Practice 05 — Security

Cyber and AI security.

Embedding cyber and AI security into engineering teams — and operating attack surface management, detection and response, incident response, and threat intelligence where risk actually lives. Practical, repeatable, and easy to adopt.

From "did the pen test pass?"
to "is it secure by design?"

Current State

Security bolted on at the end.

  • Security review is a gate at the very end — findings arrive too late to fix cheaply.
  • AI coding assistants ship insecure patterns at scale, faster than anyone reviews them.
  • A penetration test once a year; posture drifts the other fifty-one weeks.
  • Internet-facing assets, suppliers, and leaked credentials are discovered only after an incident.
  • Threats are understood by the security team — not by the engineers actually building.
  • GenAI and agentic AI features ship to production with no threat model at all.
With Ophanix

Security embedded from the design phase.

  • Security architecture agreed in the design phase — before the first line is written.
  • Secure coding principles embedded in the SDLC and in the AI-assisted workflow itself.
  • SAST, DAST, SCA, and secret scanning automated in CI/CD — every release, every time.
  • Continuous attack-surface discovery with ownership, exposure ranking, and change alerting.
  • Detection, response, and threat intelligence that feed each other — not three disconnected vendors.
  • GenAI and agentic AI controls mapped and enforced at the right organisational levels.

Each capability is a practice we embed into your teams — through training, hands-on work, or consultancy.

Cyber and AI security engineering,
embedded where you build.

01

Security by design

Security starts at the beginning of the innovation cycle, in the design phase. With the right security architecture and practices it is embedded into the organisation's way of working — not bolted on after launch.

02

Secure coding principles

With the high degree of adoption of AI coding assistants, it has never been more relevant that secure coding principles are understood and embedded into the SDLC.

03

Secure SDLC

Automated checks integrated into the software development lifecycle. We define the right CI/CD toolset so security and compliance assurance is repeatable for every release — SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, containers, and IaC.

04

(Gen) AI threats

GenAI threats are real inside the organisation when the right controls are absent — prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe model interaction. We make sure mitigations sit at use-case, data, application, platform, and governance levels.

05

OWASP Top 10

OWASP pioneered web application security. A working understanding of the Top 10 vulnerabilities ensures these high-stakes issues are avoided in web application development.

06

Agentic AI threats

Agentic AI brings novel risks: unsafe tool use, memory abuse, workflow chaining, and delegated execution. We support secure adoption of AI agents through controls and governance.

07

Risk assessment

We take on the challenge of risk assessment for organisations — with the right security measures to mitigate those risks in the correct manner, prioritised by business impact, likelihood, and control maturity.

08

Threat modeling

Threat modeling is a key skill for any engineering team: think like a hacker before the threats are realised, and take appropriate action to mitigate them.

09

OWASP API Security Top 10

APIs are everywhere and widely used across the organisation. Without proper management they become a huge risk — so we bring the OWASP API Security Top 10 into your delivery.

10

Security consulting

We help large transformation programmes within corporations with security consultancy — from design all the way to final delivery.

Each line is viable alone. Delivered together, the output of one becomes the input of the next — so you stop paying several suppliers to rediscover the same facts about your estate.

Operational cyber,
continuously delivered.

Attack surface tells detection what exists and what changed. Threat intelligence tells detection what to look for. Detection feeds incident response with context already assembled. Incident response returns findings that become new detection content.

01

Attack surface management

Platform · managed service

Continuous discovery of what an organisation exposes to the internet, who owns it, and what changed — without requiring an agent on the target estate.

  • Internet-facing assets: domains, subdomains, hosts, services, certificates, cloud tenancies, and undeclared exposure
  • Ownership attribution to business unit, supplier, or individual — so findings actually get fixed
  • Exposure identification: management interfaces, remote access, weak configuration, unsupported versions, exposed storage
  • Vulnerability prioritisation by observed exploitation activity, not base severity alone
  • Continuous monitoring with change alerting; supply-chain visibility across named suppliers
  • Leaked credentials, exposed client data, lookalike domains, and brand misuse monitoring
02

Managed detection and response

Managed service

Tiered security operations across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and operational technology. The value sits in what happens after an alert — not in the alert itself.

  • Coverage: endpoint telemetry, directory and SSO activity, firewall / DNS / flow / IDS, cloud control-plane and SaaS audit logs, OT protocol monitoring
  • Detection content version-controlled and mapped to a common adversary technique taxonomy (MITRE ATT&CK)
  • Tiered triage: deterministic matching → statistical classification → language-model enrichment → human analyst — automation reduces reading load, not authority
  • Response actions under a pre-agreed authority matrix: what the service may do, what needs confirmation, what stays with the client
  • Works through the client's existing tooling rather than requiring a vendor change
03

Incident response & digital forensics

Retained · on-demand

Response leadership, forensic examination, and reporting that holds up in front of a regulator — offered as retained readiness and on demand.

  • Retained readiness: response plan, decision authorities, out-of-hours chain, evidence sources, pre-authorised collection, and staged tooling
  • Exercises from executive discussion sessions through to technical simulation
  • Triage, chain-of-custody evidence preservation, investigation, coordinated containment, eradication, recovery, and a defensible timeline
  • Host forensics (Windows, Linux, macOS), memory analysis, network forensics, cloud and identity forensics including token and consent abuse
  • Malware triage covering capability, configuration, and indicators; deeper reverse engineering by arrangement
  • OT incident work for environments where availability outranks investigation; factual basis for regulatory notification
04

Cyber threat intelligence

Platform · managed service

An intelligence service rather than a feed — a requirement is collected against and an assessment is produced that supports a decision.

  • Strategic assessments for board and executive: sector and geography threat picture, investment and risk acceptance
  • Operational reporting for security leadership: campaign and actor reporting with relevance to the client estate
  • Technical reporting for analysts and engineers: indicators, behavioural detections, and infrastructure analysis in ingestible form
  • Exposure and leak monitoring: client data, credentials, and brand on criminal forums, leak sites, and marketplaces
  • Sector and supply-chain watch for named suppliers and peers; short-turnaround requests for information
  • Explicit confidence language; observed vs assessed vs assumed separated; traffic-light protocol handling

Mapped to the duties European clients carry.

A mapping of capability to obligation — not a compliance guarantee. Compliance remains a matter for the client and its advisers.

FrameworkHow the portfolio supports it
NIS2Asset and vulnerability handling, supply-chain security, monitoring, incident record, and early-warning / notification evidence.
DORAICT risk monitoring, incident classification and reporting timelines, resilience exercises, and third-party / ICT provider register support.
Cyber Resilience ActProduct-facing estate coverage, coordinated disclosure channels, and exploitation-activity intelligence that triggers reporting duties.
GDPRForensic determination of whether personal data was accessed and by whom — the factual basis for a breach-notification decision.
CER DirectiveAttack-surface and OT monitoring for the cyber component of critical-entity resilience; post-incident review support.
ISO/IEC 27001 · NIST · ATT&CKDelivery structured to ISO/IEC 27001, FIRST CSIRT Services Framework, NIST SP 800-61 incident handling, and MITRE ATT&CK technique taxonomy.

A representative slice of the continuous scanning that watches your surfaces for weaknesses and active threats.

Security posture,
continuously assured.

Security is not a point-in-time check. We keep watch across applications, APIs, dependencies, secrets, and infrastructure — surfacing findings the moment they appear, triaging them by severity, and driving them to closure.

CONTINUOUS SCAN · TENANT VIEW● live · sweep 4s
AUTH-BYPASSCORS-POLICYTLS-CONFIGRATE-LIMITIDOR-BREACH
Sweep
0° → 360° · 4s
Findings
5 active · 2 crit / 2 warn / 1 ok

A secure SDLC on an open-source toolchain.

Security automation should not be gated behind six-figure licences. We build the pipeline on low-cost and open-source tools first — proven, widely supported, and mapped to each stage of your SDLC.

SDLC stageRepresentative toolingCost
Design · threat modelingOWASP Threat Dragon · Microsoft Threat Modeling ToolFree / OSS
Secure coding · SASTSemgrep OSS · SonarQube Community · Bandit · ESLint securityOpen source
Dependencies · SCAOWASP Dependency-Check · Trivy · OSV-ScannerOpen source
Secret scanningGitleaks · TruffleHogOpen source
DAST · API testingOWASP ZAP · NucleiOpen source
Containers · IaCTrivy · Checkov · tfsecOpen source
Pipeline orchestrationpre-commit hooks · GitHub Actions / GitLab CI gatesFree tier

Four ways to bring us in.

The same practices, delivered at the altitude you need — from upskilling your teams to embedding alongside them, advising a transformation programme, or running continuous operational coverage.

Instructor-led and self-paced

Training

Hands-on training on secure design, secure coding, OWASP Top 10 for web and API, threat modeling, GenAI / agentic AI threats, and threat-informed defense — tailored to your stack and delivery model.

Embedded with your engineers

Hands-on

We work inside your teams: threat-modeling workshops, secure-coding pairing, pipeline hardening, detection content, and live remediation against your real codebase — not slideware.

Design to final delivery

Consultancy

Security architecture and advisory for large transformation programmes — from the design phase through final delivery, mitigating risk at the right organisational levels.

Continuous operations

Managed & retained

Attack surface management, managed detection and response, threat intelligence, and incident-response retainers — continuous coverage with pre-agreed authority and regulatory-ready evidence.

Engage

Embed security where it matters most.

Whether you need to train engineers, harden a delivery pipeline, stand up detection and response, or advise a major transformation programme — we start with your real estate, your real threats, and the organisational levels where risk actually lives.

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