What we do
We work alongside your product and engineering teams to build security in from the design: threat modeling, architecture decisions, secure patterns and acceptance criteria, so entire classes of flaws never come to exist.
We bring the mindset of people who break systems to the design table: we anticipate abuse before the first line is written.
How we do it
Architecture discovery
We map components, data flows and trust boundaries.
Threat modeling
We identify plausible abuse and its by-design countermeasures.
Patterns & guardrails
We define reusable secure patterns and acceptance criteria.
Ongoing enablement
We review key decisions as the product evolves.
Mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
Defense Evasion
Abuse Trust Controls
T1553Credential Access
Unsecured Credentials
T1552Collection
Data from Local System
T1005Impact
Data Manipulation
T1565Deliverables
- Documented threat model
- Secure architecture decisions (ADRs)
- Pattern and guardrail library
- Security acceptance criteria
- One-off design workshop
- Embedded in the team (retainer)
- Milestone review
Real scenario
design> new payments service[?] what if the attacker controls the webhook?[+] threat: event replay and forgeryby-design control: signing + idempotency + allowlistflaw class removed before any code
Security built into the architecture, not patched at the end.
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