Practice 05 — Security

Cyber and AI security.

Embedding cyber and AI security practices into engineering teams throughout innovation and operation. Making it practical and easy to adopt for mitigating risk where it matters the most for the organisations.

From "did the pen test pass?"
to "is it secure by design?"

Current State

Security bolted on at the end.

  • Security review is a gate at the very end — findings arrive too late to fix cheaply.
  • AI coding assistants ship insecure patterns at scale, faster than anyone reviews them.
  • A penetration test once a year; posture drifts the other fifty-one weeks.
  • Threats are understood by the security team — not by the engineers actually building.
  • GenAI and agentic AI features ship to production with no threat model at all.
With Ophanix

Security embedded from the design phase.

  • Security architecture agreed in the design phase — before the first line is written.
  • Secure coding principles embedded in the SDLC and in the AI-assisted workflow itself.
  • SAST, DAST, SCA, and secret scanning automated in CI/CD — every release, every time.
  • Engineers who threat-model like attackers before code ever reaches production.
  • GenAI and agentic AI controls mapped and enforced at the right organisational levels.

Each capability is a practice we embed into your teams — through training, hands-on work, or consultancy.

Cyber and AI security,
embedded where you build.

01

Security by design

Security starts at the beginning of the innovation cycle, in the design phase. With the right security architecture and practices it is embedded into the organisation's way of working — not bolted on after launch.

02

Secure coding principles

With the high degree of adoption of AI coding assistants, it has never been more relevant that secure coding principles are understood and embedded into the SDLC.

03

(Gen) AI threats

GenAI threats are real inside the organisation when the right controls are absent. We make sure those threats are understood and that mitigations are in place at the right organisational levels.

04

OWASP Top 10

OWASP pioneered web application security. A working understanding of the Top 10 vulnerabilities ensures these high-stakes issues are avoided in web application development.

05

Agentic AI threats

Alongside GenAI, agentic AI is increasingly taking up the AI space for further automation — and it brings novel security threats. Keeping up with them is a must for safe AI-agent adoption.

06

Risk assessment

We take on the challenge of risk assessment for organisations — with the right security measures to mitigate those risks in the correct manner.

07

Threat modeling

Threat modeling is a key skill for any engineering team: think like a hacker before the threats are realised, and take appropriate action to mitigate them.

08

OWASP API Security Top 10

APIs are everywhere and widely used across the organisation. Without proper management they become a huge risk — so we bring the OWASP API Security Top 10 into your delivery.

09

Security consulting

We help large transformation programmes within corporations with security consultancy — from design all the way to final delivery.

A representative slice of the continuous scanning that watches your surfaces for weaknesses and active threats.

Security posture,
continuously assured.

Security is not a point-in-time check. We keep watch across applications, APIs, dependencies, secrets, and infrastructure — surfacing findings the moment they appear, triaging them by severity, and driving them to closure.

CONTINUOUS SCAN · TENANT VIEW● live · sweep 4s
AUTH-BYPASSCORS-POLICYTLS-CONFIGRATE-LIMITIDOR-BREACH
Sweep
0° → 360° · 4s
Findings
5 active · 2 crit / 2 warn / 1 ok

A secure SDLC on an open-source toolchain.

Security automation should not be gated behind six-figure licences. We build the pipeline on low-cost and open-source tools first — proven, widely supported, and mapped to each stage of your SDLC.

SDLC stageRepresentative toolingCost
Design · threat modelingOWASP Threat Dragon · Microsoft Threat Modeling ToolFree / OSS
Secure coding · SASTSemgrep OSS · SonarQube Community · Bandit · ESLint securityOpen source
Dependencies · SCAOWASP Dependency-Check · Trivy · OSV-ScannerOpen source
Secret scanningGitleaks · TruffleHogOpen source
DAST · API testingOWASP ZAP · NucleiOpen source
Containers · IaCTrivy · Checkov · tfsecOpen source
Pipeline orchestrationpre-commit hooks · GitHub Actions / GitLab CI gatesFree tier

Three ways to bring us in.

The same practices, delivered at the altitude you need — from upskilling your teams to embedding alongside them to advising your transformation programme end to end.

Instructor-led and self-paced

Training

Hands-on training on secure design, secure coding, OWASP Top 10 for web and API, threat modeling, and GenAI / agentic AI threats — tailored to your stack and delivery model.

Embedded with your engineers

Hands-on

We work inside your teams: threat-modeling workshops, secure-coding pairing, pipeline hardening, and live remediation against your real codebase — not slideware.

Design to final delivery

Consultancy

Security architecture and advisory for large transformation programmes — from the design phase through final delivery, mitigating risk at the right organisational levels.

Engage

Embed security where it matters most.

Whether you need to train engineers, harden a delivery pipeline, or advise a major transformation programme — we start with your real code, your real threats, and the organisational levels where risk actually lives.

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