Security Architecture Review
The cheapest vulnerabilities to fix are the ones you design out. We review your system architecture against threats and best practice to find structural weaknesses before they become expensive incidents.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- Threat modelling of your architecture and data flows
- Trust boundaries, segmentation and least-privilege review
- Authentication, authorisation and identity design
- Data protection, encryption and key-management design
- Resilience, logging and detectability by design
- Cloud and network architecture best-practice alignment
What you receive
- Architecture review report with threat model
- Prioritised design recommendations
- Reference diagrams of a hardened target state
- Executive summary for stakeholders
- Follow-up consultation on remediation
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Advisory review — no active exploitation of live systems
- Recommendations require your teams to implement
- Depends on the accuracy of documentation you provide
- Not a substitute for testing the built system
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Do we need a finished system to review?
- No — this is most valuable early, on designs and diagrams, where fixing a flaw costs a conversation rather than a rebuild. We also review existing architectures.
- What do you need from us?
- Architecture diagrams, data-flow descriptions, and access to your architects for a working session. The better the documentation, the deeper the review.
- Is this the same as a penetration test?
- No. A pentest attacks the built system; an architecture review examines the design to prevent whole classes of vulnerability before they're implemented. They complement each other.
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