How Next Olive protects your code, data and users — the practices behind every engagement since 2011. These are commitments we make in contracts, not marketing badges.
Confidentiality and intellectual property
- Mutual NDA before any detailed discussion, discovery or access to your systems.
- IP assignment: all custom code, designs and documentation are assigned to you on payment; we retain no licence to reuse your product.
- Your repositories, your accounts: code lives in Git repositories you own; cloud, app-store and third-party accounts are opened in your name from day one.
- Need-to-know access: only the named squad on your project has access; access is revoked when people roll off and logged for review.
Secure engineering practices
- OWASP Top 10 and Mobile Top 10 checks in code review and QA; dependency scanning in CI.
- Secrets in managed vaults (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault) — never in code or chat.
- Encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest; role-based access control and audit logging as defaults, not add-ons.
- Peer-reviewed pull requests, automated tests and staged releases (dev → staging → production) with rollback.
- Least-privilege cloud IAM, private networking for databases, backups with tested restores.
Regulation-aware delivery
We design to the technical requirements of the regimes our clients operate under and document how each control is met so your compliance or legal team can review it:
- Privacy: GDPR / UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, Australian Privacy Act, PIPEDA, UAE PDPL, Singapore PDPA — data mapping, consent, retention and deletion flows, region-locked hosting.
- Health data: HIPAA-aware architecture (PHI segregation, audit trails, BAAs with cloud vendors), HL7/FHIR integrations, de-identified test data.
- Payments: PCI DSS scope reduction through tokenised gateways; no card data on your servers.
- Accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA targets for public-facing products.
We do not claim certifications we do not hold. If your procurement requires ISO 27001 or SOC 2 evidence from the vendor, tell us early — we complete security questionnaires and can align delivery to your own certified environment.
Business continuity
- Every project has a named project manager and a backup lead; knowledge is documented in your wiki, not in one person’s head.
- Daily code pushes and written weekly updates mean you always hold a current, buildable version.
- Contracts include hand-over obligations: documentation, credentials transfer and a transition period.
Questions for our security lead?
Send your vendor questionnaire or specific requirements — contact us — or read how we work.
