Security,
engineered as a discipline.
Zero-trust, identity, application and cloud security, SecOps, IR and compliance, designed against the threats the business actually faces, and shipped as engineering.
A complete security practice, engineered end to end.
From strategy and identity through appsec, cloud security, SecOps, IR, GRC and AI security, our practice covers the full delivery surface of modern security.
Security strategy & architecture
Target-state security architecture, control frameworks and roadmaps, grounded in the threats your business actually faces, not lifted from a template deck.
Zero-trust & identity
Zero-trust identity, device and network access on Okta, Entra ID, Ping and equivalents, with segmentation, JIT access and least-privilege engineered in, not bolted on.
Application security
SDLC embedded security, threat modelling, SAST, DAST, SCA, dependency governance and secure code review, treated as engineering, not as a gate at the end.
Cloud & container security
CSPM, CWPP, IAM and workload security across AWS, Azure and GCP, with hardened landing zones, admission control and posture as code.
SecOps, SIEM & detection
SIEM, XDR and detection engineering on Sentinel, Splunk, Chronicle and equivalents, with playbooks, high-signal detections and honest tuning of the alert firehose.
Incident response & readiness
Preparedness, tabletop exercises, on-call rotations and incident response, with roles, comms, forensics and post-mortems engineered before the incident, not during it.
Offensive security & red-teaming
Penetration testing, red-team engagements, adversary emulation and purple-team exercises, measured against your defensive posture and used to close specific gaps.
Data protection & privacy
Classification, encryption, DLP, key management, tokenisation and privacy-by-design, aligned to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, DORA and sector-specific regimes.
GRC & compliance engineering
ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF and sector-specific programmes, with evidence generated as an engineering artefact alongside delivery rather than reconstructed before audit.
IAM & privileged access
Identity governance, PAM, service-account hygiene and secrets management, engineered so who can do what is auditable, provable and enforceable.
Third-party & supply-chain risk
Vendor and supply-chain risk programmes, from onboarding through continuous assurance, SBOM and software-supply-chain hardening.
AI & LLM security
Threat modelling, guardrails, prompt-injection defence and evaluation for LLM and agent systems, treated as first-class security surface, not as a footnote.
Fix the load-bearing controls first.
A delivery model that closes the highest-impact gaps in weeks, while broader programme work runs alongside, not instead of.
Assess
Threat model the business, not the checklist. Audit posture across identity, cloud, apps, data and operations. The output is a prioritised plan calibrated to the risks that matter.
Harden
Fix the load-bearing gaps first, identity, segmentation, admin access, cloud posture, exposed surface. Small controls first, then broader programme work in parallel.
Operate
SecOps, detection, IR readiness and third-party assurance built as ongoing engineering, with playbooks and drills, not just documents that get printed for audit.
Assure
Continuous testing, red-team exercises and evidence engineering keep controls honest. Compliance becomes a report rather than a project, because the evidence trail exists year-round.
A pragmatic security toolchain.
Identity, EDR, SIEM and posture tools are chosen against the threats and estate, not against a magic quadrant.
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AWSAzureGCPProgrammes delivered on this practice.
What prospective clients ask us first.
If your question isn't addressed here, please reach us at hello@tekansa.com.
01Where do we start when the posture is uneven?
By working from the threat model of the business, not from a control checklist. The load-bearing controls, identity, admin access, cloud posture, exposed internet surface, backups, are usually where breaches happen and where small changes buy the most defence. We fix those first, in weeks, and use that to earn the mandate for broader programme work. A prioritised plan that closes the top risks always beats a comprehensive plan that never ships.
02How do you think about zero-trust without turning it into a slogan?
As identity, device, network and workload access designed against explicit trust boundaries, not as a product to buy. In practice that means strong identity as the perimeter, device posture as a signal, least-privilege on every path, segmentation between environments, and continuous verification of what a session is allowed to do. We adopt it incrementally, starting where the risk and complexity payoff is highest, admin access, sensitive data, third-party paths.
03How do you build detection and incident response that actually works?
By tuning for signal, not for volume. Detections are engineered against real attacker techniques mapped to your estate; noisy rules are killed rather than tolerated; playbooks are rehearsed on tabletops before they're needed. IR readiness includes roles, comms, forensics, external counsel and communications, arranged before an incident, not during one. Post-mortems are treated the same way SRE post-mortems are: honest, blameless, actioned.
04How do you make compliance more than a paperwork exercise?
By generating evidence as an engineering artefact alongside delivery, configuration snapshots, IAM inventories, control tests, audit logs, change history, so an audit becomes a report against existing evidence rather than a project that pauses everything else. We align programmes to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI, HIPAA and DORA where they apply, and design the controls once so they satisfy multiple regimes.
05How do you approach third-party and software-supply-chain risk?
Vendors are risk-tiered on impact, not just spend. Higher-tier vendors go through structured onboarding, continuous assurance and contractual controls. For software supply chain we lean on SBOM, signed artefacts, provenance (SLSA-aligned), dependency governance and hardening of CI/CD, because most modern breaches walk in through code you don't own or through the pipeline that assembled it.
06How do you secure AI and LLM workloads?
As a first-class security surface. Threat modelling covers prompt injection, data exfiltration through outputs, tool-use blast radius and training-data provenance. Guardrails, input/output filters, tool scoping, evaluation and red-teaming are engineered proportional to risk. LLMs and agents inherit the same posture, identity, secrets management, logging, access boundaries, as any other production workload, not a special exception.
Let's discuss your security programme.
Share a brief overview of the estate and risks you're facing, we'll arrange an introductory conversation with the relevant practice leadership. Every enquiry receives a direct response.