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What is Security Architecture Review?

A Security Architecture Review assesses the resilience of an organization’s IT security architecture and its Cyber Security/Threat Management Systems, Applications, and Controls. It analyses the maturity of the existing infrastructure and makes sure to align it with the industry standards, including but not limited to ISO 27001, NIST, and CIS to highlight security gaps and risks.

At PlutoSec, the Security Architecture Review focuses on assessing the threat surface of your networks, clouds, and applications to ascertain the weakness in the configuration, policy, and access control. To enable your business to work securely and in compliance, the objective of the security architecture review is to empower your cybersecurity, risk framework, and overall business resilience in an evolving threat environment.

An end-to-end review of your IT and cloud infrastructure

Design and Security Configuration Gap Assessments

Security Compliance Framework Gap Assessments and Suggestions

Why Businesses Need Security Architecture Review

Identifying Security Gaps

We deeply analyze all the sections of your IT systems—apps, networks, and cloud—to detect underlying weak points and control gaps. This makes sure all the systems’ architectures are of the modern cybersecurity standards and at the lowest level of risk exposure. PlutoSec reviews your systems for weak points, identifying the risk of exploitation for your team to address the misconfigurations and out-of-date protections and thus building a strong, solid and reliable system for long-term protection.

Strengthening Compliance Alignment

Continuous compliance with the standards, including ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST, and GDPR, means keeping regulatory architectural integrity. Our reviews and alignment with the standards provide meaningful, corrective, and actionable steps. This limits exposure to fines and addresses risk, is transparent and audit compliant, and has proactive governance.

Optimizing Security Controls

PlutoSec assesses your controls—both the technical and the procedural—to determine efficacy against current and expected threats. We determine a poorly configured defense and weak systems and inefficient policies focusing on control system silos. Your controls will optimize systems for compliance and will eliminate unnecessary and wasteful control systems and silos.

Enhancing Cloud Security Posture

When organizations move workloads to a cloud environment, security becomes a tightrope walk. Multi-cloud and hybrid environments are incredibly complex, and defending them well is crucial. Our team Cloud Security Architecture reviews identify critical misconfigurations, exposed endpoints, and weak access controls. Ill-defined, unassessed, and ungoverned encryption policies, identity management, and API security are threats to your operations and silo them as well. We’ll take the threat of unauthorized access and data exfiltration.

Supporting Business Continuity

Security architecture is about offence and defence. We examine your architecture for support of a disaster recovery plan, data redundancy, and maintenance of business continuity. Our controllers scan for and unpick creative architectural flaws and soft spots that could sustain operational downtime and cascading failures through the terrain of sudden havoc. The outcome is a bolstered fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports a secure and unhindered business operational continuum even in the midst of a crisis.

Building Long-Term Cyber Resilience

Our Security Architecture Review transcends immediate risk management. PlutoSec views security architecture as a vertical that shapes your long-term maturity. We position organisations to stay on the leading edge of evolving threats and technological advancements, which will include adopting a zero-track, micro-segmentation, and complex identity governance. Your business will be scalable and adaptable, stay one step ahead of threats, and maintain trusted operations across the board.

How do we ensure the Best Security Architecture Review experience?

At PlutoSec, we prioritize getting things done quickly, systematically, and with minimal disruption. Assessing your design decisions, configurations, and controls using a risk-based approach and ISO 27001, NIST, and CIS benchmarks, we identify where adjustments can be made. Our architects work seamlessly with your security and platform teams, ensuring the review is accurate, auditable, and completely actionable in real time.

We clearly define objectives and success criteria, with reviews and business risks, compliance drivers, and target security posture aligned.

Then, we proceed to scoping the architecture layers and artefacts, which include the network and cloud diagrams, IAM policies, data and application flow diagrams, and segmentation boundaries.

We ensure the engagement follows relevant standards and governance, and necessary access and approvals are secured, ensuring the review is conducted with minimal impact on the ongoing operational activities.

We carry out a thorough deep design and configuration assessment (threat modelling, control effectiveness, segmentation and encryption, zero-trust readiness, control effectiveness) by identifying design weaknesses and misalignments.

We provide a prioritised remediation roadmap which includes primary actionable insights, valuable strategic recommendations, and follow-up validation to review the expected changes.

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Our Comprehensive Range of Security Architecture Review Services

Cloud Security Architecture Review

Our specialists identify and correct misconfigurations and unauthorized access controls within your cloud architecture. They also ensure adherence to best practices for securing scalable and resilient AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments. They focus on and rectify issues pertaining to access control and misconfigurations that enable unauthorized access and offer optimization for scalable, resilient cloud environments.

Network Security Architecture Review

We conduct a thorough assessment for each element of your design, including segmentation, firewalls, and network policies, to ensure an adequate defensive lateral shield exists around your environment. We evaluate multiple perspectives on your zero trust architecture and integrated cybersecurity environment focusing on exposure, resilience, and integrity.

Application Security Architecture Review

We analyse your applications, databases, APIs, third-party integrations, and your code/data validation authentication control for security and integration in and across the applications while embracing secure design principles and protecting the data across the applications.

Cloud Identity and Access Management Review

We review your policies of Identity and Access Management, including roles and controls for access abuse. We detect and document excessive and weak authentication controls, abuse of policy, and alignment of policy for implementation of least privileged access.

Zero Trust Architecture Review

We design and document the zero trust framework and policy-controlled continuous validation and reinforcement of micro-segmentation and least access to improve the internal security of a safe hybrid workforce.

Security Policy and Governance Review

We review and evaluate the cybersecurity policies and procedures along with the governance models to confirm they are framed and aligned to the ISO 27001, NIST and CIS Controls. The aim is to form a cohesive and sustainable governance model tailored for ongoing governance and oversight.

Cloud and Data Security Review

We review and evaluate the data protection mechanisms for data stored in the cloud and for data in transmission, as well as for all stages of the data lifecycle. We check for encryption, data classification, and data retention policies and assess them for compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

Infrastructure and Endpoint Security Review

We review and assess the servers, endpoints and the devices to uncover and evaluate the weak points of the security configuration control and the enforcement of control. We check that all systems are patched and hardened and that they are incorporated into a secure management framework.

Security Monitoring and SIEM Architecture Review

We review and evaluate the design and implementation of your specific SIEM and your monitoring implementation to help in achieving the best visibility and control of threats, as well as control for real-time alerting and security event correlation for quicker detection and response to cyber threats.

Risk Management and Compliance Assessment

PlutoSec helps customers understand all parts of a risk management assessment. We ensure a risk management strategy is aligned with compliance, and we integrate it with overall business goals. We provide detailed assessments which pinpoint control gaps, provide prioritised mitigation strategies, and preserve compliant cyber resilience.

Why Choose PlutoSec as Your Security Architecture Review Partner?

Partner with PlutoSec to Strengthen, Streamline, and Secure Your IT Architecture

PlutoSec has elite experience in Security Architecture Review Services and that is why their works are considered precise and innovative. PlutoSec’s trained professionals used the best international frameworks and countless years of experience to figure out how to improve your IT infrastructure so that it gains compliance and is able to sufficiently defend against any future cyber attacks.

PlutoSec trusts clients, bolstering confidence while improving the examples of cyber security. All necessary configurations are made, controls are designed for the organization, and blueprints of the structure are analyzed to better improve the targeted weak points.

We go beyond the documents and provide thorough evaluations. We provide the best in automated tools and human assessment techniques. These include network topology, protected endpoints, and cloud infrastructure assessments, as well as configuration scanning and data flow security.

Each assessment is tailored to your business, industry, and future security needs. In our experience, the lack of a well-defined assessment approach results in poorly aligned strategies that poorly serve your environment.

We focus on building trust and transparency in every engagement. During the review process, your staff and our security architects work as equals. This process ensures that the improvements can be implemented straightforwardly.

Given PlutoSec’s successful delivery in the finance, health, and enterprise sectors, we guarantee that the design of your systems and operational encapsulations will comply with and exceed the desired operational compliance, performance, and scalability.

We will guarantee that your organization will achieve and maintain sustainable resilience as we continuously monitor and adapt our evaluation and assessment approaches to your organization’s ever-changing attack vectors, patterns, and emerging technologies, thus sustaining durability and securing compliance and operational performance.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Get answers to common questions about our cybersecurity services and how we can protect your business.

1.What is a Security Architecture Review?

Assessing the IT design of your organization, the network, systems, configurations, etc., and determining misalignment, as well as identifying problem areas, is the scope of a Security Architecture Review. It offers detailed primary and secondary reinforcement and information framework strengthening practices as part of a cybersecurity policymaking blueprint to inhibit possible data leaks.

2.Why is a Security Architecture Review important for businesses?

Organizations using defense-in-depth architecture and conducting periodic reviews comply with ISO 27001, NIST, and other similar frameworks and understand where resources and systems could be misused and unregulated. In an environment where digital infrastructure is being rapidly exploited, the Security Architecture Review enables greater situational awareness and enhanced operational resilience. .

3.How often should a Security Architecture Review be conducted?

An organization is best advised to perform a Security Architecture Review on an annual basis or after any significant infrastructure changes, like adopting a different cloud, using new technologies, etc. Periodic reviews are useful in determining the relevance of the security perimeter frameworks and the frameworks themselves in light of persistent, consistent, and evolving cyber threats.

4.What are the key steps involved in a Security Architecture Review?

Engineering, operational, and internal documentation defining system components, review boundaries, control assessments, risk, finding reporting, and restorative action are a part of the processes involved. The structured alignment with the stipulated information governance systems ensures that your firm meets the set objectives of business architecture integrated with information systems that comply with governance and risk principles.

5.How does a Security Architecture Review differ from a penetration test?

Unlike penetration testing, which attempts to break through defenses as a way of finding a weakness, a Security Architecture Review examines the holistic layout and setupof your IT systems. Instead of emphasizing the weaknesses, it focuses on protective mechanisms, the movement of information, and the preparation for compliance to ensure durability.

6.Does a Security Architecture Review help with compliance requirements?

Of course, Security Architecture Review does help businesses meet compliance needs, which include ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. It aligns reviewed systems with systems protective and regulatory within the industry to ensure the protective framework improves compliance along with operating efficiency.

7.What types of systems and environments can be reviewed?

On-Prem, hybrid, and cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, are all covered by PlutoSec’s Security Architecture Review Services. For the entire infrastructure to be deemed Secure by Design, we review network security, applications, endpoints, and data flows.

8.What are the benefits of engaging PlutoSec for Security Architecture Review?

Certified architects PlutoSec and Associates engage and apply frameworks, automation, and detailed analysis designed to improve the resilience of the organization’s IT systems. Their insights are actionable and risk-minimizing, including customized recommendations that align with increased compliance, growth, and security for an organization’s maturity.

9.How long does a Security Architecture Review take?

Time frames in this case can be anywhere between one to three weeks, depending on the complexity and scope of the systems in question. To manage this, PlutoSec combines automated assessments and expert analysis to produce comprehensive and actionable reports while ensuring that normal operational procedures are not disrupted.

10.What happens after the Security Architecture Review is completed?

PlutoSec deploys a completion review, and the in-depth and detailed review is characterized by the inclusion of both identified or potential risks and the recovery proposals ranging from the most critical to the least important. With the proprietary mechanisms to PlutoSec, integrations with your teams aid in Execution Improvement, Fix Validation, and the true sustainable security goals of the Monitoring Establishment.