Cybersecurity

We start from what you would least like to lose — customer records, payment flows, admin access, uptime — and map how each could realistically be reached. That produces a scope with named systems and explicit exclusions, so nobody assumes a review of your storefront also covered the office network or your payment provider.

We read the parts attackers read: authentication and session handling, authorisation checks on every endpoint rather than only in the UI, file upload paths, database access patterns, secrets in environment and repository, storage permissions, and what your admin surface exposes to the internet. Misconfiguration finds more real risk in SME systems than exotic vulnerabilities do.

We test the running application both unauthenticated and as each user role: injection, cross-site scripting, broken access control between accounts, insecure direct object references, rate limiting and credential-stuffing resistance on login and checkout. Testing runs against staging with production-like data wherever possible, and destructive checks are agreed in writing before they are attempted.

Every finding comes with evidence, an honest severity, the conditions required to exploit it and a concrete fix — not a scanner ID and a link. We rank by real exposure rather than raw score, so the report opens with the handful of items worth doing this month and is explicit about what can wait a quarter.

We either implement the fixes with your team or review theirs, then retest the specific findings so closure is demonstrated rather than claimed. At the same time we wire dependency, secret and configuration scanning into CI so the same class of problem is caught on the next pull request instead of in the next audit.

Security decays quietly, so we leave behind the routines that hold: access reviews when people join or leave, MFA enforced on the accounts that matter, dependency updates on a schedule, log retention that supports an investigation, and a backup restore that is tested rather than assumed. Short, unglamorous phishing awareness for staff belongs here too.