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Security and Compliance

We harden your cloud environment, tighten identity and supply chain controls, and automate the evidence collection that certification and enterprise customers demand.

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Timeline
6 to 12 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 16,000
Delivered by
2 engineers, embedded with yours
Ends with
Documented handover

Overview

Pass the security review without pausing the roadmap.

For most small and mid-sized companies, security becomes urgent for a commercial reason. An enterprise prospect sends a two-hundred-question review, or a certification appears in a contract, or an insurer starts asking specific questions.

The work that follows is largely engineering rather than paperwork. Fix the access model, remove the standing credentials, secure the build pipeline, and make evidence collection automatic so the second audit costs a fraction of the first.

This is for you if

  • An enterprise customer has sent a security questionnaire you cannot answer confidently.
  • ISO 27001 or SOC 2 has appeared in a contract or a board discussion.
  • Production access is broadly granted because narrowing it seemed likely to break something.
  • Credentials live in environment files, and nobody is certain how many copies exist.

What we provide

Everything below is in the written scope before the engagement starts.

If something you need is missing from this list, it is a conversation during the proposal rather than a change request halfway through the build.

  • Cloud posture review

    A prioritised assessment of your accounts against the provider benchmarks, separating findings that matter for your threat model from findings that merely score badly on a report.

  • Identity and least privilege

    Single sign-on, role-based access, short-lived credentials and the removal of long-lived keys, done in a sequence that does not lock your own engineers out.

  • Secrets management

    Secrets moved out of repositories, environment files and chat history into managed storage, with rotation and an audit trail of who read what.

  • Supply chain controls

    Dependency scanning, signed build artifacts, pinned base images and a software bill of materials, so you know what is actually running in production.

  • Automated audit evidence

    Access reviews, change approvals, backup verification and vulnerability reports collected on a schedule, so evidence gathering stops being a quarterly fire drill.

  • Policy documentation

    The written policies an assessor expects, describing controls that genuinely exist in your environment rather than aspirational ones copied from a template.

Typical engagement timeline

A 6 to 12 weeks engagement, phase by phase.

Security engagements run six to twelve weeks depending on the framework in scope and the state of your current environment. Remediation is sequenced by risk, so the highest-severity findings are closed in the first fortnight.

  1. 01

    Assessment

    Weeks 1 to 3

    Cloud configuration, identity, network exposure, pipeline and dependency review, delivered as a findings register with severity, owner and effort against each item.

  2. 02

    Critical remediation

    Weeks 2 to 6

    Public exposure, standing credentials and privilege escalation paths closed first, with changes staged so nothing breaks your own team's access.

  3. 03

    Controls and automation

    Weeks 5 to 10

    Preventative guardrails, policy as code, secret rotation and automated evidence collection wired into the environment and the pipeline.

  4. 04

    Documentation and readiness

    Weeks 9 to 12

    Policies written, an internal readiness review run against the framework, and your team walked through the questions an assessor will ask.

Key benefits

What changes for your team once this is in place.

These are the outcomes clients tell us mattered most six months after the engagement ended, rather than the ones that sound best in a proposal.

Security reviews stop blocking deals

A prepared evidence pack turns a three-week scramble into a same-week response when a prospect sends a questionnaire.

A smaller blast radius

Least privilege and short-lived credentials mean a compromised laptop or token no longer implies a compromised production environment.

Cheaper repeat audits

Automated evidence collection is the difference between an audit costing weeks of engineering time and costing a couple of days.

Controls developers accept

Guardrails that fail fast in the pipeline are far easier to live with than a review board that meets on Tuesdays.

Questions we are asked

Three things people ask before committing.

If your question is not here, ask it on the introductory call. We would rather answer it before a proposal than after one.

Do you certify us for ISO 27001 or SOC 2?

No, and nobody can honestly claim to. Certification is issued by an accredited external auditor. What we do is the engineering and documentation work that gets you ready for that audit, then run an internal readiness review against the same criteria so the assessment holds no surprises.

Will security controls slow our developers down?

Badly designed ones will. We put controls in the pipeline where they fail in seconds with a clear message, rather than in a review process that adds days. Teams generally report that the biggest change is fewer credentials to manage, not more process to follow.

What happens after the audit?

Certification is annual, so the evidence automation matters more than the initial push. We hand over an environment where access reviews, backup checks and vulnerability reports generate themselves on a schedule, along with a calendar of what your team needs to review and when.

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Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 16,000. 6 to 12 weeks.

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