Build security in before a line of code ships. We design security into your systems, services and cloud from the outset - threat-led, proportionate, and aligned to the UK Government's Secure by Design approach. For government, the suppliers who serve it, and private-sector organisations that want to get it right first time.
Secure by Design means building security into a system from the very start - at the business case and design stage - rather than bolting it on after the fact.
It treats security as a continuous thread through the whole project lifecycle, from concept through development, deployment and maintenance, so risks are designed out before they're built in.
It began as a UK Government mandate for public-sector delivery teams, but the principle applies to any organisation that builds or buys technology: the earlier security is considered, the cheaper, faster and stronger it is to achieve.
Identifying how your system could be attacked, early enough to design the risks out.
Designing systems and services with proportionate, well-justified controls.
Assessing an existing or proposed design and articulating the risks in it.
Choosing the right controls for the risk, not gold-plating.
The evidence and artefacts that show security was designed in, for auditors, authorities and customers.
We work threat-led and proportionate - security shaped around real risk, not a generic checklist. We embed with your delivery team rather than handing over a document and leaving, so the design decisions stick.
And because we also test, assess and engineer security - penetration testing, our cloud security assessment and secure cloud engineering - our architecture advice is grounded in how systems actually get attacked and built, not theory.
Security architecture and Secure by Design work is scoped to your project - from a focused architecture review to embedded support across a programme. The earlier you bring us in, the more we can design out. Tell us where your project is and we'll propose the right level of involvement and a fixed scope.
Discuss your projectWe work with organisations throughout the North East and across the UK - remotely and on site - embedding with public-sector teams, their suppliers, and private-sector delivery teams alike.
Building security into a system from the start - at business case and design stage - and maintaining it through the whole lifecycle, rather than adding it afterwards.
No. It's a UK Government mandate for public-sector delivery teams, but the principle applies to any organisation that builds or buys technology - and suppliers to government are increasingly expected to demonstrate it.
Increasingly, yes. Public-sector buyers expect suppliers to show their products and services are designed securely, as part of contract and supply-chain assurance. We help you evidence it.
Architecture is about designing security in up front; an assessment reviews what already exists. We do both - design first, then assess and test what's built.
As early as possible - ideally at the design or business-case stage, where security is cheapest to build in.
Whether you're a government team meeting the Secure by Design mandate, a supplier proving it, or a private-sector organisation that wants to get it right first time - tell us about your project and we'll design security in.