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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.

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Silver

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

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Gold

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

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Arnau Estebanell,
Lead Security Engineer at Personio
“We wanted to move beyond just 'checking the box' on pentesting. Cobalt enabled us to build a modern pentesting program with multiple assessments throughout the year. Their platform provides a central hub to orchestrate everything—from strategically planning tests to benchmarking our remediation speed against industry peers. We're now proactively managing risk through a continuous, data-driven security program.”
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RESOURCES

The latest thinking in offensive security

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RESOURCES
State of LLM Security Report, 2025

The State of LLM Security Report exposes a troubling reality: while threats related to genAI are a top concern, the current state of LLM and AI-powered application security testing and remediation is insufficient to address the novel risks these powerful new technologies introduce.

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