Trenchant Labs is the software engineering arm of Trenchant Cyber — built on the premise that the best way to ship secure software is to have the people who secure infrastructure for a living build it themselves.
Trenchant Labs is built and led by Edward Hansen — U.S. Navy and U.S. Army veteran, CISSP, and founder of Trenchant Cyber. Two decades spent securing regulated infrastructure, then building the internal tooling most firms outsource: AI trading platforms, financial analysis systems, and the SecDevOps and compliance-monitoring pipelines that secure software from first commit to deployment and keep cloud infrastructure continuously audited. Trenchant Labs exists to bring that same discipline to clients directly, instead of keeping it in-house.
Visit Trenchant Cyber →Four principles that shape every engagement, platform or project.
Every build starts with the same threat modeling and hardening standards Trenchant Cyber applies to regulated infrastructure — not a scan run after launch.
When we extend open-source tools — scanning engines, LLM providers — we say so. Platformizing proven engineering is real work; pretending otherwise isn't.
Engagements are scoped and priced like engineering work, not billed by the hour like an agency retainer.
Every client owns their codebase on day one. No developer lock-in, no vendor hostage situations.