How skills work
SafeYourWeb keeps a skill matrix instead of treating every Captain as a generic security generalist. Your verified skills help decide which engagements you can be considered for.
This section is for orientation. It is not a sales catalogue of services. Listing a specialization here does not mean every applicant will automatically be approved for that track.
Specializations
- Web & API Security — Web application and API testing, authentication, authorization, business logic issues and secure configuration.
- Infrastructure Security — Network and host security, Linux and Windows review, hardening, vulnerability assessment and related architecture work.
- Cloud Security — Cloud configuration and architecture review across common platforms, including IAM, networking, storage and workload security.
- Mobile Security — Android and iOS application security, mobile APIs, storage, transport and client/server trust issues.
- SOC & Detection — Alert triage, detection work, log review, incident classification and related defensive security tasks.
- Incident Response / DFIR — Incident support, evidence handling concepts, investigation planning and timeline reasoning.
- DevSecOps — Security in CI/CD, secrets handling, dependency risk, containers and security automation in delivery pipelines.
- WAF & Security Engineering — WAF and reverse proxy work, policy engineering, security headers, hardening and related monitoring.
- GRC & Compliance — Security assessments, control validation, security documentation and support for common compliance frameworks.
- Secure Code Review — Reviewing application code for security issues and helping teams understand what needs to change.
- Vulnerability Management — Finding, validating, prioritizing and retesting vulnerabilities as part of a managed process.
- Security Architecture — Helping design or review security architecture across applications, infrastructure or cloud environments.
Primary and secondary skills
During application you can identify primary and secondary tracks. Assessment and later project matching focus on what you can demonstrate, not only what you list.