Identity & Access Hardening
Strengthening Azure AD/Microsoft 365, privileged access, MFA, conditional access, identity lifecycle, and administrative boundaries.
Security Engineering & Hardening
Closing attack paths, strengthening identity and cloud configurations, and building security foundations that withstand real adversaries.
Engineering stronger defences for modern environments
Security engineering is the foundation of a defensible environment. It is the work of ensuring that identity, cloud, networks, OT/IoT systems, and endpoints resist attack, support effective monitoring, and limit the blast radius when incidents occur.
Cyber Defence brings together engineers, penetration testers, cloud security specialists, incident responders, and detection engineers to design and implement practical, evidence-driven improvements to your security posture. Our work is grounded in real attack behaviour observed by our SOC365 teams and the Disrupt incident response unit.
Engineering for resilience, not just compliance
Many organisations focus on compliance checklists or theoretical best practice. Our approach is different. We engineer defences that hold up under real-world adversarial pressure – from commodity malware through to targeted identity compromise, cloud misconfiguration abuse, and lateral movement.
Security Engineering engagements can be one-off improvements, targeted uplift projects, or ongoing programmes aligned with your internal teams and technology roadmap.
Capabilities
What our Security Engineering team delivers
We strengthen identity, cloud, network, and OT environments with practical engineering that reduces risk and improves SOC visibility.
Cloud Security Engineering
Hardening Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments, including IAM, virtual networks, storage, Key Vault, policies, and workload controls.
Network Segmentation & Zero Trust
Designing segmentation between IT, OT, cloud, and user environments; implementing Zero Trust access and secure remote access patterns.
Endpoint & EDR Configuration
Improving endpoint baselines, EDR configurations, Sysmon deployments, host logging, and defensive telemetry for SOC365 detection coverage.
OT & IoT Security Improvements
Strengthening industrial networks, IoT fleets, sensors, and operational systems with appropriate segmentation, monitoring, and hardening.
Secure Configuration & Hardening
Hardening servers, databases, applications, APIs, and supporting infrastructure across Windows and Linux estates.
Hardening across IT, cloud, OT & IoT
Modern environments are hybrid by default. Organisations now depend on identity systems, SaaS platforms, cloud workloads, data lakes, OT/ICS systems, IoT sensors, operational management tools, and legacy applications.
Cyber Defence engineering work spans all these domains. We help ensure that controls are consistent, that attack paths are understood and closed, and that monitoring reaches into the systems that matter most to safe and reliable operations.
Programmes
Engineering programmes we deliver
Our engineering engagements can be structured as focused projects or multi-month uplift programmes.
Identity Security Uplift
A comprehensive programme to harden identity, eliminate shadow privileges, enforce MFA and conditional access, and deploy strong administrative baselines.
Cloud Security Uplift
Review and hardening of Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud implementations, including IAM, network, logging, storage, and workload security.
SOC Visibility & Logging Programme
Establishing a defensible logging and telemetry architecture for SOC365, including Sysmon, audit policies, EDR tuning, and cloud-native logging.
OT/IoT Security Programme
Mapping and segmenting OT networks, securing engineering workstations, improving monitoring, and addressing legacy system limitations.
Secure Remote Access & Zero Trust
Engineering of secure VPN, identity-bound access, device trust, conditional access, and logging for remote and hybrid workforces.
Application & API Security Hardening
Secure configuration, secrets management, key rotation, TLS configurations, API gateway security, and CI/CD security integration.
Collaborative approach
How we work with your teams
Security Engineering succeeds when it is collaborative. We work closely with infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, OT, and SOC teams to ensure changes are practical, well-documented, and embedded into day-to-day operations.
Engineering workshops
Hands-on sessions to review architecture, identify gaps, and design remediation aligned with your operational reality.
Joint configuration & pairing sessions
Working directly with your engineers to configure systems, validate changes, and apply security baselines.
Documentation & standards
Clear guidance, baselines, configuration templates, and reference architectures tailored to your environment.
Operational playbooks
Building engineering playbooks for identity, cloud, endpoint, and OT environments to support SOC365 and IR workflows.
Continuous improvement cycles
Regular reviews of security posture, attack paths, detections, and engineering gaps based on real adversary behaviour.
Integration with SOC365
Ensuring that engineering outputs directly enhance detection coverage, logging quality, and incident response readiness.
Outcomes
What organisations gain from Security Engineering
Security Engineering transforms environments, making them more resilient to real attacks and easier to monitor effectively.
Closed attack paths
Privilege escalation routes, misconfigurations, exposed services, and insecure defaults are identified and remediated.
Improved detection & telemetry
Better logs, cleaner signals, and more consistent baselines enable SOC365 to detect attacks earlier.
Stronger cloud & identity posture
Hardened identity and cloud configurations reduce the risk of lateral movement or account compromise.
Better OT/IoT resilience
Segmentation, access control, and secure connectivity protect sensitive operational systems.
Reduced incident impact
Better-prepared environments recover faster and contain intrusions with less disruption.
Clear, repeatable security practices
Engineering improvements become part of your standard operations, not one-off remediation tasks.
Speak with our Security Engineering specialists
Whether you need identity hardening, cloud security engineering, OT/IoT protections, or improved SOC visibility, Cyber Defence can design a programme aligned to your operational and business needs.