Fix risk at the design stage, not in production.
CyVigilant security architecture reviews identify design-level security gaps in your cloud environments, application architecture and network topology — through threat modeling, CIS benchmark audits and zero-trust advisory — before misconfigurations become breaches.
Design-level assurance for cloud-first organizations.
Cloud Configuration Audit
AWS, Azure and GCP environments assessed against CIS Benchmarks — IAM policies, storage access controls, network security groups, logging, encryption at rest and key management.
Threat Modeling
Structured STRIDE / PASTA threat modeling of your application architecture — identifying trust boundaries, data flows, attack surfaces and the most credible threat scenarios for your system.
Network Architecture Review
Review of network segmentation, firewall rule base, DMZ design, VPN configuration and east-west traffic controls — validating that your network architecture matches its intended security model.
Zero-Trust Architecture Advisory
Assessment of your identity, access and micro-segmentation controls against zero-trust principles — with a practical roadmap for moving from perimeter-based to identity-centric security.
Identity & Access Management Review
IAM policy analysis across cloud and on-premises systems — overly permissive roles, standing privilege, service account abuse and missing MFA — with least-privilege remediation guidance.
Security Controls Gap Analysis
Mapping of your current control set against ISO 27001:2022 Annex A, NIST CSF or your applicable regulatory framework — producing a prioritized gap remediation roadmap.
From architecture documentation to prioritized remediation roadmap.
Documentation & Architecture Intake
We collect architecture diagrams, data-flow diagrams, cloud account access (read-only) and relevant policy documents before the formal review begins.
Read-only access onlyThreat Modeling & Risk Identification
STRIDE/PASTA threat modeling identifies the most credible attack scenarios and maps them to gaps in your current architecture and control set.
STRIDE / PASTACloud & Configuration Assessment
CIS Benchmark checks across your cloud environment surface misconfigurations in IAM, networking, storage, logging and encryption settings.
CIS BenchmarksReport & Remediation Roadmap
Prioritized findings with risk ratings, architectural diagrams showing the gaps, and a phased remediation roadmap your engineering team can execute against.
Phased roadmapArchitecture risk that compounds over time.
Cloud Migration Assurance
Before or after a cloud migration, an architecture review validates that the new environment is configured to security baselines and that no residual on-premises risk patterns were lifted-and-shifted.
- CIS Benchmark validated pre-launch
- IAM least-privilege enforced
- Logging and monitoring confirmed
Pre-Audit Architecture Readiness
An architecture review before an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification audit surfaces control gaps early, allowing remediation before the auditor arrives — avoiding costly findings and delays.
- Gap analysis against Annex A controls
- Remediation roadmap before audit
- Faster certification timeline
Architecture review — frequently asked questions
A penetration test finds exploitable vulnerabilities in deployed systems. An architecture review evaluates whether the design of those systems is secure in the first place — threat modeling, segmentation, trust boundaries, IAM design, encryption choices and control coverage. Architecture reviews complement pentests: they prevent vulnerabilities at the design stage that pentests would otherwise find post-deployment.
A penetration test finds exploitable vulnerabilities in deployed systems. An architecture review evaluates whether the design of those systems is secure in the first place — threat modeling, segmentation, trust boundaries, IAM design, encryption choices and control coverage. Architecture reviews complement pentests: they prevent vulnerabilities at the design stage that pentests would otherwise find post-deployment.
We require read-only IAM access to your cloud accounts — typically a SecurityAudit policy in AWS or Reader role in Azure/GCP. We never request write access or production credentials. All access is time-limited and revoked after the engagement.
Yes. We cover AWS, Azure and GCP in a single review, including hybrid environments where on-premises Active Directory, network infrastructure or legacy systems connect to cloud workloads. Multi-cloud environments often have the most complex trust-boundary and identity challenges — exactly what our review targets.
We use STRIDE (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege) and PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis) frameworks. We build a threat model from your architecture diagrams and data-flow diagrams, identify the most credible attacker scenarios, and map them to gaps in your current control set — so the remediation roadmap is risk-ranked, not just a checklist.
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