24/7 monitoring, detection, and response engineered for regulated environments.
Board-grade guidance on resilience, compliance, and program design.
One cybersecurity partner across European, Middle Eastern, and US-facing scope.
Mentor 2 Secure is a cybersecurity advisory and managed services firm serving enterprises, regulated industries, public-sector bodies, critical infrastructure operators, and international organizations. We combine executive-level guidance with hands-on security operations, so leadership decisions translate directly into measurable resilience.
Our work sits where regulation, technology, and operations meet. We help organizations design cybersecurity programs that satisfy demanding European frameworks, modernize security operations for Middle East transformation agendas, and give US enterprises a reliable execution partner for their international footprint. We do not chase trends. We build the security posture that survives audits, incidents, and scrutiny, the kind that boards, regulators, and operators can stand behind.
Every engagement is shaped around the regulatory environment our clients actually operate in.
Advisory turns into runbooks, controls, and a SOC that responds when something is wrong.
One partner, consistent standards, three active regions.
A curated portfolio of best-in-class security products. Each is chosen because it complements our practice, fits regulated environments, and delivers measurable resilience.
Complete threat detection and response platform with AI-powered, behaviour-based detection uncovering active threats from local network to Office 365.
Automated deception system maintaining a network of traps, fake devices and services to attract attackers and enable instant response.
Automated penetration testing platform that finds exploitable vulnerabilities, tests security response and increases real-life cyber resilience.
Reliable email archival tool that organises all email communications into a searchable, locally available enterprise datastore. Supports many migration scenarios.
Feature-rich encrypted communication tool with on-premise or privately hosted servers. Robust end-to-end encryption makes eavesdropping impossible.
Data intelligence platform that applies machine learning across enterprise data to identify correlations, visualise data movement and fulfil security and compliance use cases.
Europe's leading firewall vendor, part of the Airbus Group. Develops robust industrial firewalls to enforce security policies within OT networks.
Easy-to-deploy, automated industrial security with a real OT mindset. Practical, cost-efficient solutions to secure critical networks on any budget.
Vectra's network threat detection and Acalvio's deception mesh passively secure any industrial or critical system, without network changes.
Easy and cost-efficient Privileged Access Management that simply works. Provides a secrets and password vault and a web-based portal for recorded access.
Full-featured user activity management with data loss prevention to secure the home office. Easily extends to all workstations and laptops.
Complete user behaviour analysis platform with data discovery and permission management. Works server-side and in the cloud, without endpoint agents.
A combined advisory and operations practice for regulated enterprises and critical infrastructure operators. We design the program, build the controls, and run the SOC.
Managed SOC coverage across regions and time zones
Active regions, one delivery standard
Business days to a structured engagement outline
Structured uplift milestones during onboarding
A Managed SOC for continuous detection and response, and a Cybersecurity advisory and engineering practice for program design, resilience, and regulated-sector compliance.
24/7 detection, response, and security monitoring for regulated environments and critical infrastructure. Telemetry across users, endpoints, identities, cloud workloads, and OT systems, with the evidence trail audits demand.
Executive-level guidance paired with engineering depth, with deep specialization in critical infrastructure protection. We design and operate cybersecurity programs from board-level strategy to control implementation.
Critical infrastructure is the operating context that shapes how we engineer, operate, and report. The sectors we serve share a common reality: the cost of a cyber incident is measured in service continuity, public trust, and regulatory exposure.
OT-aware monitoring, segmentation, vendor-risk discipline, and incident response readiness for generation, transmission, and distribution.
Operational resilience, incident reporting, third-party assurance, and SOC use cases tuned to safety-critical systems.
DORA-aligned ICT risk, resilience testing, and oversight of critical third-party providers.
Identity-first defence, medical-device exposure management, and breach response readiness under sector regulation.
NIS2 alignment, supply-chain assurance, and SOC build-out for entities with national-scale scrutiny.
Cross-domain visibility, OT and IoT segmentation, and continuous monitoring for high-growth digital ecosystems.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined arc. Phases compress or extend with scope, but the structure does not change.
Map current state, regulation, controls, and OT exposure. Output: prioritized improvement plan.
Translate priorities into target architecture, governance, and SOC use cases tied to regulation and risk.
Implement controls, instrument telemetry across IT and OT, codify runbooks. Engineering and advisory move in parallel.
24/7 detection and response, executive reporting, continuous tuning. The team that designed it runs it.
We work in the regulations that actually shape our clients' risk posture and reporting obligations, and we map every control we recommend to the relevant clause.
Trusted advisory. Operational delivery. Critical infrastructure, end to end.
Each scenario can be scoped as advisory, managed delivery, or a combined program.
A US-headquartered organization expands into European and Middle Eastern markets and needs cybersecurity execution that aligns with EU regulatory expectations, regional incident response capability, and a SOC that operates in their hours and their counterparts'. Mentor 2 Secure stands up the regional security operating model and runs it.
Engage on this scenarioA financial services or critical infrastructure operator must close the gap between its current security program and NIS2 / DORA expectations. We translate the regulation into controls, instrumentation, and SOC use cases, and stay on to operate them.
Engage on this scenarioA government-adjacent or large enterprise client in the Gulf is scaling rapidly and needs to move from fragmented tooling to a coherent SOC, mature incident response, and a cybersecurity program ready for national-scale scrutiny. Mentor 2 Secure delivers the design and the operational uplift.
Engage on this scenarioEnergy, utilities, transport, aviation, and industrial operators need security that respects operational technology constraints and reflects sector regulation. We build the architecture and the monitoring around the realities of OT.
Engage on this scenarioLeadership-level support for boards, audit committees, and CEOs facing cyber-resilience questions, regulatory engagement, or post-incident scrutiny.
Engage on this scenarioFor organizations whose risk surface extends through dozens or hundreds of vendors, we design and operate the assurance program, the contractual baseline, and the monitoring required to keep it credible.
Engage on this scenarioSix landing pages, each written so the trigger you are facing is the first sentence. Tier-2 supplier, regional bank, regional clinic, smart-city operator — the page is for you.
NIS2, TISAX, OEM cybersecurity questionnaires.
→ Book a sector callIn the new NIS2 essential-entity perimeter.
→ Book a sector callDORA translated into 14 controls and 6 SOC use cases.
→ Book a sector call§ 75c SGB V and NIS2 — at the same time.
→ Book a sector callNIS2 essential-entity scope. Operational resilience first.
→ Book a sector callThe productized engagement that fits any sector above.
→ Read NIS2 ReadyFour fixed-scope, fixed-price SKUs designed so a CFO can sign without booking three more calls. Each SKU plays a distinct role in the lifecycle of a regulated mid-market organisation — one-shot compliance, ongoing executive ownership, ongoing monitoring, and ongoing incident-response capability.
One-shot compliance setup. From panic letter to audit-ready evidence in six weeks.
Ongoing executive ownership. A named senior advisor your board and regulator can point to.
Ongoing monitoring and detection with audit-grade evidence and triage.
Ongoing incident-response capability with regulator-notification support.
All four productized SKUs in one programme. Year 1 €58,000 (saves €9,900). Year 2 onwards €42,000. Most regulated mid-market organisations end up here — at under €60k Year 1 and under €45k recurring, this is what mid-market cybersecurity should actually cost in DACH.
Mid-market buyers compare against two real alternatives. Same trigger, three different responses. Pick the row that fits your situation.
Cheap, accessible. Often fails an audit.
Productized for the regulated mid-market. Senior advisors deliver, not pitch.
Credible but expensive. Senior pitches, junior delivers.
Three engagements, anonymised for client confidentiality. All DACH. All regulated mid-market. References available on request.
A BSI registration letter under NIS2 landed two days before the KRITIS reporting cycle began. The IT manager had no SOC, no incident-response runbook, and no documented OT segmentation. The board needed an answer to the regulator within 30 days.
A German OEM customer issued an updated cybersecurity questionnaire that the supplier could not answer. A failed answer meant losing the next contract. TISAX Level 2 was due in five months. NIS2 added a third deadline on top.
An attempted ransomware incident hit two months earlier — caught at the perimeter, but it surfaced gaps. The board demanded a named cybersecurity owner. § 75c SGB V audit was 12 months away. NIS2 essential-entity classification was confirmed.
Three precise ways to engage Mentor 2 Secure. Each is scoped to outcomes, integrates with the way your organization already operates, and is delivered end to end by the same accountable team.
Executive cyber advisory and program design. Targeted, time-boxed, and delivered to a senior accountable partner.
24/7 detection, monitoring, and response, engineered for regulated environments and critical infrastructure.
Strategic advisory and operational delivery under a single accountable partner. Designed for multi-region scope and high-stakes transformation.
Mentor 2 Secure supports regulated industries, public-sector bodies, and critical infrastructure operators across Europe. Engagements typically address NIS2 and DORA implementation, GDPR-aligned security, supply-chain cyber resilience, and the operational uplift required to keep pace with European regulatory scrutiny. We deliver in environments where evidence, auditability, and continuity carry as much weight as detection.
We support cyber modernization across the Middle East, with a focus on national transformation programs, critical infrastructure, energy, aviation, financial services, and large-scale digital ecosystems including smart-city and government-adjacent initiatives. Engagements address SOC build-out, incident response readiness, regulated-sector compliance, and the executive guidance required when cybersecurity becomes a national priority.
We support US- and Canada-headquartered enterprises and regulated organizations operating internationally. Typical engagements address cyber resilience for cross-border operations, SOC maturity, third-party and supply-chain risk, alignment with European, US (NIST CSF, SEC), and Canadian regulatory expectations (OSFI, PIPEDA, provincial privacy law), and trusted regional execution across European and Middle Eastern footprints.
For engagement enquiries, regulatory questions, or confidential incident-related discussions.
Book a 30-minute confidential call with a senior advisor. No form required.
Available 24/7. Our team of experts can stand up a secure virtual war room within hours, with senior advisors, SOC analysts, and incident-response engineers on the line.
Available on request — PGP, Signal, or Threema.
Reviewed by a senior advisor. Reply within two business days.
Engagements conducted in English and German.
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Mentor 2 Secure delivers cybersecurity that holds up to a regulator, an auditor, and a board. The credentials below — held by the team, by our specialist partners, and by the technology stack we deploy — are the verifiable foundation of that delivery.
Held personally by Mentor 2 Secure senior advisors. Verifiable on AXELOS, PeopleCert, and individual LinkedIn profiles.
Where Mentor 2 Secure delivers in partnership with a specialist firm, the partner's credentials are part of the engagement.
Each partner credential below is held by the partner organisation and surfaced here for verification.
Operational governance platform whose credentials underpin our NIS2 engagement deliveries. We operate the CIVERA platform on behalf of the client; the platform's audit-grade evidence engine is what the regulator accepts.
Where Mentor 2 Secure delivers Watch (Managed SOC starter), Logstail provides the underlying log-aggregation and security-analytics engine. Cloud-native, EU-hostable, with compliance-grade retention and real-time threat detection — built so a mid-market organisation gets SOC-grade telemetry without enterprise-grade integration cost.
Where an engagement requires red-team, ransomware-resilience, or purple-team work, ThreatDefX delivers under joint scope. Their credentialled practitioners are the offensive layer of every Integrated Programme.
A cybersecurity firm without a published privacy policy, AGB, DPA, sub-processor list, and SOC data-handling statement is an immediate disqualification for serious buyers. The eight documents below are how Mentor 2 Secure passes that test before the first call.
GDPR Art. 13/14 disclosure: controller, purposes, legal bases, retention, recipients, rights.
TTDG-compliant disclosure with granular opt-in. Banner active on every page.
German B2B terms: liability, confidentiality, IP, termination, governing law (German), jurisdiction (Munich).
GDPR Art. 28 processor agreement template, SCC-aligned. Available as signed PDF on request.
Live, public, dated. Cloud providers, email, SOC tooling, billing — all listed with purpose and region.
What we collect, how long, where stored, who accesses. SOC operating model, named SOC manager, analyst location, EU data residency.
Public extract of internal ISMS: encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, incident response, vendor management.
For Watch and Managed SOC clients: what the service can and cannot do, scope discipline, evidence requests.
Most cybersecurity vendors do not publish anything close to this. The outline below is on the public site; the full statement is provided on request to info@mentor2secure.com . Here is what it commits to:
Authentication events, network metadata, EDR telemetry, email metadata, OT telemetry where applicable. We do not collect file contents, message bodies, or screen recordings.
EU-region hosting only. AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, dual-control key management.
Default 12 months. Configurable per client up to 7 years for regulated retention.
Named SOC manager, role-based access for analyst pool, dual-control for retrieval, full audit trail. Personnel vetted to BSI Grundschutz baseline.
Munich and (from Q3 2026) Frankfurt. EU citizens or EU residents only. Background checks aligned to BSI personnel-security baseline.
2-hour callback. NIS2 24h/72h/1-month notification support. Forensic-evidence preservation procedure agreed in writing per client.
Read-only client portal access to your own SOC events. Optional quarterly third-party-attested report.
