The Challenge
As the largest and most comprehensive provider in its space, delivering innovative technology solutions to millions of end users, FrontSteps understands the paramount importance of maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture.
“We oversee multiple brands and are constantly rolling out new capabilities. These are complex, highly interconnected systems,” explains Jim Maggio, Vice President of Engineering at FrontSteps.
“Our core challenge was to continuously benchmark and maintain visibility across our security landscape - while accelerating vulnerability triage and shortening remediation timelines.”
Why Siemba
After evaluating several offensive security providers, FrontSteps selected Siemba for its ability to go beyond traditional, point-in-time testing. Siemba’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) approach combines enterprise-grade penetration testing with AI-driven vulnerability management to deliver continuous visibility, validation, and risk reduction.
“Siemba’s enterprise-grade penetration testing and vulnerability management approach, coupled with its simple and scalable SaaS subscription model, were key deciding factors in our final selection,” said Alvin Allen II, Cybersecurity Lead at FrontSteps. “It provided us with the depth of expertise, automation, and continuous insights needed to keep pace with our evolving environment.”
Key Features of Interest
During the engagement, FrontSteps found particular value in several Siemba capabilities that aligned with their operational and security goals:
- Enterprise-Wide Portfolio Management: Organize assets by department and type, while identifying risk trends and patterns across the entire business.
- Key Insights & Risk Scoring: Prioritize effectively by balancing risk exposure with the severity of specific vulnerabilities.
- Collaborative Vulnerability Management Workflows: Unite security and engineering teams on a single platform to accelerate triage and remediation.
- On-Demand Report Generation: Generate executive, compliance, and technical reports instantly with a single click.
- Granular Vulnerability Reporting: Provide detailed findings with full context, ensuring clear understanding and actionable next steps.
- Continuous Assessment & Relationship: Maintain ongoing visibility and validation to keep security posture strong over time.
- Exceptional Communication & Support: Benefit from responsive, knowledgeable customer success and engineering teams that act as true partners.
Key Outcomes for FrontSteps
Through its partnership with Siemba, FrontSteps transformed its security program and achieved measurable operational and strategic gains:
- Scalable Offensive Security Program: Leveraging Siemba’s platform, FrontSteps shifted from ad-hoc testing to a proactive, programmatic approach for continuous security assessments across its entire infrastructure.
- Complete Visibility: Real-time dashboards at the enterprise, asset, penetration testing, and findings levels provided drill-down visibility for both executives and frontline engineers.
- Team Alignment: By onboarding all relevant stakeholders into the platform, FrontSteps established a unified process for vulnerability tracking, prioritization, and remediation.
- Faster Remediation Timelines: Detailed documentation and video proof-of-concept evidence enabled engineering teams to quickly address root causes. Risk and vulnerability trend insights helped leadership prioritize the most critical assets and issues.
- Actionable Intelligence: Siemba’s AI-driven insights filtered out false positives, assessed exploitability, identified missing patches, and leveraged real-time threat indicators to prioritize remediation effectively.
- Audit Readiness: One-click reporting allowed FrontSteps to instantly generate compliance, executive, and operational reports, streamlining both internal mandates and external audits.
Proven Value & ROI
- Foundation for Security & Compliance
Siemba helped Frontsteps establish a robust cybersecurity and compliance foundation tailored to their SaaS business model. This included aligning their infrastructure and internal controls with audit requirements and industry best practices. As a result, Frontsteps gained clarity and confidence in their security posture, enabling smoother audits and risk management.
- Savings of $700K (70%) over 2 years
By partnering with Siemba, Frontsteps optimized their security investments, eliminating redundant tools and streamlining vendor contracts. This strategic approach led to over $700,000 in cost savings - a 70% reduction in projected expenses over two years. These savings were reinvested into product development and customer growth.
- Return on mitigation and Strategic Confidence
Siemba enabled Frontsteps to proactively address security gaps before they became costly incidents. With clear mitigation strategies and continuous support, the team reduced operational risk and improved stakeholder trust. The peace of mind from having expert guidance allowed Frontsteps to focus on innovation without fear of compliance setbacks or breaches.
Preparing for the Future
As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, organizations need a strategy focused on continuous detection, validation, and improvement.
Siemba has been guiding FrontSteps on upcoming Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) capabilities, including GenPT (one-click AI-native continuous security testing), advanced attack surface mapping, and expanded third-party integrations.
Once implemented, these enhancements will strengthen FrontSteps’ ability to anticipate, detect, and address threats, keeping their security posture resilient against future challenges.
