About the service
Service Description
Configuration and architecture reviews evaluate how your systems are designed, configured, and integrated — not just whether they have a vulnerability, but whether the design itself reduces or amplifies risk.
Cybersecurity assessment services
Configuration and architecture reviews
Deep review of system, network, and application configurations and architecture against security best practice and frameworks.
Why this service matters
The business case
Most security incidents are amplified by design choices that nobody challenged at the time. Architecture reviews catch those choices before they become incidents, and turn tribal knowledge into documented control.
What is delivered
Assessment deliverables
Each assessment produces a working set of artefacts that the customer's engineering, security, and leadership teams can act on. The exact list is calibrated to the scope and framework alignment.
- Hardening review against CIS Benchmarks
- Network architecture and segmentation review
- Cloud and on-prem configuration baseline checks
- Remediation guidance and retest support
Delivery method
Axpert Service Delivery Model
Discovery interviews with engineering and operations, review of network, identity, and data-flow diagrams, hands-on configuration review against the relevant CIS Benchmarks and vendor hardening guides, and a written assessment with a control-by-control improvement plan.
Methodology alignment
Standards and frameworks
- CIS Benchmarks
- CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST CSF 2.0
- ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A
- TOGAF
- SABSA
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