Secure by Design
Most teams discover security gaps right before production, or worse, right after. Alvor runs the architecture through a governed workflow: impact scoring, threat modeling, control mapping, and evidence-backed sign-off, before a line of code ships.
The process
Six phases. Each has defined inputs, role-based gates, and an immutable event trail. Nothing skips a step.
Phase 01
Know what you're building
Every project starts with one question: how much security does this actually need? The Business Impact Assessment scores risk across five dimensions (operational, financial, reputational, legal, and health & safety) on a configurable 100-point scale, then classifies the project Low, Medium, or High. That score sets everything downstream: control depth, assurance requirements, and who has to sign off.
Phase 02
Security on the canvas
Don't invent your security architecture from scratch. Drop proven patterns onto an interactive canvas (microservices, serverless, data pipelines) and inherit the controls and threat models that took the industry years to codify. Every component, every data flow, every connection is visible and accounted for.
Phase 03
See the attack surface
Every component in your architecture has an attack surface. Alvor anchors threats directly to the components, data flows, and trust boundaries they target using STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and kill-chain phases, with each mitigation linked to the control that addresses it. Coverage, including every unmitigated threat, stays visible. Threats live on the architecture, not buried in a document nobody opens.
Phase 04
Map once, comply everywhere
NIST CSF 2.0, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2, PCI-DSS 4.0, CIS v8: stop mapping the same control into four different spreadsheets. Controls attach to architecture components by classification, then cross-map across 40+ frameworks as equivalent, subset, or superset. Satisfy one control, and every standard it touches updates with it.
Phase 05
Evidence, not assumptions
Run pen tests, SAST, DAST, vulnerability scans, and compliance audits, then link every finding to the control it validates. Evidence flows into an auditable chain (requirement to test to result to sign-off) with versioned artifacts and integrity hashes. When the auditor asks how you verified a control, the answer is already there, timestamped and traceable.
Phase 06
The right people say yes
Four independent approvers (Architect, Assurance, Business Owner, Technical Owner) each review from their own lens. Approve, reject, or request changes with conditions that route the design back a phase. Risk acceptances are documented, and nothing reaches production without every stakeholder's timestamped sign-off. This is where governance becomes permanent record.
Risk intelligence
Not every project needs a fortress. The Business Impact Assessment scores risk across five dimensions, then automatically determines classification, control depth, and assurance requirements. The right security for the right risk, every time.
Business Impact Assessment
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Architecture canvas
Drag components onto an interactive canvas and watch security materialize. Every connection shows its protocol. Every node maps to its controls. Every data flow is visible, typed, and accounted for. This isn't a diagram, it's a living security model.
Control coverage
Controls live once, then cross-map across every standard they satisfy. Attest a control for SOC 2 and watch ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and PCI update with it.
NIST
ISO
Attestation
Sector & regional
the same requirement, scored once
one control rolls up into a broader one
a broad control covers several others
Approval gates
Four independent approvers, each with their own lens, their own decision, their own timestamp. This is where governance becomes permanent record.
Architecture reviewed. Controls verified.
Signed Feb 14, 2026 at 09:42
Pen tested. Scanned. Clean.
Signed Feb 18, 2026 at 14:15
Risk R-2847 accepted. Rationale documented.
Signed Feb 20, 2026 at 11:33
Load test results outstanding.
Awaiting since Feb 20, 2026
Secure by Design
Fixing a vulnerability in production costs 30× more than catching it at design time. Alvor gives your architects, engineers, and security team a shared workspace to review designs, model threats, and map controls before anything ships.