Cyber Security
Security-first engineering — vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, hardening, and continuous monitoring with modern AI-driven detection.
What we deliver
- Vulnerability assessments and remediation
- Penetration testing (network, web, cloud)
- Security hardening for OS, database, and cloud
- SIEM, EDR, and AI-based threat detection
- Compliance readiness: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA
- Incident response and forensics
Assessment and remediation
Security work should begin with an accurate picture of what you have. That means an inventory of systems, accounts, and internet-facing services — including the ones nobody has thought about in years, which are reliably the weakest. Vulnerability assessment then establishes where the real exposure sits, and just as importantly, where it does not. A scanner producing a thousand findings is not a security programme; a ranked list of what genuinely matters to your environment is.
We report in terms you can act on: what the issue is, what it would mean if exploited in your specific context, what the fix requires, and how urgent it is relative to everything else on the list. Then we help do the remediation. Assessments that end at the report tend to leave the same findings open a year later, so we plan patching, configuration changes, and access cleanup as scheduled work with owners and dates.
Hardening and monitoring as continuous practice
Hardening is not a project that completes. Operating systems, databases, and cloud accounts drift from their secure baseline through ordinary change — a firewall rule opened for troubleshooting, a service account granted broad permissions for a one-off task, a storage bucket made public during testing. We establish baselines for Linux, Windows, Oracle, and cloud environments, then automate the checks that detect divergence from them.
Monitoring is the other half. SIEM and EDR platforms are only useful if the detections reflect your environment and someone acts on what they produce. We tune detection rules to cut the false positives that cause alert fatigue, make sure the logs that matter for an investigation are actually being retained, and define what happens when an alert fires — who is notified, what they check first, and when it escalates. This work sits closely with our Linux & Windows server support, since patching and hardening are the same operational discipline.
Incident readiness and response
The time to decide how you will respond to an incident is well before one happens. Readiness work covers the practical questions: who has authority to take a production system offline, how you communicate when email may be compromised, where offline copies of contact details and runbooks are kept, and whether your backups are genuinely isolated from the systems they protect. Backup integrity is where a bad incident becomes a catastrophic one, which is why it connects directly to our disaster recovery work.
When something does happen, response is disciplined rather than frantic: contain the affected systems, preserve evidence before changing anything, establish scope and timeline, then recover to a known-good state with the original weakness closed. Afterwards we produce an honest account of what occurred and what needs to change — the part most often skipped, and the part that determines whether it happens again.
Common questions
What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?
An assessment systematically identifies and prioritizes known weaknesses across your estate — broad coverage, aimed at giving you a complete and ranked picture. A penetration test is a scoped, authorised engagement examining how far a determined attacker could get against specific targets. Most organizations get more value from assessment and remediation first, because a test against an unhardened environment mostly confirms what you already suspected.
Can you help us prepare for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA?
We help clients prepare for these frameworks: gap analysis against the relevant controls, the technical hardening and logging those controls require, and the evidence collection auditors ask for. Certification itself is granted by an independent auditor, not by us. Our role is making sure the technical side stands up when they look at it.
Do you provide ongoing monitoring or only project work?
Both. Some clients engage us for a scoped assessment and remediation programme and then run it themselves. Others fold security monitoring into ongoing managed support with 24/7 coverage, so alerts are triaged by engineers who already know the environment. The second option tends to work better, because detection quality depends heavily on familiarity with what normal looks like for you.