Secure architecture and cloud security

A sound foundation is paramount to the success of any architecture team, especially one anchored on standards and design principles that brings security to the forefront and continues throughout an organization’s digital transformation. Without a strong footing, an organization’s security program may lose focus and direction, wavering in its commitment

We’ll help your team remain focused on the North Star while continuing to evolve with your business. We’ll work with you on areas such as:

• Developing forward-thinking but practical standards aligned to operations
• Establishing business-enabled security blueprints
• Implementing mitigation techniques for emerging risks

Digital transformation is underway. Security teams are tasked with anticipating changes in the technology environment as the pace of business transformation continues to accelerate. Managing the complexities with securing multi-platform environments is taxing on already overloaded teams. Working with a partner who understands how to secure myriad landscapes spanning from on-premises to cloud and hybrid environments is a necessity.

Our architects will support your team’s efforts to make sense of this complexity and help guide you on the right path to securing your environment. We’ll work with you on:

• Building a strategy for balancing deployments of security detection and monitoring technologies such as anti-virus, EDR, ATP and DLP across platforms by using asset risk and classification as drivers
• Creating approaches for enabling conditional access, such as zero and adaptive trust models, into on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments
• Understanding deployment and operations of secure access service edge (SASE) network architectures
• Securely migrating workloads to the cloud and retiring legacy environments
• Implementing and operating secure platforms in support of your business direction

The way your business operates is continually evolving, the four walls of the traditional corporate office are no longer the secure bastion. Employees work from a variety of locations, leveraging combinations of employee- and corporate-owned devices. Managing secure access to hundreds or thousands of disparate endpoints is challenging. Understanding the various tools and approaches necessary to tackle this issue requires working with a partner familiar with a variety of modern workplace environments.

RSM architects regularly work with organizations looking to manage the complexities of securing the remote workforce. We’ll help you with:

• Establishing guidelines for securing mobile, medical, ICS and IoT devices
• Building a strategy and approach for implementation of device management solutions across non-managed devices in the enterprise
• Deploying protective and detective endpoint technology based on conditional access requirements such as asset location
• Implementing and operating a secure edge compromised of a multitude of endpoints

Designing and developing secure applications require a focus on security throughout the development life cycle. Building security and automation into your development practices—whether in-house or third party—that defines security as a priority at the start and throughout your continuous integration (CI) or continuous deployment (CD) processes is a necessity. Shift-left security processes introduce security checks early during the development phase to ensure a more secure codebase from the start instead of checking for vulnerability issues at the end, which often results in costly rework and delays.

RSM application architects understand secure development practices and how to help your organization establish programs that support your specific needs. We’ll help you in areas such as:

• Establishing guidelines for securing the full application stack, including secure communication between layers
• Securely navigating the API community
• Addressing security across the application stack, including back-end web services, middleware, and databases
• Implementing SecDevOps programs and practices into your development cycle
• Continuously evaluating your source code and deployed applications for vulnerabilities and exploits

Understanding the limits of the corporate technology landscape supporting the modern workplace is difficult and securing those environments is highly complex. The boundary-less network stretches beyond the corporate walls, circumventing traditional protective barriers and introducing a broader attack service. Working with employees to help them understand that increased vigilance is necessary to protect critical business operations and data is of utmost importance. Security teams are challenged with not only securing the corporate environments but also helping employees operate securely for a multitude of locations leveraging ever-increasing varieties of technologies.

RSM security architects continually evaluate cutting-edge security models and apply these concepts to best suit your organization’s requirements. We’ll work with you on:

• Recognizing and creating an approach for boundary-less environments
• Establishing guidelines for securing ingress and egress points across the enterprise
• Defining your capability to ingest traffic for suspicious and anomalous behaviors
• Managing security considerations for third-party integrations
• Evaluating complex security models and balancing decisions based on risk and reward
• Architecting and implementing secure access edge technologies

Effective continuous attack surface reduction (ASR) requires a well-planned approach that considers the criticality of the organization’s data as well as regulatory and standards requirements. A solid understanding of the technology footprint and the organization’s risk-tolerance level will drive investment decisions. To give the security engineering and operations teams the right focus, the organization’s architects play a vital role in defining the strategy and approach for managing that reduction as well as how to prioritize remediation activities.

Our secure architecture and vulnerability specialists work together to establish ASR strategies incorporating these concepts in support of your business. We’ll help you with:

• Developing a strategy for vulnerability mitigation across the landscape
• Determining the framework for prioritization of remediation based on vulnerability risk, asset risk and operational criticality
• Providing input into red/blue/purple teaming scope and approach
• Establishing ASR programs designed to continuously manage the attack surface