Practice

Four disciplines. One standard.

We take a limited number of engagements per year. Every one of them is scoped personally, delivered quietly, and measured by what it prevents, not what it produces.

Adversary Simulation

Penetration testing, red-teaming, purple-teaming and assumed-breach operations tailored to your actual threat model — not a generic one. We replicate the adversaries you are likely to meet, with restraint, and we brief your defenders as we go or at the end, as you prefer.

  • Penetration testing (application, network, cloud, mobile)
  • External & internal red-team engagements
  • Assumed-breach & ransomware tabletop exercises
  • Detection validation & detection engineering

Architecture, Hardening & Policy

We shape systems so intrusion is unprofitable and detection is inevitable. We review cloud estates, engineering workflows and boundary designs, and write the policies that hold them together — policies meant to be followed, not filed. We leave you with changes you can maintain without us.

  • Cloud security review (AWS · GCP · Azure)
  • SDLC, supply-chain & CI/CD hardening
  • Security policy & standards authorship

Board & Executive Counsel

We prepare executives for board conversations, translate technical risk into decisions the business can actually act on, and offer steady counsel on priorities.

  • Security leadership on retainer or for a defined term
  • Board briefings & regulator preparation
  • Independent security review ahead of acquisitions or investments
  • Crisis support

Awareness & Secure Development

The habits that make the rest of our work less necessary over time. Security awareness for everyone, secure development for engineers — taught by practitioners, not slide decks.

  • Security awareness programmes, tailored by role
  • Secure development coaching (threat modelling, code review)
  • Phishing drills, tabletop exercises & developer training
Engagement Models
Model A

Retainer

A recurring, personal relationship. Most of our clients begin here, or arrive here within a year. Priced annually.

Model B

Fixed engagement

A defined piece of work, a defined outcome. Ideal for red-team exercises, architecture reviews and programme design.

Model C

Counsel hour

Sometimes an afternoon of honest conversation is worth more than a quarter of work. Available to qualifying organisations.