Trust
Trust is the foundation of every assessment we run and every recommendation we make. We build it the only way it can be built, through transparent reasoning, measured promises, and a willingness to be wrong out loud.
UK cyber security consultancy
operational · uk · gmtEngineered security for the teams shipping critical software.
Application security, GRC and audit, security engineering, and cloud architecture. Senior practitioners. Built into your pipeline, measured against your business.
- HQ
- United Kingdom
- Disciplines
- 4
- Cloud platforms
- AWS · Azure · GCP
- Frameworks
- ISO · SOC · NIST
dgc.engage · automation
build #1284live · gmt
Engagement pipeline
06 stages
- 01Commit
signed · 38a6f9c
ok - 02Build
oidc · 42s
ok - 03Scan
sast + dast
running - 04Sign
cosign · keyless
queued - 05Deploy
eu-west-2
queued - 06Observe
sentinel · ocsf
queued
Event stream
tail · liveMean time to detect
4m 12s
Mean time to respond
8m 03s
ATT&CK coverage
94%
Signed releases
100%
Frameworks and platforms
ISO 27001SOC 2NIST CSFCIS v8OWASP ASVSNIST SSDFDORANIS2PCI DSSAWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesZero TrustSLSACSA STARISO 27001SOC 2NIST CSFCIS v8OWASP ASVSNIST SSDFDORANIS2PCI DSSAWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesZero TrustSLSACSA STAR
What we do
Four disciplines. One programme.
Senior practitioners, accountable for the result. Delivered standalone or together.
Application Security
Application Security
Threat modelling, secure SDLC, code and pipeline review.
OWASP ASVSNIST SSDFSemgrepCodeQLBurp Suite
GRC and Audit
GRC and Audit
Frameworks, controls, and audit readiness without the theatre.
ISO 27001SOC 2NIST CSFCIS v8DORA
Security Engineering
Security Engineering
Detection, identity, and platform controls built to run.
OktaEntra IDHashiCorp VaultAWS KMSCrowdStrike
Cloud Architecture
Cloud Architecture
Secure, resilient, cost aware platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
AWSAzureGCPTerraformPulumi
The stack we secure
From the codebase to the boardroom.
One coherent view of risk across every layer your business runs on.
spec · v1.0 · 04 layers
digital crest · stack
layered defence model
- L4
Application
Code, APIs, services, supply chain
Code, APIs, services, supply chain
SSDLCThreat modelsSAST · DASTSBOMSigned builds - L3
Platform
Identity, network, runtime, detection
Identity, network, runtime, detection
SSO · SCIMZero trustKubernetesEDR · XDRSIEM - L2
Data
Classification, encryption, residency
Classification, encryption, residency
KMS · HSMTokenisationDLPLineageResidency - L1
Governance
Controls, evidence, risk, audit
Controls, evidence, risk, audit
ISO 27001SOC 2NIST CSFDORA · NIS2Board pack
Coverage
end to end
Integration
pipeline native
Assurance
continuous
How we work
A method, not a methodology.
Four phases, repeatable, transparent. We tell you what we will do, do it, then prove it.
Discover
phase.01Architecture walkthroughs, stakeholder interviews, a risk baseline grounded in your business.
Risk baselineThreat modelQuick winsDesign
phase.02A target operating model that fits your team. Controls mapped to the frameworks that matter.
Operating modelControl libraryRoadmapBuild
phase.03Senior engineers alongside your people. Guardrails, detections, identity, and platform patterns.
Guardrails as codeDetectionsRunbooksProve
phase.04Audit support, board reporting, metrics that hold up. Your team runs it after we leave.
Evidence pipelineAudit supportBoard pack
Core values
What we stand for.
Four values that govern every engagement, in good weather and bad. Stated plainly so we can be held to them.
Integrity
Integrity is the alignment between what we know, what we say, and what we do. We will not soften a finding to keep an engagement, dilute a recommendation to avoid a hard conversation, or sign off on a control that does not work.
Customer first
Your outcome is our scoreboard. Not hours billed, not deliverables produced, not slides presented. When the right answer is to do less or to stop, we are the ones to say it.
Excellence
Excellence is the discipline of refusing to settle. Senior practitioners, peer reviewed work, evidence behind every claim. Good enough is not enough when the consequences of failure are this real.
Ways to work with us
Sized to the decision in front of you.
2 to 6 weeks
Sprint
A focused assessment with a clear deliverable. Fixed scope, fixed price.
- Senior consultant
- Fixed scope
- One sprint cycle
3 to 9 months
Programme
Outcome based: certification, SSDLC, identity, detection, cloud platform.
- Embedded team
- Outcomes proven
- Hand over to your team
Ongoing
Fractional
A senior security leader and squad on retainer. Board reporting and audit defence.
- Virtual CISO
- Quarterly board pack
- Defined SLAs
engineering signals
live
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Operating model
- Remote first
- Practice areas
- 4 disciplines
- AWS · Azure · GCP
- 3 clouds
- Primary regions
- UK · EU
- Working hours
- GMT
From the team
“Security is making the right thing the easy thing. Everything else is friction, and friction is where breaches live.”
DC
Founding team
Digital Crest Consulting
Get started
Tell us where it hurts. We will tell you what good looks like.
A 30 minute call with a senior practitioner. No sales motion. Clear next step.