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Brucz D.

Senior Cybersecurity & Network Defence Specialist

Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/11/2026

"Cinode Makes Competency Mapping and Secure Staffing Fast and Scalable"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cinode?

I’ve been using Cinode to manage our security consultant pool and project staffing at SecureNet Solutions UK Ltd, and the role and competency mapping feature is what stands out most for me. We regularly deploy specialists for NIS 2 gap assessments and GDPR compliance audits, and the built-in skill tagging lets me filter consultants by niche certifications, like CREST or ISO 27001 lead auditor status, in seconds. Before this, I had to cross-check separate spreadsheets and CV files, which ate up several hours every week matching the right resource to client engagements.

The centralized employee and user permission dashboard also works really well for our needs. We often need to restrict who can view sensitive consultant details, and the granular role controls let us lock confidential threat assessment project records from junior admin staff. The audit trail tied to every profile change is a huge win, as it gives us ready evidence we can pull for our own client compliance reviews.

An unexpected benefit I found is how smoothly the candidate and consultant database integrates with our existing Microsoft 365 stack. We push scheduled consultant availability straight into our shared Outlook planners, so our delivery team can quickly align resource timelines without extra manual data entry. It’s cut down the back-and-forth emails to confirm consultant capacity, and it keeps our whole talent pool organized while still respecting GDPR data rules around storing personal professional information. This reliability makes it much simpler to scale our security service deliveries without adding admin overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cinode?

The biggest pain point for our security team using Cinode is the limited depth of its audit logs, which creates headaches when we prepare for NIS 2 and GDPR evidence reviews. The built-in log only captures basic profile edits, and it cannot isolate granular access events like who viewed a consultant’s sensitive certification records or downloaded CVs tied to critical infrastructure client work. We once spent nearly three hours manually cross-referencing user activity after a client audit requested a full trail of data access, because Cinode could not export a complete, regulator-ready log file.

I also find the API permission model unintuitive for security workflows. Admin access does not automatically unlock all related endpoints, so when we tried to build a sync to feed consultant competency data into our SIEM for access governance checks, we hit repeated 403 errors even with top-level admin rights. This forces us to raise support tickets for every new endpoint we need, slowing down our automation rollout.

The custom reporting tool is another weak spot. We cannot build filtered reports grouped by compliance credentials such as CREST or NIS 2 assessment qualifications, so we have to export raw CSV data and clean it in Excel every time we need to show our clients our consultant skill coverage.

My recommendation would be to expand audit logging to include read-access events and add pre-built compliance report templates for regulated sectors like cybersecurity. It would also help if the permission hierarchy was simplified for admin users, so API access aligns with the role privileges set in the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cinode solving and how is that benefiting you?

We struggled with scattered consultant records across local CV folders, disjointed spreadsheets, and manual competency checks every time we staffed NIS 2 and GDPR client security audits, but now we can centralize all our specialist profiles, certifications and availability inside Cinode, which has resulted in us cutting our resource matching time by roughly 40% each week.

Before Cinode, our team juggled separate files for CREST, ISO 27001 and cyber incident response qualifications. When a client urgently needed a threat intelligence specialist for a critical infrastructure review, we would waste hours messaging consultants and sifting through old CVs to confirm valid certifications and open project slots. We also risked GDPR missteps because sensitive personal details were stored in unsecured shared drives, with no clear way to track who accessed them.

Now we tag every consultant profile with their security qualifications, active accreditations and service specialisms. We can run quick filters to surface only people qualified for regulated NIS 2 work. The role-based permission controls also let us lock sensitive records, so only authorised delivery staff can view confidential consultant data. We sync availability data to our Microsoft 365 planner, removing duplicate manual updates.

We still supplement the native audit logs with extra security tooling, but Cinode has eliminated the chaos of our old filing system. We spend less time on admin, respond faster to urgent client security engagements, and maintain clearer oversight of our talent pool to satisfy our regulatory compliance obligations. This lets our small team focus more on actual threat assessment work instead of chasing down paperwork. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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