Cyber
security
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 shows up three ways. Baked into a build: threat modeling, dependency and secret scanning, branch protection, signed releases. As a stand-alone engagement: audits, pentests scoped to OWASP Top 10 and ASVS, remediation roadmaps, incident response. Or driven by compliance: SOC 2, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, ISO 27001 readiness.
An audit leaves three things you can put in front of a board: a risk register ranked by exploitability, a fix backlog cut into shippable tickets, and a hardened CI that stops the same class of bug from coming back.
Pentests ship with reproducible proofs, never a PDF that gestures at 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
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