Managed cloud security, secure DevOps and the engineering capability to build and modernise at pace. We put the controls inside the pipeline, because a security review that happens after the release has already lost.
In most organisations, engineering ships continuously and security reviews periodically. The two cadences are incompatible, and the gap between them is where exposure accumulates — in a misconfigured storage bucket, an unpinned dependency, a service account with standing privilege, a legacy component nobody will own.
We came to software engineering from cyber security rather than the other way round. That is why our first question about a pipeline is not how fast it runs, but what it will refuse to release.
You work directly with our senior practitioners. We establish capability and hand it over — most of this work ends with your engineers owning a pipeline and a posture they can maintain without us.
"Secure DevOps" is often sold as a philosophy. In practice it is a set of specific, automated checks positioned at specific points in the delivery pipeline — and the reason it works is that the gate is code, not a meeting. If a control depends on someone remembering to apply it, it is not a control.
What your engineers write, and the repositories it lives in.
Gate applied Secure code control & branch policy Secrets scanning before commit Repository governance & accessWhere dependencies enter and the artefact is assembled.
Gate applied Dependency pinning & scanning Supply-chain integrity checks Application security testingHow infrastructure is defined and released to environments.
Gate applied Infrastructure-as-code policy checks Baseline configuration to CIS Release & change managementWhat is actually live, and whether it has drifted.
Gate applied Cloud posture & drift detection Log integration to SIEM Workload & endpoint protectionThe value of building it this way is cumulative. Each gate is written once, applies to every release afterwards, and produces the evidence trail your auditors ask for as a by-product rather than as a separate exercise. It also means the security position does not degrade the moment the consultants leave.
Commissioned individually, or sequenced as a programme. Most engagements draw on more than one.
Managed cloud security across the major platforms, and the work of producing a standardised, monitored, defensible cloud estate rather than an accumulation of accounts.
Implementing robust secure DevOps governance, tooling and secure code control — and managing the software repositories where your intellectual property actually lives.
Building semi-automated and fully automated CI/CD pipelines, integrated with service and release management rather than bypassing it.
Creating group software engineering capabilities — defining the vision, governance, strategy and roadmap, then building the function that delivers against it.
Managing programmes that prevent technical obsolescence, and facilitating data centre migration to cloud — with the security controls designed in rather than retrofitted.
Customer-facing platforms where availability, performance and security are commercial requirements rather than technical preferences.
Organisations increasingly hold in-house tools of real commercial value — built by a capable individual, running in production, and protected by nothing in particular. We assess and secure them. It is a short piece of work that routinely surfaces material risk nobody had articulated.
Drawn from a recent engagement assessing in-house AI and design tooling at a global architecture practice, where two production tools were found to have no independent copy of their source code.
We establish an organisation-controlled mirror of the code, rather than relying on a developer's laptop or a personal account.
Where knowledge sits with one person, we get the design decisions documented so another technically literate person could pick it up.
Third-party libraries pinned, scanned for vulnerabilities and documented — so a dependency update cannot silently break or compromise it.
Deployment surface reviewed, and the contractual position confirmed where a university or third party was involved in building it.
We select against your requirements and existing estate. Where you have already chosen, we have the depth to implement and operate it properly.
These are platforms we have deployed and operated at group scale in critical national infrastructure environments, not a list of logos. Where a tool appears here, someone on our team has run it in production under regulatory scrutiny.
We directed a group-wide transition to the Microsoft 365 E5 security suite and an £11m SOC transformation including two Splunk SIEM migrations, with log integration across AWS, Azure and M365. Delivery ran through an 83-headcount SAFe Agile Release Train established across nine operating entities.
A central tooling marketplace across the group saving over £2m in licence costs, an AWS EC2 automated build pipeline cutting average deployment from three days to three hours, and DORA metrics introduced to make code quality and delivery performance measurable.
We designed the security controls for data centre migration to cloud and for secure legacy system retirement, remediated a legacy defect affecting customer logins with both tactical and strategic fixes, and implemented a file erasure programme for GDPR compliance.
Global infrastructure modernisation for an air transport technology provider whose systems coordinate land and airborne transport worldwide — spanning AWS and Azure cloud security, infrastructure DevOps, PMO creation and architecture leadership.
Our consultants hold cloud and security credentials alongside delivery experience — including CCSP, CISSP and CSyP at senior level, and BSI-qualified Lead Auditors for the certification work. We have supported one of the largest cloud migrations in Europe.
Ship frequently, own your own pipeline, and not queue behind a review board for every release.
Know what is running, prove what was checked, and be able to answer an auditor without a manual reconstruction.
Automated gates give both sides what they want. Engineering stops waiting for approval because approval is encoded in the pipeline. Security stops sampling because every release is checked. The organisations that get this right are not the ones that chose between the two.
This is the practice that makes the others operational. Most engagements draw on more than one.
Where AI you have built needs governing as well as protecting. Defensibility reviews, risk frameworks and secure operating models.
Explore the practiceThe governance and assurance layer around all of this. GRC and certification, security architecture, IAM and PAM, CISO as a Service.
Explore the practiceWhere an automation outgrows its platform and needs to become a properly engineered, properly deployed application.
Explore the practiceIf the honest answer is nothing, that is where to start. Whether you are planning a data centre exit, inheriting a cloud estate nobody has mapped, or shipping fast with no gates in place, we will give you a straight read on the position and what it takes to close it.
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