Offense and defense, on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Security engineered in.
Not bolted on.
Two decades building the kind of systems we are asked to defend, with the offensive and defensive depth to back it up. Application security, cloud and infrastructure, offensive security, detection and response, compliance and governance: five disciplines, one team, one program.
- Years securing mission-critical software
- 20+
- Offense + defense
- One team, both sides of the fight
- NIST CSF
- The framework we build your program on
- Fortune 500
- The standard we secure to
The six functions
Six functions. One program.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework organizes everything we do, from the first assessment to standing watch. Hover or focus a function to see the capabilities behind it. Every one is opened in full below.
Six functions, one program
Capabilities
- Compliance & ReadinessPass the audit, and mean it.
- Security Program & vCISOExecutive security leadership, on demand.
- Awareness & TrainingTurn your people into the first line.
- Supply-Chain SecurityTrust your dependencies, and verify.
The five disciplines
Application security
Secure software, from the first commit.
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- Threat modeling
Cloud & infrastructure
Lock down the cloud you actually run.
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- CSPM
Offensive security
We break it before someone else does.
- Pen testing
- Red team
- OSINT
Detection & response
See the intrusion. Stop the breach.
- SIEM
- EDR / XDR
- SOAR
Compliance & governance
Audit-ready, and actually secure.
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- HIPAA
- PCI
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover.
Capability explorer
From your code to your compliance.
Eighteen capabilities across the six functions. Browse by function, open any one, and expand a highlighted line to go deeper. The tools listed are the ones we reach for first; each engagement sets its own.
18 capabilities across 6 functions
Govern4
Identify3
Protect5
Detect3
Respond2
Recover1
Functions
Compliance & Readiness
Pass the audit, and mean it.
We get you audit-ready by closing real gaps, not by papering over them for the assessor.
Frameworks
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR readiness
We run the gap assessment, build the controls and evidence, and walk with you through the audit, so certification reflects a genuinely secure organization.
- Control implementation and evidence collection
Sustain
- Continuous-compliance tooling and monitoring
- Auditor liaison and remediation support
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- HIPAA
- PCI DSS
- GDPR
Security Program & vCISO
Executive security leadership, on demand.
Get the strategy, governance, and board-level fluency of a CISO without the full-time hire.
Lead
Security strategy, policy, and roadmap
A seasoned security leader builds your program, sets policy, owns the risk register, and translates security into the language your executives and board make decisions in.
- Risk management and board reporting
Run
- Budget, metrics, and maturity tracking
- Vendor and tooling selection
- Strategy
- Policy
- Risk register
- vCISO
Awareness & Training
Turn your people into the first line.
The strongest controls fail to one careless click. We make your team a defense, not a liability.
Train
Phishing simulation and role-based training
We run realistic phishing campaigns and targeted training, then measure the change, so security awareness becomes a number that improves instead of a once-a-year video.
- Secure-development training for engineers
Reinforce
- Clear, usable security policies people follow
- Measured improvement over time
- Phishing sims
- Training
- Playbooks
Supply-Chain Security
Trust your dependencies, and verify.
Your security is only as strong as the code and vendors you depend on. We scrutinize both.
Software
Software bill of materials and dependency scanning
We inventory every dependency, watch them for new vulnerabilities, and verify build integrity, so a compromised package upstream does not become your breach.
- Build-pipeline and artifact integrity
Vendors
- Third-party risk assessment and monitoring
- Security requirements in vendor contracts
- SBOM
- Dependency scanning
- Vendor risk
Security Assessments
Know exactly where you stand.
A clear, prioritized picture of your real risk, in language both engineers and the board can act on.
Discover
Risk and gap assessments against a recognized framework
We measure you against NIST CSF, CIS Controls, or ISO 27001, then hand back a prioritized roadmap that ranks each gap by real-world risk and the effort to close it, not a generic checklist.
- Architecture and configuration review
- Attack-surface mapping, external and internal
Report
- Findings rated by exploitability and business impact
- A remediation plan your team can actually execute
- NIST CSF
- CIS Controls
- ISO 27001
- Attack surface
Penetration Testing
Find the holes before attackers do.
Hands-on testing by people who build software for a living, so the findings are real and the fixes are practical.
Scope
Web, API, network, cloud, and mobile penetration tests
We test the way a motivated attacker would: chaining weaknesses, abusing business logic, and pivoting, then we prove impact safely and show you exactly how we got in.
- Red-team exercises against your detection and response
- Social engineering and phishing simulation
Deliver
- A reproducible proof of concept for every finding
- Retesting after remediation, included
- Web / API
- Network
- Cloud
- Red team
Threat Modeling
Design out the weakness on a whiteboard.
The cheapest place to fix a security flaw is before it is written. We find them in the design.
Model
STRIDE and attack-tree modeling of your architecture
We walk the system with your engineers, enumerate how each component could be abused, and turn that into concrete, tracked security requirements before a line of vulnerable code is shipped.
- Abuse-case and trust-boundary analysis
Apply
- Security requirements fed straight into the backlog
- Reusable threat-model templates for your teams
- STRIDE
- Attack trees
- Trust boundaries
Application Security
Ship code that resists attack.
Security built into the pipeline, so vulnerabilities are caught on the way in, not after a breach.
Secure SDLC
SAST, DAST, and software-composition analysis in CI
Every commit is scanned for vulnerable code, vulnerable dependencies, and exploitable behavior, with the pipeline gated so a critical issue cannot quietly ship to production.
- Secrets scanning and dependency pinning
- Secure coding standards and developer training
Verify
- Manual code review of security-critical paths
- Remediation paired with your engineers, not thrown over the wall
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- OWASP
- Secrets scanning
Cloud Security
A cloud configured to survive.
Most cloud breaches are misconfigurations, not zero-days. We close that gap and keep it closed.
Posture
Cloud security posture management across AWS, Azure, and GCP
We baseline your accounts against CIS benchmarks, fix the dangerous defaults, and wire in continuous posture monitoring so drift is caught the moment it happens.
- Infrastructure-as-code scanning and guardrails
- Network segmentation and least-privilege design
Workloads
- Container and Kubernetes hardening
- Serverless and CI/CD pipeline security
- CSPM
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- CIS benchmarks
Identity & Access
The right people, and only them.
Identity is the new perimeter. We make it one attackers cannot walk through.
Access
SSO, MFA, and conditional-access rollout
We consolidate identity behind single sign-on, enforce phishing-resistant MFA, and tighten access policies so a stolen password is no longer enough to get in.
- Zero Trust architecture and microsegmentation
- Privileged access management
Lifecycle
- Joiner, mover, and leaver automation
- Access reviews and least-privilege enforcement
- SSO / OIDC
- MFA
- Zero Trust
- PAM
Data Protection
Encrypt it, and keep the keys safe.
Know where your sensitive data is, who can touch it, and what happens if a laptop walks out the door.
Protect
Encryption at rest and in transit, with managed keys
We classify your data, encrypt it end to end, and put real key management behind it, so an exposed database or stolen backup is an inconvenience, not a headline.
- Data loss prevention and classification
- Secrets management and key rotation
Govern
- Tokenization and masking for sensitive fields
- Retention and secure-deletion policies
- Encryption
- DLP
- Vault
- KMS
Infrastructure Hardening
Shrink the attack surface to the bone.
Every open port and default credential is a door. We close the ones you do not need.
Baseline
CIS-benchmark hardening of servers, endpoints, and networks
We apply hardened baselines across the estate, disable what you do not use, and put configuration drift under monitoring so a quiet change never reopens a door.
- Endpoint protection and patch management
- Email and DNS security, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
Maintain
- Golden images and configuration management
- Continuous compliance against the baseline
- CIS benchmarks
- EDR
- Patch mgmt
- DMARC
Monitoring & SIEM
Turn noise into a signal you can act on.
Most breaches are detected by someone outside the company, months too late. We change that.
Collect
Log pipelines and SIEM, tuned to your environment
We centralize the logs that matter, write detection rules tuned to your stack, and cut the false-positive noise so a real alert gets the attention it deserves.
- Detection engineering mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Alerting that reaches the right person, fast
Operate
- Dashboards for security and for leadership
- Continuous tuning as your environment changes
- SIEM
- MITRE ATT&CK
- Log pipelines
- SOAR
Vulnerability Management
Find, prioritize, and close the gaps.
Scanning is easy. Knowing which of ten thousand findings actually matters is the hard part.
Find
Continuous scanning across apps, hosts, and cloud
We run continuous discovery and scanning, then prioritize by real exploitability and exposure, so your team spends its time on the handful of issues that could actually be used against you.
- Risk-based prioritization, not raw CVSS
Fix
- Patch orchestration and verification
- Metrics and SLAs on time-to-remediate
- Scanning
- Risk scoring
- Patch orchestration
Threat Detection & Hunting
Catch the intrusion already inside.
Assume someone is already past the wall, then go find them before they reach anything that matters.
Hunt
Proactive threat hunting on EDR and XDR telemetry
We hunt for the quiet signs of compromise that automated alerts miss, using behavioral analytics and hypotheses drawn from current attacker tradecraft.
- Behavioral analytics and anomaly detection
Harden detection
- New detections from every hunt and incident
- Purple-team exercises with your defenders
- EDR / XDR
- Threat hunting
- Behavioral analytics
Incident Response
A plan, a team, and a phone that answers.
When it happens, the difference between a bad day and a catastrophe is preparation and speed.
Prepare
Incident-response plans and runbooks
We write the playbooks, define roles and escalation, and run the tabletop drills so that on the worst day everyone already knows what to do.
- Tabletop exercises with your leadership
- An IR retainer, so help is one call away
Respond
- Containment, eradication, and recovery
- Breach coordination and stakeholder communication
- IR plan
- Retainer
- Containment
- Tabletop
Digital Forensics
Know what happened, and what it touched.
After an incident, guesswork is dangerous. We reconstruct exactly what occurred, with evidence.
Investigate
Host, network, and cloud forensic analysis
We preserve evidence properly, reconstruct the attacker timeline, and determine the true scope of access and data exposure, so your disclosure and remediation are based on fact.
- Malware analysis and root-cause determination
Document
- Defensible, evidence-backed findings
- Lessons learned fed back into detection and design
- Forensics
- Timeline
- Malware analysis
Resilience & Recovery
Get back to business, fast.
Ransomware and outages test one thing: can you recover. We make sure the answer is yes.
Plan
Business-continuity and disaster-recovery design
We design and test backup and recovery so that even after a destructive attack you can restore clean systems within the time the business can actually tolerate.
- Backup strategy with tested, immutable copies
Prove
- Recovery drills against real objectives
- Ransomware-readiness assessment
- BCDR
- Immutable backups
- Recovery drills
How we work
From the first assessment to standing watch with you.
We do not hand you a PDF of findings and disappear. We find the risk, fix it with your team, and stay on to watch for what comes next.
Step 01
Assess
We map your attack surface, model the threats that matter, and test your defenses the way a real attacker would.
Step 02
Harden
We close the gaps in priority order, fixing the code, the cloud, and the configuration, not just writing them up.
Step 03
Monitor
We instrument for detection, so an intrusion surfaces in minutes instead of months, and the right person is paged.
Step 04
Respond
When something happens, we contain it, find the root cause, and get you back to business with the lessons captured.
Ways to work with us
Engagements that fit the threat.
Whether you need a single penetration test or a security program stood up from scratch, the model bends to you.
- 01
Point assessments
A penetration test, a cloud review, or an audit-readiness gap analysis, scoped and delivered with a clear remediation plan.
- 02
Managed security
Ongoing monitoring, vulnerability management, and response, run as an extension of your team.
- 03
vCISO & advisory
Fractional security leadership to build the program, set policy, and answer to the board and the auditors.
- 04
Embedded security engineering
Senior security engineers inside your build teams, shifting security left into the development lifecycle.
Why Olympas
Engineers who secure what they build.
Most security firms have never shipped the kind of software they are asked to defend. We have. The same house builds mission-critical platforms, runs Fortune-500 SAP supply chains, and ships Goúri, our own commercial operating system. Our security advice is grounded in how systems are actually built and actually broken, not in a checklist.
It also means offense and defense live under one roof. The people who can break into a system know precisely how to harden it, so what you get back is working code and configuration, not a slide deck of recommendations.
The other five
One house. Six facets.
The same bench, held to the same bar, across the other four practices and the product that proves them.
- 01 / 06SAP EngineeringSAP Transportation and Event Management for the supply chains that cannot stop.20+years in SAP logistics
- 02 / 06Software EngineeringWeb, mobile, cloud, data and modernization, the full lifecycle.18capabilities, one accountable team
- 03 / 06AI & DataPipelines, models, analytics and search that run in production.4capabilities, one pipeline
- 05 / 06Management ConsultingProject, property, process, tax-aware and regulatory expertise, with engineers to build what the plan needs.6+areas of expertise, one engagement
- 06 / 06GoúriThe ERP, POS, e-commerce and app platform we built from a clean sheet.$200a month, flat, everything included
Start a project
Tell us what you run. We will tell you where it stands.
Tell us what you are running, what it protects, and what has already been reviewed. We will tell you, plainly, where the risk is and how we would close it.
A real engineer will read it and reply, usually within one business day.
Olympas LLC · 111 Calvin St, Savoy, IL · From global supply chains to the shop counter
