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Service 05 — Security and Architecture

Security as a delivery property.

Threat modelling, architecture review, contract review and release verification — security treated as a property of delivery, not a phase.

Practice
Review, verification, readiness
Standards
Foundry, Hardhat, CI gates
Typical scope
3–10 weeks, time-boxed
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Contract review — estate under examination

Overview

Findings are only half the work.

Every review ends with fixed code, regression tests for each finding, and monitoring that would catch recurrence. A findings document without fixes is a liability with a cover page.

Security is a delivery property, not a phase: threat analysis before design, controls during implementation, verification before release, monitoring after it.

Capabilities

What this service covers.

  • Threat and trust modelling — assets, actors and boundaries, documented.
  • Secure architecture review — design examined before it hardens into code.
  • Contract review — independent-style review with severity and fixes.
  • Implementation controls — defaults, dependencies and least privilege.
  • Release verification — rehearsal, permission checks and rollback paths.
  • Incident readiness — runbooks, rehearsals and monitoring rules.

Engineering considerations

Reviewed like an adversary, fixed like an owner.

We review systems we did not build with the same standard as our own: every finding reproduced, severity-rated, fixed in code and covered by a regression test.

Severity with economics

Findings ranked by exploitability and impact, remediation ordered by risk.

Automated gates in CI

Static analysis, invariant tests and dependency scanning that block merges.

Monitoring per finding

Each fixed class of issue gains detection that would catch recurrence.

Technology

FoundryHardhatSolidityCI/CDMonitoringObservability

Delivery approach

How the work proceeds.

D1

Threat model

Scoped analysis with assets, actors and trust boundaries.

D2

Review

Architecture and code examined; findings reproduced and rated.

D3

Remediation

Fixes in code with regression tests and monitoring rules.

D4

Verification and readiness

Release checklist, runbook and incident rehearsal.

Relevant case study

Identity under adversarial review.

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Secure Digital Identity Infrastructure

Policy enforced at every boundary; evidence captured for every decision.

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FAQ

We perform rigorous independent-style reviews. Where formal certification is required, we prepare the estate and work alongside partner audit firms.

Yes — review and recovery of live estates is a standard engagement, ending in fixed code rather than just findings.

Threat model, rated findings with fixes and regression tests, a hardened release checklist, monitoring rules and an incident runbook.

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