Identity and access.
Design least privilege, authentication, segmentation and credential handling. Keep ownership and access review explicit.
Security engineering
Part of the system.Not an afterthought.
Understand what needs protecting and where trust is being placed. Build the controls into the architecture, then test the behaviour.
Explore the capabilityEngineering focus
01Map the threat
02Design the controls
03Test and review
Start with what can actually happen.
Map identities, data flows and permitted actions. Connect risk decisions with technical controls and the people who will operate them.
Detection and readiness.
Collect useful telemetry, tune detection and prepare response procedures. Test containment and recovery with the relevant teams.
AI and application security.
Review trust boundaries, prompt-injection exposure, tool permissions and data handling. Enforce controls outside the model.
A possible workflow
Separate an agent's read access from its ability to request changes, and exercise attempts to cross that boundary.
No architecture eliminates every risk. Document the scope, assumptions, controls and residual risk rather than promising absolute security.
Reference architecture
Layered controls, from sign-in to recovery.
No single control is trusted to hold. Each layer assumes the one above it might fail.
Identity
Phishing-resistant sign-in, least privilege and just-in-time admin.
- Multi-factor authentication
- Conditional Access
- Privileged Identity Management
Devices
Compliance checked at every sign-in, and detection on every endpoint.
- Intune compliance
- EDR
- Disk encryption
Email and collaboration
Authenticated mail, filtered links and controlled sharing.
- SPF, DKIM and DMARC
- Safe Links and Attachments
- Sharing controls
Data
Sensitive information labelled and kept inside its boundaries.
- Sensitivity labels
- Data loss prevention
- Retention
Detection and response
Alerts triaged every working day. Playbooks rehearsed before they are needed.
- Defender XDR
- Alert triage
- Incident playbooks
Recovery
Backups an attacker can't delete, and restores that have been tested.
- Immutable backup
- Restore tests
- Emergency access
A closer look
Good questions.
Straight answers.
Does security only apply to the AI layer?
No. Identity, networks, applications, data and people all shape the security of the system.
Do you provide compliance certification?
We design and test the technical controls and prepare you for the assessment. The certificate itself comes from an accredited certification body, which keeps the assessment independent.
Technical reference: MCP: security best practices (opens in a new tab)
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