Application security testing
Authenticated penetration testing and threat modelling against your actual authorisation logic — the multi-tenant and privilege-escalation flaws a generic scanner never finds.
06 — Security
Cybersecurity Services
Application, cloud and compliance security for teams that would rather find the problem themselves than read about it in a breach notification.
Overview
Security is a property of the build
Most breaches are not exotic. They come from a credential that was never rotated, a storage bucket that was public for a weekend, a dependency three versions behind a known advisory, or a permission model that gave everyone administrator because it was faster on launch day.
We work on the parts that reliably matter: how software is built, how identity is granted, how cloud is configured and how quickly you would notice. Findings come with an exploit path, a severity you can defend to a board, and a fix — not a scanner export with four hundred rows.
A
Findings you can act on
Every issue arrives with a reproduction, a realistic impact assessment and a specific remediation, ranked by exploitability.
B
Built into the pipeline
SAST, dependency and secret scanning run on every commit, so regressions are caught in review rather than in an annual test.
C
Compliance as a by-product
Controls are implemented so that SOC 2 and ISO 27001 evidence falls out of normal operations rather than a quarterly scramble.
What's included
Security services we provide
Point-in-time assessments, continuous programme work, or the readiness push before an audit or an enterprise procurement review.
Cloud security posture review
AWS, Azure and GCP configuration assessed against CIS benchmarks and real attack paths, with the fixes delivered as infrastructure-as-code changes.
Identity & access hardening
SSO, MFA enforcement, least-privilege role design, service-account hygiene and access reviews that someone actually completes.
Secure SDLC & pipeline security
SAST, DAST, software composition analysis and secret scanning wired into CI with thresholds that block a build instead of filing a ticket.
SOC 2 & ISO 27001 readiness
Gap assessment, control implementation, policy drafting and evidence automation, run alongside your auditor rather than in competition with them.
Detection & incident readiness
Logging and alerting worth paging on, a written incident-response plan, and a tabletop exercise to find out whether it works before you need it.
How we work
A security engagement
01
Scope and threat-model
We agree what matters most — the data, the systems and the plausible attacker — so the work targets real risk rather than a generic checklist.
02
Test and assess
Hands-on testing against a staging environment that mirrors production, combined with configuration, code and identity review.
03
Report and prioritise
A findings report with reproductions and severity, plus a working session where we walk your engineers through the exploit paths.
04
Remediate and verify
We fix alongside your team or hand over specific tickets, then re-test to confirm each finding is genuinely closed.
Why it pays off
What a security programme changes
Enterprise deals stop stalling
A current SOC 2 report and a clean penetration test answer most of a procurement security questionnaire before it is asked.
Regressions get caught in review
Pipeline controls mean a vulnerable dependency or a leaked key fails a build, rather than sitting in production for a year.
Incidents become procedures
A rehearsed plan, useful logs and clear ownership turn a bad day into a contained one with a defensible timeline.
Technologies we reach for
OWASP ASVSBurp SuiteSemgrepSnykTrivyOWASP ZAPHashiCorp VaultOktaAzure ADAWS GuardDutyWizFalcoSOC 2ISO 27001
FAQ
Questions we get asked
It is usually one of three things they ask for, alongside a SOC 2 Type II report and a completed security questionnaire. A test gives a point-in-time result; the report proves controls operated over a period. If enterprise sales is the driver, we would normally sequence a readiness assessment first, then testing, then the audit — doing it the other way round tends to mean paying for the test twice.
Very little, because we test a staging environment that mirrors production wherever one exists. Where production testing is genuinely necessary, we agree a window, rate-limit the activity, keep a named contact on call throughout and stop immediately on request. We have never taken a client system down, and we plan on the assumption that we could.
Yes. For smaller teams we act as a fractional security function: quarterly assessments, pipeline controls we maintain, questionnaire and audit support, and an on-call path for incidents. It is considerably cheaper than the first full-time hire, and it comes with a plan for handing the work over once one makes sense.
Let's talk
Tell us what you are trying to build
Book a free consultation call. You will speak to a senior architect, not a salesperson, and leave with a technical direction and a realistic budget band — before you commit to anything.
- A senior architect on the first call
- A written proposal within 3 business days
- Full IP ownership assigned to you on delivery