15+ Years In The Trenches
Founded by a practitioner with 15+ years inside Cyber Security — not a generalist recruiter.
DIRECT-HIRE CYBER + AI SECURITY ACCEPTING NEW MANDATES
Cyber & AI Security Recruiting
Hire the people your threat model actually needs.
Fortium Group places deeply vetted Cyber & AI Security leaders — validated by practitioners, calibrated to your stack, ready on day one. Gems, not just résumés.
EXAMPLE · MPC-0421 vetted
AK
A. Khatri
AI Red Team Lead · Series C
DEPTH 9.4/10
LEADERSHIP 8.7/10
FIT 9.1/10
Shipped jailbreak defence framework at a Fortune-50 lab
Screened by an active security practitioner
Compensation calibrated · ready to interview
The vetting network
Practitioners vetting practitioners.
Every Fortium shortlist is screened by a senior security practitioner — someone who has built and run security programs, not a generalist recruiter. No resume theater. Real signal, validated by someone who has done the work.
Active practitioners only CISO & security leadership Red Team & offensive AI & ML security Cloud & detection AppSec & product security
Built for security teams in
FinTech & BankingSaaS & CloudHealthcare & Life SciencesAI Labs & Scale-upsSecurity VendorsCritical Infrastructure
Why Fortium
A vetting protocol built by security people, for security people.
Expert-Validated Talent
Every shortlist is screened by a senior security practitioner before it touches your inbox.
Tactical Speed
Target: a vetted shortlist within 7 business days of intake. Vetting happens upstream — before you ever see a resume.
Built For Modern Threats
We recruit LLM Security Engineers, AI Red Teamers, Cloud Detection Engineers, AppSec Architects, and Zero Trust leads.
Direct-Hire, Not Drip-Feed
Permanent placement only. We commit to fit, not headcount throughput.
What is a "Most Placeable Candidate"?
A Most Placeable Candidate (MPC) is a pre-vetted Cyber Security or AI Security professional whose technical depth, leadership signal, compensation expectations, and cultural fit have been independently validated by an active industry practitioner. The MPC framework is designed to cut hiring-manager interview load: you meet 3–5 candidates who have already cleared a practitioner-led technical screen, instead of sifting through dozens of resumes.
Practice areas
Roles we place.
From first-CISO hires at growth-stage startups to AI Red Team builds inside large enterprises — Fortium covers the full Cyber and AI Security stack.
CISOVP of SecuritySecurity ArchitectDetection & Response LeadAppSec EngineerCloud Security EngineerIAM ArchitectGRC DirectorPenetration TesterThreat Intel AnalystSOC ManagerIncident ResponderZero Trust ArchitectOT/ICS SecurityDevSecOps LeadSecurity Engineering ManagerLLM Security EngineerAI Red TeamerML Threat ResearcherAI Governance LeadAdversarial ML EngineerModel Supply-Chain SecurityAI Trust & SafetyPrompt Injection AnalystAI Policy & RiskResponsible AI LeadML SecOpsModel Privacy Engineer
Browse role hiring guides — skills, salaries, interview questions →
The vetting protocol
From brief to shortlist — target: 7 business days.
STEP 01
Intake calibration
We sit with your hiring manager to map technical depth, leadership signal, and team culture before sourcing.
STEP 02
Practitioner sourcing
Practitioner-led search surfaces candidates invisible to generalist recruiters.
STEP 03
Expert technical screen
A senior security practitioner validates skills against the actual threat surface you operate in.
STEP 04
Shortlist delivered
3–5 Most Placeable Candidates land in your inbox, typically within 7 business days.
15+ Years of cyber security domain experience
7d Target to first shortlist
90d Replacement guarantee
1d First reply (business days)
Figures are service commitments and targets, not historical averages.
$ open shell — explore Fortium via terminal commands
For the curious: type help to see what's available. Try whoami, mission, or book.
SECURE SHELL · fortium@gem · TLS 1.3
Start the conversation
Tell us who you need. We'll bring the gem.
Brief us on the role, the team, and the urgency. You'll have a qualified shortlist faster than your next sprint review.
— Punit Dwivedi
Glossary
- Most Placeable Candidate (MPC)
- A pre-vetted Cyber or AI Security professional whose technical depth, leadership signal, compensation expectations, and cultural fit have been independently validated by an active industry practitioner.
- Zero Trust Architecture
- A security model that assumes no implicit trust between users, devices, or services — every access decision is continuously verified.
- AI Red Team
- A specialized team that probes machine-learning systems for adversarial weaknesses including prompt injection, model exfiltration, and jailbreaks.
- LLM Security Engineering
- The discipline of securing applications built on large language models — input validation, output filtering, prompt-injection defense, and supply-chain integrity.