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Security Consulting Services

A threat model built around your system, a read of the architecture and the code behind it, and a remediation plan ordered by what an attacker can reach from outside. Hygge's security consulting services end in work your engineers can start, with each item carrying the exposure it closes.

What Application Security Consulting Covers

The parts that turn a list of findings into an order of work. Security consulting services at Hygge scope which of these your system needs after mapping what is exposed.

A Threat Model Built Around Your System

Who would want in, what they would want, and the paths that reach it from the internet, from a compromised account, and from a device in the field. Threat modeling services give the rest of the work its priority order.

Architecture and Trust Boundaries

Where data crosses a boundary, which service trusts which, and what one compromised component would reach from the position it holds. A security architecture review works at the level where that trust was granted.

Code Read Against Real Attack Paths

Authentication, authorisation, input handling, secrets, and the places where a request from one tenant can touch another. Security code review focused on the paths the threat model marked as reachable.

Cloud and Identity Configuration

Roles, network boundaries, key management, logging, and public exposure across your accounts. Cloud security consulting covering the settings that decide how far a stolen credential travels.

Connected Devices in the Field

Provisioning, credential rotation, firmware update paths, and what a physically accessible device gives away. IoT security services for fleets already deployed and running.

Remediation Ordered by Reach

Every finding carried through to what it exposes, how it gets fixed, and how long that takes, so the plan is read by severity of reach and by effort together.

What a Security Assessment Settles

Hygge opens with an assessment of what your system exposes, who can reach it, and what the business would lose in each case. Security assessment services quoted from a read of the architecture, with the price agreed before remediation work is scoped.

The assessment produces each of these:

  • A map of the attack surface: what is public, what is reachable with valid credentials, and what sits behind a device in the field.
  • A threat model naming the actors that matter for your business and the paths available to each.
  • Findings from the code and the configuration, each traced to the asset it exposes.
  • A remediation plan ordered by reach and effort, with an owner suggested for each item.
  • The evidence an enterprise customer or an auditor asks for, and the gaps between your written policy and what the system does.
What a Security Assessment Settles

What Puts Security on the Roadmap

The situations behind most enquiries Hygge scopes.

A customer sent a security questionnaire, credentials sit in the repository, and everyone has production access. Security consulting closes those in the order that carries risk. The audit traces every answer back to the system.

A Customer Sent a Security Questionnaire

Two hundred questions arrived with the contract, and answering them truthfully means finding out what the system does today. The deal is waiting on it.

Credentials Are in the Repository

A key was committed years ago, rotated nowhere, and still works. Nobody knows the full list of what else is in the history.

Everyone Has Production Access

Access was granted as people joined and stayed as they moved on. There is no record of who used what, and a leaver still has a working token.

A Device Fleet Is Already Deployed

Hardware sits in places anyone can touch, with credentials baked in at manufacture and an update path that was designed for convenience.

The Auditor Asked for Evidence

The controls exist in a document and partly in the system, and nobody can produce a log showing that either one held last quarter.

How We Run Cloud Security Consulting

From mapping what is exposed to a plan your engineers can work through, with each finding traced to the asset behind it. This is how security consulting services run at Hygge.

  1. Map the Attack Surface

    Public endpoints, cloud accounts, third-party integrations, and anything physical in the field. The map is built from what the accounts and the DNS serve today, which is where the first surprises show up.

  2. Build the Threat Model

    Actors, motives, and the paths available to each, agreed with the people who know what the business would lose. This is what turns findings into priorities.

  3. Read the Code and the Configuration

    Authentication and authorisation paths, tenant isolation, secret handling, and cloud roles. Application security consulting that follows the threat model into the repository.

  4. Rank by Reach

    Each finding placed against what it exposes and what it costs to close, so the first week of work removes the most reach.

  5. Hand Over and Recheck

    The plan, the evidence, and a recheck of the items closed, so the remediation has a record behind it when a customer asks.

What Changes After the Review

The questionnaire gets answered from evidence, so a deal stops waiting on security review. Access, secrets and audit logging move into the architecture, which is what an auditor asks to see next year. A security assessment is usually the first project: what is reachable from where, which accounts still exist, and what a reviewer will ask that nobody has an answer for. The output is a list somebody can act on, ordered by what it would cost you if it were used.

What Changes After the Review

What Security Consulting Gives Back

These are the targets the work is built to hit, measured on your own numbers.

90 %
Of the critical findings closed inside the first month
1 week
To a written picture of where your data, access and dependencies stand
100 %
Findings ranked by what an attacker reaches first, each with a fix
13 sectors
Industries covered, including ones with audit rules to satisfy

Where a Security Question Blocks the Deal

Sectors where a customer, an auditor, or a regulator asks before they sign.

All Hygge Industries
Healthcare & Staffing

Healthcare & Staffing

Health data handling, access records, and breach response reviewed against what regulators expect.

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LegalTech

LegalTech

Privilege boundaries, retention, and client confidentiality verified in the running system.

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Retail & E-Commerce

Retail & E-Commerce

Payment flows and customer data reviewed against card industry requirements.

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Sales & Marketing Technology

Sales & Marketing Technology

Tenant isolation and data residency answered before an enterprise procurement team signs.

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Public Safety & Security

Public Safety & Security

Access control down to the record, with an audit trail that survives an internal review.

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Aviation

Aviation

Operational systems reviewed against aviation regulator requirements and supplier audits.

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Media & Entertainment

Media & Entertainment

Content protection and entitlement enforcement checked against rights-holder obligations.

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EdTech

EdTech

Student data handling and institutional security questionnaires answered with evidence.

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Systems Built Around Access Rules

Work where who can reach which record was part of the architecture.

All Hygge Case Studies
IntellicAIr
Healthcare Staffing

IntellicAIr

A two-sided nurse staffing marketplace built around a sealed bidding system written from scratch for how these facilities buy.

  • 1 roundFills what sat open for 78 days
  • No nameOn a bid that used to hide a 40 % cut
  • 1 inviteBrings a facility’s own agencies onboard
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Country Navigator
EdTech

Country Navigator

A decade-old monolith serving enterprise customers, rebuilt into services and given a production AI assistant, with the user base migrated without downtime.

  • 0Downtime moving a decade-old platform
  • 1 configReplaces the SSO setup only one person knew
  • 10 yearsOf monolith rebuilt into services
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What You Get From the Security Assessment

An attack surface map, a threat model naming the actors that matter, findings from the code and the cloud configuration traced to what they expose, a remediation plan ordered by reach and effort, and the evidence a customer questionnaire asks for. Security consulting services delivered as documents your team owns.

What Security Consulting Services Cover

Chosen against your platform, your compliance boundary, and what your own team will run afterwards, from the cloud account down to a security architecture consulting question about a single trust boundary.

Where accounts, roles, and keys are defined, and where most breaches start. The review covers who can reach what, how credentials rotate, and whether a compromised role stays contained.

AWSAWS
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Azure
Google CloudGoogle Cloud
OktaOkta
KeycloakKeycloak
HashiCorp VaultHashiCorp Vault

Frequently Asked Questions

What technical leads ask about security audit services before booking one.

Question mark iconWhat is security consulting?
Security consulting is an assessment of how a system can be attacked and what to change, delivered as a prioritized plan. For software products it covers architecture and trust boundaries, authentication and authorization logic, secrets and key handling, data storage and encryption, dependency and supply-chain risk, cloud configuration, and the controls a SOC 2 or HIPAA audit will ask for. The deliverable ranks findings by exploitability and business impact, so remediation starts where it matters.
Question mark iconWhat does a security consultant do?
Reviews the architecture and the code for the classes of flaw that scanners miss, such as broken access control between tenants and business-logic abuse. Checks cloud and identity configuration. Maps the data flows and where regulated data lands. Writes findings with reproduction steps, severity and a concrete fix. Then works with the engineering team through remediation and retests. For product companies the same consultant usually prepares the answers to enterprise security questionnaires.
Question mark iconWhat do security consultants do?
Day to day the work splits between assessment and enablement. Assessment covers threat modeling, architecture and code review, cloud configuration checks, and validating fixes after they ship. Enablement covers secure defaults in the pipeline, dependency scanning, secrets management, and the written policies auditors ask to see. The measure of a good engagement is fewer critical findings on the next assessment, alongside engineers who catch the same issues in review themselves.
Question mark iconWhat is a cybersecurity consultant?
A cybersecurity consultant is an external specialist engaged to find and reduce security risk in systems, infrastructure and process. Application security consultants focus on code and architecture. Infrastructure and cloud consultants focus on configuration, network and identity. Governance consultants focus on policy and audit readiness for frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA. A software product usually needs the first, with enough of the third to pass its customers' reviews.
Question mark iconHow do cybersecurity advisory services help a small business?
They give a small company the judgment it cannot justify hiring full time. A short engagement identifies the handful of changes that remove most of the risk: multi-factor authentication everywhere, backups that have been restored and tested, patched dependencies, least-privilege access, and logging that would show a breach. It also produces the security documentation enterprise customers request during procurement, which is often what unblocks a deal.
Question mark iconWhat does security consulting cover?
An attack surface map, a threat model, a review of the architecture and the trust boundaries in it, a read of the code and the cloud configuration, and a remediation plan ordered by reach. Cybersecurity consulting services at Hygge end in engineering work with an owner against each item.
Question mark iconHow is this different from a penetration test?
A penetration test probes a running system for exploitable paths and reports what worked on the day. A review reads the design, the code, and the configuration to find the classes of flaw those paths come from, including the ones an external prober has no route to. Teams that run both put the review first, so the test spends its time on what is left.
Question mark iconWhat do we get at the end?
Documents your team owns: the attack surface map, the threat model, findings traced to the assets they expose, a remediation plan with effort against each item, and the evidence to attach to a customer questionnaire.
Question mark iconCan you review a system already in production?
Yes, and that is most of this work. The review is read-only by default: code, configuration, logs, and interviews with the people who operate it. Anything that touches a live system happens in an agreed window with your team present.
Question mark iconDo you help with SOC 2 or HIPAA?
Hygge covers the engineering side: the controls that live in code and infrastructure, the logging and access records an auditor asks to see, and the gaps between what your policy document says and what the system does. The audit itself is run by a licensed assessor, and Hygge works to their checklist alongside them.
Question mark iconHow long does it take?
Three to four weeks for a single product with one cloud account, longer where a device fleet, several environments, or a compliance boundary are in scope. Security assessment services are scoped and priced before the first day.
Question mark iconWhat does it cost?
It follows the size of the attack surface, the number of environments, and whether hardware in the field is included. A security architecture review on its own is the smallest entry point, and the remediation work is quoted separately once the findings are ranked.
Question mark iconWhat does a cyber security consulting company do?
A cyber security consulting company reads where your data, access and dependencies stand, then ranks what an attacker reaches first. Security audit services at Hygge end with a fix against every finding.

From a Questionnaire You Cannot Answer to a Plan You Can Work

Tell us what the system exposes and what triggered the question, whether that is a customer, an auditor, or a device in the field. You get an assessment scope, a timeline, and an exact price, the way every security consulting services project at Hygge starts.

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Share the systems, the data you hold, and the questionnaire or audit you are preparing for.

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We review your cloud, application, and pipeline exposure for anything that would change scope, cost, or timeline.

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A scoped plan with the approach, timeline, and cost, built around your actual risk surface.

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Tell us what the system has to do. You get the scope and the price before any code is written.