Cloud & Architecture

Security Baked In.
Not Bolted On.

We embed security into your architecture, development process, and product decisions from the very first design decision — not as an afterthought when it's too expensive to fix.

Threat ModelingSTRIDESecurity by DefaultOWASPSDLArchitecture Review
The cost of bolt-on security

A vulnerability caught in design costs a fraction of one found in production.

Security added after the fact is expensive, incomplete, and often ineffective. When threat models aren't done, insecure defaults aren't caught, and architectures aren't reviewed — vulnerabilities get built in by default. We change that by joining your process before the first line of code is written.

SDLC security touchpoints

RequirementsSecurity & compliance requirements defined
DesignThreat modeling, architecture review
DevelopmentSecure coding standards, SAST
TestingPentest, DAST, dependency scanning
DeploymentHardening, secrets management
30×

more expensive to fix a vulnerability found in production vs. one identified during design

IBM Systems Science Institute
68%

of developers say security requirements are either unclear or arrive too late in the development cycle

Snyk Developer Survey 2023
CISA SbD

US CISA Secure by Design pledge — a growing commitment by vendors to ship secure defaults and reduce customer burden

CISA Initiative
What we do

Security at every layer of your stack.

Threat Modeling

We facilitate STRIDE-based threat modeling sessions with your architecture and development teams — identifying threats before they become vulnerabilities.

Architecture Review

Independent security review of your system design. We identify insecure patterns, missing controls, and over-privileged components before you build them.

Secure SDLC Integration

We embed security checkpoints into your development lifecycle — requirements, design gates, code review standards, and deployment hardening guidance.

Security Requirements

We translate your compliance obligations and risk appetite into concrete security requirements your developers can actually implement and test against.

Secure Defaults Review

We audit your product and platform defaults — authentication, permissions, logging, encryption — and ensure security is the out-of-the-box experience.

Security Testing Strategy

We define your testing approach: what to SAST, what to pentest, what to red-team. We prioritise based on risk, not just tooling availability.

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Ready to build security in from the start?

Whether you're designing a new system or reviewing an existing architecture, we can identify where security is missing and help you build it in properly.

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