Fewer ways for it to go wrong.
Security and reliability are the same discipline viewed from two angles: reducing the number of ways a system can reach a state you did not intend.
JANNEX provides cybersecurity and reliability engineering: application security reviews, cloud security posture, identity and access design, secrets management, monitoring and detection, reliability engineering, backup and tested disaster recovery.
The findings that repeat
Across most reviews, the same handful of issues account for most of the exposure.
- Over-broad permissions granted once for convenience and never narrowed
- Secrets in source control, CI variables or a shared document
- Dependencies with known advisories and no upgrade path
- Authorisation enforced in the interface but not in the API
- Backups that exist but have never been restored
- Logging that stops exactly where an investigation would start
How we approach it
Reduce the blast radius, then verify the assumptions you are relying on.
Least privilege, actually
Identity and permissions reviewed against real usage and narrowed, with a process to keep them narrow.
Secure the supply chain
Dependency scanning, pinned builds, signed artifacts and a route to patch quickly.
Detect what matters
Logging and alerting designed around the paths an attacker or an outage would take.
Prove recovery
Restore and failover executed on a schedule, with the actual time recorded and improved.
What this covers
Application security
- Threat modelling
- Secure code review
- Authentication and session design
- Authorisation enforced server-side
- Input validation and output encoding
- Dependency and supply-chain scanning
Cloud security
- Identity and access review
- Network segmentation
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Secrets management
- Posture monitoring
- Audit logging
Reliability
- Failure-mode analysis
- Redundancy and failover design
- Rate limiting and backpressure
- Service-level objectives
- Incident response and review
Recovery
- Backup strategy and retention
- Tested restore procedures
- Recovery objectives
- Cross-region considerations
- Runbooks
Technology
The working set for this capability. Choices are made per engagement, against your constraints and your team's skills.
Where it is typically applied
Patterns we see repeatedly, described generically. Your version will differ in the details, and the details are the work.
A security review before a customer's
Findings ranked by exposure and by effort, with the fixes sequenced rather than listed.
Identity clean-up
Permissions reduced to observed usage, with break-glass access defined and monitored.
Recovery you have rehearsed
A restore executed against real backups and timed, so the recovery objective is a fact rather than a target.
Reliability work ahead of a launch
Load characteristics established, limits set, and failure behaviour made predictable.
How the engagement runs
The same seven stages, scoped to the size of the problem.
Understand
We start with the constraint, not the feature list. What breaks today, who it affects, what it costs.
Define
A written scope with the trade-offs made explicit — what is in, what is deferred, what we will measure.
Design
Interfaces, data models and system boundaries designed together, because they constrain each other.
Build
Short cycles against a working environment. Reviewed code, tests where they earn their keep.
Launch
Staged rollout with monitoring in place before traffic, not after the first incident.
Learn
Instrumented usage read against the thing we said we would measure at Define.
Scale
Performance, cost and operations tuned once real load has told us where the pressure is.
Questions we are asked
Do you perform penetration testing?
We do security reviews, threat modelling and secure code review, and we prepare systems for third-party penetration testing. For formal certification-grade testing we will point you to a specialist rather than pretend otherwise.
We are small — is this premature?
The controls that matter most at small scale are cheap: identity hygiene, secrets handling, dependency updates, backups that have been restored once. Those are worth doing at any size.
Can you help with compliance?
We can build and evidence the technical controls a framework asks for — access control, encryption, logging, retention, recovery. Certification itself is issued by an auditor, not by us.
Have something worth building?
Tell us the constraint you are working against. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
Or write to connect@jannex.in