How do you handle a security review that threatens to delay a deployment by weeks?

Summary

Start it on day one, come prepared with a security package (SOC 2 or ISO report, architecture and data-flow diagrams, pen-test summary, data-processing terms), answer precisely and honestly, involve your own security team, track it as a critical-path milestone, and escalate early with impact and options (for example a pilot on less sensitive data).

Longer Answer

Security teams are not obstacles: they're stakeholders protecting their organisation. Respecting the process and reducing their effort speeds things up.

Key Points

• Start early, track it.
• Ready-made security package.
• Honest, precise answers.
• Escalate with options.

Deep dive: Forward Deployed Engineering Tutorial: Security Reviews, SSO and Compliance

What interviewers look for

Respect for customer security processes and proactive planning.