Every breach we’ve been called in to investigate had one thing in common: the conditions that made it possible were set in a design document, often years before the incident. The code was incidental. The architecture was the vulnerability.
Why most reviews miss the real risk
Standard architecture reviews are optimized for performance and scalability. They ask whether the system will hold up under load — not whether it will hold up under attack from a determined adversary with months of patience.
“The most expensive security work is the work you do after a breach. The cheapest is the architecture review you ran before writing a line of code.”
The structured review we run
Our review is built around five questions. None of them are technical. All of them determine whether the system you’re about to build will become a liability.
- What is the worst thing an attacker could do with this system?
- Who is accountable for that outcome?
- What controls reduce its likelihood — and who maintains them?
- How will we know it’s happening?
- What’s the recovery path?
Each question takes a session. Each session produces a written artifact. The final deliverable is a threat model your team owns, maintains, and can defend in front of an auditor or a board.