Security engineering & architecture
Whether you’re building a simple mobile application that operates on sensitive data or a large-scale data exchange system, ensuring high-quality security engineering is a priority from day one.
We advise you on designing security architecture, implementing exact security features, assessing your ongoing or finished development project, verifying its security properties, and providing actionable advisory on improvements.
Implementing security
is a tricky business
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Tools are hard and not always help
Blindly flooding the development process with security tools doesn't address the root cause of security issues – risks and threats, but increases tension between dev and security teams.
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Illusion of security
There is a difference between "security feature is implemented somewhere" and "security feature prevents security incidents". Security is hard to verify whether you've got it right.
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Building security after release is tough
Addressing security after going public or as a result of a pentest is costly. It might lead to the reengineering of significant parts of the system.
Modern approaches to security engineering challenges
Balance risks & product
Before building product features, assess the data they operate and the threats they introduce, then design security measures to prevent misusing and leakage. Keep risk-centric and product-centric security in good balance.
Rely on standards and best practices
Appsec, infrasec, datasec have well-known best industry practices and standards (OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS). The key is what sets the right balance between security, cost, and operational trade-offs.
Platform aware security
Improve system’s security by mitigating platform-specific threats and using supporting platform-specific features (biometric authentication, integration with HSMs and KMSs, using Keychain/KeyStore, etc.).
Our approach to security engineering
Aligned with product architecture
Whether it’s building a cross-services authentication, PKI layer, application-level encryption, or efficient logging and alerting, we understand how to integrate security layers into existing architecture without compromising performance and maintainability.
Evolves along the product roadmap
We make sure that implemented security measures follow a defense in depth approach, are designed efficiently, appropriate to your risks, and fit well with the application architecture.
Implemented and then independently reviewed
Even the best security controls are useless if implemented incorrectly. We conduct a security review of individual components, overall application security posture and specific compliance requirements.
Business impact
Prevented security-related business risks
Imagine security software that just works, prevents reputational, business, and operational security risks, protects user data and company’s secrets.
Unhindered product process
Security features are built in a cost-efficient, maintainable, and verifiable way. We ensure that security engineering and advice does not break products, or slowdown dev cycles.
Efficient workforce augmentation
We understand how to minimise roadmap surprises, imminent operational failures and avoid development slowdown. Security engineers are partners with software developers and SREs.
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We can either help you with our own products or design & implement custom security solutions tailored for your use case.
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