Security Architecture

Good architecture matters

A secure by design approach reduces the likelihood and impact of a cybersecurity incident by folding security controls into the entire development lifecycle.

Issues that manifest in the design of systems can not only be costly to an organisation but may also be difficult to rectify. It requires a vast amount of effort to fix vulnerabilities and other issues that are introduced in the foundations, not to mention the monetary and reputational impacts that are likely to occur as a result.

With our security architecture best practices service, our goal is to empower you to pre-emptively address vulnerabilities and bolster the resilience of systems before a system can be compromised. By offering a secure by design approach to reduce the likelihood of an information security incident because of poorly designed software, systems, and cloud architectures.

Who’s this service for? 

This service is for organisations needing secure system architecture for their IT infrastructure, networks, and cloud services. It ensures systems and infrastructure are designed securely before deployment.

What’s involved?

Our consultants are highly qualified and have experience securely designing and architecting IT solutions, systems, and cloud architectures.

A review is conducted at the design stage of the development lifecycle, which seeks to identify requirements and implement security controls into the architecture of the systems, underlying infrastructure, and development processes. This includes a review of the documented security architectures and design of new systems.

Workshops are undertaken to develop and discuss proposed design changes or service additions to an existing environment in a format that Software Architects and Developers understand.

Ensure contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements are met.

We help ensure that contractual, legal, and regulatory requirements have been fully understood and accounted for in the design phase. Valuable for businesses that operate in highly regulated environments and industries. 

Recommendations are based on best practice guidance, including those published by the NCSC and other emerging standards. Requirements can also be mapped to regulations, frameworks, and standards such as PCI DSS and ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

By aligning to the NCSC’s Secure Design Principles, we can help you design and develop your systems with a secure, robust foundation.

Reduce the risk of compromise.

Once a comprehensive understanding of the system has been obtained, we will then work with you to implement controls that mitigate attacks, making it harder for threat actors to compromise and disrupt systems.

Facilitating the detection of attacks is another key area; this includes applying logging and monitoring practices that will allow your organisation to identify and respond if a system compromise does occur.

Consideration will also be given to reducing the impact if a system is compromised. This includes common sense approaches such as enforcing segmentation across systems.