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title: "A security baseline for a growing company: AI Use Case"
description: "Put the basic security controls in place that customers, insurers and investors expect, with an owner and evidence for each, before a questionnaire or incident forces the issue."
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# A security baseline for a growing company

Put the basic security controls in place that customers, insurers and investors expect, with an owner and evidence for each, before a questionnaire or incident forces the issue.

[Talk through this workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/?need=fractional-cto&from=%2Fuse-cases%2Fsecurity-baseline-for-a-growing-company%2F#write) · [Fractional CTO](https://lidvizion.ai/services/fractional-cto/)

Where it starts

## The trigger.

A large customer sends a security questionnaire, an insurer asks for controls, or the team has grown past the point where everyone knows every system.

How it runs today

- Accounts and admin rights have grown without review.
- Multi-factor sign-in, backups and updates are applied unevenly.
- Security questions are answered from memory, differently each time.

The workflow

## Four bounded steps.

Each step has an owner and a stop rule.

1. 01 / Inventory
   List systems, admin accounts, devices and where sensitive data lives.
2. 02 / Baseline
   Agree a short list of controls: multi-factor sign-in, access reviews, backups, updates and device security.
3. 03 / Close gaps
   Fix the gaps in priority order, each with an owner and a due date.
4. 04 / Evidence
   Keep simple evidence for each control and review it on a set schedule.

Where people stay in control

## Approval points.

- Leadership approves the baseline and accepts any remaining risks explicitly.
- Owners confirm each control is in place; nothing is marked done automatically.

How we would measure it

## Against a baseline.

Measured before and after, on the same work.

### Controls in place with evidence, out of the agreed baseline.

### Admin accounts reviewed in the last quarter.

### Time to answer a customer security questionnaire.

Related

## Go deeper.

- [Fractional CTO](https://lidvizion.ai/services/fractional-cto/): Senior technical ownership for companies that need direction and execution without immediately adding a full-time CTO.
- [Client vs. server: where code runs](https://lidvizion.ai/resources/basics/backend-client-vs-server/): What belongs in the browser or app, and what must stay on a server you control.
- [Set a security baseline in 30 days](https://lidvizion.ai/guides/set-a-security-baseline-in-30-days/): A four-week playbook to inventory your systems, agree a short list of security controls, close the most important gaps and keep evidence ready for customers and insurers.
- [What Should a Security Baseline Include?](https://lidvizion.ai/answers/what-should-a-security-baseline-include/): What should a basic security baseline include for a growing company?

More use cases

## Other places to start.

[All use cases](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/)

- [An AI tool and vendor decision you can defend](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/ai-tool-and-vendor-decision/): Leadership Replace scattered subscriptions and competing vendor pitches with one decision, made on your workflows, data rules and costs.
- [A technology roadmap the board can follow](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/technology-roadmap-for-the-board/): Leadership Turn scattered technical priorities into a sequenced roadmap with owners, costs and risks that non-technical leaders can hold you to.
- [Technical due diligence preparation](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/technical-due-diligence-prep/): Leadership Get the technology, code and security story in order before investors or an acquirer ask, so diligence confirms the plan instead of derailing it.

An illustrative workflow pattern, not a result from a specific customer.

Bring the messy version

## One workflow. A better way to run it.

Show us the tools, the handoffs, and the part that keeps slowing your team down.

[Let’s map your workflow](https://lidvizion.ai/contact/) · [Read our approach](https://lidvizion.ai/approach/)