SECURITY ENGINEERING SERVICES
Security engineered into every layer of your stack
Security engineering services from Modus Create embed protection into every stage of your software development lifecycle, not as a final review but as part of how your teams build. We cover enterprise security audits, cloud security and compliance, application security, security operations, and AI security engineering under one integrated practice. The result is fewer late-stage vulnerabilities, faster threat detection, and a security posture that holds up under GDPR, SOC 2, and HIPAA scrutiny.
✓ AWS Certified Competencies in Security, Generative AI & Life Sciences
Security engineering services we offer
For years, security was an afterthought, a box to check late in the product
lifecycle. Our solutions help you embed security into every stage of your SDLC
and make it a core part of your culture.
Enterprise security audits
Strengthen your organization’s defenses with a modular, expert-led security audit that uncovers risks, improves compliance, and sets the stage for secure digital transformation.
INCLUDES
- White Box assessments (source code, infra, config reviews)
- Black Box penetration testing
- DevSecOps assessments using OWASP DSOMM
- Smart contract and off-chain code audits
- Modular phases: due diligence, testing, and final recommendations
- GitHub and Snyk implementation support
BENEFITS
- Identify and mitigate critical security vulnerabilities
- Improve compliance with GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA, and more
- Reduce breach risk and incident response time
- Build customer trust and protect reputation
- Unlock follow-on projects like cloud migration and greenfield dev
SecOps automation and threat intelligence
Modernize your security operations through automation, threat-informed design, and AI-powered tooling built for today's threat landscape. With security talent in short supply, we help teams detect threats faster, streamline response, and shift from reactive firefighting to proactive defense.
INCLUDES
- Strategic design of security operations architecture
- Integration of TIPs, SIEMs, and SOARs
- MITRE ATT&CK-based threat-informed defense planning
- Threat detection engineering and Sigma rule development
- AI-driven vulnerability risk management and automated response
- Purple Team exercises to evaluate Blue Team readiness
- Real-time security monitoring and SecOps tuning across cloud platforms
BENEFITS
- Improve threat detection and incident response speed
- Reduce manual security workload
- Enhance cross-team visibility
- Align with industry standards like MITRE ATT&CK
- Build a foundation for scalable, proactive security operations
Cloud security and compliance
Protect your cloud environment while meeting evolving compliance mandates. Our experts help businesses design security-first cloud architectures, ensuring data integrity, regulatory alignment, and resilience against modern cyber threats.
INCLUDES
- Security posture assessments for AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Compliance preparation (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP)
- Cloud encryption and data protection strategies
- Secure DevOps integration
- Multi-cloud security solutions
BENEFITS
- Meet industry compliance with ease
- Clarity on classic ML readiness
- Secure sensitive data across cloud environments
AI security engineering
AI is transforming industries—but it also introduces new security risks. Our AI security solutions help organizations develop, deploy, and maintain AI models that are secure, compliant, and resilient against adversarial threats.
INCLUDES
- AI security risk assessments
- Secure AI model development and testing
- Adversarial attack mitigation strategies
- AI governance and compliance frameworks
- Data privacy and bias detection
BENEFITS
- Protect AI models from emerging threats
- Ensure ethical AI compliance and governance
- Strengthen trust in AI-driven decision-making
Application security
M&A cyber risk assessment
Mergers and acquisitions come with hidden cybersecurity risks. We help organizations assess, mitigate, and protect against cyber threats before finalizing a deal—ensuring security is never an afterthought.
INCLUDES
- Pre-acquisition cybersecurity audits
- Compliance risk evaluations
- Incident history and vulnerability analysis
- Risk mitigation roadmap
- Integration strategy for secure IT environments
BENEFITS
- Avoid security pitfalls in M&A deals
- Protect sensitive data and intellectual property
- Ensure regulatory compliance across acquisitions
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OUR PARTNERS
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As official partner to the world's largest technology companies, we bring you deep expertise across your software development cycle.
"A lot of startups would benefit from the experience Modus Create brought to the table. It has set a very solid foundation on which we can grow now."
"From a business value point of view, the AVP ensures cost savings of about 30%, and the time to market has been reduced from weeks to hours."
"Modus Create understood our challenges and was committed to provide a solution that met our goals."
"Modus Create was an amazing partner for our GitHub migration to the GitHub cloud. We needed someone that could come in with expertise and show us the way, not just supplement our capacity."
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OUR EXPERTS
Our security specialists
Our security work is led by practitioners who have built, tested, and hardened systems in production. They combine hands-on engineering with a clear view of the threat landscape, so security decisions hold up under real conditions rather than on paper.
Security services questions answered
What's the difference between security engineering and a one-off audit or penetration test?
A pentest tells you what's exploitable at a single point in time. Security engineering changes how software gets built so those weaknesses appear less often in the first place. Rather than treating security as a final review, we embed it across the development lifecycle: secure coding practices, continuous testing in CI/CD, and threat modeling that informs design decisions early. Audits and pentests still matter, and we run them, but they work better as part of an ongoing practice than as an annual checkpoint.
What does it actually mean to build security into the SDLC?
It means security decisions happen while code is being written, not after it ships. In practice that looks like OWASP-aligned coding standards, security testing running inside your CI/CD pipeline, and DevSecOps maturity measured against a framework like OWASP DSOMM rather than assumed. The payoff is fewer late-stage vulnerabilities, which are the expensive ones to fix, and a faster path from detection to remediation.
How do you approach securing AI systems?
AI introduces risks that traditional security practices don't cover: adversarial attacks, data privacy exposure, model bias, and governance gaps. We assess those risks specifically, test models for resilience against adversarial threats, and put governance and compliance frameworks around how AI gets developed and deployed. It's a distinct discipline from application security, and one where most organizations are still building their approach.
How does your security team work with our internal engineers?
Your engineers know your systems and constraints; we bring practitioners who have built, tested, and hardened systems in production. The work is collaborative by design: we integrate into existing pipelines and workflows, run Purple Team exercises that build your team's readiness rather than working around it, and leave your engineers more capable of maintaining the posture we help establish. Modus Create also holds AWS Security Competency, which reflects verified depth in regulated environments.