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Design and Architecture

Security Architecture

Identity, access, data protection and monitoring designed alongside the solution rather than reviewed at the end.

Security designed during architecture costs less and produces better-targeted controls than security retrofitted after a review.

What you receive

  • Security architecture document
  • Identity and access model
  • Data protection and classification design
  • Threat model and mitigations
  • Monitoring and response design

Why organisations ask for it

Proportionate controls

Designed against an assessed threat model.

Review-ready

Evidence prepared as part of design.

How the engagement runs

  1. Understand

    Requirements, constraints, existing estate and non-functional needs.

  2. Options

    Credible alternatives with trade-offs made explicit.

  3. Decide

    Recommendation with rationale, recorded as a decision record.

  4. Detail

    Component, data, integration and security design ready to build from.

Next step

Need security architecture?

A short conversation establishes the scope, the prerequisites and whether this is genuinely the right place to start.

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