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SECURITY PROGRAM MANAGER

Scale Your Offensive Security Without the Operational Burden

A Security Program Manager acts as an extension of your team, managing the administrative heavy lifting of enterprise-scale testing so you can focus on strategy, not logistics.

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OVERVIEW

Eliminate the friction of scale

As your organization grows, offensive security programs often become a logistical hurdle. The Cobalt Security Program Manager (SPM) service provides a layer of expert oversight to keep your internal teams aligned with your program timeline, reducing exposure time and streamlining the find-to-fix cycle. By project managing stakeholders and milestones, we ensure your security roadmap stays on track without draining your internal resources.

BENEFITS

Why partner with an SPM?

Shift from reactive testing to a proactive program that grows with your business.

Maximize Team Efficiency
Offload the coordination of scoping, scheduling, and stakeholder management, freeing your internal team to focus on security architecture rather than project management.
Shrink the Exposure Window
Accelerate remediation by unifying security and engineering workflows, ensure vulnerabilities are tracked, prioritized, and retested without delays.
Prove Program ROI
Transform technical vulnerability data into strategic, risk-based metrics that demonstrate program effectiveness and justify security budgets to the board.
OUR APPROACH

An architect for your offensive security journey

Your SPM provides structured oversight to ensure your offensive security program remains consistent, measurable, and effective.

  • We manage business unit onboarding and stakeholder alignment to ensure every test is properly scoped and ready for kickoff.
  • We monitor the entire testing lifecycle, providing expert intervention to ensure every engagement stays aligned with your security roadmap.
  • We bridge the gap between security and development, facilitating retests and tracking status to ensure vulnerabilities are closed within your required SLAs.
  • We translate technical findings into executive-ready reports, delivering the ROI narratives needed for board-level reporting.
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Security Program Manager Tiers

Choose the level of support that fits your program size

Bronze

For growing programs testing 12+ assets per year or managing specialized partner testing.

Silver

For mature programs testing 25+ assets per year across multiple product owners or business units.

Gold

For institutionalized programs testing 40+ assets per year across a global footprint.

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Jamie Strickland,
Security Analyst Lead at Patterson Companies
“Having a dedicated Security Program Manager (SPM) ensures consistency across our pentesting program. Our SPM understands exactly what results we need and has become exceptionally nimble at managing tester and team member questions. By looping in the right internal stakeholders, they ensure our projects always stay on track.”
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RESOURCES

The latest thinking in offensive security

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RESOURCES
State of Pentesting Report 2026

Discover key insights from the 2026 State of Pentesting Report, highlighting the critical gap in remediation practices and the importance of a programmatic approach to security.

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A Penetration Tester's Guide To Web Applications
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GigaOm's Pentesting as a Service Report
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