Secure engineering & AI

Secure software and AI delivery, prototype to production.

We help teams design and ship software — including AI-enabled products — with the architecture, data governance and operational controls regulated environments require.

When this matters

Secure delivery becomes a board issue when an AI prototype is heading to production, customers start asking about data use, or security architecture concerns are slowing release.

Scope

What we cover.

01

Secure architecture

  • Reference and target-state architecture
  • Threat modelling against real workflows
  • Identity, data and trust boundaries
  • Security-by-design review
02

AI product delivery

  • Prototype to production pathway
  • Model, prompt and evaluation strategy
  • Cost, latency and reliability trade-offs
  • Human-in-the-loop where it matters
03

RAG & internal knowledge systems

  • Retrieval-augmented generation design
  • Source authority and freshness
  • Access control on knowledge sources
  • Hallucination and citation handling
04

Secure SDLC & DevSecOps

  • Branching, review and release model
  • SAST, SCA, secrets and IaC scanning
  • Pipeline hardening and provenance
  • Vulnerability triage and SLAs
05

Data protection by design

  • Data minimisation and classification
  • Encryption at rest and in transit
  • Tenancy and access boundaries
  • Regulator-aware data flows
06

Code quality & maintainability

  • Targeted refactoring roadmap
  • Test strategy and coverage focus
  • Architectural seams and module boundaries
  • Technical debt that actually matters

What good looks like

Engineering keeps shipping, and security, evidence and AI governance are part of how delivery works — not added on later.

  • 01Architecture diagrams that match what is deployed
  • 02A secure SDLC the team will keep using
  • 03An AI approach grounded in evaluation, not slogans
  • 04A maintainable codebase with a credible improvement path

Common triggers

Why teams typically bring us in.

  • AI prototypes moving to production without data governance
  • Secrets, keys or PII handled inconsistently
  • No clear secure SDLC or change evidence
  • Threat modelling done once, never revisited
  • Pipelines without security gates
  • Architecture decisions not written down

Have a deadline pressing on you?
Tell us the gap.

Most engagements start with a short call to understand the deadline, the team and the constraints.

Bergson Limited is registered in Ireland. We are not auditors, QSAs, or legal advisers. We help technology teams produce the evidence those stakeholders need.