Security & QA
Cybersecurity Consulting and Audit Services
About Cybersecurity Consulting & Audits
Most security reports are unusable in the form they arrive. Four hundred findings from an automated scanner, sorted by CVSS score, with no distinction between a theoretical issue in a dependency you do not load and an authorisation flaw that lets any authenticated user read every other tenant's data. The engineering team triages for a week, fixes the easy ones, and the report becomes a document that exists rather than a programme of work.
We audit for exploitability in your specific context. Findings are ranked by what an attacker could actually achieve given your architecture, your data sensitivity and your existing controls — with a demonstrated attack path, not a severity label. Each one comes with a concrete remediation, an effort estimate, and where relevant a code-level fix. A report that produces a two-week plan your team can execute is worth more than one that produces a four-hundred-row spreadsheet.
Our work covers application security testing against the OWASP Top 10 and API Security Top 10 with an emphasis on the authorisation and business-logic flaws scanners cannot find; cloud configuration review across identity policy, network exposure, encryption, logging and secrets handling; secure code review of the paths that matter — authentication, authorisation, payment, data export; and infrastructure and network testing. We also run threat modelling workshops with engineering teams, which is consistently the highest-leverage security activity because it moves defect discovery to design time.
For compliance we prepare organisations for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS — implementing the technical controls, producing the evidence trail, running the readiness assessment and remediating gaps before the auditor arrives. We work alongside your compliance platform and auditor rather than replacing either.
Why it matters
What you get
Findings ranked by exploitability
Prioritised by what an attacker could actually achieve in your architecture, with a demonstrated path — not sorted by raw CVSS.
Remediation your team can execute
Every finding carries a specific fix, an effort estimate and, where useful, code-level guidance — so the report becomes a plan.
The flaws scanners miss
Manual testing focused on broken authorisation, tenant isolation and business-logic abuse, which is where the serious breaches actually originate.
Compliance readiness end to end
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS technical controls implemented, evidence generated, and gaps closed before the audit.
Threat modelling that shifts defects left
Workshops with your engineers that catch design-stage flaws — by far the cheapest place to find and fix them.
How we deliver
Our process for this work
Adapted to this service specifically — not a generic five-box diagram.
- 01
Scoping & threat modelling
1 weekAsset and data-flow mapping, trust boundary identification, threat modelling with your engineers, and an agreed rules-of-engagement document.
- 02
Testing
2–4 weeksAutomated scanning plus manual testing across application, API, cloud configuration and infrastructure, with authenticated multi-role coverage.
- 03
Analysis & reporting
1 weekExploitability-ranked findings with reproduction steps and evidence, an executive summary, and a sequenced remediation plan.
- 04
Remediation support
2–8 weeksWorking alongside your engineers on fixes, with design review on the structural issues rather than only the surface ones.
- 05
Verification & cadence
OngoingRetest of remediated findings, a clean attestation letter, and a recurring testing schedule aligned to your release cadence.
Proof
Where we have done this
Migrating a regional bank to AWS without a maintenance window
43 workloads moved from two ageing data centres to AWS in eleven months, with a governed landing zone and a 34% run-rate reduction.
- Unplanned outages during migration
- 0Unplanned outages during migration
- Infrastructure run-rate reduction
- 34%Infrastructure run-rate reduction
- Environment provisioning time
- 11 days → 40 minEnvironment provisioning time
A patient portal designed for the patients who struggle most with portals
A rebuilt patient portal with WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, FHIR integration and plain-language results — activation rose from 23% to 67%.
- Patient portal activation rate
- 23% → 67%Patient portal activation rate
- Reduction in routine call volume
- 41%Reduction in routine call volume
- Verified across all patient flows
- WCAG 2.1 AAVerified across all patient flows
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