Security built for regulated, mission-critical systems
From vulnerability assessments to compliance-ready architecture, we help life sciences, social impact, and public sector organizations protect the systems their patients, donors, and citizens depend on.
Securing systems for global life sciences and public sector leaders
A continuous cycle, not a one-time audit
A single penetration test tells you where you stood on the day it ran. Real security holds up over time, so we treat it as a cycle your organization stays inside, not a report that gets filed away.
Assess
Vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and security audits surface weak points across systems, networks, and applications before an attacker finds them.
Fortify
Firewalls, encryption, and access controls are layered into your architecture, matched to how your systems and teams actually operate.
Respond
Incident response planning turns “what if” into a tested, documented playbook, so containment and recovery don’t get improvised under pressure.
Sustain
Security awareness training and ongoing regulatory compliance support keep people and policy aligned as your team and the standards you’re held to evolve.
Each cycle feeds the next assessment, so your security posture keeps pace with your organization instead of aging with the last audit.
Three pillars, one security practice
You can’t defend what you haven’t measured.
- Vulnerability assessments. Systematic review across systems, networks, and applications to surface weaknesses before they’re exploited.
- Penetration testing. Controlled, real-world attack simulations that test your defenses the way an actual adversary would.
- Security audits. A structured review of policies, configurations, and controls against the standards your sector is held to.
Defense built into the design, not bolted on afterward.
- Defense-in-depth infrastructure. Firewalls, network segmentation, and encryption at rest and in transit, layered so no single control is a single point of failure.
- Role-based access control. Access scoped by account type, process, and stage, so people see only what their role actually requires.
- Secure-by-design engineering. Security reviewed at the architecture stage of every build, not added after a system is already live.
Ready before the day you need it, not after.
- Incident response planning. A tested, documented plan for containment, communication, and recovery, ready before it’s needed.
- Security awareness training. Equipping the people inside your organization to be your first line of defense, not your weakest link.
- Regulatory compliance support. Aligned to the standards your sector is held to, from HIPAA and pharmacovigilance in life sciences to data sovereignty requirements for public bodies.
How an engagement actually runs
Six stages, in order, from first conversation to ongoing support. Each one produces something you keep, not just a slide.
We start by understanding your systems, data flows, and regulatory obligations, before recommending a single control. No two organizations carry the same risk, so no two engagements start from the same checklist.
Structured testing across networks, applications, and access points to find what an attacker would find first, documented clearly enough for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders to act on.
Fixes are prioritized by risk, not by what’s easiest, and cover everything from firewall and encryption configuration to redesigning who has access to what.
Your controls get mapped to the standards your sector requires, whether that’s HIPAA and pharmacovigilance in life sciences, GDPR across markets, or SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 for enterprise and public-sector partners.
A documented, tested response plan, covering containment, communication, and recovery, so the first time it’s used isn’t during an actual incident.
Security awareness training and continued compliance support keep people and policy aligned as your team, your systems, and the regulatory landscape all keep changing.
The tooling behind every engagement
Different environments call for different tools. This is the kind of tooling our team draws on at each stage, from first scan to ongoing monitoring.
Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning
Finding weaknesses before they’re exploited
- Nessus. Deep network and asset vulnerability scanning.
- Qualys. Cloud-based security and compliance auditing.
- OpenVAS. An open-source option for vulnerability scanning.
Penetration Testing & Exploitation
Testing defenses the way an attacker would
- Burp Suite. Web application security testing and traffic interception.
- Metasploit. Verifying vulnerabilities and simulating real attacks.
- Nmap. Network discovery and security auditing.
- OWASP ZAP. An open-source tool for finding web application vulnerabilities.
Code Analysis (SAST / DAST)
Catching issues before code ships
- SonarQube. Continuous inspection of code quality and security bugs.
- Checkmarx / Veracode. Deep static application security testing (SAST) on source code.
Log Analysis & SIEM
Watching for what happens after go-live
- Splunk. Searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated security data.
- Elastic Stack (ELK). Log aggregation and threat-hunting analytics.
The specific stack flexes to fit your environment, existing infrastructure, and compliance requirements — this reflects the categories and tools our team regularly works with, not a fixed checklist applied the same way to every engagement.
Aligned to the standards you're audited against
Security only counts if it holds up to scrutiny. Our infrastructure and engagement practices are aligned to the frameworks our life sciences, social impact, and public sector clients are held to.
SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001
Our infrastructure and engagement practices are aligned to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, the same standards our enterprise and public-sector clients are independently audited against.
HIPAA & Pharmacovigilance
For life sciences engagements, controls are built to HIPAA and pharmacovigilance standards, keeping clinical data and adverse-event reporting handled the way regulators expect.
GDPR & Data Sovereignty
Localized, sovereign hosting and consent-aware data handling keep multi-market and cross-border programs compliant by default, not as a retrofit.
RBAC & Audit Trails
Role-based access control paired with immutable, timestamped audit trails, so every action is scoped correctly and every action is accountable after the fact.
Security expertise across every sector we serve
The right controls depend on what you're protecting and who you answer to. Our security work is shaped by the same industry expertise behind everything else we build.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Patient data, held to a clinical standard
HIPAA-ready architecture and pharmacovigilance-grade controls for patient support platforms, clinical data, and adverse-event reporting.
Visit the healthcare pageSocial Impact & NGO
Donor and beneficiary trust, protected by design
GDPR and CCPA-aligned handling, data sovereignty, and RBAC for beneficiary management systems and donor platforms built to institutional reporting standards.
Visit the social impact pageGovernment & Statutory Bodies
Public accountability, built into the audit trail
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001-aligned infrastructure with immutable audit trails, for systems that answer to public scrutiny as well as internal review.
Visit the government pageThe people behind the work
Mike Kwok
Founding Director
With 14+ years of technology consulting experience, Mike sets the overall security and technology direction for client engagements, making sure every recommendation is grounded in what a regulated organization can realistically operate.
Rachel Li
Compliance & Data Governance
Rachel leads data governance and compliance frameworks across regulated engagements, translating standards like HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001 into controls teams can actually maintain.
Tom Tsang
Systems Architect
Tom designs the underlying system architecture our security controls sit on, from access control and encryption to how platforms integrate with a client's existing infrastructure.
Common questions
A structured review of your systems, networks, and applications, combining vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and a policy and configuration audit. You get a clear, prioritized picture of where the real risk sits, not just a list of findings.
Those are where most of our current work sits, and it's shaped our expertise in regulated, high-scrutiny environments. That same rigor, vulnerability assessment, secure architecture, compliance alignment, applies to any organization that needs to be able to prove its security posture, not just claim it.
Both are available. Some clients need a defined assessment or compliance review; others bring us in for ongoing support, incident response readiness, and security awareness training as their systems and teams evolve. We'll scope to what you actually need, not push toward a bigger engagement by default.
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 across our infrastructure and engagement practices, with sector-specific alignment where it applies: HIPAA and pharmacovigilance standards for life sciences, GDPR for cross-border data, and RBAC with immutable audit trails for public-sector accountability.
It depends entirely on scope, the size of your environment, and how deep the compliance requirements go. We'll give you a concrete timeline once we understand what you're working with, during the discovery stage of the engagement.
Findings come with a prioritized remediation plan, sequenced by actual risk rather than ease of fix. We can hand that plan to your internal team, or work alongside them through remediation and hardening, whichever fits how you operate.
Security insights
Perspective on vulnerability management, compliance, and incident readiness from our team.
Read our latest thinking on the insights hub.
Ready to put your security posture to the test?
Tell us what you're running and what you're held to. We'll show you where the real risk sits, and what closing it looks like.
