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Hiring a cybersecurity vendor is a bit like hiring a plumber who only fixes sinks. They’ll do a great job on the sink. But when the boiler breaks, the drainage backs up, and the pipes freeze – you’re back on the phone, looking for three more contractors who’ve never met each other and don’t share notes.

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“Hiring a cybersecurity vendor is a bit like hiring a plumber who only fixes sinks. They’ll do a great job on the sink. But when the boiler breaks, the drainage backs up, and the pipes freeze – you’re back on the phone, looking for three more contractors who’ve never met each other and don’t share notes.”

That’s how most companies experience IT security. One vendor for compliance. Another for endpoint protection. A third for training. A fourth for device management. None of them talk to each other. None of them own the outcome.

And you – the person who just wanted this off your plate – become the unpaid project manager stitching it all together.

We built Benchmarked to end that.

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Benchmarked is not a single vendor. It's a curated cybersecurity marketplace - a network of 15+ vetted technology partners, 55+ CISOs and senior practitioners, and one unified platform that assembles and manages complete security functions for companies that would rather focus on building their business.

The model is simple: instead of you evaluating, procuring, integrating, and managing a dozen different security tools and service providers, we've already done it. We've tested the vendors. We've negotiated the contracts. We've built the integration layer. We've assigned the people. You get one relationship, one platform, and one team that owns everything from onboarding to incident response.

Think of it as an outsourced IT and cybersecurity department - except it's staffed by people who do this across fifty companies, not just yours. That means better tooling, faster response times, and pattern recognition that a single in-house team can never match.

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The Partnership Network

Every vendor in our network was selected for a reason. We don't resell software. We curate capabilities.

KnowBe4 powers our security awareness and anti-phishing training through CyberMBA. Their platform is the market leader in simulated phishing - but left to its own devices, it becomes another tool nobody configures properly. We manage the full programme: campaign design, user segmentation, reporting, and escalation. The tool works because we operate it.

ImmuniWeb drives our third-party risk management and attack surface monitoring through CyberClearance. Their AI-powered scanning gives us automated security ratings, dark web intelligence, and vulnerability detection across a client's entire vendor ecosystem. We layer analyst review and managed questionnaires on top — turning raw data into actionable vendor risk programmes.

Secureframe handles compliance automation for clients pursuing ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and NIS 2 certification. Instead of months of manual evidence collection, Secureframe integrates directly with cloud infrastructure and pulls evidence automatically. We manage the remediation, the gap analysis, and the auditor coordination.

Resilix Cybersecurity extends our managed SOC capabilities — 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, and incident response delivered by a team that already knows our clients' environments because they're embedded in the same operational fabric.

Egida Security Solutions adds specialised penetration testing and offensive security capabilities. When a client needs red-team exercises or targeted vulnerability assessments, eGida's operators work alongside our forward-deployed engineers to scope, execute, and remediate in a single continuous workflow.

BE-terna (Telefónica Tech), Callidus, Anni, and 4 Spaces round out the network with infrastructure services, managed IT, hardware procurement, and workspace solutions - the operational backbone that makes the whole stack function.

N2K CyberWire and ACI Learning feed our training and development pipeline, keeping both our internal teams and our clients' teams current on the threat landscape.

The result is a supply chain of security capabilities that no single vendor could deliver alone - orchestrated by a team that understands how all the pieces fit together.

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Our Own Product / Companies Portfolio

Benchmarked doesn't just partner with companies. We build them.

Our portfolio includes ventures born from the gaps we saw in the market while operating inside client environments:

Saron Solutions - specialised IT services and infrastructure for the defence and industrial sectors.

Verne Marine - technology solutions for the maritime industry, an environment where OT security and remote connectivity create unique operational challenges.

Cryptera - cryptographic and payment security solutions for financial services and critical infrastructure.

Knowledge Layer - AI-powered knowledge management, built to help organisations capture and operationalise institutional expertise.

ZeroDays - Engineering Lab

Jukko - digital advertising technology with a focus on privacy-first mobile engagement.

Nodestar - infrastructure and DevOps automation for distributed systems.

GetBuilder - construction technology, where digitalisation creates new attack surfaces that most GRC programmes miss entirely.

These aren't passive investments. They're operational extensions of the Benchmarked ecosystem - companies whose capabilities we deploy directly into client engagements when the mission calls for it.

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The Clients

We work with organisations from startups to enterprises, across the USA, UK, UAE, and EU. Our client base spans healthcare, finance, technology, manufacturing, maritime, and energy - sectors where the cost of a security failure isn't a news headline, it's operational shutdown.

Names like Novartis, Sparkasse, and Seabed Geosolutions sit alongside fast-scaling companies like Zebra BI, EKWB, Trajan Wealth, Masterfi, and Bright. Insurance firms like ANO Insurance Solutions. Hospitality groups like Liburnia Group. Industrial companies like Velebit, Robotina, and Margento. Digital agencies and consultancies like Ixian, Kolibri Labs, and EJET Electric Yacht Tenders.

The range is deliberate. A 10-person SaaS startup and a 500-person financial services firm have the same fundamental need: someone competent to take IT and security off their plate and do it properly. The difference is scope, not model.

Fifty-plus companies. Ten thousand devices supported. A 97% reduction in internal IT workload. A 98% customer happiness score. And a 4.9 out of 5 on Clutch verified reviews.

Those numbers don't come from selling software. They come from operating it.

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Why This Model Works

The cybersecurity industry is fragmented by design. Hundreds of point solutions, each solving one narrow problem, each requiring its own procurement, implementation, and management overhead. For an enterprise with a 20-person security team, that fragmentation is manageable. For a company with zero to five IT people - which is most companies - it's paralysing.

Benchmarked collapses that fragmentation into a single relationship. We've done the vendor evaluation. We've built the integrations. We've hired the operators. We've established the processes. A company that engages us doesn't need to become an expert in cybersecurity procurement. They need to become an expert in running their business. We handle the rest.

This is what "curated, vetted, delivered" actually means. Not a marketplace where you browse and choose. A managed network where we've already chosen - based on thousands of hours of operational experience - and we deliver the outcome as a service.

One platform. One team. Every capability you need. No assembly required.

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