Pricing

Transparent pricing.
Unambiguous value.

You're not paying for one consultant's time. You're paying for the collective intelligence of a seasoned team. Every tier includes access to the full hive — no hidden escalation fees.

Retainer Programs

Ongoing engagement models

SMB Shield

Small & Mid-Size Business

$4,500/month

Purpose-built for organizations with 50–500 employees that lack a dedicated security team. The collective provides ongoing advisory and rapid access to senior expertise without the cost of a full-time hire.

  • Dedicated vCISO (fractional, 10 hrs/month)
  • Quarterly security posture review
  • Policy and framework development (NIST CSF)
  • Vendor security assessment (up to 2/quarter)
  • Phishing simulation and staff awareness
  • Priority incident escalation access
  • Monthly executive summary report
  • Access to full collective for escalations

Hive Retainer

Popular

Most Popular

$12,000/month

The flagship engagement. Your organization gets ongoing access to the full collective — a fractional vCISO plus active support from specialists across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud.

  • Dedicated vCISO (fractional, 20 hrs/month)
  • Monthly collective review session (all specialists)
  • Continuous threat landscape briefings
  • Zero trust roadmap development and tracking
  • Identity and MFA program management
  • Endpoint security oversight and tuning
  • Network and perimeter advisory
  • Compliance alignment (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PIPEDA)
  • IR retainer included (4-hour SLA)
  • Unlimited email/Slack advisory access
  • Quarterly board-level security briefing

Enterprise Collective

Enterprise

Custom

For organizations requiring deep, sustained engagement across complex environments. The full collective deployed on a structured basis — embedded advisory, active program delivery, and on-demand crisis response.

  • Dedicated vCISO (full fractional, 40+ hrs/month)
  • Weekly collective strategic sessions
  • Full security program design and delivery
  • Multi-cloud security architecture
  • Red team / adversary simulation (annual)
  • Supply chain and third-party risk program
  • Regulatory compliance delivery (FedRAMP, HITRUST, PCI DSS)
  • IR retainer with <2-hour SLA
  • Executive tabletop exercises
  • Custom reporting and board materials
Project-Based

Scoped engagements

For defined-scope projects, we price by engagement with the full collective assigned from day one.

Service
Range
Notes
Zero Trust Architecture Assessment
$25,000 – $55,000
2–4 week engagement, full collective
Identity & MFA Implementation
$15,000 – $45,000
Scope-dependent on environment size
Network & Perimeter Review
$20,000 – $65,000
Includes segmentation analysis
Endpoint Security Buildout
$20,000 – $60,000
EDR deployment, hardening, monitoring
Security Program Design
$35,000 – $90,000
NIST CSF or ISO 27001-aligned
Incident Response (Active)
$350/hr per consultant
Minimum 4-consultant team deployed
IR Retainer (Annual)
$30,000 – $75,000
Prepaid hours, <4-hour SLA
Tabletop Exercise
$8,000 – $18,000
Half or full-day, hive-facilitated

Incident Response Retainer — Priority Access

The worst time to find an incident response partner is during an incident. Our IR retainer gives you a pre-negotiated contract, defined SLAs, and a team that already knows your environment — ready to mobilize in under 4 hours. Starting at $30,000/year.

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