Security Architecture Review

Review security architecture, trust boundaries, data flows, access controls, cloud design, and risk controls.

PentestHint delivers security architecture review for organizations that need practical assurance, clear evidence, and remediation guidance that can be acted on by engineering and leadership teams. Organizations often discover trust boundaries, data flows, identity design, cloud architecture, segmentation, and control placement only after an audit, incident, customer questionnaire, or production change exposes a weakness. The challenge is not only identifying technical gaps, but understanding which gaps can create meaningful business risk. Our security architecture review approach focuses on current-state review, control mapping, business and technical risk analysis, target-state recommendations, and a roadmap that leadership can use for planning. Assessment coverage includes Trust boundaries, Data flows, Identity design, Cloud architecture, Segmentation, And control placement. Methodology: Review current-state architecture, business goals, control ownership, and operating constraints. Map governance, technical controls, data flows, trust boundaries, and maturity gaps. Analyze business and technical risk across people, process, and technology. Define target-state recommendations, risk treatment options, and control maturity priorities. Deliver management summary, advisory deliverables, and a practical roadmap for implementation. Evidence-based deliverables: Management summary Current state review Business and technical risk analysis Governance and control mapping Gap assessment Target state recommendations Risk treatment roadmap Control maturity view Advisory deliverable previews include management summary, current state review, control maturity view, gap assessment, target state recommendations, and risk treatment roadmap. Advisory quality includes business and technical risk analysis, governance mapping, control maturity view, target state recommendations, and executive roadmap planning. Standards and frameworks: SABSA, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, OWASP ASVS. Sample finding preview: A current-state review identified a control maturity gap related to trust boundaries. The advisory note included business context, affected control area, target-state recommendation, ownership guidance, and roadmap priority aligned to SABSA. PentestHint keeps security architecture review focused on evidence, business impact, and practical remediation rather than generic compliance language. What does security architecture review include? It includes current-state review, business and technical risk analysis, governance and control mapping, gap assessment, target-state recommendations, and roadmap planning. Can this support audits or customer questionnaires? Yes. Reports are structured to support internal risk reviews, customer assurance, and compliance evidence requests. How do you prioritize findings? We consider business impact, control maturity, regulatory relevance, ownership, implementation effort, and risk treatment priority.