Get Certified

Common Defense scores your security against a fixed pass-or-fail checklist across six areas. A customer, partner, or investor receives one clear result they can act on rather than a report they must interpret.

SOC 2 and Common Defense

Common Defense certification sits alongside your SOC 2. SOC 2 attests that your controls exist and operate. It wasn't designed to tell a buyer whether an attacker can reach your keys, treasury, or model weights. That's what we certify.

	SOC 2	Common Defense
Scope set by	You, per audit	A fixed checklist, same for everyone
Measures	Whether controls exist and get followed	Whether the assets attackers want are hard
Covers	Governance, availability, process	Keys, model weights, treasury, comms
Output	A report with exceptions	A pass or a fail

A buyer’s security team can’t see your posture, so they slow the deal. Certification gives them a fixed-checklist result, pass or fail, that answers the question without a back-and-forth.

The six areas we score

We certify across the six areas that decide whether an operation holds under attack: data protection, IP and model-asset protection, identity and access, DevOps and supply-chain integrity, endpoint and ransomware resilience, and communications. Each maps to a way real companies get breached.

How the score works

Every area is judged against concrete criteria, so a pass means the same thing for every company. There is no partial credit and no “medium” finding to interpret. Where you fall short, you get a specific plan to close the gap and re-certify. As your systems and team change, we re-score, so the result reflects where you stand today.

What a pass gets you

A pass is a signal your buyers can act on. It shortcuts the security questionnaire, gives a partner’s procurement team a clear answer, and tells an investor’s diligence that the controls behind your product hold. That is assurance you can put in a data room, not a posture you have to explain. And because the bar is external and identical for every company, the result carries weight your own security page never could.

How we help

A fixed standard

Six certifiable areas, each scored against concrete criteria, so a pass means the same thing every time.

Clarity for buyers

A pass against a known bar tells a partner what they need to know, with no wading through "medium" findings.

A path to the pass

Where you fall short, you get a concrete plan to close the gap and re-certify.

Stays current

Certification keeps up with you. We re-score as your systems and team change, so a pass reflects where you stand today.