Security Architecture Review
Comprehensive analysis of your organization's security architecture design, evaluating defense-in-depth strategies, security control effectiveness, and alignment with business objectives and threat models.
In scope
- Network segmentation analysis
- Access control frameworks
- Data flow assessment
- Security boundary evaluation
- Defense-in-depth review
- Zero Trust framework compatibility
- Identity and authentication architecture review
You receive
- Detailed architecture assessment report
- Security control gap analysis
- Reference architecture recommendations
- Risk mitigation roadmap
- Prioritized security enhancement plan
- Threat modeling documentation
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core Architecture Assessment
$40K
One environment: up to 500 employees, up to 2 data centers/sites and up to 3 cloud accounts. Reviews segmentation, access control, identity architecture, data flows and security boundaries from diagrams, configs and workshops. One high-level threat model.
- employees
- 500
- Sites
- 2
- cloud accounts
- 3
- Network segmentation and security boundary analysis
- Identity and authentication architecture review
- Data flow assessment for critical data
- One high-level threat model
- Control gap analysis and prioritized enhancement plan
- — Zero Trust implementation strategy
- — Per-system threat models
- — Reference architecture design
- — Penetration testing or configuration scanning
Advanced Architecture Program
$75K
Up to 2,500 employees, up to 5 sites and up to 10 cloud accounts. Adds documented threat models for up to 5 critical systems, a defense-in-depth control mapping and a phased Zero Trust implementation strategy.
- employees
- 2500
- Sites
- 5
- cloud accounts
- 10
- Everything in the core assessment
- Threat models for up to 5 critical systems
- Zero Trust compatibility assessment and phased strategy
- Defense-in-depth control mapping
- Risk mitigation roadmap
- — Target-state reference architecture
- — Security governance framework
- — Implementation or engineering work
- — Penetration testing
Enterprise Security Architecture Transformation
$125K
No fixed headcount cap - scoped. Up to 10 sites and up to 25 cloud accounts. Adds a target-state reference architecture, a multi-year modernization roadmap, threat models for up to 10 critical systems and an architecture governance framework (review board, standards, exceptions).
- Sites
- 10
- cloud accounts
- 25
- Everything in the advanced tier
- Target-state reference architecture
- Multi-year modernization roadmap with sequencing
- Architecture governance framework
- Threat models for up to 10 critical systems
- — Building or deploying the target architecture
- — Product selection RFPs
- — Penetration testing
- — Ongoing architecture review board participation
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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