kept in India

Evidence from three closed engagements is past its retention date.

Review

Illustrative screens with sample data. Layouts, fields, names and terms are set up around how your cybersecurity company works.

An ordinary day

The same Thursday, before and after.

The firm works the same way. What changes is that engagements, findings and promises leave a record that chases for you.

WhenTodayWith Verity
9:30 TodayThe delivery head checks a sheet and three chats to see who is free. With VerityThe week screen shows consultant load, engagements starting and clients that owe access.
11:00 TodayA client asks which findings are still open. Someone searches old reports. With VerityThe open findings list for that client is filtered and sent in a minute.
1:00 TodayA test starts and VPN access is not ready. Nobody records the delay. With VerityThe client dependency is overdue, the delay is logged and the days are protected.
3:30 TodayA retainer runs past its hours without anyone noticing. With VerityA warning at 80 percent went to the account owner two weeks ago.
5:30 TodayA tender needs two certifications that expired last week. With VerityThe renewal was on the list and booked six weeks earlier.
Month end TodayFinance asks which work is not yet invoiced. With VerityThe list shows the engagements and milestones done and not billed.

How we work with you

We set it up with you, in four weeks.

You do not get a login and a manual. We learn how your engagements actually run, build Verity around them, bring your data in, then stay on to keep it working.

  1. Week 1

    Discovery and mapping

    What we do
    Spend a day with your delivery head, a consultant and the person who invoices. Follow an engagement from quote to report to retest, and map your tools for scoping, findings, time and billing.
    What we need from you
    A few hours from you and your delivery head. Two recent engagements with their statements of work, reports and timesheets.
    What you have at the end
    A written map of how engagements, findings, staffing and retainers run today and the problems to fix first.

  2. Weeks 2 to 3

    Configuration

    What we do
    Set up engagement types and stages, scope and change request fields, findings records with severities, consultant skills and certifications, retainers and on-call rules, evidence retention and approvals.
    What we need from you
    Check the stages, severities and retention rules with your delivery head and a consultant.
    What you have at the end
    A working Verity with your real engagement types, people and rules.

  3. Weeks 3 to 4

    Migration and training

    What we do
    Bring in clients, open engagements, consultants and certifications, open findings and retainers. Train managers, consultants and the finance owner on live engagements.
    What we need from you
    Your list of active engagements and open findings, in whatever form they exist. One hour per role.
    What you have at the end
    Your firm inside Verity and a team that has used it on a real engagement.

  4. After go-live

    Operations partnership

    What we do
    Stay on after launch. Review the first weeks with you, tune lists and reminders and handle new offices and service lines.
    What we need from you
    A short monthly review of what the numbers say.
    What you have at the end
    A system that keeps matching how the firm runs, with someone responsible for it.

Bring these on day one

  • A list of active engagements with scope and days
  • Consultant list with skills and certifications
  • Open findings by client
  • Retainers with hours and dates
  • Your evidence and retention policy

Your time

About 8 to 11 hours of owner time across the four weeks, mostly in week 1. Your delivery head and finance owner need a few more.

After go-live

Nobody is hired to run Verity. Engagements, findings and hours are recorded as part of the work you already do, and the reports come from those records.

Verity AI

Ask your firm a question.

Verity AI reads your engagements, findings, consultants, retainers and compliance records. Ask in plain language, then turn the answer into tasks for the right person.

  • Your records only Answers come from your own cybersecurity firms data, not from generic knowledge.
  • Right person, right view It only shows what the person asking is allowed to see.
  • Turns into action An answer can become a task assigned to a named person.

Verity / Ask

Which critical findings have been open for more than 14 days, and for whom?

Four critical findings across three clients. The oldest is 33 days, for Acme Foods.

  • Acme Foods33 days
  • Beta Pay21 days
  • Delta Telecom16 days

Create follow-up tasks for each client owner

Verity / Ask

Which consultant is booked above 100 percent in the next three weeks?

Anil in week 2 at 130 percent. Imran has 60 percent free and the mobile skill needed for E-306.

  • Anil, week 2130%
  • Imran, free60%

Propose a rebalance to the delivery head

Verity / Ask

Which retainers will run out of hours before renewal?

Delta Telecom has used 119 of 120 hours with 12 days to renewal, and Asha Bank is at 84 of 100 with 40 days left.

  • Delta Telecom119 of 120
  • Asha Bank84 of 100

Ask the account owners to quote extra hours

Sample questions and answers with illustrative figures.

Without chasing

The follow-ups nobody has time to make.

Set once, then they run from your records. People still do the testing and the talking. Verity makes sure the right person knows to.

When

An engagement is 5 days from start and the client has not provided access

  • Flagged to the delivery head
  • Client contact task created
  • Delay recorded if the start moves

When

A client claims a finding is fixed

  • Retest task created with an owner and a date
  • Retest days added to the engagement
  • Finding closed only on a recorded retest result

When

A report waits for review for more than 3 days

  • Flagged to the reviewer and the delivery head
  • Reassigned if needed
  • Release date recorded

When

A retainer reaches 80 percent of its hours

  • Warning to the account owner
  • Renewal and extra hours quote task created
  • Outcome recorded

When

A certification or empanelment is 60 days from expiry

  • Task to the owner
  • Exam or renewal date recorded
  • Engagements that depend on it listed

When

Evidence passes its retention date

  • Listed for review
  • Deletion task to the engagement owner
  • Completion recorded

Rules and paperwork

The rules a cybersecurity company has to keep up with.

Verity does not give legal advice, does not test or scan any system and does not file anything for you. It keeps the records these rules and your clients' requirements depend on in order.

  • CERT-In incident reporting and log retention

    What is expected

    The CERT-In Directions require qualifying cyber incidents to be reported within six hours of the organisation noticing or being notified, and at least 180 days of security logs to be kept in India. They cover body corporates, data centres, cloud and VPN providers, so a security firm handling client data should assume they apply to its own systems.

    How Verity helps

    The firm's own incident steps, owners and log retention checks are tasks with dates, and an incident record shows what happened and when.

    AM Legals

  • Empanelled auditors for regulated clients

    What is expected

    Regulated buyers such as banks, insurers, telecom and government tenders are the main group that asks for CERT-In empanelled auditors. Many software buyers do not need them.

    How Verity helps

    The firm's empanelment and each consultant's certifications are records with expiry dates, linked to the engagements that need them.

    Cybersecify

  • Personal data in client systems

    What is expected

    Testing may expose personal data. India's data protection rules were notified in November 2025, and most duties start to apply over the following 12 to 18 months.

    How Verity helps

    Evidence is attached to the engagement with limited access, who viewed it recorded and a retention date.

    AZB Partners

  • Contractual confidentiality and rules of engagement

    What is expected

    Each client contract sets what may be tested, when and how data is handled. Working outside it can be a breach of contract or worse.

    How Verity helps

    Scope, exclusions, test windows and approvals are recorded on the engagement and changes need a recorded approval.

Rules and client requirements differ by sector and contract, and they change. Confirm current requirements with your lawyer and the relevant authority.

Who sees what

Everyone sees the same records, through their own window.

A consultant should not see other clients' evidence. Finance should not see findings. Each role opens on what it needs.

  • Managing partner

    Where do we make money and where are the risks?

    Engagements by margin, work not invoiced, retainers, certifications due and open criticals by client.

  • Delivery head

    Who is doing what and what is late?

    Consultant load, engagements by stage, client dependencies, report queue and retests due.

  • Consultant

    What is mine this week?

    My engagements, scope and client dependencies, evidence I own and findings to write up.

  • Account manager

    What does my client need to know?

    Open findings, retainer hours, renewals and promises made to the client.

  • Finance owner

    What is done and not billed?

    Milestones, hours worked, retainer overage and invoices overdue.

Straight answers

What changes, and what stays the same.

Keep using

  • Your testing and scanning tools
  • Your reporting templates and findings tools if you like them
  • Your accounts software and accountant
  • Your ticket or chat tools for client calls

Verity does not

  • Test, scan or monitor any system
  • Store client credentials or secrets for testing
  • Send messages to clients on its own
  • Give legal, audit or security advice

We bring your clients, engagements, consultants, open findings and retainers across from the documents, sheets and tools you use now, in stages, so engagements keep running while it happens.

  • Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • Legacy ERP
  • CRM
  • One operating environment

Questions

Questions security firm owners ask.

My consultants hate admin. Will they use it?

It only works if recording takes seconds, so we set it up around the notes and templates they already use. They get a clear view of their week, the scope they were sold and what the client owes them.

Can it replace my findings or reporting tool?

It can hold findings, severity and status, and it tracks retests and follow-ups. If you prefer a specialist reporting tool, we agree during setup how findings reach Verity so status and retests are tracked in one place.

Does it run or monitor tests?

No. Verity does not scan or test any system. It records engagements, findings, people and hours.

Can it hold client evidence safely?

It attaches evidence to the engagement with access limited by role and a retention date, and it records who viewed or changed it. It does not replace your own security controls and it is not a place to store client credentials.

Can it help with the CERT-In reporting rules?

It records your own incident steps, owners and log checks as tasks with dates. It does not report on your behalf and it does not give legal advice.

Can I see utilisation across offices?

Yes. Each office is a location in one system, and consultants, engagements and margins can be compared side by side.

Can it send reports to clients?

Not by itself. It tracks report review and release, and your team sends the report and records the date.

Who can see what?

Only the people you allow. Access is set by role and by engagement, and every change is recorded with who made it and when.

What does it cost?

It depends on the number of users and what you want set up. Message us and we will give you a clear number after a short conversation about how your firm runs.

Where the figures come from

Sources

  1. DSCI-SANS Indian Cyber Security Skilling Landscape report, 1 May 2026
  2. AM Legals, CERT-In compliance guide
  3. Cybersecify on who needs empanelled pentest vendors
  4. AZB Partners

Last checked 16 October 2026. Published figures vary by region and method, so treat them as indicative, not as a promise of your results.

Find out which findings are still open.

Tell us how your firm runs and we will show you the clashing bookings, open critical findings and retainers near their limit it would find, using your own numbers.

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