Secure by Design
Secure by Design embeds security from the outset, across systems, culture, and operations. We help defence, government and regulated organisations turn SbD principles into practice through transformation consultancy, system assurance, and tailored training.
Secure by Design Organisational Transformation
Secure by Design (SbD) takes an organisation beyond compliance and prioritises security as a business requirement. Its implementation results in better, more secure systems, that are trustworthy and resilient to cyber-attacks.
Logiq’s Risk Management specialists and Security Architects work to understand your business so that security becomes integrated in the ways you work, so that you and your customers can deliver your business objectives securely. We achieve this by providing:
- In-depth analysis of current business processes so that all potential areas of security risk are identified.
- Integration of security into existing business policy and processes to proactively address areas of security risk.
- A ‘secure by design’ culture where security is considered at the outset of any procurement or product design, and then continually managed through-life.
- Security governance structures that ensure security information flows throughout the organisation so that the right people, have the right information, to make timely decisions.
- Clear, comprehensive policies that tailors’ security for your organisation that helps the development, deployment, and operation, resulting in consistency that minimises security gaps.
- Guidance and support to product teams, engineering teams, security teams and management teams to ensure they are communicating and sharing information and thinking of security risk.
Secure by Design System Delivery & Assurance
As technology becomes more complex and interconnected, we need confidence that the systems we depend upon are secure, trustworthy, and resilient to cyber-attack.
Logiq can help you provide assurance to your customers that critical systems meet these characteristics by helping you design and build a system that is Secure by Design.
Our industry-leading approach helps organisations achieve better security by:
- Understanding the specific business objectives and user needs of the technology or services and ensuring the security solution supports these.
- Considering the whole product lifecycle and ensuring security is embedded at each stage.
- Helping to design systems that are easy to use, easy to maintain and easy to upgrade, and thus easier to keep secure.
- Guiding teams in identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risks proactively.
- Understanding and managing the complex trade-offs between security, safety, user experience, logistics, support, and costs.
- Using proactive risk management as a tool to help understand and manage security risk and communicate information to stakeholders.
- Integrated security testing and vulnerability management throughout the lifecycle to identify and address weaknesses in technology and services.
- Creation of all documentation and evidence required to demonstrate security assurance throughout the product lifecycle and achieving and maintaining necessary certifications and accreditations.
Secure by Design Training
Logiq’s Secure by Design training course bridges the gap between traditional security training and core systems engineering and product development. Designed by Logiq’s security engineers to help attendees consider the ‘entire system’, identify sources of risk and constraints, and implement techniques to create technology and services that are Secure by Design.
The course introduces techniques to help attendees deal with and manage ambiguity and complexity, especially at the start of a product lifecycle and has been developed based on our work as security engineers, as well as our work supporting Government departments develop and implement Secure by Design.
Logiq’s Secure by Design training course consists of four core modules:
- Module 1 – Systems thinking and security
- Module 2 – Why we need Secure by Design
- Module 3 – Implementing Secure by Design in technology and services
- Module 4 – How to gain and maintain assurance
- Module 5 (on request) – Secure by Design in the UK MOD
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