Offensive Security
Find how systems, people, and controls can fail through authorized, evidence-led assessment and adversary simulation.
AssessmentRed teamOSINT
Boutique cybersecurity consultancy
Security decisions backed by technical truth.
Ananke Labs helps teams test exposure, strengthen defence, engineer controls, and prove what works. The work stays focused on material risk and practical action.
Scoped and authorizedEvidence-ledVendor-independentRemediation-focused
Independent security judgment
“The goal is not a longer vulnerability list. It is a clearer view of what can materially harm the business. Then we decide what to do next.”
OffensiveAdversary simulation and security testing
DefensiveDetection, response, and resilience
EngineeringCloud, DevSecOps, and secure design
AssuranceRisk, controls, audit, and leadership
Core services
Four disciplines. One clear outcome.
Start with the problem, not a fixed package. We combine offensive, defensive, engineering, and assurance work around the system and decisions that matter.
Defensive Security
Improve the ability to detect, respond, recover, and learn across security operations, incidents, and exposure management.
DetectionResponseResilience
Security Engineering
Build effective controls into products, identities, platforms, delivery pipelines, data, and day-to-day operations.
ArchitectureControlsAutomation
Security Assurance
Determine whether requirements are met and whether the evidence supports an accountable security decision.
GovernanceComplianceEvidence
Governed offensive work
APT simulation, red-team, social-engineering, OSINT, and physical-security activities are performed only under written authorization, named targets, agreed test windows, safety controls, escalation contacts, and explicit stop conditions.
Regional cyber resilience
DORA and NIS2, made operational.
For regulated organisations, critical entities, ICT providers, and regional groups. We connect obligations to controls, operations, testing, evidence, and accountable decisions.
Explore DORA and NIS2 services ↗01Romania02Bulgaria03Moldova04Regional groups and suppliers
Payment security consultancy
PCI DSS support at every stage.
From scope and gap assessment through control implementation, evidence, remediation, assessor coordination, and continuous compliance operations.
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AI security
Test the attack path. Build the defence.
AI security is not a prompt checklist. Models read data, call tools, and trigger workflows. The review must follow every action the system can take.
Test how AI systems fail
Assess prompt injection, data exposure, model and retrieval abuse, tool misuse, agent identity, unsafe automation, poisoned context, and approval bypass.
- AI application threat modelling
- Agent and tool abuse testing
- RAG and data boundary review
- Adversarial test cases and evidence
Build controls that hold
Design model inventories, access controls, logging, evaluation cases, abuse monitoring, incident playbooks, data rules, and human approval points.
- Secure AI architecture review
- Logging and detection design
- AI incident readiness
- Governance and control assurance
Red and blue work share one system map. Findings feed design, monitoring, response, and retesting.
Workshops and exercises
Build judgment before the pressure arrives.
Sessions can be delivered as focused half-day workshops, full-day working sessions, or multi-session capability programs. Scenarios and exercises are tailored to the client environment.
Management of security controls
Training for leaders, risk owners, control owners, assurance teams, and people responsible for security decisions.
Engineering of security controls
Technical training for engineers, architects, developers, defenders, investigators, and operators.
Four learning levels
Foundation, Practitioner, Professional, and Expert routes make the intended depth clear.
Flexible delivery
Briefings, half-day workshops, courses, technical labs, tabletop exercises, academies, and custom programmes.
How we work
From a security question to a verified decision.
Every engagement connects scope, authorization, evidence, technical challenge, communication, remediation, and closure. Our role is explicit from the start.
A defensible view of material security riskEngineering-ready remediation prioritiesExecutive summary without losing technical truthA clear record of scope, evidence, and limitations
See how engagements work ↗Authorized by design
Clear scope, rules of engagement, data handling, and stop conditions before technical work begins.
Evidence over theatre
Reproducible evidence, calibrated severity, and transparent limits. Finding counts never replace judgment.
Senior attention
Direct communication from scoping through technical debrief and remediation.
Built for remediation
Recommendations are specific enough for engineering teams to implement and verify.
Ananke Labs
Small by design. Accountable from start to finish.
Ananke Labs is an independent cybersecurity consultancy. Work spans offensive assurance, security operations, control engineering, PCI DSS, DORA, NIS2, cloud, DevSecOps, risk, and regulated environments.
Clients work directly with the practitioner responsible for the engagement. Scope stays clear. Evidence stays controlled. Advice stays practical.
Latest insights
Research worth using.
Practical analysis for security leaders, engineers, risk owners, and control teams.
From security tools to an auditable control system
Most organisations already operate technical safeguards. The gap is turning them into repeatable, measurable and evidenced controls.
Read the note ↗GRC in 2026: from policy management to control operations
Cybersecurity GRC is moving from documents and periodic evidence collection toward owned controls, operational evidence, and faster risk decisions.
Read the note ↗DORA: where GRC meets offensive security
DORA makes testing part of governance: critical functions, threat scenarios, findings, remediation, validation, and accountability must connect.
Read the note ↗Begin with the risk
Tell us what decision you need to make.
Share the system, concern, timing, and intended outcome. We will respond with focused questions and a proposed next step. You will not enter an automated sales sequence.
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