Security that fits how your infrastructure actually works.

Pragmatic security for infrastructure and platform teams

Security work succeeds when it is shaped by the threat models that actually apply to the system in front of you — not by generic checklists. We help infrastructure and platform teams put controls in the right places, automate the evidence those controls produce, and integrate compliance into how the platform already operates.

Our consultants bring hands-on experience with regulated environments — financial services, healthcare-adjacent data, public-sector workloads, and SaaS organisations going through their first formal audits — and translate that experience into work your team can sustain.

Where we add value

Security posture assessments

We assess the current security posture across cloud accounts, container platforms, datacenter networks, identity providers, and CI/CD pipelines, and return a written report with prioritised, costed remediation actions — tied to actual risk, not generic scoring.

Platform and Kubernetes hardening

We harden container platforms against the threat models that genuinely apply: pod security standards, network policy and segmentation, admission control, signed images and provenance, workload identity, and audit logging that is actually shipped somewhere useful.

Secret management

We deploy and integrate centralised secret-management platforms — backed by your existing key infrastructure — so that secrets are issued, rotated, and audited rather than passed around in environment variables and shared password managers.

Identity and access

We design identity architectures around modern federation standards and workload identity patterns; integrate them with container platforms, cloud accounts, and internal tooling; and help operationalise privileged-access management for the people and the machines that need it.

Policy-as-code and admission control

We treat policy as code: configurable, peer-reviewed, version-controlled, and enforced at the points where decisions matter — in CI, at admission, and at runtime. The result is a platform where compliance-relevant decisions are visible in pull requests rather than tribal knowledge.

Compliance enablement: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2

We do not sell audit reports. We help engineering organisations build the controls, evidence, and operational practice that auditors recognise as substantive — and we translate framework language into engineering work that teams can ship. We have worked with organisations pursuing ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, NIS2, PCI DSS-adjacent scopes, and sector-specific controls.

Backup, recovery, and resilience

Backups, immutability, and tested recovery procedures are increasingly central to both security and compliance. We design backup strategies with immutable object-storage tiers and recovery exercises that prove the strategy actually works.

Capabilities and frameworks we cover

• ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• GDPR
• NIS2
• PCI DSS-adjacent
• Security posture assessment
• Platform hardening
• Network segmentation
• Pod security standards
• Workload identity
• Federated identity
• Secret management
• Policy-as-code
• Admission control
• Image signing & provenance
• Vulnerability scanning
• Runtime security
• Audit logging
• Immutable backups

Engagement patterns

Typical engagements are a posture assessment producing a written report and roadmap; a hardening and remediation programme delivered alongside your team; or compliance enablement running over the duration of an audit cycle. We are happy to work in any of these modes, or to combine them.

Start a conversation

Email hello@peakitlabs.com with a short brief — current scope, target framework, deadlines — and we will arrange a discovery call.