Cybersecurity Solutions

Threat detection through incident response

Most breaches do not begin with anything sophisticated. They begin with a password sitting in a config file, an access key shared once and never rotated, or an account holding far broader permissions than the job ever required. Unglamorous problems, and the ones that actually cause incidents.

What this covers

What this covers

Four things every engagement of this kind produces. What they amount to depends on where you are starting from.

  1. A list of what you actually have

    A list of what you actually have

    Accounts, keys, external surfaces, and who holds what. This step routinely finds something nobody knew was still running.

  2. Credentials out of the code

    Credentials out of the code

    Secrets moved into managed storage and rotated on a schedule, starting with the ones already sitting in a repository. Unglamorous, and among the most common ways in.

  3. Permissions cut back to the job

    Permissions cut back to the job

    Roles narrowed to what the work needs, with the broad ones removed rather than documented. Standing access is what turns an incident into a breach.

  4. Something that notices

    Something that notices

    Alerting on the events that matter, and a written response for each one, so an incident is a procedure rather than an improvisation.

Every crossing is a checkpoint

Defence in layers rather than one wall. Each boundary crossed should ask for something the person crossing it does not already have.

  1. 01

    Edge

    Something you know, plus something you hold.

  2. 02

    Network

    A route that was deliberately opened, not one left open.

  3. 03

    Identity

    Permissions scoped to the job, expiring when it ends.

  4. 04

    Data

    A key held somewhere the application cannot read.

How the work runs

The same four stages whichever service the work sits under, Cybersecurity Solutions included.

  1. Find out where you actually are

    A short review first: what you are running now, what it costs, and where the work is genuinely blocked. It is a look at the estate, not a pitch.

  2. Come back with options, not one answer

    The realistic paths and what each would cost you, including the skills your team already has and how hard the choice would be to reverse later. Sometimes the recommendation is to leave it alone.

  3. Build it in increments

    One workflow, built and put in front of real users, before anyone commits to a larger scope. It is the fastest way to find out whether we understood the problem correctly.

  4. Leave it running without us

    Readable pipelines, alerting that speaks up instead of failing quietly, and documentation your own team can follow. A good handover is the point of the engagement, not an afterthought at the end of it.