Cybersecurity
SDEN treats cybersecurity as an engineering discipline applied to every line of code, from threat modeling at the design stage to continuous monitoring once the product is live.
What this domain covers
Security work at SDEN takes three shapes. First, security applied inside a delivery: threat modeling at design, dependency scanning in CI, secret scanning, branch protection, signed releases, secure-by-default architecture. Second, stand-alone engagements: audits, penetration testing scoped to OWASP Top 10 and OWASP ASVS levels, remediation roadmaps, and incident response. Third, compliance work: SOC 2, CCPA/CPRA, and PIPEDA posture, ISO 27001 readiness, SOC 2 readiness, and the documentation buyers ask for before they sign.
An audit from SDEN produces three artifacts you can hand to your board: a risk register ranked by exploitability and business impact, a remediation backlog scoped into shippable tickets, and a hardened CI configuration that prevents the same class of bugs from landing again. Penetration testing is documented with reproducible proofs of concept, never a PDF that vaguely references a finding.
Cybersecurity: the SDEN defaults
Defaults we ship
- Threat modeling at the design stage, not after launch
- OWASP Top 10 + OWASP ASVS Level 2 as the minimum bar for shipped products
- Dependency scanning (SCA), SAST, and secret scanning enforced in CI
- Audit logs retained for a minimum of 12 months
Deliverables
- Risk register with severity, exploitability, and business impact
- Remediation backlog scoped into shippable issues
- Hardened CI configuration (SCA, SAST, secret scanning) committed to your repo
- Re-test report after fixes land
What we refuse to ship
We will not deliver a security audit as a PDF. Every finding lands in your issue tracker as a fixable ticket with a reproducer, and we re-test what was fixed before we close it.
Cybersecurity
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