SECURITY EXPERTISE
Secure Architecture
Consulting
Our security experts have long term and wide ranging experience with diverse secure systems and applications design, implementation, and deployment architectures
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Move security considerations deeper into your systems and applications architecture, and earlier in the development lifecycle
Help prevent exposures from occurring
Avoid IaaS and aPaas bypass risks
Define a secure Software Development Lifecycle
Enable better quality security, earlier on
Optimise detection and response processes
Plan, prepare, and practice company-wide security
Web & mobile applications
Application developers focus on building great apps. Few are adequately trained or enabled to make strong security a cornerstone priority from the outset of a project
Specialists
Web applications, APIs,
e-commerce webstores and
mobile apps
This is where we specialise. We draw on our offensive security expertise, deep knowledge of standards and frameworks, and wide exposure to robust designs and common pitfalls. We can provide advice on what is optimal for each system and organisation.
Secure by design
Secure architecture
Pen testing standards and frameworks cover the application target itself, but not so much the infrastructure in which target is deployed. The security of an application can be undermined by an insecurity associated with the deployment environment, so security-optimised systems architecture should extend to the broader context of the system - not just the application itself.
Build it right
Secure implementation
Many of the most common and impactful application security vulnerabilities stem from insecure implementation of an otherwise secure design. Doing all the right things is essential, but how you do those things is important also.
Pen testing has an important role in identifying the implementation patterns that lead to vulnerabilities in otherwise secure designs, but ideally these exposures are avoided before they occur.
Prevention
Avoid the most
common vulnerabilities
Ideally your pen testing and bug bounty programmes are only finding ad hoc security exceptions. Your Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) should help avoid the introduction of the many common and impactful vulnerabilities.
As experts in those vulnerabilities, we can assist with avoiding them in the first place.
AWS deployment infrastructure
IaaS is not secure by default
The vast array of AWS services allow you to architect and implement just about any application, with wide flexibility. But a toolbox doesn't build a house. The architecture matters, and how the tools are used matters.
Select the right AWS services
Configure and employ those services securely
Avoid common insecure configurations
Azure deployment options
Select between IaaS and aPaaS services
As a dominant and mature infrastructure service platform, Azure offers many aPaaS services in addition to more fundamental IaaS components
Understand the security implications of each
Leverage platform logging and SIEM tools
Leverage Entra ID for SSO, IDaaS
Secure remote access
Understand the implications of alternative approaches to remote access
Remote access to networks and web application deployment environments is a fundamental consideration for the security of that system.
We can assist with validating the security of existing approaches, and help clarify the security-related pros and cons of alternative approaches.
Optimised CDN, WAF
Understand the protections potentially offered by modern CDN and WAF services, as well as the ways they can be bypassed
Secure architecture consulting
Get your design right from the outset, and minimise the incidence of exposures and side channels
