Security that protects the science — and the raise.
IP theft, ransomware and a denied insurance renewal are business events, not IT events. MorseWire runs prevention, detection, response and compliance as one NIST-aligned program, sized for a venture-stage biotech.
Your science is the target
Sequences, candidates and trial data are worth more than your bank balance — and nation-state and criminal groups know it.
Downtime you cannot afford
A locked file share the week of a filing or a board meeting is not an inconvenience — it is a timeline event.
Your vendors are your surface
CROs, CDMOs and SaaS tools hold your data too. Their breach becomes your disclosure.
Exposure compounds quietly
Data-integrity gaps surface at the worst moments — diligence, audit, inspection — and cost far more then.
Renewal is underwritten now
Carriers verify MFA, EDR, backups and response plans. Weak answers mean denied coverage or doubled premiums.
Investors check posture
Security questions now sit in every term-sheet process. A clean posture is a mark in your favor; a mess is leverage against you.
Prevention, detection, response — as one program.
NIST-aligned and risk-based: the controls that matter for your size and stage, operated continuously, with evidence as a by-product.
Close the doors that matter
Identity and MFA, endpoint protection, email defense, patching and backup done properly — the fundamentals carriers and auditors verify first.
- MFA and identity governance
- EDR on every endpoint
- Tested, isolated backups
- Email and phishing defense
Know within minutes, not months
Monitoring and alerting tuned to a small organization’s reality — signal over noise, with someone accountable for looking.
A plan you have rehearsed
An incident response plan that names people, decisions and communication — including what you tell investors, partners and regulators, and when.
Evidence as a by-product
Controls mapped to what ISO 27001, SOX-404B and your carrier’s questionnaire actually ask — so compliance is a report, not a project.
Renewal-Ready.
A fixed-scope engagement that gets you through cyber-insurance renewal and investor security diligence with honest answers and evidence behind them.
Walk into renewal with proof.
We take the carrier questionnaire and the diligence checklist, close the control gaps that matter — MFA, EDR, backup, response plan — and hand you the evidence file. Answered honestly, coverage granted, premium defended.
Best started 90 days before your renewal date or your next raise — whichever comes first.
How security gets run here.
The same MorseWire methodology across every practice — assess the risk, align the plan, advance continuously.
Risk, mapped to the business
Where your science, data and money actually live, what threatens them, and which gaps matter at your stage — not a 400-line generic audit.
A roadmap the board understands
Prioritized by risk and cost, framed in plain language, agreed with leadership — so security spend is a decision, not a surprise.
Operate and improve
Controls run continuously, people are trained through the Operator Program, and posture is reported quarterly in business terms.
Asked by founders, answered plainly.
We are 20 people. Are we really a target?
Yes — precisely because of what you hold. Early-stage biotech pairs valuable IP with thin defenses, which is the profile attackers prefer. The controls that fix this are not enterprise-priced.
What does “NIST-aligned” mean in practice?
We use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as the map — identify, protect, detect, respond, recover — and implement the subset that is defensible for your size. It gives auditors, carriers and investors a shared reference point.
Will security controls slow the science down?
Badly designed ones do. Ours are risk-based: strong controls around the crown jewels, lighter touch elsewhere. Scientists keep working; the controls sit where the risk sits.
What do investors actually check?
Increasingly the same things carriers do: MFA coverage, endpoint protection, backup and recovery, incident response, vendor risk and training records. Renewal-Ready produces exactly that evidence file.
Insurable. Fundable. Defensible.
A security posture that answers the questionnaire, survives diligence and lets your team stay focused on the science.
Tell us your renewal date or your next milestone. We will tell you where you stand.