Security infrastructure does not only fail through known exploits. It can decay silently as firmware updates, gateway changes, policy revisions, parser behavior, and protocol normalization logic shift across layers.
A firewall, WAF, API gateway, load balancer, or security appliance may continue to pass conventional tests while changing how it interprets protocol behavior. The same request can be parsed differently, normalized differently, forwarded differently, or blocked for a different reason after a release or configuration change.
What causes drift?
Policy & Rule Revisions
Firewall rules, WAF policies, gateway rules, allowlists, blocklists, and inspection profiles can alter how the same protocol message is handled.
Firmware & Engine Updates
Security appliances can change protocol interpretation after firmware, parser, inspection-engine, or detection-engine updates.
Parser & Protocol Library Changes
Small changes in protocol parsers, RFC interpretation, malformed input handling, or edge-case tolerance can produce different security decisions.
Layer Ordering & Infrastructure Changes
Adding, removing, upgrading, or reordering proxies, gateways, load balancers, WAFs, and service meshes can change the final observed behavior.
Normalization & Canonicalization Changes
Headers, paths, encodings, delimiters, whitespace, casing, and duplicate fields may be normalized differently across versions or layers.
Striken detects and reports hidden behavior shifts.
What Striken Does?
Striken helps security vendors and infrastructure teams detect behavior changes across protocol-sensitive security layers before they become production risk.
Protocol Behavior Validation
Validate how security layers interpret protocol behavior across releases, updates, and configuration changes.
Drift Detection
Identify meaningful changes in parsing, normalization, enforcement, forwarding, and state handling.
Release Confidence
Support firmware, policy, gateway, and infrastructure release decisions with behavior-level validation.
Baseline Comparison
Compare current behavior against expected outcomes, previous versions, or controlled validation baselines.
Evidence-Based Reporting
Surface reproducible findings that show what changed and why it matters.
Multi-Layer Coverage
Evaluate behavior across firewalls, WAFs, API gateways, load balancers, and security appliances.
Deterministic Validation
Run repeatable validation scenarios with consistent inputs, controlled execution, and reproducible outcomes.
Prevent Dynamic Posture Decay
Detect silent security-layer behavior decay before it becomes production, customer, or release risk.
Solutions
Runs inside customer-controlled environments.
Keeps validation data within enterprise boundaries.
Supports lab, staging, and release workflows.
Managed validation with lower operational overhead.
Centralized findings, reports, and baselines.
Faster onboarding for design partners and teams.
Connects validation to AI-assisted workflows.
Helps agents choose the right checks before release.
Turns drift detection into a release-safety signal.
Meet the Founders
Striken is a founder-led security infrastructure company focused on protocol behavior validation, release regression detection, and evidence-based analysis for security-sensitive environments.
Asuman Sicakyuz
Founder & Principal Engineer
Asuman has two decades of experience in senior technical and leadership roles, combining expertise in software engineering, system architecture, and cloud platforms with a proven ability to lead high-performing teams and deliver complex technology solutions in both enterprise and startup environments.
At Striken, she leads product vision and customer strategy, shaping protocol behavior validation into an enterprise-ready security infrastructure platform.
Ramazan Sicakyuz
Co-Founder & Principal Engineer
Ramazan brings 20+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience across backend platforms, distributed systems, API architecture, cloud infrastructure, and protocol-level validation. His work spans enterprise-scale systems, AI technologies, cloud-native services, and startup product development, with a focus on building reliable, observable, and security-sensitive engineering platforms.
At Striken, he leads the technical vision for detecting protocol behavior drift across security infrastructure before changes reach production.
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