Hyper-growth
Revenue & scale driven
Kennex is a security architecture and engineering leadership practice for security-sensitive and regulated companies. We assess the architecture, harden it, build the security program around it — and stay long enough to see it through. Strategy and the build, from the same person.
Kennex works with companies whose architecture has to hold up under scrutiny — from auditors, from customers, from attackers.
You need technical-co-founder-caliber leadership from someone who also owns security — not two hires and a translation layer between them.
You want the velocity without wrecking your security posture or your compliance story. Both are recoverable — but not cheaply.
SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or a customer security review with teeth. The architecture needs a hard look before someone else gives it one.
You need security-architecture diligence with a builder's eye — someone who can tell real risk from a finding that reads scary in a report.
If you've been handed strategy by people who've never shipped, or "we'll build it" by people who don't own the risk — that's the gap Kennex fills.
A career spent bridging security and product, strategy and the actual build. The reason leaders keep coming back is simple: both halves, from the same person.
Technology and security vision, architecture, program maturity, board-level clarity, regulatory roadmaps. The judgment of someone who has held the seat.
Remediation, secure multi-tenant SaaS, cloud and Kubernetes hardening, AppSec programs, AI-native delivery. Hands on the keyboard, not just the whiteboard.
These are the problems Kennex is built for. Most engagements start with one and pull in the others — so we shape the work to the problem rather than the other way around.
A hard look at how your system is actually built — then help fixing what the look turns up. Not a report that ends at the findings.
Design that survives the audit — and the customer security review that arrives before it. Tailored to the regime you're actually facing.
Securing the way software is actually built now — containerized, multi-tenant, continuously deployed, and moving faster than any review cycle.
Standing up an application security program that engineers don't route around — built by someone who sold a company doing exactly this.
Adopt AI without the tech-debt-and-risk hangover — on both sides: how you build with it, and how you secure what you build.
Embedded technical and security leadership for founders, CEOs, and boards — from someone who has held the seat and can still open the code.
Engagements take the shape the work needs — advisory, an embedded stretch, or a defined piece of delivery. The first conversation is about your problem, not a package.
We start with how the system is actually built and what it's actually exposed to — the load-bearing decisions everything else inherits. Clarity before code.
Findings without remediation are just a nicer-looking risk register. We help do the work — with a small senior team and AI-native leverage where it's safe.
The goal isn't a clean report. It's an architecture, a practice, and a team that hold up after we're gone — through the audit and the production reality after it.
Kennex pairs a principal with two decades across security and engineering leadership with a senior network we bring in to deliver. That principal is a founder with a successful exit — a DevSecOps company acquired by an industry leader — who went on to lead engineering efforts globally, take a FedRAMP High authorization end-to-end, and build and scale multi-tenant SaaS for enterprise customers.
Today the studio serves as fractional CTO to multiple cybersecurity ventures and CISO advisor in regulated financial services — and builds AI-native products with small, senior teams. Engagements scale from a single trusted advisor to a small senior team; most clients are US-based. The studio is based in Toronto and available anywhere — remote or on-site as the engagement needs.
An architecture that needs a hard look, an audit bearing down, an AppSec program to stand up, an AI adoption you want to get right, or a CTO/CISO seat to fill — let's find where Kennex fits.