Operational Security Audits
Most major crypto losses no longer come from contract bugs, they come from compromised signers, mismanaged multisigs, and missing incident response. We review the operational security layer that a standard smart contract audit leaves uncovered.
REQUEST AN ASSESSMENTALIGNED WITH THE SEAL CERTIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK. GROUNDED IN 100+ CODE AUDITS.
THE CHALLENGE
A clean audit report doesn't mean your protocol is secure.
Compromised deployer keys, shared admin credentials, no incident response plan, team members with access they no longer need. These are not smart contract vulnerabilities. A code audit won't find them. But attackers will.
Operational security is the gap between a clean audit report and a protocol that stays secure in production.
WHAT WE ASSESS
Six domains, scoped to what applies to you.
Multisig Operations
Signer security, transaction verification, thresholds, and emergency procedures, with configuration verified directly on-chain across Safe (EVM), Squads (Solana), and Move chains.
Treasury Operations
Custody architecture, fund segregation, per-actor exposure limits, and DeFi position risk, informed by 100+ protocol code audits.
Incident Response
A threat model authored with your team, monitoring coverage measured against your real contract attack surface, response playbooks, and drills.
DevOps & Infrastructure
Source code security, CI/CD privileges, cloud configuration, secret scanning across full git history, and supply chain. Our home turf.
DNS & Registrar
Domain locks, DNSSEC, CAA, registrar security, and email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), tested live.
Identity & Accounts
Account inventory, phishing-resistant MFA, credential exposure, and offboarding proof, with team identities checked against breach databases.
The six domains map 1:1 to the SEAL Certifications framework, the open-source opsec standard from the Security Alliance (the team behind SEAL 911 and the whitehat Safe Harbor). One engagement produces both an Adevar audit report and a SEAL certification.
BEYOND THE STANDARD
Coverage that goes past the certification baseline.
Human Attack Surface
Social engineering readiness, including DPRK and Lazarus TTPs: fake recruiters, fake VC meetings, and IT-worker infiltration screening for your hiring pipeline.
OSINT & Physical Exposure
Wallet-to-identity linkage, wealth signaling, data-broker exposure, and travel security for high-profile founders.
Personal OpSec for Signers & Founders
Device hardening, messaging hygiene, and personal wallet segregation.
HOW IT WORKS
Our Process
Scope
A one-hour call to select the domains that apply to you.
Model
We build a threat model and blast-radius map that calibrates every severity score to your profile.
Verify
Authority checked on-chain, DNS and email records tested live, team credentials screened against breach databases. Read-only access only.
Score
Every control rated with evidence cited; gaps scored Impact × Likelihood, the same format as our code-audit reports.
Remediate
A prioritized 30 / 90 / 365-day roadmap. Your team implements; we advise but stay independent.
Certify
Pass the in-scope controls and receive a SEAL Certification as a publicly verifiable on-chain attestation.
VERIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS
Where our depth shows
We never need your private keys, seeds, or write access. Nothing we do touches production. Roughly 4 to 5 weeks from scoping to certification.
Coming Soon: OpSec Guide for DeFi Founders
The operational failures behind the biggest DeFi hacks - and how to avoid them.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to withstand a real attack?
We give your team confidence that your keys, people, and infrastructure can withstand a real attack.
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