Managed security · Portland, Oregon
Managed security for
regulated industries.
Sidechain runs managed security, assessments, penetration testing, and data protection for healthcare, financial services, insurance, retail, and technology organizations.
Organizations Sidechain has worked with
What we do
What we do.
Every engagement starts by mapping where your regulated data lives and who can reach it. That is what a breach exposes and what an auditor asks about first.
Managed security & IT
24/7 monitoring, endpoint and email protection, patching, and Microsoft 365 security, run by an engineer who knows your environment.
Managed securityAssessments & testing
Risk evaluations, HIPAA risk assessments, penetration testing, and AI red teaming, debriefed live by the engineers who did the work.
Testing and assessmentsEncryption & key management
Encryption, key management, HSMs, tokenization, and cloud key control, designed and operated by Thales-certified engineers.
Data securityExplainer
Sidechain in one minute.
A short animated overview of what a Sidechain managed security program covers: threats stopped before they reach the business, audits passed with documentation ready, and a named engineer who does the work in-house.
Of the countless things on my team’s plate, managing encryption infrastructure isn’t a priority. I’m happy to let Sidechain handle all of that so my engineers can focus on what moves our business forward.
Our story
Security from the data up.
Our engineers have deployed encryption, key management, and hardware security modules for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies, including Google, Mastercard, Walmart, AT&T, IBM, and Zoom.
That experience matters when we manage your security. We know what the data looks like, where it moves, who touches it, and what an auditor will ask. We have held Thales’s highest partner tier for eight consecutive years, and every engineer on the data security team is certified on the platforms they operate.
Industries
Industries we work in.
Most of our clients answer to a regulator, an examiner, or a customer’s security team. The program has to hold up with them, not only against attackers.
Healthcare
HIPAA Security Rule compliance, required risk assessments, ePHI protection, and OCR-ready documentation.
Learn moreFinancial services
Banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, and RIAs working under overlapping state and federal security rules.
Learn moreInsurance
NY-DFS Part 500, policyholder data liability, and the security evidence carriers and regulators expect.
Learn moreRetail
PCI-DSS compliance and payment security across distributed locations, from flagship stores to remote POS.
Learn moreTechnology & SaaS
Application and API testing, AI red teaming, and the SOC 2 evidence your customers’ security teams request.
Learn moreProfessional services
Law firms, consultancies, and advisors that hold client data and face client security questionnaires.
Learn moreHow we work
A program that gets managed every month.
Installing the tools is the easy part. Systems change, people leave, new vulnerabilities get published. The program runs on a monthly work plan with a named owner for each item.
Assess
We review your environment, tools, and obligations, then give leadership a clear view of exposure and a prioritized plan.
Remediate
We close the gaps that matter first, coordinating changes with your IT team or MSP and documenting each decision.
Manage
A named engineer runs the program: monitoring, patching, email security, vulnerability management, and incident coordination.
Report
Monthly reporting tracks completed work, outstanding risks, and decisions that need management attention, with audit-ready evidence.
Client voices
What clients say after the work is done.
Sidechain transformed our encryption nightmare into a seamless solution. Finally, data security that just works.
Sidechain’s pen test uncovered three critical vulnerabilities our previous vendor missed entirely. The remediation plan was clear, prioritized, and our team had everything fixed within two weeks.
Sidechain’s team are great communicators, they know their products, and they’re knowledgeable. They’re also just nice people, the kind of people you want to work with.
After two years of trying to manage our encryption platform alone, Sidechain operates it smoother than I ever thought possible.
Sidechain brought expertise and innovation to bear in a niche area for sensitive data encryption. Their work is of exceptionally high quality.
Security & trust
The terms every engagement runs under.
Hiring a security firm means giving it access to your systems. These commitments apply to every client, from the first call.
- Every assessment and penetration test is performed by Sidechain’s own engineers, never subcontracted.
- A named engineer for every client, with a maximum four-hour response commitment.
- Program documentation mapped to HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NY-DFS Part 500, SOC 2, and NIST CSF.
- Client data handled under defined rules of engagement, access controls, and retention limits.
- Testing team
- In-house. Discuss findings directly with the engineers who performed the work.
- Partner tier
- Thales Platinum Partner.
- Experience
- Encryption and key management for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies.
- Frameworks
- HIPAA · PCI-DSS · NY-DFS 500 · SOC 2 · NIST CSF
- Location
- Portland, Oregon.
Insights
Latest from Sidechain Insights.
Business email compromise is the mid-market breach
Ransomware gets the headlines. The mid-market incident that actually happens is a compromised mailbox and a redirected payment. Here is what stops it.
Sidechain launches Timberline, a private AI workspace for healthcare
Timberline gives healthcare organizations modern generative AI in a customer-isolated environment, built and operated by Sidechain Security.
Sidechain publishes its 2026 Services Overview
One reference for everything Sidechain does: IT management, 24/7 monitoring, endpoint and email protection, encryption, backup, private cloud, and testing.
Also from Sidechain
Timberline: private AI for healthcare knowledge work.
We built and operate Timberline, a private AI workspace for healthcare organizations that need modern generative AI without sending protected health information to public model APIs. It is designed, built, and run by Sidechain’s security engineers.
- Isolation
- Customer-isolated, single-tenant environments
- Inference
- Private inference; no public third-party model API for PHI
- Agreements
- Business Associate Agreement available
- Operated by
- Sidechain Security engineers
Talk to an engineer about your program.
Thirty minutes with a Sidechain engineer. Bring your environment, your deadline, and whatever is not working, and we will tell you what we would do first.
(503) 389-3174 · info@sidechainsecurity.com · Portland, Oregon