Decision-first scoping
Before a single test runs, we agree the decision the output will change — invest, divest, accept, fix. Wynyard Quarter engagements without a named decision-maker don't get past scoping. That discipline keeps work focused.
Code Security Audit in Wynyard Quarter — built for the tech sector that drives the region. Manual and tooled code review across your highest-risk repos — secrets, auth, injection, deserialisation and supply-chain risk, with CI integration that keeps findings from coming back.
The tech, marine, research concentration around Wynyard Quarter sees CI/CD supply chain compromise, OAuth token theft and AI/LLM prompt injection at scale. Our code security audit work in Auckland innovation precinct is scoped against this real threat profile, not a generic checklist.
Every finding ships with a control reference against NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM, with GCSB / NCSC NZ guidance cited where it changes the remediation priority. Board reporting follows the CERT NZ Critical Controls expectation set.
Basalt delivers code security audit to organisations across Wynyard Quarter and the wider Auckland innovation precinct region (population ~5k). The tech, marine, research sectors that anchor the region face a distinct threat profile — CI/CD supply chain compromise, OAuth token theft and AI/LLM prompt injection at scale — and our engagements are scoped to that, not a generic playbook. Reporting maps cleanly to the NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM that New Zealand boards already use, with regulator context (GCSB / NCSC NZ) called out where it changes a remediation priority.
Before a single test runs, we agree the decision the output will change — invest, divest, accept, fix. Wynyard Quarter engagements without a named decision-maker don't get past scoping. That discipline keeps work focused.
Every finding is tagged against NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM controls with GCSB / NCSC NZ guidance cited where it shifts a remediation priority. Your compliance team stops re-mapping our reports.
Code Security Audit doesn't end at the report. Basalt's Wynyard Quarter clients run retainer reviews on a quarterly cadence so the security posture compounds rather than drifting back six months after the engagement.
Cyber security in New Zealand can't be done with last year's threat models. The Basalt practice runs against current attacker tradecraft — agentic AI abuse, MCP and AI-tool supply chain, post-quantum readiness — alongside the legacy infrastructure work that still keeps most organisations awake at night.
Most Wynyard Quarter engagements scope inside one week and start within two. Retainer clients can trigger work the same day. We do not pipeline New Zealand clients through junior teams — a senior consultant scopes and runs the work end-to-end.
Both. Sensitive work — classified-adjacent environments, live incident response, OT walkthroughs — gets on-site time in Wynyard Quarter and the wider Auckland innovation precinct region. Routine assessments and detection engineering run remote with a tight feedback loop.
Every finding ships with a control reference against the NZ Privacy Act 2020 and NZISM so your compliance team is not re-mapping our report. Where GCSB / NCSC NZ guidance exists for the specific finding, we cite it inline. Board-level reporting follows the CERT NZ Critical Controls expectation set.
The tech sector concentration in Wynyard Quarter drives a different threat model than a generic New Zealand engagement — CI/CD supply chain compromise, OAuth token theft and AI/LLM prompt injection at scale. Our scoping reflects that, and so does the test library we bring to the work.
Yes — this is core to how we work. Basalt actively researches and tests against agentic AI tool-abuse and indirect prompt injection at scale, MCP server and AI-tool supply chain compromise and identity-first attack chains across federated SaaS. Most regional providers haven't mapped these attack paths; we run them in production against client systems with explicit scope.
Strategic cyber security consulting
Adversarial testing for LLMs and AI systems
CREST-aligned penetration testing
ITDR for identity-driven attacks