Welcome

Red Kestrel Consulting provides software engineering and IT security services.

Software Engineering

We have 20 years experience in the field of software engineering and can undertake projects on Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms. We specialise in security and web related development. Examples of recent projects include:

Designed and delivered a .NET secure web service for use by a UK government agency
Provided consultancy on the delivery of a PKI for a UK city council
Produced and delivered secure software development training and documentation for an international software house
Monitoring service in C# and .NET for a major PKI service provider
Proof of concept XML interface to a web based identity management system
Developed an application to evaluate the security of a client's web based system

IT Security

With over 10 years specialising in IT security, we are able to identify and implement solutions that meet your business requirements. Some of the IT security services we offer include:

Security health check
Resolving vulnerabilities identified during the health check
Development of security policy and procedures

We have written a number of security related articles that may be of interest. These include:

CSR Decoder

We've written online PKI tools to decode Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) and PEM encoded X.509 certificates.