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The findings that matter to you are not endpoints, they are design decisions already replicated across your services. We test the architecture and report the systemic version.
architecture review · exploitation evidence · retest
Decisions that compound
The authorisation model, the tenancy boundary, the identity design. Get one wrong and it is reimplemented, consistently and incorrectly, in every service built afterwards. These are the decisions worth having attacked while they are still cheap to change.
Velocity that security work must not consume
You are accountable for what ships. A finding your engineers cannot reproduce, or that arrives as a severity score with no reproduction path, costs sprint time and returns nothing.
Inherited systems nobody wants to touch
Every engineering organisation carries a service written under deadline by someone who has left. You own its risk regardless, and you need to know whether it is the way in.
YOUR CHALLENGE
You are shipping, scaling, and carrying technical debt you chose deliberately. Security arrives as a questionnaire from procurement, a scanner queue nobody triages, or a consultant who has not read the architecture.
Meanwhile the decisions that actually determine your exposure were made in the first year and have been copied since: where authorisation is enforced, what services assume about each other, and which credentials the pipeline holds.
Testing is worth your engineers' attention only if it reaches those decisions and comes back in a form they can act on without translation.
What usually prompts the call
- →Enterprise deals held up by security questionnaires nobody in engineering owns
- →An authorisation pattern replicated across services before anyone tested it
- →Cloud IAM that has accumulated permissions for four years and been pruned never
- →Authentication assembled from tutorials under launch pressure
- →Scanner output that generates tickets without generating information
- →A compliance requirement arriving with a deadline attached
- →A service inherited from a departed engineer that nobody will touch
WHAT WE TEST
Testing runs against the running system; the review runs against the design behind it. The findings that change your roadmap come from the second.
Authorisation & tenancy design
- →Where enforcement lives: gateway, service, or data layer
- →Consistency of the check across every entry point, including internal ones
- →Tenancy boundary integrity under background jobs and async paths
- →Privilege model coherence as roles were added over time
Identity & session architecture
- →JWT issuance, validation, algorithm handling, and revocation
- →OAuth and OIDC flow selection and implementation
- →Session lifetime, invalidation, and cross-device handling
- →Account recovery, the path most often designed last
Cloud & infrastructure posture
- →IAM policy structure and privilege escalation paths between roles
- →Storage and database exposure across all accounts and regions
- →Network boundaries and what a compromised workload can reach
- →Secrets distribution, rotation, and blast radius
Service boundaries & internal trust
- →What one service assumes about a caller it cannot authenticate
- →Internal APIs reachable from outside the trust boundary
- →Message queue and event bus authorisation
- →Admin and operational tooling, usually the weakest surface you own
Build & deployment pipeline
- →What can execute in CI and with which credentials
- →Dependency and third-party action trust decisions
- →Artifact integrity from build to running workload
- →Deployment credential scope and separation between environments
Data handling
- →Encryption in transit and at rest, and where it is terminated
- →Backup access control and restoration integrity
- →Sensitive data in logs, traces, and error reporting
- →Retention and deletion actually taking effect downstream
WHAT YOU CAN DECIDE AFTERWARDS
Whether the pattern is safe to keep building on
A finding in one endpoint matters far less than knowing whether the pattern behind it is repeated in forty. We report the systemic version.
What to fix now and what to carry deliberately
Not everything found needs fixing this quarter. Findings carry enough exploitation context to accept a risk knowingly.
What to tell a customer's security reviewer
An accurate scope statement and remediation position answers a vendor security review without your team improvising claims that later have to be walked back.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Will testing break production?+
We agree boundaries before starting and use staging where it faithfully mirrors production. Destructive techniques are not run against production without explicit written approval. Where a finding can only be confirmed in production, we ask first and describe exactly what the confirmation involves.
Do you work with our stack?+
We test the architecture, not the framework, so the language matters less than the design. That covers the usual server-side ecosystems, cloud-native and serverless deployments, and container orchestration. If something in your stack is genuinely unfamiliar we say so at scoping.
How do findings reach my engineers?+
In the format your team already works in: tracker tickets, GitHub issues or structured output, each with severity, full reproduction and specific remediation guidance. An engineer who was not in the engagement should be able to reproduce it from the write-up alone.
We have no security team. Is that a problem?+
No, but it changes the deliverable. Without a security function to triage, findings arrive directly actionable by engineers and prioritised on your behalf.
Have the architecture attacked before it is copied again
Send us the architecture and the parts you already suspect. Scoping starts from what you would least like to be wrong about.