Our Process
A battle-tested methodology refined through hundreds of successful engagements. We combine agile principles with enterprise rigor, security-designed and assessment-ready from phase one. Threat modelling, compliance mapping (NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, ISO 27001 / 42001) and incident preparedness woven through every phase.
Stakeholder interviews, technical assessment, requirements documentation, strategic roadmap. Initial threat modelling, EU AI Act risk classification, regulatory scope mapping (NIS2, DORA).
System architecture, database schema, API contracts, UI/UX prototyping. Security-architecture review, zero-trust segmentation, identity & access design, control mapping to ISO 27001 / 42001, before writing code.
Two-week sprint cycles, daily standups, continuous integration, and our review of what your team builds. SAST scans on every PR, signed commits, dependency-vulnerability gates, specified and checked.
Test strategy for unit, integration and performance coverage. SAST + DAST pipeline design, secure-configuration review, threat-model verification against the built system.
Provisioning design, blue-green deployment plan, monitoring specification, documentation handoff. Hardened images, secret rotation, audit-log pipelines, runbook delivery.
Scheduled advisory reviews, performance and cost optimisation, roadmap input, knowledge transfer. Periodic threat-model refresh, audit-evidence renewal, NIS2 / DORA notification readiness.
Security Across Every Phase
Cybersecurity is not a Phase 04 checkbox. Threat modelling, control mapping, and audit-evidence collection are continuous, woven through discovery, design, build, deploy and operate.
STRIDE / PASTA from Phase 01. Refreshed at architecture changes and at least annually in operate phase.
NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, ISO 27001 / 42001, SOC 2. Controls scoped in Phase 01, mapped in Phase 02, evidenced continuously.
SAST, DAST, signed commits, SBOM, dependency gates. Every PR ships with a security signal; a green CI run alone is not enough.
Design and configuration review in Phase 04, repeated before launch and annually after, with findings ranked by exploitability.
Hardened base images, secret rotation, audit-log pipelines, retained evidence, monitored privilege boundaries.
Response plan, runbook drills, NIS2 / DORA 24-hour-notification playbooks, evidence-retention requirements.
enterprise infrastructure?
Schedule a technical briefing. No sales pitch, just architects and your team.
Security is not a deliverable. It's a system property. Bolt it on at Phase 04 and you get audit findings; engineer it from Phase 01 and you get resilient systems. We do the latter.
Core Principles
Threat-modelled before code, hardened before launch, and audit-ready before regulators come asking. Security is architectural here, never bolted on afterwards.
Complete visibility into progress, challenges, and decisions throughout the engagement.
Rapid iteration and delivery without compromising quality, stability or security posture.
Enterprise-grade standards with comprehensive testing and documentation.
We embed with your team as true partners rather than external vendors.
No vendor obligations, no investor pressure to ship hype. We recommend what works.