Technology & Cybersecurity Consulting

We predict and protect.

Senior consulting for cybersecurity, cloud and regulatory compliance: from SIEM, SOC and hardening to DORA, BSI and ISO 27001. Hands-on, vendor-independent, built for critical systems.

Project experience at

S-Kreditpartner
Deutsche Telekom
Bayer
MSD
ITERGO
UCB
S-Kreditpartner
Deutsche Telekom
Bayer
MSD
ITERGO
UCB

What we do

Consulting across the full security lifecycle

Vendor-independent expertise across security, cloud and compliance, from strategy through hands-on implementation.

Cybersecurity & SOC

Detect, triage and contain attacks early, from monitoring to response.

Regulatory & Compliance

Understand regulatory requirements and translate them pragmatically into operations.

Cloud & Kubernetes

Design, run and harden secure, scalable cloud platforms.

DevOps & Automation

Ship automatically and securely, with a short time to production.

Security Architecture & Integration

Bring identities, interfaces and data together securely.

Penetration Testing & Hardening

Uncover weaknesses and harden systems for the long term.

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Why ByteOps

Senior expertise, not slideware

You work directly with the people who have built and secured the systems they advise on.

01
25+ years in IT & security

Hands-on across banking, telecommunications, pharma, manufacturing and the public sector.

02
CISSP & CKAD certified

Recognised credentials in information security (ISC2) and Kubernetes (CNCF).

03
Regulatory depth

DORA, BSI-Grundschutz, ISO 27001/27002 and NIST CSF, applied in real audits, not just cited.

04
Vendor-independent

Advice in your interest: no product quotas, no lock-in.

05
A trusted expert network

Vetted specialists for pentesting, DevOps and cloud, scaled to your engagement.

06
Made in Germany · GDPR

Based in Mönchengladbach, working to German and EU data-protection standards.

How we work

From assessment to operations

We map your systems, risks and regulatory obligations before anything is built.

We design a secure, compliant architecture and a pragmatic roadmap.

We build and harden. Hands-on, with security and automation from day one.

We enable detection, monitoring and SOC processes, and hand over with documentation.

About ByteOps

A specialist consultancy built on 25 years of practice

I founded ByteOps in 2023, on the back of more than 25 years in IT and long-standing client relationships from my work as an independent consultant. We combine deep security expertise with modern cloud and DevOps practice, advising banks, industry, pharma and the public sector on cybersecurity, cloud architecture, regulatory compliance (DORA, BSI-Grundschutz, ISO 27001/27002), integration, hardening, SIEM/log management, SOC and Kubernetes.

An experienced core team, extended by a vetted network of specialists we personally know and trust. That lets us scale to larger engagements without losing depth.

Aydin Kocas, Founder & Managing Director (CISSP, CKAD)

Track record

Selected projects from 25+ years

Anonymised, but representative of the experience ByteOps is built on: 25+ years of project work across banking, industry, pharma and the public sector.

Banking · Berlin

DORA programme & SOC build-out

Challenge

A bank needed to meet DORA requirements and gain real-time visibility into security events.

Approach

Designed and deployed a SIEM platform (Elastic Security + XDR), built detection use cases and SOC processes, and delivered encryption, key management, hardening, Active Directory and endpoint security as part of a DORA gap analysis.

Outcome

A regulator-ready, observable security platform with documented SOC processes.

DORASIEMSOCElastic XDRHardening
Public sector · Disaster response

Secure Kubernetes & CI/CD platform

Challenge

A federal disaster-response programme needed an automated, secure delivery platform on-premises.

Approach

Built a CI/CD pipeline (GitLab CI) with GitOps (ArgoCD), Kubernetes deployments via Helm, cluster provisioning with Ansible (RBAC, volumes, operators) and container hardening.

Outcome

Reproducible, hardened deployments and a self-service delivery workflow.

KubernetesGitOpsArgoCDAnsibleHardening
Pharma & biotech · International

Data virtualization & identity architecture

Challenge

A global pharma group needed a secure data-integration blueprint across many sources.

Approach

Designed an IT architecture blueprint on Denodo, implemented custom policies, and led integration proofs of concept covering identity management, OAuth2/OIDC, Active Directory and RBAC under strict security requirements.

Outcome

A governed, secure data-virtualization layer for the enterprise.

DenodoIAMOAuth2 / OIDCRBAC
Manufacturing & automotive · International

Cloud security audits & ISO 27001 alignment

Challenge

An industrial group needed to secure its Azure cloud usage and align processes to recognised frameworks.

Approach

Ran Azure cloud security audits, wrote cloud security policies and aligned information-security processes to BSI, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF, including an evaluation app and Azure reporting.

Outcome

Clear cloud guardrails and a defensible, framework-aligned security posture.

AzureISO 27001BSINIST CSF
Insurance · International

Central log management & SIEM use cases

Challenge

An insurer needed to consolidate logs from on-prem, Kubernetes, OpenShift and AWS into one platform.

Approach

Integrated diverse log sources into a streaming-based platform (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Kafka, NiFi) and realised SIEM use cases together with the SOC.

Outcome

Unified visibility and actionable detection across hybrid infrastructure.

ElasticKafkaSIEMDevOps
Telecommunications · International

Project security management at enterprise scale

Challenge

Business-critical integration platforms required ISO-27001-grade security governance.

Approach

Acted as project security manager using an ISO-27001-certified assessment process (PSA), supported audits and pentesting, joined the honeypot team and built the public 'Sicherheitstacho' threat map (React / WebGL).

Outcome

Consistent, auditable security across critical platforms, plus a public threat-intelligence showcase.

ISO 27001PentestHoneypotsThreat Intel

In-house

What we build ourselves

Consulting is only one side. We also build our own products and prototypes.

Product

anschrift.info

An online service built and operated by ByteOps for digital address lookups from German registration offices: automated, encrypted, delivered by email.

Visit anschrift.info
In development

AI prototypes from the lab

Among them a holistic solution for AI-driven video and audio dubbing with voice cloning and other state-of-the-art AI components, plus autonomous agents and RAG systems.

Insights & Research

Field notes from security and AI

Cyber Security . 01 July 2025

Insights into the LockBit 4.0 Leak

The May 7th LockBit chat leak offers a rare look into the inner workings of LockBit 4.0, onboarding instructions, victim chat logs and internal earnings reports. ByteOps analysed the leaked database in depth.

Insights into the LockBit 4.0 Leak

Let's secure what matters.

Tell us about your systems, your risks or your regulatory deadline. We'll tell you where to start.

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