Building a Security Program From Scratch: The BTA Stack

You've been hired as the first security person (or the first person who cares about security). There's no SIEM, no incident response plan, no compliance framework, and no budget for a $200K security stack. Sound familiar?

This is the playbook for building a functional security program using the BTA product suite. Four phases, each building on the last, each deliverable within weeks rather than months.

Phase 1: Visibility

BTA SIEM (Contact Sales) + BTA ThreatFeed (Contact Sales)

You can't protect what you can't see. Phase 1 is about getting eyes on your environment.

BTA SIEM gives you centralized log collection and detection. Connect your firewall, authentication server, and critical applications as log sources. The 15 pre-built detection rules immediately start flagging brute force attempts, privilege escalation, port scans, C2 communications, and lateral movement.

BTA ThreatFeed enriches what SIEM sees. When SIEM detects a connection to an external IP, ThreatFeed tells you whether that IP appears in threat intelligence feeds. When a DNS query fires, ThreatFeed checks against known C2 domains. The IOC database turns blind spots into actionable intelligence.

Deliverable: Within one week, you have a dashboard showing security events across your environment with automated analysis. You can answer "what happened?" for any security event.

Phase 2: Protection

BTA Identity (Contact Sales) + BTA CodeGuard (Contact Sales)

Visibility tells you what's happening. Protection prevents the bad things from happening in the first place.

BTA Identity gives you identity and access management. Audit every account in your environment: who has access, what role they have, whether MFA is enabled, when their password was last changed, and whether their account should even exist. Privileged accounts get PAM controls with automatic credential rotation.

BTA CodeGuard shifts security left into your development pipeline. 25+ detection rules catch SQL injection, XSS, hardcoded secrets, insecure cryptography, and SSRF before code ships to production. AI explains every finding and generates a secure fix.

Deliverable: Within two weeks, you have access controls enforced, privileged accounts monitored, and code scanning integrated. You can answer "who has access to what?" and "are we shipping secure code?"

Phase 3: Response

BTA SOAR (Contact Sales)

Detection without response is just expensive logging. Phase 3 adds the muscle.

BTA SOAR provides 8 automated playbooks for the most common security scenarios: brute force response, malware containment, phishing investigation, data exfiltration response, privilege escalation containment, vulnerability remediation, compliance checks, and threat hunting.

When SIEM fires an alert, SOAR runs the appropriate playbook. Each playbook is a multi-step workflow: query SIEM for context, enrich with threat intelligence, take containment action, notify the team, create a ticket. What used to take an analyst 45 minutes happens in seconds.

Incident management with timeline tracking means every security event gets a full record: what happened, what was done about it, and who was involved. This is both operational necessity and audit evidence.

Deliverable: Within one week, you have automated response for critical scenarios. You can answer "what did we do about it?" for any security incident.

Phase 4: Governance

BTA Comply (Contact Sales)

You've been building security controls for three phases. Now it's time to prove they work.

BTA Comply maps everything you've built to compliance frameworks. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, and FedRAMP are all pre-configured with control mappings.

The monitoring evidence from SIEM satisfies CC7.1 (Infrastructure Monitoring). The access controls from Identity satisfy CC6.1-CC6.8 (Logical and Physical Access). The incident response from SOAR satisfies CC7.3 (Incident Evaluation). The code scanning from CodeGuard satisfies CC8.1 (Change Management).

Instead of scrambling for evidence at audit time, Comply continuously tracks compliance posture. When the auditor asks about a specific control, you pull up the dashboard and show real-time status.

Deliverable: Within two weeks, you have compliance tracking across one or more frameworks. You can answer "are we compliant?" with data rather than opinions.

Total Investment

The complete BTA stack across all four phases: Contact Sales at individual pricing, or Contact Sales with the Professional bundle (saving 40%).

For context, a single Splunk Enterprise Security license costs Contact Sales minimum. A SOC 2 readiness assessment from a Big 4 firm costs $30,000-$80,000. The BTA Professional bundle gives you SIEM, SOAR, compliance, identity, code security, and threat intelligence for less than the cost of one month of Splunk.