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AI-native cyber defence

Security engineering, AI SOC and AI deployment for organisations that cannot afford to guess.

(Questions — 08)

Questions your board will ask.

  1. (01/08)

    If one contractor laptop is phished tonight, how many hops until someone notices?

  2. (02/08)

    Which log sources could you switch off tomorrow without losing a single detection?

  3. (03/08)

    Your people already paste company data into public AI. Do you know which data?

  4. (04/08)

    Can you prove what your AI agents did last week, and who approved it?

  5. (05/08)

    What stops an instruction hidden in a PDF from making your assistant email the customer list?

  6. (06/08)

    How long does a tier-1 alert wait before a person looks at it?

  7. (07/08)

    The CFO’s voice calls finance at 6 p.m. asking for a wire. What happens next?

  8. (08/08)

    Which AI models run in your estate today, and where did their weights come from?

We answer these for a living.

What we do.

(06 services)

(01)Security Engineering

Detection engineering, cloud and identity security, with coverage mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

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(02)AI-Driven SOC

Private and hosted models built into SOC workflows to triage, investigate and cut noise, without data leaving your boundary.

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(03)LLM and Agent Security

Red teaming and runtime guardrails against prompt injection, tool abuse and data leakage, mapped to OWASP and MITRE ATLAS.

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(04)Secure AI Deployment

Private models, RAG and third-party AI connected to your systems with access control, audit trails and privacy enforced by design.

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(05)Agentic AI Engineering

Governed agents that do real work in security and operations, with scoped permissions, human approval and a full action log.

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(06)AI Governance and Assurance

ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF programs, AI inventories and risk registers, and board-ready reporting.

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NIST CSF 2.0NIST AI RMFISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 42001OWASP LLM Top 10OWASP Agentic AIMITRE ATT&CKMITRE ATLASIEC 62443
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(02)06Services
(03)09Frameworks we map to

Problems solved.

(05 cases · client names withheld)

  1. (01/05)Financial services

    Private AI reads the telemetry first

    −62%Alert volume
    SectorFinancial services
    ServiceAI-Driven SOC
    Read the case : Private AI reads the telemetry first
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    Case study: Private AI reads the telemetry first (Financial services)
  2. (02/05)Manufacturing

    Third-party AI on a legacy production line

    +6 ptsEquipment effectiveness
    SectorManufacturing
    ServiceSecure AI Deployment
    Read the case : Third-party AI on a legacy production line
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    Case study: Third-party AI on a legacy production line (Manufacturing)
  3. (03/05)Healthcare network

    Agents on the night shift

    6 minMedian triage, was 4 hours
    SectorHealthcare network
    ServiceAgentic AI Engineering
    Read the case : Agents on the night shift
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    Case study: Agents on the night shift (Healthcare network)
  4. (04/05)Software company

    Locking down agent tool access

    41 → 0Unvetted MCP servers
    SectorSoftware company
    ServiceLLM and Agent Security
    Read the case : Locking down agent tool access
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    Case study: Locking down agent tool access (Software company)
  5. (05/05)Insurance

    From shadow AI to certified AI

    27Shadow AI tools retired
    SectorInsurance
    ServiceAI Governance and Assurance
    Read the case : From shadow AI to certified AI
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    Case study: From shadow AI to certified AI (Insurance)

The next five years of AI in security.

(04 challenges)

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Hijacked agents

(01)

Hijacked agents

The challenge
An instruction planted in a document or web page can turn a helpful agent into an insider.
Our work
Open detection content for agent tool calls and a reference guardrail architecture.
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Machine-speed exploitation

(02)

Machine-speed exploitation

The challenge
AI shortens disclosure-to-exploit from weeks to hours. Patch cycles cannot keep up.
Our work
Briefs within hours of new exploited CVEs, with KQL, SPL and Sigma detections.
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Synthetic identity

(03)

Synthetic identity

The challenge
Cloned voices and live deepfakes make “call to verify” unreliable.
Our work
Verification playbooks and detections for MFA resets and unusual payments.
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Poisoned AI supply chain

(04)

Poisoned AI supply chain

The challenge
Model weights and plugins arrive with little provenance and can run code on load.
Our work
Signed artefacts, an AI bill of materials and model-file scanning in every deployment.

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