Security Consultation
Sometimes you just need an expert to talk to. Book time with a senior security consultant to work through a challenge, review a decision, get a second opinion, or plan your next steps — practical advice, no long engagement required.
Verified Solvex Specialist
Verified by SolvexDirect specialist contact for Solvex engagements
What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
What's covered
- One-to-one time with a senior security expert
- Security-challenge and decision review
- Architecture, tooling or strategy second opinions
- Incident and risk triage guidance
- Roadmap and prioritisation advice
- Vendor-neutral, practical recommendations
What you receive
- Focused consultation session(s)
- Summary of advice and recommendations
- Suggested next steps
- Follow-up resources where relevant
- Optional written follow-up
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Advisory only — no hands-on system access or testing
- Advice based on information you share in the session
- Not a substitute for a full assessment where one is needed
- General guidance, not formal legal or financial advice
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- How does the hourly consultation work?
- The fixed price is per hour with a senior consultant. Book the time you need — many questions are resolved in a session or two — and we point you to a fuller engagement only if one is genuinely warranted.
- What can I use a consultation for?
- Anything from 'is this architecture sound?' to 'how should we prioritise our security spend?' to a second opinion on a vendor or an incident. It's flexible, expert time.
- Is it vendor-neutral?
- Yes. We give practical, independent advice in your interest — not a sales pitch for particular products or larger engagements.
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