Security
Security review and system improvements
How we assess security risks and plan measures to better protect systems and data.
Challenge
A company handles sensitive data and needs a review of its systems' exposure. Planning suitable measures requires an assessment of likely threats and their business impact.
Approach
We review publicly accessible parts of the system, assess possible attack paths and prioritise the greatest risks. We train the team to maintain the security measures introduced.
Expected benefits
There are fewer potential entry points, the team understands which parts of the system are exposed, and improvements remain effective after the engagement.
This is a method note: it describes how we approach this kind of problem, not a write-up of a named client.
System review and risk assessment
We review the system and its connections and check how data and access are protected. We assess security measures against possible attack paths to identify priority improvements.
How we approach it
- What's reachable. We inventory what is genuinely visible and reachable from the internet — often more than the team assumes.
- From the attacker's side. We threat-model a few plausible attacks end to end, instead of scoring individual controls in isolation.
- Priority measures. We rank measures by the likelihood of an attack and the potential harm to the company.
- Lasting improvements. We train the team to recognise new risks and maintain security as an ongoing process.
What changes
The attack surface shrinks to what's genuinely needed. The team sees its system the way an attacker does for the first time, and knows what to protect and why. When the system next changes, they can judge whether that change is safe.
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