SSQ.AISSQ.AI

Expand human and AI capability.
Build better security.

SAFE SQUARE researches and builds technology for people and AI to work together.

Drawing on field expertise and our own technology, we provide ongoing security collaboration and the professional services you need.

Scroll down to go from the outside in through our services, then on to research and social contribution

Threat & Exposure Intelligence

Investigating external exposure and related threats

What can be seen from outside, and which threats are relevant?

We turn what is happening outside into evidence you can decide on.

We investigate external information about your organization, brand, accounts, assets and services. We check its source, timing, relationships, history and actual relevance to you, then explain what the risk means and what to check and act on first.

Penetration Testing & Security Validation

Vulnerability testing and security validation

Can our vulnerabilities really be exploited, and do our key protections actually hold?

We find vulnerabilities and validate the protections that matter.

We confirm the vulnerabilities in a defined system or service and their real impact. When a specific protection goal or a new environment needs validating, we first design what to check and how, then set out, with evidence, when the protection holds and how to improve it.

Red Teaming & Resilience Testing

Red teaming and detection and response testing

How does the organization prevent, detect and respond under a realistic attack?

We find out how your defenses work under a realistic attack.

Against agreed objectives and scenarios, we attempt the attack and test how your organization prevents, detects, reports and responds to it. We review the results with the teams involved and turn them into the improvements and re-checks that are needed.

Security Training & Exercises

Training, hands-on practice and exercises

Can our people and teams actually judge and respond?

Learn it, try it, respond to it, and build capability that lasts.

We design training, hands-on practice and exercises around each role and its work. It doesn't stop at understanding the technology: people make real judgments and take real actions, and that experience and feedback carry into their next piece of work.

Security & AI Engineering

Security research, tooling and AI engineering

How do we build the methods and technology this problem needs?

We build the analysis methods and tools you need, and put them to work.

We analyze complex security problems and design methods and technology that fit your environment. Working with your existing systems and tools, we build the analysis tools, integrations, automation, knowledge environments and people-and-AI workspaces the problem calls for.

Research

Research and development

What do we research?

At the heart of every service are five core technologies for people and AI working together.

The five areas have no order: they shape one another and are used in every service. What we learn in the field comes back into the next round of research.

Pay It Forward

Our social contribution program

Is professional security support out of reach without a budget?

Selected organizations short on budget can cover part or all of the service cost through an agreed social contribution.

The organizations we protect then go on to protect others, through pro bono work, donations and shared knowledge.

Three ways to start working together

We start in the way that fits your situation. If you only need a specific assessment, investigation, training or development, any of the services above can also be commissioned as a project on its own.

One-time review

Security Health Check

A security review across your organization

Where do we stand overall?

Drawing across the services and technology above, we check where your whole organization stands in a single engagement.

  • Whatever your concern, we start from it and agree the scope together
  • External exposure, services and infrastructure, authentication and permissions, sensitive information and operations, and readiness to respond
  • Confirmed risks and improvement priorities, set out with the evidence

Annual plan

Cybersecurity Care

Regular security advisory and management program

Is someone keeping an eye on your security, and there to talk to when you need them?

We check in regularly and help you make the calls that matter.

  • Security advice for the whole contract period, and an expert to talk to when you need one
  • Health checks, threat intelligence and training on an agreed schedule
  • Start with a Lite, Basic or Premium plan, or design an Enterprise plan around you

Long-term collaboration

Forward-Deployed
Security Collaboration

Ongoing security work, carried out with your team

Is there an outside team to work through security problems alongside yours?

We learn your team's context and work with you from defining the problem to solving it.

  • An outside expert team that stays with your security, development and operations teams
  • Starting from the questions worth asking, even without fixed requirements
  • Investigation, validation, improvement and research as shared work, with methods, tools and records left behind