Security

The engineering that gets you audit-ready — your auditor still signs the certificate.

We fold security into delivery: threat models at design time, automated checks in the pipeline, and the technical controls and evidence trail your enterprise buyers and auditors will ask for. To be explicit: we are an engineering partner, not an audit firm or certification body. We build and operate the controls; an independent, accredited auditor assesses and certifies them.

What we build

Inside AppSec & Compliance Engineering.

01

Threat modelling

Design-time review of trust boundaries, abuse cases and blast radius.

02

Secure SDLC

SAST, DAST, dependency and secret scanning wired into CI with sane gates.

03

Cloud hardening

IAM least privilege, network segmentation, encryption and key management.

04

Compliance readiness

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR control mapping with evidence automation — engineering work, not an audit.

05

Incident response

Playbooks, tabletop exercises, detection tuning and post-incident review.

06

Auditor support

We prepare the evidence and answer technical questions; your accredited auditor runs the assessment and issues the report.

The stack

Tools we actually use in production.

Scanning

  • Semgrep
  • Snyk
  • Trivy
  • OWASP ZAP
  • Dependabot
  • Gitleaks

Cloud security

  • AWS GuardDuty
  • Wiz
  • Prowler
  • Vault
  • KMS
  • OPA

Identity

  • OAuth 2.1
  • OIDC
  • SAML
  • Auth0
  • Keycloak
  • SCIM

Governance

  • Vanta
  • Drata
  • SOC 2
  • ISO 27001
  • GDPR
  • HIPAA
Comparison

Where to invest first

Most breaches exploit basics. We sequence work by risk reduction per pound, not by fashion.

OptionStrengthTrade-offChoose it when
Identity & access hardeningHighest risk reduction for the effort.Touches every team's daily workflow.Always first.
Pipeline scanningCatches known vulnerabilities continuously and cheaply.Noisy without triage discipline.Immediately after identity.
Penetration testingIndependent evidence buyers and auditors trust.Point-in-time snapshot; costly to repeat often.Before enterprise sales cycles and major launches.
Compliance certificationUnlocks regulated and enterprise revenue.Heavy documentation load; not the same as being secure.When deals demand it — built on real controls.
Advantages
  • Security review stops being the thing that blocks a release.
  • Audit evidence is generated by the pipeline instead of assembled by hand.
  • Enterprise procurement questionnaires get answered in days, not months.
Honest trade-offs
  • Controls add friction; badly designed ones get routed around.
  • Certification is a recurring annual cost, not a one-off.
  • We do not audit or certify — an independent accredited body must do that.
How we staff it

The people we put on this.

Application security engineer

Experience

6+ yrs

Ramp

1 week

Cloud security engineer

Experience

6+ yrs

Ramp

1–2 weeks

Compliance / GRC lead

Experience

7+ yrs

Ramp

2 weeks

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