About ProHacktiv: why the firm exists, how we work, and who is behind it
About ProHacktiv
Don't work harder.Work smarter.
Look at a problem, find the clever solution: that is the hack hidden inside ProHacktiv, applied to compliance.
Where ProHacktiv comes from
Work smarter,
and enjoy it.
ProHacktiv was born from one question: why should a company's size decide the protection it is entitled to?
Vladimir K.
Founder & CISO · ProHacktiv
I have always had an entrepreneurial streak. In each of my professional experiences, my reflex was the same: look at how teams really work and find what could work better. When the tool did not exist, I sometimes wrote it myself. Part coder, part entrepreneur, and above all someone who likes to deliver.
ProHacktiv was born from that question. Large organisations have whole teams for security and compliance; smaller ones get by as best they can. I could not see why the size of a company should decide the protection it is entitled to.
Incident response taught me that a crisis day cannot be improvised. The MIT Chief Digital Officer programme taught me that data and technology are only worth what a company does with them. The rest I learned on engagements and through certification, up to NIS 2 Senior Lead Implementer.
Today, AI changes what a small team can achieve. That is what gives ProHacktiv its purpose: helping people work smarter, enjoy their craft again, and leave to the machine the tasks that bring nothing. A house built around simple values, people first, sharing, and the pleasure of taking part in something bigger than yourself, with partners who share them.
How we work
Five rules,
and each one shows up in a proposal.
This is not a manifesto. Every line here turns up in a quote, in a workshop or in a deliverable, and you can hold us to it.
We start from your reality, not from a framework.
The first job is to see how you really work, including what nobody wrote down. The framework comes after, to file what we found. People first, process next, the tool last.
We write the documents with your teams.
A management system is built four hands on the keyboard. We are in the workshops, we hold the pen, your teams hold the content. This is not a report we drop on a desk on the way out.
The Diagnostic is scoped up front. Support is used as needed.
The Diagnostic has a scope and an amount fixed before we start. Support as a service runs on time and means: we agree on an envelope, and you use what you need, month after month.
We install, we hand over, and we stay if you need us.
An engagement has succeeded when you come out of it able to run without us. When nobody inside can hold the system, we hold the role as a service, CISO, AI Officer or CDO, month by month.
What you keep carries your name.
Your signed policies, your risk register, the minutes of your committees, your roadmap. It all stays with you, readable without us, and picked up as is by whoever comes next.
You know who you would be dealing with. Now tell us where you stand.
A first thirty-minute call, free of charge, to lay out your situation and see what is worth doing. If the answer is that you need nothing for now, you will hear that too.
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