Consequential environments
Our primary focus is financial services, with selected work for other organizations where security decisions carry significant operational, financial, or regulatory consequences.
Independent. Founder-led. Evidence-driven.
Cybersecurity engineering for consequential decisions
Aston Cyber is an independent, founder-led cybersecurity engineering and research firm serving financial services and other organizations where security decisions carry consequential operational, financial, or regulatory risk.
Focused work. Direct accountability.
Learn About Aston CyberBounded engineering
Work is narrowed to a specific identity, cloud, platform, architecture, automation, control, or high-risk workflow outcome before an engagement begins.
Founder accountability
Matt Aston materially participates in every engagement. Recommendations remain independent of vendor commissions, resale incentives, and paid referral arrangements.
Research as evidence
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Secure Transaction Authorization Ledger
A design-and-build case study of a Python prototype that separates authorization from money movement by binding sequential approvals to canonical transaction data, explainable risk scoring, and a tamper-evident ledger.
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