Your software doesn't exist in isolation. It intersects with people's lives—their homes, finances, health, relationships, and physical safety. When systems fail or are compromised, the consequences cascade beyond technical metrics into real human harm.
Traditional cybersecurity asks: "How do we protect this system from threats?"
Digital safety asks: "How do we ensure humans remain safe regardless of system state?"
Our Digital-Safety services embeds human protection into the foundations of your systems - not as an afterthought, but as a primary design consideration.
Our Digital-Safety Exposure Assessments perform holistic risk analysis for complex, critical systems and devices. Our assessments have a deep focus on the usage of your products, devices and services, assessing the potential for digital-harm or the risk of systems becoming digitally-unsafe.
For any system then we challenge the thinking beyond the technology layers, but instead focus on the end-users, be that the general public, 3rd parties or your own workforce.
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Digital-Safety Modelling is a structured process for identifying, understanding, and prioritising potential harms to humans arising from their interaction with or dependence upon technological systems.
Where threat modelling asks "what could go wrong with this system?", Digital Safety Modelling asks "how could this system's behaviour—intended or otherwise—harm the human?"
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Traditional security protects your systems. Digital safety protects the humans who depend on them.
We help organisations design software, platforms, and cyber-physical systems that safeguard user privacy, finances, physical safety, and autonomy - not just when everything works, but when things go wrong.
Our methodology applies the rigour of safety-critical engineering to digital product design, ensuring your systems fail safe and protect people by design, not by accident.
A Digital Safety Drill is the deliberate, controlled induction of component failure modes to verify that the system transitions to a safe state correctly. Critically, this is distinct from penetration testing or red-teaming, which model adversarial action (security), not accidental failure (safety).
The measurement isn't "did the attacker get in?" but rather "did the system reach a safe state, how quickly, and were the humans in the loop notified and able to respond appropriately?"
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Qubit Cyber's proprietary scoring system to assess any product or system's digital-safety rating.
Our unique process is repeatable, measurable and most importantly easy to understand.
Our ratings combine a foundation of cyber-security maturity scorings, but then overlay with the purpose and usage of any product and system, and following digital-safety modelling we assess the failure impacts when any component is breached.
