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Security Engineering & Resilience
Zero Trust, detection engineering, and incident response readiness. Guardrails and governance that engineers actually adopt - for regulated industries, critical infrastructure, and teams that can't afford downtime.
Prefer email or phone? info@nubivance.com or 207-358-0999.
Security that ships with the code
Security programs fail when they slow delivery down. Ours don't. We build controls into the architecture so the secure path is also the fast path - guardrails engineers adopt because they make the work easier, not policies they route around because the deadline won. That's the difference between a security program on paper and one that's actually running in production.
Zero Trust, in practice
Zero Trust is a simple idea buried under a decade of vendor noise: verify everything, trust nothing by default, encrypt in transit. Here's what it looks like when it's real. We deployed AWS Private CA and pushed encrypted SQL connectivity through NLB and HAProxy - a zero-downtime cutover on a production database path. We redesigned a security group architecture that had accumulated hundreds of hardcoded CIDR rules and replaced them with managed prefix lists - one change, propagated everywhere, auditable in one place. Less sprawl to review means fewer places for a mistake to hide.
Designed by someone who has been on both sides
Most security architecture is written by people who have never defeated a control. Our background is the opposite: red team work early on, then years running purple team exercises against critical infrastructure while also being accountable for defending it, and coordinating the external red teams that tested it on schedule.
An attacker does not evaluate controls one at a time. They look for a path - a service account with more rights than anyone remembered, a flat segment behind a hardened perimeter, a backup nobody ever restored. Hardening designed as a checklist tends to be strong where someone thought to check and quiet everywhere else.
So we design against paths, then test the assumptions rather than trusting them. Hardened configuration standards applied consistently across every operating system in the estate are usually the highest-value work available, and almost always the least glamorous.
Ready before the bad day
Detection engineering and incident response readiness are the unglamorous half of security - and the half that decides how bad the bad day gets. We build detections tuned to your environment instead of a default rule pack, and we make sure the response plan is a rehearsed playbook, not a PDF nobody has opened. For regulated industries and critical infrastructure, where downtime isn't an option, rehearsed is the only acceptable state.
What an engagement looks like
We baseline your current posture, design controls that fit your stack, and land them in production with your engineers - then hand off the runbooks and detections so the program is yours, not ours. See the outcomes this has produced. If you need the leadership layer above the engineering - program strategy, compliance readiness, board reporting - that's vCxO Advisory. And if the standing problem is a vulnerability backlog that never shrinks, managed vulnerability management runs that program as a service.
Prefer email or phone? info@nubivance.com or 207-358-0999.