Product Security
You might feel like you need help with a security problem, but you're not sure exactly what you're looking for, and you can't find someone or something that seems to address your issues. A team that considers how your product actually works, who your customers are, and what you're trying to achieve. These are the problems that we created Rockhaven to solve.
Maybe it's a weird authentication flow. An integration with undocumented security implications. A migration where the old controls don't translate. You can't buy a product for "figure out what's wrong with this specific thing."
Sound Familiar?
Balancing developer productivity with security is genuinely hard. Every solution feels like a trade-off. Making it repeatable across the team is even harder.
We're not talking to each other. Security doesn't understand what we're building or why. And we don't understand what they need from us. It's like we're working on different problems.
Yes, we know that's not the textbook approach. We had six weeks, three engineers, and a customer deadline. Useful advice needs to account for that.
The cloud assessment doesn't reference the app sec findings. We end up connecting the dots ourselves.
The Industry Structure
The security industry is organised around categories: cloud security, application security, infrastructure, compliance. It's efficient - teams specialise, processes are repeatable, delivery is predictable.
But your product is a complicated mix - AWS infrastructure running your application serving your customers, all governed by compliance requirements you're still figuring out. The categories don't map to your reality.
A pentest. A code review. A compliance assessment. That's the entry point - and it's valid. But what you actually need is someone who understands your business context well enough that the service they deliver accounts for your reality. The service is how you get started. The context is where the value is.
Hiring product security expertise takes months. Building a team that covers threat modeling, code review, pentesting, compliance, and incident response takes years. But your product is shipping now, your customers are asking questions now, and your compliance deadline is soon.
Point-in-time assessments are the alternative. But by their nature, they can't build context. They test what they see and leave. Building real understanding takes ongoing engagement.
Secure by Design
Security activities work best when they connect to each other. Threats identified in design become test cases. Findings feed back into better designs. Detection covers what actually matters.
Threat Modeling
SAST / SCA
Pen Testing
Container / IaC
Monitor & Respond
Capabilities
These are the capabilities you'd access through an engagement - starting with your immediate problem and expanding as needed.
Security Asset Management
Vendor & In-House Programs
ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type II
Runtime Security Testing
Encryption & Privacy
Threat Modeling & Architecture Review
Shift-Left Tooling
Security Program Foundation
Preparation & Support
Pipelines & Environments
Web, API & Mobile
Continuous Assurance
Manual & Assisted Analysis
End-of-Life Security
Secure-by-Default Patterns
Tooling & Automation
SBOM & Third-Party Risk
Developer Security Skills
Tracking to Resolution
Design Security
Security decisions made during design have more impact than anything bolted on later. Identifying threats early means security requirements come from your actual risks, not a generic checklist.
Threat modeling creates a shared understanding of risk between security and development. It generates testable requirements and ensures logging and detection cover the threats that actually matter to your application - not just common vulnerabilities.
STRIDE, PASTA, and Attack Trees - adapted to your team's maturity and the complexity of your systems.
Identifying threats and security requirements during the design phase, before code is written. Reviewing system architecture for security weaknesses and recommending improvements.
Designing security capabilities that customers value - turning compliance requirements into competitive advantages.
Threat models, security requirements, architecture recommendations, and traceability linking threats to test cases.
Verification
Testing is most useful when it's informed by your threat model and security requirements. That way you're validating the controls that matter to your risk profile, not just finding whatever shows up.
Testing without context produces findings that don't match your reality. When assessments are informed by your threat model, they focus on what's actually exploitable in your environment - not generic vulnerabilities that don't apply.
Requirements-driven testing against ASVS and your threat model. Validating the controls that matter to your risk profile.
Testing your applications with findings traced back to requirements from design. When testing is informed by your threat model, assessments focus on what actually matters.
Scenario-based validation that your products can detect and respond to the threats you've modelled. Closing the loop between design and operations.
Findings traced back to requirements, risk-rated for your context, with remediation guidance that accounts for your constraints.
Operational Security
CI/CD pipelines, developer endpoints, and build infrastructure are part of your attack surface. Supply chain attacks target these systems specifically. Development environments need appropriate controls and visibility.
Security doesn't stop at the application. It includes the infrastructure it runs on, the pipelines that deploy it, and the people who use it. Understanding the full operational context - what it's built on, how it's deployed, who's accessing it - is what makes security advice relevant.
Security across the full operational context - infrastructure, deployment, and access. Controls that account for how your product actually runs.
CI/CD workflows, build processes, artifact signing, and deployment pipelines - protected against tampering and supply chain attacks.
Monitoring development environments and responding to threats targeting build infrastructure and products.
Pipeline hardening, endpoint controls, monitoring and visibility, incident response procedures tailored to your environment.
Supporting Capabilities
Ongoing capabilities that make security sustainable - tooling integration, governance, and compliance readiness.
Security program strategy, policy development, Security Champions programs, training, executive dashboards, and SAMM maturity roadmaps.
SAST with quality gates, SCA and SBOM generation, secrets detection, container and IaC scanning, vulnerability management workflows.
Centralised tracking, risk-based prioritisation, ownership assignment, remediation guidance, verification testing, and trend reporting.
Building security tooling, automation, and integrations. AI where it adds genuine value - augmenting analysis and accelerating workflows, not replacing expertise.
Gap analysis, ISMS development, control implementation, evidence collection, and certification support for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.
Assessing and improving software supply chain security using OWASP PSCF and SAMM frameworks.
Getting Started
Address the immediate priority first, then build toward long-term security maturity.
Your immediate problem
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Comprehensive analysis
Strategic plan
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Continuous improvement