Structure Behind Every Engagement
Every service we deliver follows a documented, repeatable process, built on industry standards, refined through real engagements, and adapted to your specific environment. No black-box guesswork. No one-size-fits-all checklists.
All security assessments are point-in-time evaluations based on the scope and access available during the engagement. They do not guarantee the absence of all vulnerabilities. See our Terms for full details.
Both Co-founders on Every Engagement
Every Cyber Secify deliverable has two layers: technical depth and business translation. Both layers matter, and neither works alone. A pentest report that's just a list of CVEs doesn't help a CEO decide what to fix. A compliance assessment that skips technical validation won't survive an auditor. A CTI briefing without technical analysis is just noise. The services we deliver genuinely require both layers, which is why both co-founders are actively involved in every engagement we run.
Rathnakara GN
Technical depth
OSCP-certified co-founder. M.Sc Cyber Security, CompTIA PenTest+. Rathnakara handles the hands-on technical work: penetration testing, security architecture review, technical threat analysis, control validation, and incident response. This is the technical foundation every engagement is built on.
Ashok S Kamat
Business translation & client context
Semi-technical by design. Ashok understands the technology well enough to scope pentest engagements accurately and translate technical findings for business audiences. His focus is client relationship, scoping, business impact framing, compliance alignment, executive and board communication, and long-term program improvement.
Joint delivery in practice
One of us is usually the primary client contact, depending on the engagement type. Pentest buyers typically work with Rathnakara. Security Consulting, Audit & Compliance, CTI, and Brand Protection buyers typically work with Ashok. But the primary contact is not the sole worker. Both co-founders contribute to every deliverable.
- Pentest reports: Rathnakara writes the technical findings and remediation steps. Ashok refines the executive summary and frames the business impact for CEO, board, and investor audiences.
- Consulting recommendations: Ashok drafts the strategic plan and roadmap. Rathnakara pressure-tests technical feasibility of every recommendation before it goes to the client.
- Audit & Compliance deliverables: Ashok handles policy, process, and management artifacts. Rathnakara handles technical attestation and control validation.
- CTI and Brand Protection: Ashok leads intelligence gathering, analysis, and reporting. Rathnakara provides deep technical threat analysis and validates actionability of findings.
- Incident response: Rathnakara leads the technical response. Ashok handles client communication and stakeholder coordination.
Most small security firms either stretch one person across technical work and business communication (one side is always weaker) or use a sales-to-engineer handoff where scope and execution disconnect. We have two co-founders whose skills are genuinely complementary, and both show up on every engagement. You never get a weak version of either layer.
No handoffs outside the founders. No BDRs, no junior analysts, no offshore teams. If you are talking to Cyber Secify, you are talking to one of the two co-founders directly, and the other is in the room on the work.
Methodology by Service Area
Structured approaches across penetration testing, security consulting, threat intelligence, and compliance audit.
Our 6-Step Pentest Process
Every pentest engagement (web, API, mobile, cloud, IoT, or AI) follows this structured process, adapted to the specific scope.
Open Web Application Security Project
Comprehensive OWASP coverage across every application type we test: web (Top 10, WSTG, ASVS), API (Top 10), mobile (Top 10, MASTG, MASVS), IoT (Top 10, FSTM), cloud-native, LLM, and AI Exchange. SAMM for SDLC maturity in consulting engagements.
Penetration Testing Execution Standard
Our engagement lifecycle follows PTES, from pre-engagement and intelligence gathering through exploitation, post-exploitation, and formal reporting.
Scoping & Planning
Define scope, testing objectives, rules of engagement, and communication protocols. Identify target systems, testing windows, and escalation contacts.
Reconnaissance
Map the attack surface, identify technologies and endpoints, discover hidden assets, and understand application business logic and data flows.
Vulnerability Discovery
Automated scanning combined with manual testing to find vulnerabilities, with emphasis on business logic flaws, chained attacks, and issues scanners miss.
Exploitation & Validation
Safely exploit findings to validate real-world impact. This demonstrates actual business risk rather than theoretical severity, so you can prioritise accurately.
Reporting
Executive summary, detailed findings with CVSS ratings, proof-of-concept evidence, and developer-friendly remediation guidance for every vulnerability.
Retest & Verification
Free retest within 30 days. We verify fixes are effective and issue an updated report confirming remediated issues and any remaining risk.
Advisory, vCISO & SDLC Security
We embed into your product and engineering lifecycle, not just review it from the outside. Security that ships with your product, not after it.
Security in the SDLC, Not After It
Most startups bolt security on after the architecture is set. We integrate it from the first sprint: threat models in design, security requirements alongside feature requirements, and security gates in your CI/CD pipeline. Fixing a flaw at design costs a fraction of fixing it post-launch.
Discovery & Context
Understand your product, team, tech stack, regulatory obligations, and investor or customer security expectations. Security has to fit your business, not the other way around.
Threat Modelling
Map your attack surface, data flows, and trust boundaries. Identify what attackers would target in your architecture and where the highest-impact risks sit.
SDLC Integration
Embed security into your development lifecycle: design reviews, secure coding standards, PR-level security checks, and developer security enablement.
Gap Analysis & Risk Prioritisation
Identify gaps against target standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2). Prioritise by business impact and likelihood, not just severity scores.
Roadmap & Implementation
A security roadmap that aligns with your product milestones and funding stage. We implement (policies, controls, processes), not just recommend.
Ongoing Advisory
Regular check-ins, fractional support hours, and available advisory. Security programmes don't run themselves. We're an extension of your team.
The Intelligence Lifecycle
Raw data isn't intelligence. We follow the full intelligence lifecycle, from defining what you need to know, to collecting, analysing, and delivering actionable findings.
Direction & Scoping
Define your intelligence requirements: what threats matter to your business, sector, and infrastructure. Map your digital footprint: domains, IP ranges, brand assets, executive profiles.
Collection
Deploy automated and manual collection using Shodan, Maltego, and DeepDarkCTI across dark web forums, paste sites, Telegram channels, breach databases, domain registrars, and app stores. Surface, deep, and dark web coverage.
Processing & Normalisation
Parse, deduplicate, and structure raw collected data. Filter noise from signal. Tag entities and correlate findings against your known infrastructure and assets.
Analysis & Correlation
Apply MITRE ATT&CK TTP mapping, Diamond Model actor analysis, and Kill Chain staging to determine threat actor intent, capability, and likely next actions.
Dissemination
Real-time critical alerts for active threats. Monthly industry threat reports. Quarterly strategic briefings for leadership. Right information, right format, right audience.
Feedback & Refinement
Intelligence priorities evolve. We continuously refine collection scope based on feedback, new business context, and emerging threat trends relevant to your sector.
From Gap to Audit-Ready
We take you from "we need ISO 27001 or SOC 2" to "we're audit-ready", combining technical controls testing with documentation, evidence collection, and management reporting.
Scope & Framework Selection
Identify applicable standards based on your industry, customer requirements, and geography. ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 1/2, or multiple frameworks.
Current State Assessment
Review existing policies, controls, technical configurations, and documentation to understand your baseline compliance posture.
Gap Analysis & Risk Mapping
Map identified gaps to framework controls with risk-based prioritisation. Highlight critical findings that could impact external audit outcomes.
Remediation & Documentation
Guide your team through control implementation, policy creation, and evidence collection to address all identified gaps before the external audit.
Internal Audit Execution
Structured internal audits with evidence review, control testing, and stakeholder interviews to validate compliance readiness from an auditor's perspective.
Audit Readiness Report
Detailed audit report with findings, evidence gaps, and a compliance roadmap. Includes support for the external audit and ongoing readiness maintenance.
Security Testing Arsenal
Industry-standard tools guided by expert manual testing, across all service areas.
What You Can Expect From Us
Four commitments we make on every engagement. Standard for enterprise and regulated buyers, useful for any startup CTO before signing a contract. Reference these at /methodology/#commitments when you need them in writing.
Manual testing where it matters
Automated tooling for surface mapping and reconnaissance only. Manual testing for authentication, authorization, business logic, and chained-exploit analysis. We do not ship scanner output as a pentest report.
Synthetic data only, no PII in evidence
We use synthetic test accounts and data for all testing. Customer PII never appears in screenshots, evidence, or the final report. If your application requires testing with real-looking data, we coordinate synthetic-data generation before kick-off.
Out of scope by default
DoS, load and stress testing, social engineering, third-party systems, and physical access are explicitly out of scope unless you request and authorize them in writing. We do not test what we are not authorized to test.
Named team with verifiable credentials
OSCP and CompTIA PenTest+ held by Rathnakara (co-founder, technical lead). Senior team adds CISSP, CEH, and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. Credentials verifiable via Credly. No anonymous "our experts" claims.
Reporting Standard
Every engagement (pentest, consulting, CTI, or audit) concludes with a detailed report designed for both technical teams and business stakeholders. No generic templates. Written for your context.
- Executive summary with business risk context
- Technical findings with CVSS v3.1 risk ratings
- Proof-of-concept screenshots and reproduction steps
- Developer-friendly remediation guidance
- Compliance mapping (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
- Free retest or re-assessment within 30 days
30-Day Free Retest
Every pentest engagement includes a complimentary retest within 30 days of initial report delivery.