Cybersecurity with Swiss Precision.
I take the headache out of cybersecurity for local businesses. Whether you are a small company or have your own developers, I guide you step-by-step with clear, hands-on advice you can actually understand.
Cybersecurity Audits & Compliance
Internal teams cannot objectively audit their own architecture. As an independent expert, I provide the rigorous external cybersecurity audits required by management boards and regulatory frameworks, targeting zero non-conformities.
An objective, external auditor is both a technical necessity and a regulatory requirement for robust compliance. Internal teams naturally develop blind spots to their own structural configurations. Drawing on my background as a NATO CIS Plan Officer and my extensive experience initiating ISO 27001, GDPR, and KVKK alignments, I perform comprehensive, independent security audits. I do not just hand you a theoretical checklist; I evaluate your infrastructure through a strict engineering lens, assessing network controls, microservices architecture, and identity access policies. My goal is to ensure your systems not only pass strict regulatory reviews with zero non-conformities, but also achieve genuine, structural resilience.
Technical Specifications:
- Independent Infrastructure & Network Vulnerability Assessments
- ISO 27001, ISO 9001 & ITIL Process Alignment
- Swiss nFADP, GDPR Compliance Verification
- Threat Modeling & Risk Management Strategy
Service Deliverables
Independent Validation, Zero Non-Conformities
I do not just provide generic policy checklists. I deliver a rigorous, independent evaluation of your technical infrastructure and operational workflows, designed to satisfy strict external regulators and management boards.
What’s included?
- ISO 27001 & ITIL Alignment Drawing on my experience initiating and coordinating ISO 27001 and ITIL processes, I evaluate your security posture to lay the foundation for formal audits, targeting zero non-conformities in initial reviews.
- Comprehensive Infrastructure Assessment Leveraging my background in securing classified environments, I conduct in-depth vulnerability scans and structural reviews of your networks and systems, identifying critical issues before production release.
- GDPR & KVKK Compliance Verification I assess your data protection frameworks and access controls to ensure strict compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR and KVKK, actively improving your posture to avoid potential regulatory fines.
What’s NOT included?
- Automated, Contextless Checklists I do not rely on generic, automated compliance generation tools. Every policy and technical control is manually evaluated against your specific business logic and architectural reality.
- Internal Conflict of Interest To maintain the strict auditor independence required by regulatory bodies, I assess, validate, and provide exact remediation blueprints, but I do not act as your internal developer rewriting the codebase during the active audit.
Service Details
The Danger of Operational Blindness
When internal engineering teams are tasked with assessing their own architecture, they inevitably suffer from operational blindness. It is structurally impossible to objectively audit a system you have designed and built yourself. Furthermore, strict regulatory frameworks like ISO 27001 and GDPR demand independent external validation to prevent conflicts of interest. Without an objective, external engineering perspective, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and compliance gaps remain hidden deep within your workflows until a formal audit fails.
Who Benefits from an Independent Audit?
This service is structured for pragmatic IT leaders and management boards who need to validate their security posture without conflict of interest. It is the right fit if:
- You are targeting formal certification: You need to pass strict regulatory reviews like ISO 27001, GDPR, or KVKK with a target of zero non-conformities in initial reviews.
- You want to eliminate blind spots: You recognize that internal developers grading their own homework inevitably leads to operational blindness and undetected architectural flaws.
- You demand engineering depth: You are tired of auditors who just hand you theoretical policy checklists instead of conducting rigorous infrastructure and network vulnerability assessments.
My Independent Audit Methodology
I do not just hand you a theoretical policy document. My audit process is a structured, independent engineering effort designed to evaluate your infrastructure against both strict regulatory frameworks and real-world threats.
- Scope & Architecture Mapping: Operating exclusively from secure Ubuntu Linux environments, I begin by mapping your network architecture, microservices, and identity access management workflows to define a precise, context-aware audit scope.
- Technical Vulnerability Assessment: Drawing on my experience securing mission-critical communication networks, I conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and penetration tests across your infrastructure to identify security gaps before deployment.
- Process & Compliance Alignment: I evaluate your security controls and operational workflows, ensuring strict alignment with ISO 27001 and ITIL processes to lay a robust foundation for formal audits with no non-conformities reported.
- Actionable Mitigation Strategy: Instead of leaving you with abstract warnings, I design and present custom mitigation plans tailored to your infrastructure, addressing critical vulnerabilities and enhancing overall system resilience before your production release.
Standard Checklists vs. Engineering Validation
The standard compliance industry relies on automated spreadsheets and theoretical policies that do little to secure your actual infrastructure. Here is how my independent engineering audit differs from standard box-ticking exercises.
The Traditional Approach
- Theoretical Checklists: Auditors hand over generic spreadsheets and abstract policy violations without understanding your underlying microservices or deployment pipelines.
- Dead-End Reporting: You receive a massive PDF of compliance gaps right before a regulatory deadline, leaving your engineers to figure out the actual code-level remediation on their own.
My Engineering Approach
- Infrastructure-Deep Validation: I assess your systems through a strict engineering lens, validating network controls and security layers based on my experience securing mission-critical NATO networks.
- Audit-Ready Alignment: I structure your operational workflows to seamlessly align with ISO 27001 and ITIL processes, actively targeting zero non-conformities during your formal regulatory reviews.
What Your Engineering Team Learns
A successful cybersecurity audit should be an educational milestone, not just a pass/fail test. Drawing on my extensive background delivering structured training on OWASP Top 10, Secure Coding, and Risk Management, I ensure your team gains the actionable knowledge required to prevent future vulnerabilities.
- DevSecOps Alignment: I actively mentor your development teams on cybersecurity and cryptography best practices, seamlessly aligning their daily workflows with core DevSecOps principles.
- Proactive Risk Reduction: By transferring practical knowledge on threat modeling and secure architecture, I empower your engineers to natively increase secure code coverage and sustainably reduce security incidents.
- Standardized Security Operations: Leveraging my experience in authoring Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for mission-critical environments, your team learns how to structure and execute compliance tasks to drastically improve overall operational efficiency.
Continuous Audit Readiness
Passing formal regulatory reviews should not be a frantic, last-minute manual effort that paralyzes your engineering team. By embedding security automation and compliance checks directly into your software development lifecycle (SDLC), we create continuous traceability.
- Zero Non-Conformities Target: Drawing on my experience initiating and coordinating ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ITIL process alignments, I structure your workflows to satisfy external auditors with no non-conformities reported in initial reviews.
- Built-In Evidence Generation: Security automation ensures that every deployment and configuration change serves as real-time compliance evidence, eliminating the panic of manual document preparation.
- Swiss nFADP & GDPR Assurance: Your infrastructure is strictly evaluated and hardened to maintain robust data protection postures, ensuring strict alignment with the Swiss nFADP and GDPR to avoid potential regulatory fine.
What You Actually Get
I do not deliver automated, theoretical spreadsheets that sit in a drawer. At the conclusion of this audit, your management board and engineering teams receive a mathematically structured, actionable roadmap designed to eliminate structural debt and satisfy external regulators.
- Audit-Ready Infrastructure: A fully validated security posture aligned with ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ITIL frameworks, specifically targeted to achieve zero non-conformities in your formal external reviews.
- Verified Regulatory Compliance: Objective proof of your data protection resilience, ensuring strict compliance with GDPR, KVKK, and the Swiss nFADP to actively protect your organization from regulatory fines.
- Code-Level Mitigation Blueprint: Instead of a dead-end list of vulnerabilities, you receive concrete, context-aware remediation strategies that integrate directly into your DevSecOps pipelines, reducing security gaps before deployment.
Questions You Might Have
Before initiating an independent audit, here are direct, engineering-focused answers to the most common concerns IT leaders have regarding external compliance reviews.
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No. Relying solely on internal teams creates a structural conflict of interest and operational blindness. Furthermore, strict regulatory frameworks like ISO 27001, the Swiss nFADP, and GDPR inherently mandate independent external validation to ensure objective infrastructure assessment.
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Not at all. My engineering methodology is designed to evaluate your infrastructure without halting your release cycles. By mapping your existing deployment workflows, I conduct assessments that seamlessly translate into automated security checks embedded directly within your software development lifecycle (SDLC).
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No. I perform a deep technical infrastructure assessment drawing on my operational experience securing mission-critical NATO communications. Instead of generic checklists, your team receives a mathematically structured, actionable roadmap with concrete remediation strategies tailored to your exact microservices architecture.
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I initiate and coordinate ITIL, ISO 9001, and ISO 27001 process alignments directly within your workflows, explicitly targeting an outcome with no non-conformities reported in your initial reviews. Every technical control is verified to satisfy both external auditors and your management board.
Ready for an Independent Engineering Audit?
Compliance should not be a last-minute panic or a mere box-ticking exercise. Let's schedule a transparent, engineering-focused discussion about your current infrastructure and regulatory goals. Together, we can rigorously assess your architecture, satisfy strict external regulators, and lay the foundation for formal compliance audits with no non-conformities reported in initial reviews.
Validated Credentials & Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Technologies
OWASP Standards
GDPR & nFADP Compliance
Identity and Access Management
ISO 27001 Compliance
Threat Modeling
Vulnerability Scanning
Pricing
Cybersecurity Audits & Compliance :Starting from 2100 CHF.
Transparent, Engineering-Based Pricing
Compliance audits should not come with hidden costs or unpredictable billing. I operate on a strict, effort-based pricing model aligned with the standard Swiss engineering rate of 700 CHF per day. This approach guarantees complete financial predictability for your management board. Here is why this investment secures your infrastructure and protects your budget:
- No Hidden Remediation Fees: My pricing is strictly transparent, eliminating the fear of unexpected costs that often accompany traditional consulting.
- Objective, Conflict-Free Validation: You invest in a truly independent external audit, which is a regulatory requirement for frameworks like ISO 27001 and GDPR.
- Actionable Engineering Outcomes: Instead of paying for a static compliance checklist, you receive concrete remediation blueprints mapped to your specific microservices and CI/CD pipelines.