What is an example of security architecture?

Security architecture includes all the tools, technologies, and techniques used to defend an organisation from cyberattacks. It includes firewalls, monitoring systems, threat intelligence tools, antivirus software, and more.

What is SRA in security?

Security risk assessment (SRA) is evaluating cybersecurity risks in an organisation’s IT infrastructure and proposing countermeasures.

What is the architecture review process?

This process includes: PlaningSecurity assessmentsVulnerability detectionRemediationImplementing controlsPeriodic reviews

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Security Architecture Review Services by Microminder

Protect your IT infrastructure by detecting and eliminating security flaws with Microminder’s security architecture review services. Improve your security posture, achieve compliance, and be stress-free!

What Is a Security Architecture Review?

A security architecture review is the process of evaluating your organisation’s cybersecurity framework and IT infrastructure. Insights from this review help you understand how resilient your cybersecurity posture is, identify vulnerabilities in your systems and processes, and spot other security and compliance risks. This way, it becomes easier for you to eliminate risks and improve your security efforts to be able to fight against sophisticated cyberattacks. As a result, you can protect your sensitive data and devices, stay compliant with regulations, and uphold customer trust.

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These components include:

Infrastructure Security
Application Security
Network Security
Access Management & Security
Cloud & Data Security
Security Misconfigurations

Our Security Architecture Review Services

Network Security Architecture Review:
Get a 360-degree view of your network security to find weaknesses and security gaps. Our security specialists evaluate your people, processes, and technologies thoroughly to ensure nothing is left off the hook. In network security architecture reviews, they also:
- Analyse your current security and compliance needs, network components, and related documents
- Verify information accuracy by discussing it with your security and management teams
- Assess your network security measures to find out how effective they are against attacks
- Document findings on a report and share them with your decision-makers
- Recommend the best possible ways to mitigate network security risks
- Assist while implementing changes

IAM Architecture Review:
Find out how strong your access control mechanisms are with our identity and access management (IAM) architecture reviews. We analyse all your digital systems, accounts, users, and access permissions currently enabled. Next, we understand your organisation’s hierarchy and who must access what systems and at what level.
This way, Microminder’s team ensures only the right people with the right level of access permissions access your resources to optimise permissions, limit access, and lower the risk of data theft. Here’s a list of evaluations we perform:
- Access management
- Identity provisioning
- Authentication and authorisation mechanisms
- Network, applications, and data access controls
- Access policies and procedures
Infrastructure Security Architecture Review:
Understand how secure your complete IT infrastructure is with our infrastructure security architecture reviews. We evaluate your networks, wireless systems, cloud and on-premises systems, emails, VoIP systems, and other resources to find vulnerabilities and patch them before attackers exploit them. We help you make your IT infrastructure more resilient to even the most sophisticated attacks. This includes checking:
- Device security
- Cryptographic systems
- Application and server security
- IoT and Edge Computing Systems
- Cloud Security
Web Application Security Architecture Review:
Enhance your web applications’ defence against cyberattacks by reviewing and strengthening their security measures. We run comprehensive application security architecture reviews on your web applications, such as vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, security posture assessments, etc. to detect and remove hidden vulnerabilities.
We also keep a tab on your compliance requirements and implement strategies to ensure you stay compliant with applicable laws and regulations. In addition to improving security, our reviews help simplify your operations as you won’t face hassles due to frequent security breaches and data loss scenarios.
Cloud Security Architecture Review:
Cloud computing offers plenty of advantages, such as efficiency, cost-savings, and convenience, but it also presents security concerns, such as data privacy and security. To deal with these challenges, conduct cloud-native security architecture reviews to find and eliminate vulnerabilities, threats, and risks in your cloud infrastructure. This way, you can create a secure environment for all your cloud resources and use them stress-free.
At Microminder, we have a cloud security architecture review checklist that we follow while inspecting your entire cloud architecture, from services and tools to accounts and users. We ensure:
- Stringent access policies are implemented to protect your data from unauthorised use
- Data recovery and backup processes are set up to lower data loss risks
- Data encryption mechanisms are in place to prevent attackers from intercepting your data
- Updates and patches are implemented periodically

Network Device Audit and Configuration Review:
Network devices, such as switches, routers, etc. are important for your IT infrastructure and help run your operations smoothly. But if you don’t pay attention to their security and configurations, attackers may exploit vulnerabilities present in them, enter your network, and cause a widespread attack.

To help you with this, we audit your network devices and their configurations to detect weaknesses and errors in them. We take time to understand each device’s security requirements, compatibility, configurations, and standards and compare them against your current device policies. It helps us detect security gaps and fix them. In addition, we perform penetration testing on your network devices to test their cyber resilience, evaluate access controls to reduce unauthorised access, optimise updates and patch management, and check compliance with regulations.

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How Security Architecture Review Works at Microminder CS

Getting started with our security architecture review services is hassle-free at Microminder CS. We execute each step with full transparency and accountability while minimising operational disruptions. Here’s how we do it:

Discussion:
We start with an initial discussion with your security team and decision-makers to lay the ground for security architecture reviews. In this phase, we understand your security needs, current IT infrastructure, and your unique challenges. Our security experts then create a framework to execute cyber security reviews to improve your organisation’s defence against attacks.

How Security Architecture Review Works at Microminder CS

Rigorous Reviews:
We use the latest tools and techniques to conduct rigorous security reviews on your IT infrastructure. We evaluate all your cloud and on-premises systems, IoT ad edge devices, network systems, configurations, access policies, encryption mechanisms, authentication and authorisation policies, compliance documents, and other standards and procedures. We evaluate the security tools you use to ensure you connect with secure systems only. We also find out whether your systems are updated or patched or not, what was the last time you did it, configuration and compatibility issues in systems, and more.
Conducting security reviews helps us detect vulnerabilities and issues in your IT environment, such as failed updates, misconfigured systems, inefficient systems, excess permissions given, and more.
Recommendations:
Based on the detected issues and vulnerabilities, our security experts provide you with a tailored remediation plan. We present all our findings in a detailed report that even non-technical professionals can easily understand. It will have each issue detected, the systems it harmed, the root cause (if any), potential damage it can incur, and how to address it step-by-step.

Assistance During and After Implementation:
If you like our remediation plans and decide to implement them in your organisation, you will find our security experts assisting you at each step of the way. We will provide you with important tips and tricks to ensure the remediation process happens smoothly without disturbing your operations much. As a result, you will get a better defence from attacks while securing your systems and confidential data.

Once you’ve implemented the changes, we won’t abandon you. We will be there to assist you if you come across any doubts or issues even after the implementation. We also offer periodic data security architecture reviews to detect new threats and neutralise them on time.

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