Authentication and access
Login, sessions, SSO, and a roles model that maps to how your organisation actually grants access.
Practice 04 · Cyber security
Security baked in while the product is still soft.
Security added at the end is a patch. Security decided at the start is just how the thing is built. We work the second way.
By the time most teams call a security firm, the architecture is set and every fix is a renovation. Roles are tangled, secrets are in three places, and the audit log was an afterthought. The advice is sound and the cost of following it is brutal, because changing the foundation late is always expensive.
We'd rather be in the room when the foundation gets poured. Auth, permissions, audit trails, and threat modelling get decided alongside the architecture, while moving a wall still costs an afternoon instead of a quarter.
The work, broken down
Audit and accountability
Trails that record who did what and when, built in early so they're complete rather than partial.
Hardening and hygiene
Dependency scanning, secrets management, and the unglamorous baseline that closes the common doors.
Threat modelling
A clear-eyed look at what could go wrong for your specific product, before an attacker takes that look for you.
Four steps, one team
- 01
Model the threats
We map what's worth protecting and who'd want it, so effort lands where the real risk is.
- 02
Design the controls
Auth, roles, and audit get designed into the architecture, not retrofitted onto it later.
- 03
Build the baseline
Dependency hygiene, secrets handling, and secure defaults wired into the pipeline from day one.
- 04
Verify and document
We test the controls, write down the decisions, and leave you something an auditor can actually read.
What you leave with
Shipped, documented, yours to run.
- Authentication and role-based access
- Complete, queryable audit logging
- Dependency and secrets scanning in CI
- Threat model and risk write-up
- Security decisions documented for audits
0 Security retrofits. It's part of the build, not a later project.
1 Team holding both the architecture and its threat model.
100% Of access decisions traceable through the audit log.
Currently booking: Q3 2026
Have a brief that needs all five practices?
Send the rough version. Within a business day, you'll get back the questions we'd ask in a kickoff and an honest read on whether we're a fit. We don't need a deck to start the conversation.