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Secure by Design

Mitigating risk from inception

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Security risks, data leaks, and other cyber incidents pose significant threats to organisations. Vulnerabilities in software and digital products can expose the organisation to attacks.

Proactively embedding security measures from the outset and throughout the development lifecycle is essential to mitigate these risks efficiently and cost-effectively.

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Service overview

Secure by Design brings systematic change to the product and service development process

It prioritises security from the outset, with threat and risk guiding controls and testing. Through collaboration with stakeholders and developers, controls are tailored based on risk, enhancing project understanding and reducing security incidents. This approach mitigates financial losses, reputational damage, and legal liabilities, while also improving software quality and reliability.

Ultimately, Secure by Design:

  • Saves time and money by preventing security issues upfront
  • Builds trust among users, customers, and stakeholders
  • Ensures compliance and adaptability to evolving threat
  • Reduces boardroom bandwidth spent on cyber

Enhancing the trust and confidence of users, customers, and stakeholders, who expect the software to be secure and protect their data and privacy

Features
  • Adoption of Secure by Design principles into working practices
  • Strong understanding of compliance landscape/security requirements throughout the project life cycle
  • Security controls and requirements embedded at project initialisation
  • Tailored hardening, balancing threat intelligence with business needs
  • Review/implement secure coding into dev. pipelines, mitigating errors/vulnerabilities with tooling
  • Security testing identifies realistic, probable key threats before deployment
  • Tracking of security posture/maturity within the evolving threat context
Benefits
  • Respond to evolving cyber threats
  • Reduce cost of deployment/rework/incidents through proactive early security management
  • Reduced security risk by raising awareness and rigour in assurance
  • Create compliant and audit ready products/services and environments
  • Faster deployment of change
  • Improved customer satisfaction, brand reputation, and trust
  • Enhanced through life secure capabilities, that accrue less security debt
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