What We Do
Full-Spectrum Security Operations
From adversarial simulation to continuous defense — our capabilities are built for organizations that operate in high-stakes environments and cannot afford to be wrong.
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Cyber Essentials
Government-Backed Certification, Delivered End to End
CE+
Plus Certification Ready
Guided preparation, gap assessment, and certification support for Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus — the UK government-backed scheme that demonstrates your organisation's commitment to baseline cyber hygiene.
Cyber Essentials is a mandatory requirement for UK government contracts and a widely recognised signal of security baseline compliance. Our Cyber Essentials service takes organisations from initial gap assessment through to certification — covering the five technical controls, evidence preparation, and assessor liaison. For Cyber Essentials Plus, we conduct the hands-on technical verification ourselves, ensuring no surprises on assessment day.
What You Get
- Gap assessment against all five Cyber Essentials technical controls
- Remediation support to close gaps before formal assessment
- Evidence pack preparation and assessor liaison for smooth certification
- Cyber Essentials Plus technical verification — internal testing included
Methodology
Scoping
Define organisational boundary and in-scope systems for certification
Gap Assessment
Assess current state against the five CE controls: firewalls, secure configuration, access control, malware protection, patch management
Remediation Support
Provide technical guidance to close identified gaps before assessment
Self-Assessment (CE)
Support completion of the IASME questionnaire and evidence submission
Technical Verification (CE+)
Conduct hands-on vulnerability scanning and configuration testing for Plus certification
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Cyber Essentials certification — professional services firmVulnerability Management
Know Your Exposure Before Attackers Do
10,000+
Vulnerabilities Remediated
A continuous, structured program to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across your entire attack surface — before adversaries can exploit them.
Vulnerability management is not a one-time scan. We build and operate a repeatable program that continuously discovers assets, assesses their exposure, and delivers prioritized remediation guidance based on real-world exploitability — not just CVSS scores. Our approach integrates with your existing tooling and maps findings directly to business risk.
What You Get
- Complete asset inventory with continuous exposure monitoring
- Risk-prioritized vulnerability backlog aligned to business impact
- Remediation SLA tracking and trend reporting for leadership
- Integration with ticketing and patch management workflows
Methodology
Asset Discovery
Enumerate all in-scope assets including cloud, on-prem, and shadow IT
Vulnerability Scanning
Authenticated and unauthenticated scans across network and application layers
Risk Prioritization
Contextualize findings using EPSS, CVSS, and threat intelligence
Remediation Guidance
Actionable fix guidance with owner assignment and SLA tracking
Continuous Monitoring
Ongoing scanning cadence with delta reporting and KPI dashboards
Security Architecture
Security Built In, Not Bolted On
Zero-Trust
Architecture Approach
Advisory and design services that embed security into your infrastructure and application architecture from the ground up — reducing technical debt and attack surface before systems go live.
Retrofitting security into existing systems is expensive and incomplete. Our Security Architecture practice works alongside your engineering and infrastructure teams during the design phase to identify security requirements, evaluate technology choices, and produce reference architectures that are defensible by design. We cover cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
What You Get
- Security requirements specification aligned to your threat model
- Reference architecture with defense-in-depth controls mapped
- Cloud security posture baseline for AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Network segmentation and zero-trust architecture guidance
Methodology
Requirements Gathering
Understand business context, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite
Threat Modeling
STRIDE/PASTA analysis of proposed architecture
Architecture Review
Evaluate design against security principles and known attack patterns
Reference Design
Produce secure reference architecture with annotated controls
Validation
Post-implementation review to confirm controls are correctly deployed
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GRC
Govern Risk. Demonstrate Compliance.
ISO 27001
Primary Standard
Governance, Risk, and Compliance services that align your security programme to regulatory obligations and business objectives — building the frameworks, policies, and evidence your auditors and board require.
Security without governance is unmanageable. Our GRC practice helps organizations design and implement risk management frameworks, develop security policies and standards, prepare for regulatory audits, and build the reporting structures that give leadership meaningful visibility into their security posture. We work across ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, DORA, NIS2, and sector-specific regulatory requirements.
What You Get
- Information security management system (ISMS) design and implementation
- Risk register development with quantified risk ratings and treatment plans
- Audit-ready evidence packs for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
- Board-level security reporting and KRI/KPI dashboard design
Methodology
Gap Assessment
Baseline current state against target framework requirements
Risk Assessment
Identify, analyse, and evaluate information security risks
Framework Design
Develop policies, standards, procedures, and control mappings
Implementation Support
Assist with control deployment, evidence collection, and staff awareness
Audit Readiness
Pre-audit review, evidence pack preparation, and auditor liaison
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ISO 27001 + vCISO — FCA-regulated payments firmPenetration Testing: Infrastructure
Find the Gaps in Your Network Before Attackers Do
98%
Client Satisfaction Rate
Manual, methodology-driven penetration testing of your internal and external network infrastructure — servers, firewalls, routers, VPNs, and Active Directory — delivering validated findings and a clear remediation roadmap.
Infrastructure penetration testing goes beyond automated scanning. Our consultants manually exploit validated vulnerabilities across your network perimeter and internal environment, demonstrating real-world attack paths including privilege escalation, lateral movement, and domain compromise. Every finding is risk-rated and paired with actionable remediation guidance.
What You Get
- Validated attack paths from external perimeter to critical assets
- Active Directory and identity infrastructure security assessment
- Compliance-ready reporting for PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2
- Re-test included to verify remediation effectiveness
Methodology
Scoping
Define targets, IP ranges, rules of engagement, and success criteria
Reconnaissance
Service enumeration, OS fingerprinting, and network topology mapping
Exploitation
Manual exploitation of validated vulnerabilities across network layers
Post-Exploitation
Privilege escalation, lateral movement, and domain compromise simulation
Reporting
Executive summary, technical findings, and prioritized remediation plan
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SAP security assessment — Gulf energy supplierPenetration Testing: Web Applications
Expose What Your Developers Missed
OWASP
Testing Standard
In-depth manual security testing of web applications, APIs, and authentication mechanisms — uncovering logic flaws, injection vulnerabilities, and access control weaknesses that automated scanners routinely miss.
Web application penetration testing requires human expertise. Our consultants combine automated tooling with deep manual testing to identify business logic flaws, authentication bypasses, injection vulnerabilities, and insecure API endpoints. We test against OWASP standards and deliver findings your development team can act on immediately.
What You Get
- Full OWASP Top 10 coverage with manual validation of each finding
- API security assessment including authentication and authorization flaws
- Business logic vulnerability identification beyond automated tool capability
- Developer-friendly report with proof-of-concept and fix guidance
Methodology
Reconnaissance
Application mapping, technology fingerprinting, and attack surface enumeration
Authentication Testing
Session management, MFA bypass, and credential attack surface review
Injection & Logic Testing
SQLi, XSS, SSRF, IDOR, and business logic flaw identification
API Security
REST/GraphQL endpoint testing for broken access control and data exposure
Reporting
OWASP-mapped findings with severity ratings and remediation code examples
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AI Security
Secure the Intelligence Layer
New
Frontier Capability
As AI systems become core to business operations, they introduce a new class of attack surface. We assess, harden, and monitor AI and ML deployments against adversarial manipulation, data poisoning, and model theft.
AI systems are not inherently secure. Prompt injection, adversarial inputs, training data poisoning, and model inversion attacks are real threats that traditional security tools are not designed to detect. Our AI Security practice combines deep knowledge of machine learning systems with offensive security tradecraft to identify and remediate vulnerabilities unique to AI deployments.
What You Get
- Threat model specific to your AI/ML architecture and data pipelines
- Assessment of prompt injection and adversarial input vulnerabilities
- Data pipeline integrity review and poisoning risk assessment
- Hardening recommendations aligned to OWASP LLM Top 10
Methodology
AI Asset Inventory
Map all AI/ML models, APIs, training pipelines, and data sources
Threat Modeling
Identify adversarial attack vectors specific to your AI stack
Adversarial Testing
Prompt injection, model evasion, and data poisoning simulations
Supply Chain Review
Assess third-party model dependencies and fine-tuning risks
Hardening Roadmap
Prioritized controls aligned to OWASP LLM Top 10 and NIST AI RMF
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Penetration Testing: Wireless
Your Wireless Network Is an Attack Surface
802.11
Protocol Coverage
Manual penetration testing of your wireless infrastructure — identifying rogue access points, weak encryption, authentication bypasses, and client-side attack vectors that expose your network to unauthorized access.
Wireless networks extend your attack surface beyond physical boundaries. Our Wireless Penetration Testing service assesses your 802.11 infrastructure for weak encryption protocols, misconfigured access points, rogue device exposure, and client-side vulnerabilities. We test both corporate and guest network segments and validate the effectiveness of your wireless access controls.
What You Get
- Identification of rogue and unauthorized access points in range
- Encryption and authentication protocol weakness assessment
- Client isolation and network segmentation validation
- Compliance evidence for PCI DSS wireless requirements
Methodology
Wireless Discovery
Enumerate all SSIDs, access points, and client devices in range
Encryption Testing
Assess WPA2/WPA3 configuration, PMKID attacks, and handshake capture
Authentication Attacks
Evil twin, deauthentication, and RADIUS misconfiguration testing
Segmentation Testing
Validate guest network isolation and VLAN separation
Reporting
Findings mapped to PCI DSS wireless requirements with remediation guidance
OSINT
See What Attackers See
72hrs
Avg. Time to First Finding
Open-source intelligence gathering that maps your digital footprint from an adversary's perspective — exposing leaked credentials, shadow infrastructure, and publicly available attack paths before they are weaponized.
Before any attack, adversaries conduct reconnaissance. Our OSINT engagements replicate that process using the same tools and techniques threat actors use — dark web monitoring, social media analysis, domain and certificate intelligence, and employee exposure profiling. The result is a clear picture of your external attack surface as it appears to a motivated adversary.
What You Get
- Complete external attack surface map including shadow assets
- Leaked credential and sensitive data exposure report
- Employee and executive digital footprint assessment
- Dark web monitoring for brand, data, and infrastructure mentions
Methodology
Passive Reconnaissance
Domain, DNS, certificate, and WHOIS intelligence gathering
Dark Web Monitoring
Scan forums, marketplaces, and paste sites for exposed data
Social Engineering Surface
Employee profiling, LinkedIn exposure, and phishing vector mapping
Infrastructure Mapping
Identify shadow IT, exposed services, and misconfigured assets
Reporting
Prioritized exposure report with immediate remediation actions
Breakout Test: Kiosk / Citrix
Can Your Locked-Down Environment Stay Locked?
Physical
& Logical Testing
Specialist security testing of kiosk terminals, Citrix environments, and locked-down desktop deployments — identifying escape paths that allow users to break out of restricted sessions and access the underlying system.
Kiosk and Citrix environments are designed to restrict user access to a controlled interface. In practice, they frequently contain escape paths — keyboard shortcuts, application dialogs, file browser access, and privilege escalation routes — that allow a determined user to reach the underlying OS or network. Our Breakout Test engagements systematically probe these environments using the same techniques a malicious insider or attacker with physical access would use.
What You Get
- Identification of all viable breakout paths from the restricted session
- Privilege escalation and lateral movement potential from breakout point
- Detailed remediation guidance for each identified escape vector
- Compliance evidence for PCI DSS and regulated kiosk deployments
Methodology
Environment Mapping
Understand the intended restrictions and application whitelist
UI Escape Testing
Dialog boxes, file browsers, print functions, and keyboard shortcut abuse
Application Abuse
Exploit trusted application functionality to reach shell or file system
Privilege Escalation
Attempt to escalate from restricted user to local admin or domain user
Reporting
Step-by-step breakout chains with screenshots and remediation guidance
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Breakout test — European police forceCloud Review
Secure Your Cloud Footprint Across Every Provider
Azure · AWS · GCP
All Major Providers
Comprehensive security review of your Azure, AWS, and GCP environments — assessing IAM configuration, network controls, data protection, logging, and compliance posture against cloud security benchmarks.
Cloud environments introduce a shared responsibility model that organizations frequently misunderstand. Misconfigured storage buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, absent logging, and exposed management interfaces are consistently among the most exploited vulnerabilities in cloud deployments. Our Cloud Review service provides a structured, benchmark-driven assessment of your cloud security posture across all major providers.
What You Get
- IAM policy review — over-privileged roles, unused accounts, and MFA gaps
- Network security assessment — exposed services, security group misconfigurations
- Data protection review — encryption at rest/transit, storage access controls
- CIS Benchmark compliance report for Azure, AWS, or GCP
Methodology
Asset Inventory
Enumerate all cloud resources, accounts, and subscriptions in scope
IAM Review
Assess identity policies, role assignments, service accounts, and MFA enforcement
Network & Perimeter
Review security groups, NACLs, firewall rules, and exposed endpoints
Data & Logging
Assess encryption, storage permissions, audit logging, and monitoring coverage
Benchmark Scoring
Score environment against CIS Benchmarks and produce prioritized remediation plan
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Configuration Review
Harden Your Network Perimeter at the Device Level
Perimeter
Device-Level Assurance
Expert review of firewall, router, switch, and IDS/IPS configurations — assessing ruleset logic, access controls, and device hardening to eliminate misconfiguration risk at the network boundary.
Network devices are the first and last line of defence — yet their configurations are rarely subjected to the same rigour as application code or cloud environments. Firewall rulesets accumulate over years, legacy permit rules go unreviewed, and IDS/IPS signatures drift out of alignment with the current threat landscape. Our Configuration Review service provides a structured, expert-led assessment of your network device configurations: firewall policy logic, router access control lists, switch port security, and IDS/IPS rule effectiveness. We assess against vendor hardening guides and industry frameworks, delivering a prioritised remediation plan that closes exposure without disrupting operations.
What You Get
- Firewall ruleset review — redundant, overly permissive, and shadowed rules identified
- Router and switch configuration assessment — ACLs, management plane hardening, VLAN security
- IDS/IPS rule and signature review — coverage gaps, tuning recommendations, evasion risks
- Prioritised remediation plan with risk ratings and change-safe implementation guidance
Methodology
Device Inventory
Enumerate all in-scope network devices — firewalls, routers, switches, IDS/IPS — and collect configuration exports
Ruleset Analysis
Review firewall policies for permit-any rules, shadowed entries, unused objects, and zone trust mismatches
Device Hardening Review
Assess router and switch configurations against vendor guides — management access, unused services, routing protocol security
IDS/IPS Assessment
Review sensor placement, rule coverage, signature currency, and alert tuning against current threat intelligence
Remediation Planning
Prioritise findings by exploitability and network exposure; provide change-safe remediation steps with rollback guidance
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Build Review
Secure Your Golden Images Before They Scale
CIS L2
Build Standard
Expert review of server and workstation build standards — assessing OS hardening, software configuration, and security controls baked into your golden images to ensure every endpoint starts from a secure baseline.
Every server and workstation deployed in your environment inherits the security posture of its base image. Weak golden images propagate misconfiguration at scale — a single insecure build standard can mean hundreds of endpoints with the same exploitable gaps. Our Build Review service examines your server and workstation build standards against CIS Benchmarks and organisational security requirements: OS hardening, local firewall configuration, unnecessary services, privilege management, logging, and endpoint security tooling. We assess both Windows and Linux environments, delivering a hardened build standard your teams can implement and maintain.
What You Get
- Golden image assessment — OS hardening gaps, unnecessary services, and privilege configuration
- Endpoint security tooling review — AV/EDR deployment, coverage, and configuration effectiveness
- Local policy review — firewall rules, audit logging, account policies, and patch management
- Hardened build standard delivered — ready for implementation across server and workstation fleets
Methodology
Build Inventory
Identify all server and workstation build standards in scope — Windows, Linux, and any specialised OS variants
OS Hardening Assessment
Review base OS configuration against CIS Benchmarks — services, accounts, file permissions, and registry settings
Security Tooling Review
Assess AV/EDR deployment, configuration, and coverage; review local firewall rules and logging policy
Privilege & Policy Review
Evaluate local administrator accounts, group policy application, patch management configuration, and software restriction
Hardened Standard Delivery
Produce a hardened build standard document with remediation steps, implementation guidance, and benchmark scores
Red Teaming
Think Like Your Adversary
Elite
Adversarial Tradecraft
Bespoke adversarial campaigns that go beyond automated tooling — built around the specific threat actors targeting your sector, executed with the same tradecraft they use, and designed to expose the gaps your defences have never been tested against.
Our Red Team engagements go far beyond automated scanning. We build bespoke attack scenarios modeled on the specific threat actors targeting your industry — nation-state groups, financially motivated criminal organizations, and insider threats. Every engagement is scoped to your environment and executed with the same tradecraft your real adversaries use.
What You Get
- Realistic assessment of your detection and response capabilities
- Identification of attack paths that automated tools miss
- Executive-ready report with risk-ranked findings
- Debrief with your security team on adversary TTPs observed
Methodology
Reconnaissance
OSINT collection, infrastructure mapping, employee profiling
Initial Access
Phishing, credential attacks, physical intrusion attempts
Lateral Movement
Privilege escalation, credential harvesting, network traversal
Objective Achievement
Data exfiltration simulation, persistence establishment
Reporting
Full attack narrative, detection gaps, remediation roadmap
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Breakout test — European police forceBlue Teaming
Harden Your Defensive Posture
40%
Avg. MTTD Reduction
Continuous monitoring, detection engineering, and incident response readiness. We build and validate the defensive capabilities your organization needs to identify and contain threats at speed.
Effective defense requires more than tools — it requires tuned detections, practiced response playbooks, and a team that has seen real attack patterns. Our Blue Team services help you build, validate, and continuously improve your security operations capability through detection engineering, tabletop exercises, and ongoing purple team collaboration.
What You Get
- Validated detection coverage mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Tuned SIEM rules with reduced false positive rates
- Documented and tested incident response playbooks
- Measurable improvement in mean time to detect (MTTD)
Methodology
Detection Audit
Review existing SIEM rules, coverage gaps, and alert fatigue
Threat Modeling
Map relevant TTPs to your environment and industry
Detection Engineering
Build and tune detection logic for high-priority attack patterns
Tabletop Exercises
Scenario-based response drills with your security team
Continuous Improvement
Ongoing tuning, purple team exercises, metrics reporting
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DevSecOps
Shift Security Left. Ship Faster, Safer.
Shift Left
Security Philosophy
Embed security into your software development lifecycle — integrating automated security testing, policy-as-code, and developer security training into your CI/CD pipelines so vulnerabilities are caught at build time, not in production.
DevSecOps is not a tool — it is a cultural and technical transformation. Our DevSecOps practice helps engineering teams integrate security controls natively into their development workflows: SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container security, and infrastructure-as-code analysis — all automated in the pipeline. We also deliver developer security training so your team builds secure-by-default.
What You Get
- Security tooling integrated into CI/CD pipeline with actionable gate policies
- Container and infrastructure-as-code security scanning automated at build time
- Developer security training programme tailored to your tech stack
- Security metrics dashboard — vulnerability introduction rate, MTTR, coverage
Methodology
Maturity Assessment
Baseline current DevSecOps practices against OWASP SAMM or BSIMM
Pipeline Integration
Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI/CD
Policy as Code
Define security gates, break-build policies, and exception workflows
Container & IaC Security
Image scanning, Dockerfile hardening, Terraform/Bicep policy checks
Training & Enablement
Developer security training, secure coding guidelines, and champion programme
vCISO / CISO as a Service
Senior Security Leadership, On Demand
Fractional
or Full Retained
Fractional or full virtual CISO services that give your organization experienced security leadership without the cost of a full-time hire — strategy, governance, board reporting, and programme oversight included.
Not every organization needs — or can afford — a full-time CISO. Our vCISO service provides experienced security leadership on a fractional or retained basis, covering security strategy development, risk governance, board and executive reporting, vendor management, regulatory liaison, and security programme oversight. We integrate with your existing team and scale with your needs.
What You Get
- Security strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned to business objectives
- Board and executive security reporting with meaningful KRIs and KPIs
- Regulatory and audit liaison — ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, NIS2
- Security programme oversight and vendor/supplier risk management
Methodology
Onboarding
Understand business context, current security posture, and stakeholder landscape
Strategy Development
Define security vision, objectives, and a prioritized improvement roadmap
Governance Setup
Establish risk management, policy framework, and reporting cadence
Ongoing Oversight
Regular engagement with leadership, security team, and key vendors
Reporting & Review
Board-level reporting, programme metrics, and annual strategy review
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Social Engineering: Phishing Campaign
Your People Are the Perimeter
3x
Avg. Risk Reduction After 3 Campaigns
Realistic, targeted phishing simulations that measure your organization's susceptibility to email-based social engineering — and build the awareness and resilience needed to reduce human risk.
Technical controls cannot fully compensate for human vulnerability. Our Phishing Campaign service designs and executes realistic, scenario-based phishing simulations tailored to your organization — from credential harvesting to malware delivery lures. We measure click rates, credential submission, and reporting behavior, then deliver targeted awareness training based on observed results.
What You Get
Methodology
Scenario Design
Build realistic lures tailored to your industry, brand, and employee roles
Infrastructure Setup
Deploy phishing infrastructure with tracking and credential capture
Campaign Execution
Deliver phishing emails to target population with controlled timing
Metrics Collection
Track open rates, click rates, credential submission, and reporting rates
Awareness & Reporting
Deliver targeted training and executive report with trend analysis
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