Every résumé, offer letter, and comp figure you share with Crimson Talent lives inside a security program built to enterprise standard — independently audited, encrypted end-to-end, and watched around the clock by our own team.
We treat candidate and client data the way a bank treats money — with least privilege, defense in depth, and the assumption that trust must be continuously earned.
No one — employee or system — gets access they don't need. Role-based access control, mandatory SSO/MFA, and just-in-time elevation govern every request to candidate data.
Encryption, network segmentation, continuous monitoring, and independent testing stack so that no single failure exposes your information. Every layer assumes the one before it can fail.
Trust is never assumed. Annual third-party audits, ongoing penetration testing, a live bug-bounty program, and 24/7 monitoring keep our posture honest — not just at audit time.
You can request our SOC 2 report, penetration-test summary, and DPA under NDA. Our subprocessor list is public, and our status page is always live. No black boxes.
Security at Crimson Talent is a 14-person organization led by our CISO — not an outsourced afterthought. Two functions sit at its core.
Our in-house SOC monitors every system, log, and access event around the clock. A SIEM correlates signals in real time; analysts triage alerts, hunt for threats, and respond before issues become incidents.
Most firms keep attackers (Red) and defenders (Blue) apart. We merge them into one Purple Team — six specialists who continuously attack our own systems and immediately harden what they break.
Candidate and client data is hosted entirely within US regions of Amazon Web Services (us-east-1 / us-west-2) — SOC-compliant data centers your information never leaves.
We collect only what a search requires and delete candidate data on a defined retention schedule — or immediately on request.
Access, correction, and deletion requests under GDPR & CCPA are handled by our Data Protection Officer — no dark patterns, no delays.
Candidate information is used to represent you — full stop. It is never sold, rented, or shared with third parties for marketing.
Every employee passes background checks and annual security training; every subprocessor is reviewed and published on our list.
Our controls are validated by third parties — not self-declared. Reports are available to clients and prospects under NDA through the Trust Center.
Audited by Schellman, a leading independent CPA firm, against the Security, Availability, and Confidentiality Trust Services Criteria — covering operating effectiveness over time, not a point-in-time snapshot.
Report available under NDAOur Information Security Management System is certified to ISO 27001, extended with the ISO 27701 privacy module — a globally recognized framework for managing information and personal-data risk.
Certified & surveilled annuallyWe honor data-subject rights, maintain a public subprocessor list, sign DPAs on request, and appoint a Data Protection Officer — aligning to both EU and California privacy law.
DPA available on requestOur program is mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework — Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover — giving structure to how we assess and mature our controls year over year.
Continuously assessedA documented, rehearsed incident-response plan means the question is never "what do we do?" — it's already answered before an alert fires.
SIEM and SOC analysts identify and triage the signal, classifying severity within minutes.
Affected systems are isolated and access revoked to stop spread while evidence is preserved.
Impacted clients are informed with clear facts — our commitment is notification within 72 hours.
Service is restored from tested backups, followed by a blameless post-incident review and hardening.
We welcome reports from security researchers. If you believe you've found a vulnerability, contact our security team directly — we run a coordinated disclosure program and a private bug bounty.
Prospective and current clients can request our security documentation package under NDA. Everything you need for vendor review, in one place.