Security Architecture

A security architecture is methodological security design that addresses the company needs: business requirements, risks, operational management and is implemented at infrastructure, software and process level.

Many projects start with little or no security controls in place other than a login interface, and proceed on the “let’s get something working first” basis. When the project is completed they start thinking about adding security controls. They just add a few standards, out of the box appliances firewalls etc, but may miss out core security elements.

Security Architecture should match the business requirements and should align with the risk profile.

It is preferred to design the security architecture during the design stages of the project and implement it at the dev environment level so that developers have a clear understanding the security controls the production environment will have.

Benefits of a Security Architecture

A systematic approach leading to higher Security.

A faster Time to market with strong security. Adding security architecture after design stages can take many months as source code, and infrastructure is re-implemented. Correcting issues can delay launch or force the company in launching a system that can get hacked easily, lose data and end up on the news.

Being able to repeatedly be audited and pass compliance with the least effort. In the finance industry, often the projects have to pass different client’s audit’s / compliance before they sign up.

Without a security architecture it is very hard to prove that your systems are able to provide assurance. It is likely that they are proven inadequate.

Why choose us?

We have retrofitted security architecture in many IT Infrastructures which were Internally totally open.

We have been architecting a broad spectrum of infrastructure, software systems, security systems and protocols since 1999.

We have worked extensively in infrastructure of several industries (Finance, Rail, Energy).

As part of our work in IT Audit and Risk Assessments we have first-hand knowledge of how to architect systems so that they will pass audit and compliance.