Security by industry

Every industry has its own security model. Pick yours for the specific threats, the regulations that apply, and the buyer signals that matter.

B2B SaaS

Selling SaaS to B2B buyers means passing their security review. The review asks ~150 standardized questions covering auth, data, process, and increasingly AI transparency. Miss the baseline and the deal stalls.

Fintech

Fintech introduces two layers beyond SaaS baseline: payment-card handling (PCI-DSS) and the heightened threat model of money movement. Fraud, account takeover, and insider risk are primary concerns.

Healthcare / health-tech

Any product that touches PHI needs HIPAA compliance, BAAs with sub-processors, and strong audit logging. AI-clinical-decision products add model-governance requirements.

E-commerce

E-commerce security is payment + PII + fraud-defense. Most modern stacks use Stripe / Shopify Payments to offload card-handling; the remaining surface is account takeover, address enumeration, and checkout fraud.

EdTech

Products used in K-12 handle minors' PII under COPPA + FERPA. Higher-ed products handle FERPA-covered student records. International EdTech also faces GDPR-Kids, India's DPDP Act, and more.

Marketplace

Marketplaces balance frictionless onboarding with fraud defense. Typical attacker profile: sellers selling stolen goods, buyers committing payment fraud, account takeovers to monetize reputation, safety incidents between users.

Developer tools

If you sell dev tools, a single vulnerability in your product = potential breach at every customer. Your security posture needs to be above industry-baseline simply because your attack surface is everyone's production.

AI products (LLM wrappers + agents)

AI products add a new threat model on top of standard SaaS risks. Prompt injection, model supply chain, cost-of-abuse, data residency in training, and EU AI Act compliance all become first-class concerns.