Architecture development
Develop security architecture appropriate to the system, service or programme, including public cloud, on-premise and hybrid estates.
Architecture
Cyber Security Architecture
Security architecture helps ensure security is built into systems and services rather than added as an afterthought.
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Security architecture for blended environments
Stanway Hope works with organisations and delivery teams to develop security architectures that respond to business objectives, security requirements, identified risks and the intended operating environment. The approach considers how security controls operate together as part of a coherent design rather than becoming a collection of isolated measures.
Our Security Architects work across public cloud, on-premise and hybrid solutions. We help clients design, develop and deploy the appropriate security architecture to reduce risks and manage threats, while protecting sensitive data, intellectual property and time-sensitive operations. Depending on the customer environment and agreed scope, this work can be informed by recognised security standards, frameworks and guidance, helping organisations relate practical security activity to wider governance and assurance requirements.
How we can help
Architecture that connects risk, requirements and controls, then stays useful as the solution is designed and delivered.
Architecture review
Review proposed and existing designs to identify security considerations, dependencies and potential weaknesses.
Security control design
Support the selection and integration of security controls within the wider technical architecture.
Requirements traceability
Help demonstrate how relevant security requirements are addressed through architectural decisions.
Design advice
Provide security input throughout technical design and delivery, so the architecture in use matches the one that was agreed.
Architecture documentation
Develop appropriate security architecture information and artefacts to support stakeholders and delivery teams.
What this helps you achieve
Architecture is how risk, requirements and controls become a design that delivery teams can build and assurance can later review.
Security in technical decisions
Embed security earlier in technical decision making, instead of adding isolated measures after the design is fixed.
Risk, requirements and controls connected
Make the relationship between identified risk, security requirements and chosen controls visible to stakeholders.
Dependencies understood
Improve visibility of security dependencies across cloud, on-premise and hybrid parts of the same solution.
A stronger basis for testing and assurance
Leave architecture information that can support design review, testing and subsequent assurance activity.
Our approach
Understand the need, design the architecture, then review and support it as the solution develops.
Understand
Establish business, technical, security and operational requirements, including what must be protected.
Design
Develop security principles, patterns and controls appropriate to the solution.
Review
Assess the architecture against requirements and identified risks.
Support
Provide architecture input as the solution develops and changes.
Architecture that connects requirements to controls
A good security architecture provides a connection between what an organisation needs to protect and how those needs are addressed within a technical design. Stanway Hope can help translate security requirements and identified risks into architectural considerations and security controls within the wider solution.
Architecture can subsequently provide a basis for design review, testing and assurance, helping maintain a relationship between security objectives and the implemented environment.
Related services
Security challenges rarely exist in isolation. Architecture often sits between requirements and the testing or assurance that follows.
Security Requirements
Define the security need so architecture has something measurable to design against.
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Testing & Test Management
Test selected controls so findings and evidence can support wider assurance.
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Assurance & Accreditation
Review whether the implemented design can be supported by evidence.
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If you are designing or changing a cloud, on-premise or hybrid estate, we can discuss how Stanway Hope can help you develop, review and document the security architecture.