Security Architecture & Engineering
Retrofitting security costs 10x more than building it in.
Most teams bolt security on after the product ships. Then they discover their auth model has fundamental flaws, their data layer trusts inputs it shouldn't, and their infrastructure was configured by someone who copied a blog post from 2019. Fixing architecture after the fact means rewriting — not patching.
Review Layers
01 Application Code, APIs, business logic
02 Auth & Access Control Identity, permissions, trust
03 Data Layer Storage, encryption, flow
04 Infrastructure Cloud, network, runtime
Foundation
Security starts at the blueprint.
The failures that matter aren’t zero-days. They’re design flaws — auth models that break under multi-tenancy, data pipelines that trust upstream inputs, infrastructure running on default credentials. We threat-model before writing code and harden every boundary with the assumption it will be tested.
DATA FLOW
UNTRUSTED
Users Internet Third-party APIs
EDGE
CDN WAF Rate Limiting DDoS Protection
APPLICATION TRUSTED
API Gateway Auth Services
DATA
Encrypted Storage Secrets Audit Logs
Scope
What's included
- Threat modeling and attack surface analysis
- Secure architecture review and design
- Authentication and authorization system design
- Infrastructure hardening (cloud, containers, networking)
- CI/CD pipeline security and dependency auditing
- Security engineering embedded in the development lifecycle
Process
How engagements work
01 Discovery We map your current architecture, understand your threat landscape, and identify where security gaps create the most business risk. No assumptions — we look at what's actually running.
02 Threat Model Structured threat modeling using STRIDE, attack trees, or data flow analysis — whatever fits your system. Every trust boundary, data flow, and entry point documented and evaluated.
03 Architecture Proposal A concrete security architecture with specific technologies, configurations, and implementation guidance. Not a slide deck of best practices — a buildable blueprint.
04 Implementation We build it with you or hand off with enough detail that your team can execute. Rust, Go, TypeScript — real engineering, not advisory-only.
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Start with an architecture review
Free 30-minute call to assess your current architecture. No commitment.