Offensive Security Consulting

Comprehensive security expertise from design to development and operations.

Offensive Security Consulting

Offensive Security Consulting

Want to ensure your IT solution meets the latest security requirements?


We are here to assist you with our expertise.


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From Design to Operations – Fortifying IT Solutions

Would you like to secure your digital landscape and protect your organization from potential cyber threats? Welcome to BDO Cyber Security GmbH – your trusted partner in digital security.

In an increasingly interconnected world dominated by digital innovations, our clients face a wide range of cyber threats. It is therefore crucial for businesses to be proactive and continuously enhance their digital security measures. Successful implementation requires a deep understanding of IT security at all levels. This encompasses knowledge beginning from regulations and requirements analysis to product development and deployment. It also necessitates proficiency from securing individual devices to protecting complex IT ecosystems with cloud integrations.

Contact us today to find out how we can help you fortify your IT infrastructure and safeguard your digital assets.

Our Services at a Glance

Security Concept and Secure Design

Security is essential throughout the entire product lifecycle. Identifying and mitigating security issues in an early stage of a product life cycle prevents costly reworks and minimizes the risk of successful attacks, thereby enhancing the stability and reliability of your product.

As security experts with extensive experience, we support you in developing your products. We ensure that they comply with current security standards and are protected against attacks. From design to deployment, we are your partner in security matters throughout the entire development and life cycle of your product. Our services include:

  • Evaluating potential security risks in the initial design phase
  • Identifying possible attack vectors during the development phase
  • Analyzing live systems for potential security threats

In every phase of your product’s lifecycle, we help you developing suitable protective measures, considering the latest threats and best practices to enhance your products' resilience against cyber attacks.

Threat and Risk Analyses

Whether dealing with a complex cloud architecture or an embedded system, we assist you in identifying potential threats early on. We work with you to pinpoint the assets that need protection and assess them against the security goals of confidentiality, integrity and availability. In a second step we analyze which components or entities have access to these assets, identify potential attack vectors and evaluate their likelihood of exploitation.

You will receive a comprehensive report outlining all identified risks and their criticality. You benefit not only from established analytical methods but also from our extensive experience in analyzing complex IT architectures and hardware solutions through security assessments such as penetration tests.

Technical Security Consulting

Our consulting service offers a seamless and straightforward way to connect with our team of experts. We provide you with direct access to our specialists, enabling detailed technical discussions on a wide range of topics. Our experts are available as trusted advisors for various concerns, including:

  • What needs to be considered when designing a secure network architecture? (e.g., network segmentation, securing remote access and cloud migration)
  • How can I operate my applications and infrastructure components securely? (e.g., secure configuration of applications, servers and services as well as suitable version and patch management)
  • How can I adequately protect sensitive data? (e.g., protection against brute force attacks, password management, multi-factor authentication, use of cryptographic mechanisms and the corresponding key material)
  • How can I detect attacks and implement suitable vulnerability management? (e.g., selection and monitoring of systems, logging and evaluation of vulnerabilities in the corporate context as well as the definition of suitable measures, support in the interpretation of security and vulnerability reports)
  • What do I have to consider in the context of secure software and product development? (e.g., security concept and secure design as well as the integration of security aspects into software development)

We are here to provide expert advice on these and other related topics.

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Dr. Antje Winkler

Dr. Antje Winkler

Partner | Offensive Security
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Luca Pascal Rotsch

Luca Pascal Rotsch

Manager | Offensive Security
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FAQ Offensive Security Consulting at BDO Cyber Security GmbH

Security and operational activities need not be at odds with one another – the key is to design security measures in such a way that they take actual business requirements into account rather than hindering them. This begins with a clear understanding of which processes, systems and workflows are critical to business operations, so that security measures can be prioritised on a risk-based basis rather than implementing the maximum level of security across the board.

It is also important to closely involve the specialist departments: security requirements should be developed in collaboration with the operational teams to find practical solutions that are actually put into practice in day-to-day work. An iterative approach often helps here, enabling the impact on operations to be identified at an early stage and adjustments to be made before a company-wide roll-out takes place.

Last but not least, striking the right balance between automation and manual processes is key: automated security controls (e.g. in monitoring or patch management) significantly reduce the manual workload for operational teams without compromising security levels. 

An experienced security consultancy can help you find the right balance for your organisation’s specific situation and design security measures in such a way that they support operations rather than holding them back. Please feel free to get in touch with us.

A sensible first step towards an effective security strategy is a threat and risk assessment. This involves systematically examining which threats and attacks pose a risk to the company’s critical systems, data and products.

On this basis, it is possible to assess which risks exist and where action needs to be prioritised. Rather than implementing security measures ‘on a hunch’, this creates a sound, risk-based foundation for all further decisions.

A Security Manager acts as the central point of contact for security across people, processes and technology. Security Managers, for example, carry out security design reviews for hardware, firmware, networks and applications, assess risks and measures, coordinate their implementation and assist with the vetting of third-party providers. 

In doing so, they take on a coordinating role that bridges technical issues with organisational requirements and helps organisations to view security not as an isolated IT task, but as a holistic, company-wide process.

The key to this lies in secure design – that is, integrating security aspects right from the early stages of a project, rather than adding them as an afterthought. 

This encompasses two aspects in particular: 

  • a secure architecture, in which security requirements are taken into account right from the design stage of systems and infrastructure, for example through principles such as least privilege or defence-in-depth
  • secure development, where security aspects are incorporated directly into the development process, for example through secure coding standards, threat modelling or automated security checks in the CI/CD pipeline

This secure design approach not only reduces the risk of costly rectifications, but also ensures that security is built in from the ground up.