Questions
The things people ask before they get in touch.
Answers to what comes up most often — how projects start, what they cost you in time and attention, who owns what at the end, and what we will and will not do.
Working together
With a scoping conversation. We establish what you are trying to achieve, what already exists, and what the real constraints are — budget, deadline, internal capacity, existing systems. From that we propose an approach broken into stages, each with its own deliverable. There is no charge for that conversation and no obligation attached to it.
Yes. The work is delivered remotely, with scheduled calls at times that suit your working day. Nothing about website development or security assessment requires us to be in the same room, and being asynchronous by default tends to produce better written records of decisions.
Usually. We start with a review of the existing codebase, hosting and dependencies so we can tell you honestly what condition it is in. Sometimes the right answer is to maintain and improve what exists; sometimes the sensible answer is a rebuild, and we will say so plainly rather than quietly charging for a rescue that will not hold.
A single decision-maker who can approve direction, access to any systems the work has to integrate with, and content — text, images, product data — or a decision to have us structure placeholder content until yours is ready. Projects slow down for missing content far more often than for technical reasons.
Security
An assessment is broad and largely automated: it enumerates known weaknesses across a system and tells you what needs attention. A penetration test is narrow and manual: a tester attempts to chain findings into real access the way an attacker would. Assessments tell you where you stand; penetration tests tell you what an attacker could actually do. Most businesses need the first regularly and the second periodically.
Most compromises are not targeted. Scanners look for known-vulnerable versions and exposed interfaces across the whole internet and exploit whatever answers, which means size offers no protection. The unglamorous basics — current dependencies, sensible access control, backups that have been tested — prevent the majority of real incidents.
Yes, with written authorisation from whoever owns the system. We will not test infrastructure without documented permission from the party entitled to give it, regardless of who is asking.
In writing, ranked by real-world impact rather than raw scanner severity, with reproduction steps and a specific remediation for each item. The report is written to be actionable by the people who have to fix it, and we will walk your team through it.
Still deciding whether we are the right fit?
Tell us what you are trying to build or protect. If we are not the right people for it, we will tell you that too.