Security Architecture Workshops
Security vulnerabilities often arise not during programming, but in the architecture phase. With our Security Architecture Workshops, you can lay the foundation for applications that are secure from the start.
The most important course for sustainable security is set during the design phase of an application. In practice, however, developers and architects often concentrate on classic quality features such as performance, scalability and maintainability. Security is often only considered on the periphery – or addressed afterwards, which leads to complicated and expensive rework.
A Security Architecture Workshop starts right here: Together with your teams, we integrate security aspects into architectural decisions at an early stage, thus creating the basis for “Security by Design”.
Our Services
Our experienced security experts work directly with your architects and developers. During the workshop, we develop a secure application architecture and sensitize your teams to security-critical decisions. Topics include:
- Secure design patterns
- Selection of suitable security libraries
- Application of secure coding guidelines
- Input and output validation
- Definition of trust boundaries
- Concepts for data backup and data integrity
- Use of security-relevant built-in framework features
Approach
The workshop is designed to be practical and interactive. The goal is to capture the specific requirements of your application and derive concrete security measures from them:
- Kick-off & Analysis: Capturing the architecture goals and framework conditions.
- Architecture Review: Evaluation of existing designs with regard to security aspects.
- Workshop Sessions: Collaborative development of secure design decisions.
- Best Practices & Guidelines: Presentation of suitable framework built-in features, libraries, and patterns.
- Documentation: Result log with recommended actions and guidelines for further development.
Checkpoints
We focus on security-critical aspects of your architecture:
- Handling of sensitive data and data protection
- Validation of inputs and outputs
- Definition and protection of trust boundaries
- Selection and use of secure framework features
- Integration of security libraries and guidelines
- Consideration of common standards (e.g. OWASP, NIST, ISO)
Your Benefit
A security architecture workshop is the most cost-effective and, at the same time, most effective way to integrate security into your application from the start.
You save yourself subsequent, expensive rework and simultaneously increase the security of your software. Your developers and architects gain knowledge that they can immediately apply to current and future projects – a sustainable effect for your entire organization.
- 'Security by Design' instead of subsequent security measures
- Early identification of risks in the architecture phase
- Practical collaboration with experienced security experts
- Integration of secure design patterns and framework resources
- Individual adaptation to your project and requirements
- Sustainable knowledge transfer to development and architecture teams
- Significant reduction of subsequent costs through prevention
- Strengthening of compliance and security standards