Whoever owns security is making the same quiet trade-off, every week. Chase the finding or ship the fix. Prep the audit or work the actual risk. Manage another vendor or get back to work that matters. Sometimes it’s a CTO who inherited security by default. Increasingly it’s a first security hire, or a small team, outnumbered by the work.

Most security tools weren't built for this. Enterprise platforms assume a security org you’re still building. Free scanners produce noise. Compliance tools tell you what to do but don't do the work. So you cobble together what you can and the patchwork becomes the bottleneck.

Tim Olshansky lived it. As CTO of a fast-growing startup, he'd built the team, shipped the product, owned SOC 2, and assembled ten security tools cobbled into a stack that kind of worked. Vladik watched too many founders make the same trade-off, sprint after sprint, until the patchwork became the bottleneck, and the security work outran the people doing it.

This road traveled led us to build Fencer. An AI-native platform that handles the security work across your attack surface, and escalates only the decisions that need a human. Built for whoever owns security today, and engineered to scale as the function does.

— Vladik Rikhter & Tim Olshansky, Co-Founders, Fencer