HiQ

HiQ is a European tech consultancy founded in Finland in 1995, now roughly 1,500 experts across four countries and owned by international investment firm Triton since 2020. The pitch is straightforward: combine technology and creativity to solve business-critical problems and turn digital transformation into competitive advantage. Cybersecurity is one discipline inside a wider delivery portfolio, not a standalone product line - which is worth knowing before you apply, because it shapes what the work actually looks like.

The threat model here is client-side and operational. HiQ's security work sits alongside software development, cloud services, data and AI, digital commerce, Atlassian implementations, and continuous services, and the company describes its offering as end-to-end: strategy and ideation through implementation, operation, and continuous improvement. Practically, that means security engineers are likely working adjacent to teams building and running the systems they're defending, across industries including technology consulting, digital transformation, and digital commerce - rather than in an isolated research lab.

The stated operating culture is built around responsibility, simplicity, and joy, with an emphasis on pairing technical depth with commercial insight and creative thinking. HiQ positions itself as the "Headquarters of Tech" and started as a small, focused group of specialists in Finland; Minna Lindholm leads HiQ Finland. If you want a single-domain security silo, this probably isn't it. If you want security work embedded in the full lifecycle of production systems, it's a more plausible fit.