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SECURITY PROGRAM MANAGER

Scale your offensive security without the operational burden

As your testing program grows across teams, products, and business units, coordination becomes the bottleneck. A dedicated Cobalt Security Program Manager (SPM) runs the operational side of your program, from scoping through remediation and reporting, so your team can focus on strategy.
THE CHALLENGE

Scale turns a security program into a coordination problem

When testing spans multiple products, teams, and business units, no one person can hold the whole program in their head. As scopes drift, retests wait and remediation stalls in development silos. The strategy is right, but the workflow connecting it all depends on people spending borrowed time on coordination instead of higher-value work.


The cost shows up in three places:

  • Exposure windows stretch as vulnerabilities wait on manual tracking and retest coordination.
  • Engineering teams repeat remediation work with no unified view of posture.
  • Security leaders struggle to convert technical findings into the risk-based metrics leadership expects.
OUR APPROACH

A single owner for the work between strategy and execution

Your SPM runs the day-to-day execution of your offensive security program. They coordinate the people, sequence the work, and keep every engagement aligned with your business goals and timelines as testing scales across teams, products, and business units, so the strategy your team sets actually gets executed.

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Onboard and scope

Onboards new business units, scopes each test, and aligns stakeholders so every engagement kicks off on time and on target.
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Run the lifecycle

Manages the full testing lifecycle in real time, keeping testers unblocked and stepping in when timelines or priorities shift.
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Drive remediation

Coordinates retests across security and development so vulnerabilities close within your target SLAs.
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Report to leadership

Turns technical findings into executive-ready reporting, delivering the risk-based metrics your leadership expects.
BENEFITS

What changes when an SPM runs the program

An SPM shifts your program from ad-hoc coordination to disciplined execution.

Reclaim your team's capacity

Your senior security engineers get their calendars back. Instead of chasing scopes, scheduling retests, and preparing status updates, they focus on architecture, threat modeling, and the work only they can do.

A program that scales without slipping

Adding business units, products, or acquisitions no longer breaks your testing schedule. An SPM keeps cadence, coverage, and priorities aligned so growth does not create exposure.

Always ready to report

An SPM keeps program metrics, remediation status, and risk narratives current, so audit requests, board updates, and compliance reviews do not turn into fire drills.
SERVICE TIERS

An SPM at every stage of program maturity

Every tier includes a Security Program Manager who runs your program end to end. The right tier depends on the scale and reach of your testing.

CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

What customers say about running a program with an Security Program Manager

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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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Jamie Strickland

Security Analyst Lead at Patterson Companies
FAQ

Frequently asked questions about mobile application pentesting

What is a Cobalt Security Program Manager and what do they do?
A Cobalt Security Program Manager (SPM) runs the day-to-day execution of your offensive security program. That includes onboarding new business units, scoping each test, keeping engagements on schedule, coordinating retests, tracking remediation against your SLAs, and translating findings into leadership reporting.
How is an SPM different from the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform?
The platform gives your team the tools to run offensive security in-house. The SPM service gives you a Cobalt expert who runs it for you. They are independent, and you can add an SPM to any Cobalt program regardless of scope or product mix.
Who is the SPM service for?
Organizations whose security teams are expected to expand coverage without adding headcount or where the program has outgrown what one or two internal people can coordinate. Common triggers include acquisitions, new business units, or a mandate to move from annual pentesting to a continuous program.
How do the Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers work?
The tiers scale with your program. Bronze fits growing programs testing 12 or more assets per year. Silver fits scaling programs testing 25 or more assets across multiple product owners or business units. Gold fits mature programs testing 40 or more assets across a global footprint.
How does an SPM help prove program value?
Your SPM translates pentest findings into the risk-based metrics your leadership uses to evaluate the security program. Instead of raw vulnerability counts, you have consistent reporting that shows exposure reduction, remediation velocity, and coverage over time.
Is an SPM the same as a managed security service (MSSP)?
No. An MSSP takes over a security function and runs it as an outsourced service. An SPM works inside your program as a coordinator, not an owner of your security strategy. You set direction and priorities. Your SPM handles the scoping, scheduling, remediation tracking, and reporting that keep the program moving.
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Make the operational side of your program someone else's job

Add a Security Program Manager to your Cobalt program and get the coordination, cadence, and reporting your program needs to scale without slipping.

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