Vulnerability assessment
Discover and prioritize exploitable weaknesses across applications, infrastructure, and configurations.
Independent cybersecurity practice
Detect early.
Defend decisively.
Founder-led cybersecurity for organizations that need exploitable risk surfaced clearly, validated responsibly, and translated into action.
Review our approach
Authorized defensive work only.
Assessment
Validation
Remediation
Assurance
AG-031Windows owner evaluation
Cinderwatch software lab
AegisGuard 0.3.1
A passive, game-conscious Windows security companion for local connection visibility, explainable review signals, and owner-controlled file analysis.
Passive TCP and UDP connection review
Windows Security health and file heuristics
Game-aware exclusions and preview-only cache intelligence
Unsigned owner-evaluation build
Windows may display a reputation warning. AegisGuard is not a replacement for Microsoft Defender or commercial EDR, and it does not modify the router, firewall, active connections, games, or other applications.
Focused capabilities
Security work built around evidence—not theater.
Cinderwatch helps teams understand what can actually be exploited, what matters first, and what a durable fix looks like.
Penetration testing
Validate realistic attack paths under a written scope, with controlled execution and reproducible evidence.
Secure architecture
Threat modeling and design review that reduce exposure before weaknesses become production incidents.
AI security assurance
Human-governed analysis of AI-enabled systems, access boundaries, data handling, and abuse resistance.
The method
From faint signal
to defensible proof.
Every engagement is designed to reduce uncertainty while keeping the environment, evidence, and decision authority under control.
- 01
Discover
Define the authorized surface, map exposure, and isolate the signals that matter.
- 02
Validate
Confirm credible risk safely and preserve evidence another professional can reproduce.
- 03
Strengthen
Turn findings into prioritized remediation and verify that the corrective action holds.
Authorized by design
Clear scope. Controlled access. Actionable evidence.
Cinderwatch performs defensive cybersecurity work only on systems the client owns, operates, or has explicitly authorized for assessment.
Engagement boundaries are established before any testing begins.
- Explicit written authorization before testing begins
- Strict target, action, and time boundaries
- Least-privilege access and protected credentials
- Human review of every material conclusion
- Responsible disclosure and evidence retention
- Clear remediation ranked by actual risk
Independent. Precise. Accountable.
Surface risk before it becomes impact.
Founder-led security research and consulting for teams that value clear authorization, careful execution, and findings they can act on.
Cinderwatch Security