Security architecture
Trust principles, segmentation, flows, secrets, encryption, hardening and threat models.
Cybersecurity
Reduce exposure. Detect earlier. Recover faster.
The IKNSA cyber practice acts on technical and operational risk: security architecture, identities, vulnerabilities, detection, incident response, continuity and secure development.
Cybersecurity practice
Protect the real system, not just produce recommendations.
We connect exposure, business criticality, architecture and operational capability. Measures are prioritised by risk, integrated into changes and observed over time.
IAM & privileges
Lifecycle, strong authentication, federation, service accounts and privileged access.
Vulnerabilities
Inventory, scanning, triage, remediation, exceptions and security-debt tracking.
Logging & detection
Useful log sources, detection cases, triage, escalation and integration with a SOC or MDR where chosen.
DevSecOps
Code and dependency analysis, secrets, pipelines, quality gates and vulnerability handling.
Incident & resilience
Preparation, containment, coordinated investigation, restoration, communication and lessons learned.
Risk under control
From technical facts to the decision.
The cyber practice does not work in a silo: it gives the business, the IT department and the executive team a usable reading of the risk and of how it evolves.
Map
Critical services, assets, identities, flows, exposure and dependencies.
Prioritise
Threat scenarios, impacts, existing controls and residual risks.
Strengthen
Architecture, configuration, processes, tooling and support for the teams.
Prove
Exercises, restore tests, reviews, incidents and continuous improvement.
Operational security
Make risk observable and treatable.
A useful control has an owner, a scope, a frequency, a measurement and a procedure for when something drifts. IKNSA can design this set-up, integrate it into operations or steer specialists already in place.
Coverage matched to your risk.
Operating hours, log sources, detection scenarios, response times and responsibilities are defined around your critical services and organisation.
| Capability | Expected outcome |
|---|---|
| Attack surface | Exposed assets identified, owners assigned and remediation tracked |
| Identities | Proportionate access, privileged accounts under control, leavers handled |
| Vulnerabilities | Prioritisation by criticality and measured remediation times |
| Detection | Signals that can be triaged and a tested escalation chain |
| Response | Roles, decisions, containment and recovery prepared |
Cyber incident
Post-breach intervention: regain control without losing the facts.
Depending on availability and the agreed scope, IKNSA can help qualify the situation, coordinate the first measures, preserve useful evidence, secure restoration and organise the lessons-learned review. Forensic, legal, insurance or notification specialists are brought in where necessary.
Incident in progress?
The form lets you report an active situation. Handling, response time and coverage are only confirmed after qualification — no 24/7 duty is presumed.
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Qualify & preserve
Scope, timeline, impact, safe access and preservation of useful evidence.
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Contain
Proportionate measures to limit propagation without compromising recovery.
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Restore
Business priorities, clean environments, controls and reinforced monitoring.
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Strengthen
Causes, decisions, obligations, actions and verification of their effectiveness.
Two practices, one coordination
Cybersecurity treats the risk. Compliance qualifies and verifies the requirement.
The teams can work on the same programme without confusing their mandates or their deliverables.
Design and operate the measures
Architecture, protection, detection, response, vulnerabilities and resilience.
Qualify, assess and demonstrate
Regulatory scope, assessment, gaps, governance and the evidence file.
See the Audit & compliance practiceFrequently asked questions
Engaging the cyber practice.
Do you carry out penetration tests or qualified audits?
The need and the required level of qualification are framed beforehand. Where the mission demands a qualification or an independence we do not claim, an accredited provider is appointed with explicit responsibilities.
Can you steer an existing SOC or MDR?
Yes, if the mandate gives access to the commitments, the detection cases, the metrics and the teams. Steering focuses on useful coverage, alert quality, escalation and improvement.
Can cyber be engaged without a regulatory driver?
Yes. The programme can start from a business risk, an architecture, an incident, a cloud transformation or a resilience need, independently of any regulation.
Engagement scenario
Reduce an IAM exposure that has become invisible
After several reorganisations, dormant accounts, inherited rights and shared administrative access remain in the directory and critical applications.
First decisions to produce
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Identify the accounts, privileges and external access that can produce the greatest impact.
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Treat critical exposure without waiting for a complete IAM redesign.
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Install durable entitlement reviews, owners and evidence of removal.
Expected output
Immediate exposure reduction, followed by a governed IAM roadmap with responsibilities, deadlines and recurring controls.
Related expertise
Continue with a concrete scope.
Explore the missions and sector approaches connected to this practice.
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Identity, privileges and recovery
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Business continuity, recovery and exercises
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Software supply chain, CI/CD, components and secrets
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Exposure, protection, detection and response
View the scopeFirst conversation
Let’s discuss the next point of control for your information system.
A project to frame, operations to take over, compliance to demonstrate? Describe the context. You will get a first considered reading — not a generic brochure.