About

Our ambition goes beyond protecting individual organizations.

We exist to preserve the potential for socio-economic growth by strengthening the industry value chains that make it possible.

Utrecht is Skuridat's hometown. Aerial view of a rounded modern rooftop above the Utrecht station square lined with offices and shops, representing the interconnected organisations Skuridat protects.

Two disciplines, one platform.

Portrait of Mateus Riad, Co-founder of Skuridat
Badge Certified Information Systems Security Professional - CISSP
Badge Offensive Security Certified Professional - OSCP
Badge Offensive Security Web Expert - OSWE

Mateus Riad · Offensive security

Ethical hacker with deep expertise in leading high-impact red team exercises and penetration tests across complex public- and private-sector environments.

Mateus brings the adversarial perspective, revealing how weaknesses across external and internal environments can be discovered, connected, and exploited.

Portrait of Sander Rurup, Co-founder at Skuridat
Badge Togaf 10 Enterprise Architecture Applied Practioner
Badge Certified ISO IEC 27001 Lead Auditor
Badge Certified Information Security Manager - CISM

Sander Rurup · GRC & IT architecture

Cybersecurity consultant with close to a decade of consulting experience in enterprise architecture, information security management and security auditing across regulated European industry.

Sander translates exposure into business requirement, governance and ownership.

What we hold to.

Compliance is the floor

Risk appetite sets the target.

Exposure over severity

Reachability and impact decide the order.

Multiply expertise

AI extends people rather than replacing them.

Sovereign by architecture

A European stack, not a badge.

Out of the dark

Skuridat is Papiamento – a creole with Portuguese and Dutch roots spoken in the Caribbean – for "(from) darkness". That mix mirrors our founders: one Brazilian, one Dutch.

A human–AI operating model.

A leaner entry layer, an AI-augmented specialist core, and senior expertise amplified through agents.

A human–AI operating model. Radial diagram. Your IT team is the fixed core. AI-augmented specialists form a ring that expands and contracts with load across risk decisions, monitoring, incident response and compliance. On-demand senior expertise is drawn in beyond an escalation threshold, mainly for incident response and compliance. Escalation threshold Your IT team Risk decisions Monitoring Incident response Compliance

Your IT team

The core. Never moves.

Specialists

AI-augmented, flex with load.

Senior experts

Only past the threshold.

European by architecture.

Every layer sourced in Europe. Where our data lives, who can compel access, and under whose law — stated plainly.

  1. Threat intel Vulnerabilities Dark web
  2. ↓ inbound only ↓
    1. Ingest Core Scan engine
    2. Industry exchange Logistics · Healthcare · Energy · …
    3. Supplier graph · consented
    4. Your organisation Sector peer Shared supplier
    5. Compute · Storage · Keys · AI · Backups

EEA boundary · EU-domiciled providers
Stored, processed and backed up under EU law

Working here

Small, senior, AI-native. Open roles listed when we open them.

Talk to a founder

No SDR layer — you get one of us.

Request an exposure assessment

Who you get

The people who built it are the people who run it.

No account layer. The assessment is delivered by the two founders, and you talk to whichever of them owns the part you are asking about.

Two weeks · one business service · EU-hosted, deleted after 30 days

Example extract — who does what

phase led by
discovery · validation offensive security · OSCP, CISSP
scoping · mobilization GRC architect · TOGAF, CISM
propagation model both
board one-pager GRC architect
escalation founder, same day

Two founders today. Named delivery leads as the team grows.