Adversary-informed
Testing and detection mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques relevant to your sector and estate.
Security & Trust
Find it before someone else does
Security is an engineering discipline with an adversary. We test your systems the way an attacker would, build the detection and response capability to catch what testing misses, and turn compliance frameworks into controls that genuinely reduce risk rather than paperwork that documents it.
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Assessments & penetration tests
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Managed detection & response
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Median critical alert triage time
Overview
Assess, defend, detect, comply — as one programme
We start with adversary-informed assessment: external attack surface, internal lateral movement, cloud misconfiguration, application logic flaws and the human layer. Findings arrive with proof, business impact and a remediation path your engineers can act on — not a scanner export.
Defence follows: identity hardening, network segmentation, endpoint and email controls, secure baselines and secure-by-default patterns pushed into your CI/CD so new code inherits them.
Detection closes the loop. We build and operate SIEM content, threat-hunting hypotheses and response playbooks, with a measured mean time to detect and respond rather than a dashboard nobody reads.
Remediation-oriented
Every finding carries reproduction steps, exploitability rating, business impact and a concrete fix.
Detection engineering
Version-controlled, tested SIEM rules with tuned thresholds — not vendor defaults generating noise.
Compliance as control
ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA implemented as working controls with automated evidence collection.
What we build
Capabilities you get on day one
The components below are engineered patterns we have shipped repeatedly — not concepts we would be exploring for the first time on your project.
Testing with proof
Manual, creative testing beyond automated scanning — chained exploits, business logic abuse and privilege escalation paths demonstrated.
SOC operations
24×7 monitoring with defined severities, escalation paths, containment authority and monthly threat reporting.
Detection as code
SIEM rules in version control with unit tests, coverage mapped to ATT&CK and automated deployment.
Identity hardening
Conditional access, PAM workflows, MFA coverage gaps closed and standing privilege eliminated.
DevSecOps integration
Security gates in CI, dependency and container scanning, IaC policy checks and SBOM tracking.
Risk reporting
Board-ready posture metrics — coverage, exposure trend, MTTD/MTTR and remediation velocity by owner.
Capabilities
Everything inside our cyber security practice
The full scope of the practice. Engagements typically draw on a focused subset — this is the bench you have access to.
Offensive Security
- Vulnerability assessment
- Network penetration testing
- Web application penetration testing
- API & mobile application testing
- Cloud configuration review
- Red team & adversary simulation
- Social engineering & phishing simulation
- Secure code review
Detection & Response
- Security operations centre (SOC)
- SIEM engineering & tuning
- Microsoft Sentinel & Defender XDR
- Splunk & Elastic Security
- Managed detection & response (MDR)
- Threat hunting programmes
- Digital forensics & incident response
- Threat intelligence integration
Identity & Access
- Identity & access management (IAM)
- Privileged access management (PAM)
- Single sign-on & federation
- Multi-factor & passwordless rollout
- Zero-trust architecture
- Access reviews & recertification
- Joiner-mover-leaver automation
- Non-human & workload identity
Infrastructure & Cloud Defence
- Cloud security posture management
- Kubernetes & container security
- Network security & segmentation
- Endpoint protection & EDR
- Email & collaboration security
- Data loss prevention
- Backup immutability & ransomware resilience
- Secure baseline & hardening standards
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- ISO 27001 implementation & audit prep
- SOC 2 Type I & II readiness
- GDPR & data-protection programmes
- HIPAA & HITRUST alignment
- PCI DSS advisory
- NIST CSF & CIS benchmark assessment
- Third-party & vendor risk
- Security policy & awareness programmes
Business impact
The outcomes clients measure
Figures are medians across delivered engagements in this practice. We will baseline your own numbers during discovery rather than promise these.
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To triage a critical alert
Median across managed SOC engagements, with containment actions pre-authorised in playbooks.
↓ 87%
Fewer false positives
From detection tuning, asset enrichment and suppression of known-benign patterns.
94%
Critical findings closed in 30 days
Remediation tracked with named owners and verification retesting included.
1st pass
Audit success rate
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification achieved without major nonconformities across our GRC engagements.
Technology stack
Cyber Security technology stack
Selected per engagement against your existing estate, your team's skills and total cost of ownership — never by partnership tier.
Offensive
- Burp Suite Pro
- Metasploit
- Nmap
- BloodHound
- Nuclei
- OWASP ZAP
- Cobalt Strike
SIEM & XDR
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Defender XDR
- Splunk
- Elastic Security
- CrowdStrike
- Wazuh
Cloud Security
- Defender for Cloud
- AWS Security Hub
- Wiz
- Prisma Cloud
- Falco
- Trivy
Identity
- Entra ID
- Okta
- CyberArk
- HashiCorp Vault
- Keycloak
AppSec
- SonarQube
- Snyk
- Semgrep
- Checkmarx
- Dependency-Track
GRC
- Vanta
- Drata
- ISO 27001
- NIST CSF
- CIS Benchmarks
- MITRE ATT&CK
How we deliver
How a cyber security engagement runs
Six stages, each with a defined output. You can stop after any one of them and still hold something useful.
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Scope & rules of engagement
Asset inventory, authorisation, testing windows, escalation contacts and a signed engagement letter before any activity.
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Assess
Reconnaissance, automated and manual testing, exploitation with proof, and impact analysis mapped to your business processes.
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Report & prioritise
Executive summary, technical detail, CVSS and contextual risk rating, and a remediation plan sequenced by exposure.
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Remediate
Hands-on fix support with your engineers, secure baseline rollout and verification retesting of every closed finding.
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Detect
SIEM onboarding, detection engineering, playbook authoring, tabletop exercises and SOC handover or managed operation.
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Sustain
Continuous posture management, quarterly retesting, compliance evidence automation and an annual programme review.
Industries we serve with this practice
Engagement models
How to start with Cyber Security
Three commercial shapes. Most clients begin with an assessment and move into delivery once the plan is agreed.
Fixed-price assessment
From $12,000
Two to four weeks. Produces a prioritised backlog, target architecture, risk register and a costed delivery plan you own outright.
- Named architect
- Executive readout
- No obligation to proceed
Most common
Milestone delivery
Scoped per phase
Well-bounded phases priced against agreed acceptance criteria. Suited to migrations, integrations and defined product increments.
- Acceptance-based billing
- Change control included
- Fortnightly demos
Dedicated pod
Monthly retainer
An embedded team — lead, engineers, QA — working in your sprints and tooling with US-hours overlap from our India centre.
- Scale up or down monthly
- Your definition of done
- Direct team access
Indicative ranges for planning purposes. Final pricing follows scope confirmation — we do not quote before we understand the problem.
FAQs
Cyber Security — frequently asked
What authorisation do you need before testing?
A signed engagement letter and rules-of-engagement document specifying in-scope assets, testing windows, prohibited techniques, escalation contacts and any third-party hosting authorisations required. We do not begin any active testing without written authorisation from someone empowered to give it.
Penetration test or vulnerability assessment — which do we need?
A vulnerability assessment gives broad coverage of known issues and is well suited to a regular cadence. A penetration test is depth: a skilled tester chaining findings to reach real impact, which is what demonstrates whether your controls actually hold. Most mature programmes run continuous scanning plus an annual or biannual focused penetration test.
Can you run our SOC, or work alongside our team?
Both models. Fully managed 24×7 detection and response, or a co-managed arrangement where we cover out-of-hours and complex investigation while your team owns business-hours triage. We also do pure detection engineering for teams who want to operate their own SOC with better content.
How quickly can you respond to an active incident?
Retained clients get defined response times by severity, with a critical-incident engagement target of under one hour. We also support non-retained emergency response on a best-effort basis, though a retainer with pre-agreed authority and pre-collected environment context materially shortens containment time.
Will ISO 27001 certification actually make us secure?
Certification proves you have a management system, not that you are secure — the two correlate only when the controls are implemented seriously. We deliver the technical controls and the evidence automation together, so the certificate reflects genuine capability rather than a well-written policy set.
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Security & Trust
Ready to talk about cyber security?
Send the context — current systems, constraints, what you have already tried. An architect from this practice will reply, usually within one business day.