Studios that have designed SOC consoles, threat-detection tools, identity products and vulnerability dashboards, and can prove it on their own sites
Last updated: November 5, 2026. Written by Nick Babich.
A security analyst at 3 a.m. does not read your interface, she scans it. She has a queue of alerts, most of them noise, and a few seconds to decide which one is an attack. That is the user a cybersecurity UX design agency designs for, and it is a very different job from a SaaS dashboard or a marketing site.
I built this shortlist for founders and product leads at security companies: SIEM, XDR and SOC automation vendors, identity and access platforms, vulnerability scanners, anti-fraud apps. My rule was strict. A studio only made it if its own website shows a case or page about a real security product, with the people it designed for and the screens it changed. A "cybersecurity" tag on a services menu was not enough, and neither were roundup lists.
About ninety agency websites went through that filter, and nine passed. Monsoonfish and Evil Martians have redesigned SOC tools around analyst research. Cartisien and Fuzzy Math have reworked platforms for cryptographic and data vulnerability scanning. Fuselab, frog, Merge and Ronas IT add situational awareness, consumer VPN, anti-fraud and threat-dashboard work. Ramotion leads the list with its multi-year design-system work for Okta. Below you will find the proof behind each pick, how I scored them, what the work costs, and when a short UX consulting engagement is enough.
Editorial note: No agency paid for placement. Scores are my editorial assessment out of 5, based on the evidence linked in each profile.
What I checked, in one line: published proof that the studio has designed for people who defend systems, not only for people who buy security software. I read every case on the agencies' own sites, checked Clutch, and scored each studio against the eight criteria below.
The case had to name the product type (SOC platform, vulnerability scanner, VPN, identity assistant) and describe the work. Service pages that list "threat detection" among twenty industries earned no points on their own.
Security users are hard to reach and quick to spot a generic design. I gave credit for interviews, shadowing and testing with SOC analysts, threat hunters, security officers and CISOs, as Monsoonfish, Evil Martians and Fuzzy Math describe in their cases.
Alert fatigue is the defining UX problem of the field. I looked for severity encoding, grouping of related alerts, and a clear next action, so an analyst can tell a real incident from the hundredth false positive.
After triage comes investigation: pivoting between entities, building queries, reading an attack timeline. Many teams map these steps to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, and I checked whether a studio's work shows it can design for that depth.
Vulnerability products live or die on prioritization. A scanner that shows 4,000 findings with a CVSS score each is not a plan. I looked for ranked views that tell asset owners what to fix first and give executives a posture summary.
UX choices change security outcomes: confusing permissions lead to misconfiguration, and unclear warnings get clicked through. The UK NCSC's cyber security design principles frame this well. I gave credit for role-based views, visible permissions and safe defaults.
SOC tools run for long shifts in dark themes with dense tables. A component library with tokens, states and contrast rules keeps fast-growing security products consistent. Evil Martians and Cartisien both describe this work.
Security vendors ship fast and often acquire other products. I scored studios higher when they write front-end code or hand over annotated systems that engineers can build without guessing.
Each profile names the security work the agency publishes on its own site. Clutch figures were read on Nov 4, 2026; where a studio publishes no figure, I say so.
Best for: Security and identity companies that need a consistent icon, component and brand system across many products
Proof: Okta case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $50,000+ minimum, $150–199/hr, 10–49 people, 4.9 from 29 reviews
HQ: San Francisco, founded 2009
Ramotion has worked with several well-known security companies, and its Okta case is the most relevant to product teams. After Okta's rebrand, Ramotion ran knowledge-transfer workshops and built a tiered icon and illustration system, from functional UI icons to platform visuals and marketing illustrations, with guidelines for long-term governance across 10 core platforms. Over more than two years a team of 15 also refined the UX and UI of Okta's Help Center and built a reusable component library. The studio's security portfolio also includes brand and web work for Island, the enterprise browser, and for Cellebrite and Cycode. Be clear about what you need: Ramotion's published security work is brand, design-system and web work, not SOC console design, so ask for product UI examples if your project is an analyst tool.
Score: 4.9
Best for: SOC and threat-detection startups that need analyst-centered product design on a moderate budget
Proof: BinaryFlux SOC platform case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $5,000+ minimum, $50–99/hr, 10–49 people, 4.9 from 7 reviews
HQ: Pune, India, with an office in Lewes, Delaware; founded 2012
Monsoonfish publishes more security product cases than any other studio I reviewed. For BinaryFlux, a SOC automation platform, the team ran heuristic audits across SOC teams and shadowed analysts, then used graph-based layouts to show linked alerts, logs and indicators, with AI suggestions placed inside the triage flow and a separate decision-ready view for CISOs. Other cases on its site cover the query builder and security dashboards for AiStrike, an insider-threat detection tool called Doppler, and threat-monitoring platforms. Its Clutch reviews date from 2021 to 2023 and do not name a security client, so ask for a reference from a security project.
Score: 4.8
Best for: Funded AI security startups that want product design and engineering in one embedded team
Proof: Daylight Security case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $10,000+ minimum, $150–199/hr, 10–49 people, 5.0 from 11 reviews
HQ: Brooklyn, New York, founded 2006
Evil Martians lists cybersecurity as one of its main verticals, next to developer tools and AI. Its Daylight Security case covers an AI-driven SOC and MDR platform used by analysts and threat hunters. The team ran UX workshops and testing sessions with these experts, built a complete design system (tokens, type, spacing, iconography and refined OKLCH colors) documented in Storybook, and redesigned case pages, verdict explainability, evidence widgets, threat-hunting flows and integration management. That last list is close to a full map of what a modern SOC product needs. The studio publishes its rate on its own site: $7,000 per week per team member, in two- to three-week sprints.
Score: 4.8
Best for: Security vendors merging products after an acquisition, or needing designers who ship front-end code
Proof: SandboxAQ case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: 5.0 from 3 reviews; no minimum or rate published
HQ: Greenville, South Carolina; working since 2007
Cartisien focuses on the product side of security software and writes production React and Next.js code with client teams. In its SandboxAQ case, the studio helped merge the SandboxAQ platform with the acquired Cryptosense Analyzer, a cryptographic vulnerability detection tool, working with cryptographers, physicists and machine-learning experts. The engagement covered workflow and decision mapping, product strategy, interface design and front-end engineering, and the case reports a 60% increase in client deployment. Its site lists further security work for Breachpoint and TCM Security. Cartisien offers a five-day paid "Drift Review" for $4,500 as a first step, which is a low-risk way to test the fit. Clutch has only three reviews.
Score: 4.7
Best for: Established security vendors modernizing a legacy platform for several user roles
Proof: Data security platform case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $25,000+ minimum, $150–199/hr, 10–49 people, 4.9 from 29 reviews
HQ: Highland Park, Illinois, founded 2009
Fuzzy Math's data security platform case is a textbook example of vulnerability-management UX. The client's legacy platform scanned a company's data infrastructure for vulnerabilities, but its data was hard to read for anyone but experts. Fuzzy Math interviewed security officers, infrastructure engineers and executives, defined personas for each, and rebuilt the information architecture so business leaders see overall risk while asset owners and patch teams see exactly what to fix and when. The result included a customizable dashboard with role-based access and heatmap visualizations. The client is not named.
Score: 4.7
Best for: Government, defense and infrastructure teams that need real-time security monitoring screens
Proof: CyberDefend case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $25,000+ minimum, $100–149/hr, 5.0 from 15 reviews
HQ: McLean, Virginia, founded 2017
Fuselab specializes in data-heavy interfaces and has a dedicated cybersecurity practice. Its CyberDefend case shows a real-time situational awareness platform that combines satellite health, network heatmaps, traffic flow and threat detection in one view, built to flag unauthorized access and anomalies before they spread. The studio has also published a long guide to SOC, posture and executive security dashboards, and its homepage lists threat-detection work for Corelight and threat-intelligence work for Riderintel, though neither has a public case page yet. Fuselab holds a GSA MAS contract, which helps US public-sector buyers. CyberDefend mixes space operations with security, so ask for an example closer to your product type.
Score: 4.6
Best for: Consumer security brands that need deep user research across markets
Proof: F-Secure Freedome case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $5,000+ minimum, $100–149/hr; no reviews on Clutch
HQ: global studios including San Francisco; founded 1969; part of Capgemini Invent
frog is the oldest firm here, and its security case shows why research matters in this field. For F-Secure's Freedome VPN, frog ran participatory workshops, surveys, interviews and diary studies in the US, UK, Germany and Finland, then designed an app that lets users change their security level and see it shown graphically. frog reports that Freedome went on to have more installs than any other F-Secure product. The case dates from 2014 and covers a consumer app, not an analyst tool, so it fits best if your users are the general public. As part of a global consultancy, frog suits large programs better than a quick redesign.
Score: 4.5
Best for: Startups launching consumer anti-fraud or identity-security apps that need design and build together
Proof: Siren case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $10,000+ minimum, $25–49/hr, 10–49 people, 4.9 from 67 reviews
HQ: Tallinn, Estonia, founded 2018
Merge has a small but real security portfolio. Its Siren case covers a digital security app that warns users about risky incoming messages and helps them recover lost funds. Merge ran UX discovery, designed the app and website, and built them in React Native and Webflow, using a friendly mascot and calm colors to make security feel less intimidating. For Oleria, a zero-trust access platform, Merge also designed the brand and UI concepts for an AI identity-security assistant inside the product. Its own pricing page lists UX services from $3,200 a month. There is no SOC or enterprise console case, so it fits consumer and early B2B products best.
Score: 4.5
Best for: Security firms that need an internal threat dashboard designed and built on a tight budget
Proof: Cybersecurity dashboard case (linked in the profile)
Clutch: $5,000+ minimum, $50–99/hr, 50–249 people, 4.9 from 37 reviews
HQ: Tallinn, Estonia, founded 2007
Ronas IT is a development-led studio, and its cybersecurity dashboard case shows a practical, budget-conscious build. A cybersecurity company asked for an internal dashboard that turns its service data into insights for employees. Ronas designed a dark interface with filters by group and country, charts of attack damage and case counts, exploited-vulnerability tracking and an incident table, with Auth0 login and real-time updates, and planned the whole project within an estimate of 380 hours. The client is under NDA. The design is simpler than the SOC tools above, which is the point: it suits internal tools and MVPs rather than flagship analyst products.
Score: 4.4
The chart scores all nine agencies on five cybersecurity criteria and an overall score, each out of 10. Monsoonfish and Evil Martians lead on analyst research and triage design, Fuzzy Math leads on risk prioritization, Cartisien and Evil Martians lead on engineering handoff, and Ramotion's overall score reflects its design-system depth and long relationships with security brands rather than SOC console work.
Hire a cybersecurity UX consultant when your product works but analysts struggle with it and you need a diagnosis: an audit, workflow analysis and a prioritized list of fixes. Hire a full design agency when you need the screens, the design system and often the front-end built. The answer depends on whether your team can act on recommendations by itself.
Consulting (diagnose). A consultant reviews the product against real analyst tasks, maps the triage and investigation path, and tells you where time is lost. Expect a report, annotated flows and a roadmap in weeks. Cartisien's five-day Drift Review works this way. It fits vendors with an in-house design team that needs an outside view. For how advisory work is scoped in general, see my guide to UX consulting.
Full agency (design and build). The agency's team redesigns the workflows, creates the component library and hands over production-ready screens or code. Monsoonfish, Evil Martians and Cartisien took this role for BinaryFlux, Daylight Security and SandboxAQ. It fits startups without senior product designers, or vendors merging products after an acquisition.
A quick test: if you can name the three worst screens in your product, start with consulting. If you cannot get analysts to try the product at all, hire an agency.
Pick the agency whose security work matches your users: SOC analysts, security engineers, IT admins, executives or consumers need very different products. Then test how it would get access to those users, because research with defenders is the hardest part of the job.
A consumer VPN, an identity admin console and a SOC triage queue are all "cybersecurity", but they share little UX. frog and Merge suit consumer products; Monsoonfish, Evil Martians and Fuselab suit operations tools; Fuzzy Math suits multi-role risk platforms.
Analysts are busy and often protected by NDAs. Ask each finalist how it recruited security users before, how many sessions it ran, and whether it can shadow a live shift.
Ask to see a dense table, a timeline and a query builder the agency designed. Studios used to marketing sites often strip out information that analysts need.
Many security products are sold to people who never use them. Make sure the agency will design executive and audit views alongside the console. If your product also serves regulated industries, my piece on regulated product UX covers the evidence and audit trail patterns buyers look for.
Cartisien, Evil Martians and Ronas IT can ship front-end code; others hand over Figma files and a component library. Decide which you need before you compare prices.
A strong proposal names the analyst workflows to fix first, how the agency will research with security users under NDA, and what will be handed to engineering. Expect these items:
Security products differ most by who opens them and how often. The table image below maps nine common product types to the main UX focus, the question to settle before hiring, and the agencies I would talk to first.
With these agencies, a focused security UX review starts at about $4,500, and a full product redesign usually starts between $25,000 and $50,000. The figures below come from Clutch profiles and the agencies' own pricing pages, read on Nov 4, 2026. Treat them as planning floors, not quotes.
Hourly bands on Clutch run from $25 to $49 at Merge, $50 to $99 at Monsoonfish and Ronas IT, $100 to $149 at Fuselab and frog, and $150 to $199 at Ramotion, Evil Martians and Fuzzy Math. Security projects cost more than similar SaaS work when research needs vetted analysts, when the product has many roles, or when two acquired products must be merged. Fixed price suits audits; retainers or sprints suit products that ship weekly; time and materials suits migrations.
A cybersecurity UX project starts with access to users and data, which takes longer than in other fields, and ends with validation on realistic alert volumes. These are the usual steps.
These four graphs show how each agency works, not how it ranks, on axes from 0 to 10. Marketing-driven vs product-focused shows whether the studio's security work is mostly brand and website or logged-in product screens. Ideation vs execution separates research and strategy from design and build delivery. Usability vs aesthetics shows whether a studio leads with task research or with visual craft, and low vs high price places each agency by its published minimums and rates, with my judgment where figures are missing.
Walk away from an agency that shows only security marketing websites when you need a product, or that plans to design an analyst tool without talking to an analyst.
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