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Defense
Threat-led, framework-aligned, audit-ready by default

We As Web delivers cybersecurity, AI, and IT assurance for the defense industrial base — offensive security, secure-by-design engineering, OT/ICS protection, compliance instrumentation, and sustainment analytics. Embedded alongside primes, OEMs, and operators where defense software actually has to defend.

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Key Credentials
Threat-led delivery · framework-aligned evidence
NATO Certified Vendor · IEC 62443 · NIS2 · CRA · NIST SP 800-171 · STANAG 4671 fluent
10+ years in high-assurance delivery · 200+ engineers & security specialists
3 nearshore EU delivery centres · embedded, cleared specialists
Tanium-scale endpoint intelligence and explainable ML for sustainment
[00]Industry Challenge

The pressure defense leaders are operating under

  • State-sponsored adversaries & supply-chain exposureNation-state actors target the defense base through subcontractors, harvested credentials, and the boundary between corporate IT and the engineering enclave.
  • IT/OT convergencePLCs, SCADA, and MES connected to the network — a single ransomware event halts production and delays deliveries to the armed forces.
  • Regulatory & procurement pressureNIS2, CRA, NIST SP 800-171, IEC 62443, and prime-contractor security questionnaires arrive together — and rarely line up with available in-house security resource.
  • Export-controlled data governanceProgramme data governed by policy, not individual judgement, across endpoints, third parties, and engineering systems.
[01]Why Defense Leaders Choose We As Web

Why Defense leaders choose us

Defense-grade security and assurance without the bureaucracy — delivered by teams that speak the frameworks, lead with the threat, and stay calm in complex multi-stakeholder programs.

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We Speak the Frameworks

NIS2, IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-171, STANAG, the CRA, and export-control regimes instrumented into delivery — used as operating constraints, not process theatre. A single mapped-control set satisfies NIS2, the CRA, and prime questionnaires at once.

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Threat-Led by Default

Work is driven by how nation-state adversaries actually operate against the defense base, prioritised by programme impact — not by raw severity from a generic scanner. Every red-team finding is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

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Calm in Complex Programs

We operate effectively alongside primes, engineering teams, OT vendors, and regulatory functions — embedded, cleared specialists who work inside the environment and own the outcome.

[02]What We Build

Defense & Aerospace Solutions

Five practice areas covering the full defense delivery surface — from adversary emulation and secure-by-design engineering to OT/ICS protection, compliance instrumentation, and sustainment analytics.

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Offensive Security & Red Team

Threat-led testing that replicates the adversaries actually targeting the defense industrial base.

Intelligence-led reconnaissance — OSINT, dark-web exposure, supply-chain mapping
Full-scope red team — external access, spear-phishing, AD abuse, persistent intrusion
Enclave-boundary testing — corporate IT to protected engineering enclave
Purple-team feedback — techniques replayed against the SOC to tune detection
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Secure-by-Design & Embedded Security

Security designed into the platform from the first architecture review — not bolted on at the final gate.

Architecture threat modelling for contested environments
Embedded & avionics security — secure-boot, key-management integrity, hardening
C2 datalink resilience — protocol-level resilience and cryptographic design
Secure vendor & component selection against programme requirements
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OT / ICS Security

Visibility and segmentation for live production — securing PLCs, SCADA, robotics, and MES without halting the line.

Production-safe asset discovery — passive, zero-downtime
Zone & conduit segmentation per IEC 62443
IT/OT boundary hardening — jump hosts and vendor remote-access channels
OT-aware monitoring tuned to industrial protocols, not generic IT signatures
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Compliance & Supply-Chain Assurance

Turning overlapping mandates into one defensible, audit-ready posture — evidence generated through delivery.

Gap assessment & roadmap against NIS2, ISO 27001, and 800-171
Continuous vulnerability management with authenticated scanning
SBOM & software composition mapped to NTIA, CRA, and known-vulnerability data
Incident-response framework aligned to NIS2 reporting timelines
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Asset Intelligence & Sustainment

Endpoint-driven intelligence — licence cost, mission availability, data-exfiltration risk. Higher platform availability at lower lifecycle cost, sustained.

Real-time asset inventory — Tanium-driven, hash-level, tens of thousands of endpoints
Software-licence optimisation against entitlement
Predictive maintenance analytics — explainable ML for component degradation and RUL
DLP, insider-threat detection, and export-control handling
[03]Engineering Services & Capabilities

Engineering services

The capabilities applied to deliver the solutions above — engineered for the defense industrial base and the standards its procurement and regulators actually require.

01Offensive security — adversary emulation, red team, purple team, penetration testing
02Secure-by-design engineering — architecture threat modelling, embedded security, cryptographic design
03OT/ICS security — passive asset discovery, IEC 62443 segmentation, OT-aware monitoring
04Compliance instrumentation — NIS2, CRA, NIST SP 800-171, IEC 62443, ISO 27001, STANAG 4671
05Supply-chain assurance — SBOM, vendor security assessment, NTIA / EO 14028 alignment
06Endpoint intelligence — Tanium-scale asset management and licence optimisation
07Predictive maintenance — explainable ML for component degradation and remaining-useful-life
08Data protection — DLP, classification-based controls, export-control handling (EU Dual-Use, ITAR/EAR)

Frameworks & Standards

Fluent in the standards defense procurement, regulators, and primes actually require — mapped across every framework so a single effort satisfies multiple obligations.

NIS2EU Network and Information Security directive — incident handling, supply-chain security, reporting timelines
CRAEU Cyber Resilience Act — software security obligations across the product lifecycle
IEC 62443Industrial automation and control systems security — zones, conduits, security levels
NIST SP 800-171Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in non-federal systems
STANAG 4671UAS airworthiness security requirements for unmanned aerial systems
ISO/IEC 27001Information security management systems — auditable certification
EU Dual-Use / ITAR / EARExport-control regimes for defense-relevant technical data and components
[05]Conclusion

Threat-led. Framework-aligned. Audit-ready by default.

Defense delivery that has to be all three — under nation-state adversaries and overlapping regulatory mandates.

  • Embedded, cleared specialists working alongside your engineering and programme teams
  • Threat-led prioritisation ranked by programme impact, not scanner severity
  • Evidence generated through delivery, not assembled the week before an audit

Ask for our Defense Evidence Pack — we will map it to your environment (offensive security, product & OT assurance, compliance, or sustainment) and propose a 90-day engagement that produces audit-ready, MITRE-mapped artefacts.