Delta Protect

Market position

Positions itself as a provider for underserved segments — startups building their own technology and SMEs without budgets for larger cybersecurity firms — in a Latin American market described as highly exposed to cyber attacks, with roughly 1,600 attacks per second in Latin America and the Caribbean and annual cybercrime costs cited at up to $90 billion. Named comparable players include Scitum, MetabaseQ, Hack Metrix and Strike.

Combines AI-based tooling with certified human security engineers across the service stack; delivers prioritized, actionable findings rather than generic reports; automates compliance evidence collection and continuous control monitoring with real-time alerting; offers industry-agnostic, modular services designed to scale from early-stage startups to large corporates; and provides an integrated SaaS layer (Apolo) with automated scanning of client infrastructure.

Technology

Artificial intelligence integrated into each layer of service delivery for anomaly detection, plus Apolo, a B2B SaaS platform integrated into client infrastructure that performs automated scanning and continuous monitoring and covers cybersecurity, human risk and compliance. Additional capabilities include penetration testing and attack-surface mapping across APIs and devices, dark web monitoring, event correlation and threat intelligence in a 24/7 SOC, managed endpoint, email, MDM and firewall tooling with real-time dashboards, and cloud security engineering on AWS, Azure and GCP.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales with inbound lead capture through the corporate website, where prospects specify company size and service interest; reported acquisition channels include Google and social advertising, in-person conferences and events, online webinars, LinkedIn, newsletters, Substack, YouTube, press coverage, AI assistants and partner or colleague referrals. The company has noted that security deals typically involve long sales cycles with extended calls, meetings and negotiations. Client support is delivered through direct channels such as Slack.

Companies of all sizes from 1-10 employees to more than 1,000, with particular emphasis on startups and SMEs that lack in-house security teams or budgets for large vendors; sectors include fintech, SaaS, retail, logistics and law firms, and the client base spans SMEs through established enterprises.

Geography

Headquartered in Mexico City, with website regional selectors for Mexico, the United States and Colombia. The company has reported serving clients in Mexico, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina and the United States, including Miami, Florida, and identifies Mexico and the wider Latin American region as its main growth markets.

History

Delta Protect began operations in 2019, founded by Santiago Fuentes and Antonio Arellano. Its initial focus was fintech companies in Mexico, a market shaped by a major breach of the SPEI interbank payment system and subsequent regulatory cybersecurity requirements; the company closed its first client within six months and signed 21 more within a month to meet a deadline set by the Mexican banking commission. For roughly its first three years the business was primarily consultancy-led, after which it developed in-house technology and launched the Apolo SaaS platform. It subsequently broadened beyond fintech into additional industries and geographies, reporting more than 150 clients and a 30-person team as of mid-2023 and more than 350 companies served according to its later website.

Risks & controversies

Reported challenges include difficulty and cost of hiring qualified cybersecurity talent, dependence on client trust in ethical hacking and dark web monitoring services where a single breach or leak could damage reputation, long and complex enterprise sales cycles, and the need for continuous R&D investment to keep pace with evolving threats and technology.