Security infrastructure for enterprise.

Zero-trust across hybrid estates, detection engineering as code, and managed security operations when the internal team is the right size for normal days, not incidents.

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Overview

Security infrastructure infrastructure for enterprise, built to the standard institutions in this sector are required to operate.

XVICA designs, builds, and operates this layer for enterprise clients in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia. The work is specified against the regulatory regime, the operational profile, and the examination expectations of this sector before any code is written.

01Why it matters

What enterprise cannot get wrong here.

Cyber insurance premiums now hinge on evidenced controls, not self-declared ones.
Supply-chain attacks are the design case, not the edge case.
A board-reported incident is an operational, legal, and reputational event simultaneously.
The security team is staffed for normal operations and inevitably understaffed during incidents.

02Regulatory posture

Named regimes, mapped controls

Regulatory requirements are translated into explicit control requirements, then mapped to tests and evidence collection. Nothing is implied.

Information security standards

ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and 27018, SOC 2 Type II, NIST SP 800-53 and 800-171, CIS benchmarks.

Privacy & data protection

GDPR Article 32, UK DPA 2018, CCPA, and incident-notification obligations (NIS2 for in-scope, sector-specific elsewhere).

Commercial

Cyber Essentials / Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC 2 for vendor due diligence, and customer-contract audit rights.

03Reference architecture

Design decisions distinctive to this intersection

Components and design choices that recur across our work for this sector. Each deployment is specified individually.

Identity-aware access proxies

Network position is no longer trust. Access decisions are per-request, identity-aware, and policy-enforced.

Workload identity

Services authenticate with short-lived, attested credentials. Long-lived shared secrets are retired.

Supply-chain integrity

SLSA-level build provenance, signed artefacts, and enforced deployment policy. Not trust-by-signature-alone.

Managed detection and response

24/7 detection and triage operated under SLA, integrated with the customer's own response function — not in place of it.

Post-incident rigour

Blameless reviews, findings tracked in the same backlog as engineering work, verified closure.

04XVICA's approach

How we work in enterprise.

Enterprise security typically staffs for the normal day and shows its limits during the incident. Our work is designed around both. The foundations — zero-trust access, workload identity, supply-chain integrity, evidenced control effectiveness — make the normal day more defensible and less eventful. The operational layer, where we provide managed detection and response when that is the right model, is built to amplify the internal team rather than replace it: the customer's SOC retains authority; XVICA operates the 24/7 surface under SLA; post-incident findings enter the same engineering backlog as product work. What customers typically measure afterwards is fewer incidents reaching board visibility, shorter containment windows when they do, and an insurance-market position that depends on evidenced controls rather than self-declaration.

05Engagement