Information security / cloud security consulting

Security consulting
for cloud and AI.

We assess risk, design practical controls, and securely set up the cloud and AI systems your organisation depends on. Our work includes information security, cloud security, and AI agent security.

Risk made clearSecure setupControls that work
01Consulting services

From risk assessment to secure implementation.

Practical consulting for the whole system: people, process, identity, data, cloud infrastructure, applications, and AI agents.

01RISK → CONTROL

Information security consulting

Focused advice that turns business risk, technical constraints, and compliance expectations into an actionable security plan.

  • Risk and architecture reviews
  • Threat modelling
  • Security strategy and governance
  • Detection and response
02CLOUD → SECURE

Cloud security and secure setup

Secure architecture, configuration, and operating foundations for new or existing AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

  • Cloud architecture reviews
  • Identity and access
  • Landing zones and guardrails
  • Logging and security operations
03MODEL → TOOL

AI agent security

Threat modelling and controls for AI agents that combine models, data, memory, tools, identities, and autonomous action.

  • Agent architecture reviews
  • Prompt and data controls
  • Tool permissions and approvals
  • Evaluation and guardrails
02Selected work

Security consulting grounded in delivery.

Representative consulting and engineering engagements. Client identities remain private, while the sectors, challenges, and scope remain concrete.

01

Cyber defence AI platform

2024 to 2026

Energy sector

Architecture for securely training, fine-tuning, and serving open-source LLMs, with identity controls across model APIs, data stores, and compute. Security telemetry feeds an AI-assisted threat-detection system.

LLM infrastructureAccess controlAI governance
Environment

Azure · Entra ID · Sentinel · Defender XDR · MLOps

02

Central SIEM architecture

2026 to present

IP management

Target architecture for central log ingestion and threat detection, including custom rules, parsing, response playbooks, triage workflows, and onboarding runbooks for new sources.

SIEMDetection engineeringIncident operations
Environment

Google SecOps · Entra ID · Defender · Meraki · MongoDB Atlas

03

Multi-cloud security operations

2021 to 2024

Energy sector

Security frameworks for endpoints and digital identities, core SIEM infrastructure, Azure Active Directory assessments, and policies for interconnected cloud platforms.

Cloud securityIdentitySecurity operations
Environment

AWS · Azure · IAM · SIEM · Endpoint security

03Approach

Clear scope. Practical controls. Evidence throughout.

Each engagement moves from the outcome you need to controls your team can operate, observe, and improve.

  1. 01

    Define the outcome

    Clarify the business goal, material risks, technical context, and decisions the engagement needs to support.

    scope.define()
  2. 02

    Map the system

    Trace trust boundaries, data flows, identities, access, operators, and the assumptions between them.

    surface.map()
  3. 03

    Secure the setup

    Design and implement proportionate controls across identity, policy, isolation, approvals, logging, and recovery.

    controls.apply()
  4. 04

    Verify and hand over

    Test important failure modes, document decisions, and leave your team with clear priorities and an operable security baseline.

    outcome.verify()
04Background

Consulting built on an engineering foundation.

newman.ai brings 16 years of hands-on experience across software engineering, platform reliability, cloud architecture, and security operations.

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Engineering depth

Company foundation

Our perspective is deliberately end-to-end: how software is built, how cloud platforms are operated, and how defenders see and contain failure. That same engineering depth shapes every consulting engagement, including work on AI agents.

16
years of experience
3
cloud platforms
5
engineering stages
Production software and platform engineeringCloud architecture and security operations
  1. 2010 to 2016

    Software engineering

    Microservices, web platforms, and technical team leadership.

  2. 2016 to 2018

    SRE & platform engineering

    Container infrastructure, CI/CD, staging, and runtime architecture.

  3. 2018 to 2021

    Multi-cloud architecture

    AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, networking, automation, and governance.

  4. 2021 to 2024

    Cloud security architecture

    SOC, SIEM, identity, endpoints, governance, and security at scale.

  5. 2024 to now

    AI and security engineering

    Secure LLM platforms, AI-assisted detection, SecOps, and AI governance.

Working set
PythonTypeScriptGoKubernetesTerraformAzureGCPAWSLangChainRAGVector databasesSIEMCSPMXDRMITRE ATT&CK

Start a conversation

Bring the system,
the concern, or the outcome you need.

Tell us what you are building, reviewing, or securing. A useful first note includes the current context, the risk that matters, and what a successful engagement would change.

Write to [email protected] ↗Direct email · technical and business context welcome