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A named senior security leader on a flexible retainer — strategy, board reporting and compliance ownership.
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New Partnerships with Ploy, Oligo, Lansweeper, Black Duck & CredShields
The AI-powered cybersecurity & engineering company
Empowering businesses to innovate fast with security. We build and operate world-class security programmes for regulated organisations across Albania, the Western Balkans and the EU — practitioner-led and AI-augmented.
100+years of combined team experience
160engineering teams transformed
20countries served
3offices · Tirana, Prishtina & Skopje
Our technology partners
The problem we solve
Threats move faster than traditional security programmes
Breaches go undetected for months, cloud misconfigurations pile up, and regulators now expect evidence — not intentions.
247 days
average time to identify and contain a breach
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2026We cut detection to hours — not months.
99%
of cloud breaches are the customer's fault
GartnerWe embed security before you go live.
€10M
or 2% of global turnover — the maximum NIS2 fine for essential entities
NIS2 Directive, Art. 34We own your compliance programme end-to-end.
What we do
Every security domain. Five practice areas. One partner.
From board-level strategy to ECU hardware testing — every service is led by a named practice lead and augmented by our own AI tooling.
Security Governance, Risk & Compliance
NIS2, DORA, GDPR, ISO 27001 and Albanian Law 17/2023 — from gap assessment to audit-ready.
Learn moreApplication Security & DevSecOps
Threat modelling, SAST/DAST/SCA, pipeline security gates and AI-driven posture management.
Learn moreCloud Security & Architecture
Secure-by-design landing zones, CSPM, Kubernetes and workload protection across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Learn moreData Security & Privacy
Classification, DLP, PKI and key management, and a post-quantum cryptography roadmap.
Learn moreIdentity & Access Management
IAM maturity assessment and roadmap, MFA and passwordless, IGA, PAM and Zero Trust.
Learn moreSAP Security
SAP hardening, segregation of duties and continuous vulnerability monitoring — powered by Onapsis.
Learn moreManaged SOC & Threat Management
24/7 SOC-as-a-Service — detection engineering, incident response and AI-powered SOAR.
Learn moreAsset Discovery & Attack Surface
Find shadow IT and eliminate blind spots — external attack surface, cloud, OT and IoT.
Learn morePenetration Testing & Red Teaming
Infrastructure, web, API, mobile and full adversary simulation — with a free retest of critical findings.
Learn moreOT & Industrial Security
Passive OT asset discovery, IEC 62443 segmentation, monitoring and NIS2 evidence for critical infrastructure.
Learn moreSecurity Education & Enablement
Awareness training, certification prep and security champions — on SquareVertex Learnhub, our AI-enabled LMS.
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Partnerships
Partner technology, delivered by our team
We partner with Ploy for identity, Oligo for runtime application security, Lansweeper for IT and OT assets, Black Duck for software supply chain and CRA compliance, and CredShields for automated pentesting — then our team turns the findings into a plan and delivers it.
Identity & accessFree Identity Risk and ITSM scans; IAM roadmap and rollout.
Runtime AppSecFix what actually runs; detect attacks on live applications.
IT & OT assetsOne inventory of every device; free OT visibility scan.
Supply chain & CRASCA, SBOMs and evidence for the Cyber Resilience Act and NIS2.
Automated pentestingContinuous automated testing, validated by our pentesters.Our AI advantage
AI built into how we deliver
AI isn't a slide in our deck — it's built into how we deliver every engagement.
AI Threat Modelling Engine
Turns architecture diagrams and design notes into STRIDE attack trees and suggested controls, which our consultants then review and refine with your team.
AI-Powered SOC Triage
LLM-assisted alert enrichment, automated SOAR playbooks and help drafting detection rules, with analysts making the final call.
Autonomous Compliance Evidence
AI agents gather NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001 evidence from your systems and organise it by control, ready for review and audit.
AI Attack Path Discovery
ML-assisted reconnaissance and automated attack graphs that help our testers map and prioritise likely attack paths.
RAG Security Knowledge Platform
A retrieval-augmented assistant that answers security questions from our delivery playbooks and your own documentation.
AI-Native Asset Classification
Combines IT and OT discovery data with AI classification, matches assets to known CVEs and scores the risk.
Who we serve
Built for EU-regulated organisations modernising their security
Typically 200–5,000 employees, operating under NIS2, DORA, GDPR or sector regulation.
Financial Services
Banks · fintechs · payment processors
Government & Public Sector
National · municipal · agencies
Critical Infrastructure
Energy · water · aviation
Automotive & Manufacturing
OEM · Tier 1 · smart factory
Technology & SaaS
Cloud-native platforms · scale-ups
Healthcare & Pharma
MedTech · life sciences · hospitals
After your Start Here call
Fixed-scope first engagements
Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute Start Here call. Pick a topic below and we'll book the call with it preselected — then agree a clear scope, a fixed fee and a concrete deliverable.
NIS2 Readiness Assessment
Outcome: Gap report, control mapping and an audit-ready evidence pack.
Book a free call External Attack Surface Scan
Outcome: Full domain exposure report with risk-prioritised findings.
Book a free call DevSecOps Maturity Review
Outcome: Pipeline security report and tooling recommendations.
Book a free call SOC-in-30-Days
Outcome: SIEM live, first detections and analyst playbooks deployed.
Book a free call Cloud Security Posture Review
Outcome: CSPM findings, CIS gaps and an IAM risk register.
Book a free call AI Security Review
Outcome: LLM / GenAI threat model and data governance gaps.
Book a free call Client outcomes
Real engagements. Measurable results.
DevSecOps transformation — Middle East government
Security embedded across the full SDLC, with SAST/SCA tooling integrated into CI/CD, a vulnerability management workflow and a Security Champion programme.
Enterprise security transformation — European financial group
A combined consultant and client team across 160 teams in 32 companies, achieving security by design at scale.
Post-quantum cryptography — major European bank
Quantum-safe capabilities, an accelerated NIST-aligned migration roadmap and a cryptographic asset inventory.
Why SquareVertex.AI
Enterprise pedigree with the pace of a startup
Blue-chip grade delivery
Our team has built and run security programmes for multinational blue-chip system integrators, consultancies and technology firms at enterprise scale. We bring institutional knowledge, not startup ambition.
AI that works
AI threat modelling, automated compliance evidence, AI-assisted SOC triage and a security knowledge assistant — tools our consultants use on engagements.
Albania, Kosovo & EU native
Law 17/2023, AKSK supervision, Kosovo's cybersecurity framework, Bank of Albania expectations and EU accession criteria — context global MSSPs simply don't have.
Full-spectrum partner
Advisory → Engineering → Managed → Offensive → Education. One partner for the full security transformation.
Insights
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Where we are
Three offices, one team across the Western Balkans
Headquartered at Durana Tech Park in Tirana, with branches in Prishtina and Skopje to serve clients across Kosovo and North Macedonia — all in the CET time zone, close to the EU organisations we work with.
Community
Main sponsor of OWASP Tirana and OWASP Prishtina
SquareVertex.AI is proud to be the main sponsor of the OWASP Tirana and OWASP Prishtina chapters — free, open meetups where developers and security practitioners share what they know about building secure software.
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Regulation decoded, notes from the field and AI that works — on LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.
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Whether you need to assess your security posture, meet a regulatory deadline, respond to a threat or build your team's skills — we have the people, tools and expertise to help.