Secure by Design
Designed in, not bolted on.
Most teams discover security gaps right before production - or worse, right after. Alvor embeds security into every architectural decision from day one, so you ship with confidence instead of crossing your fingers.
The process
From first assessment
to production sign-off
Six phases. Each has defined inputs, role-based gates, and an immutable event trail. Nothing skips a step.
Phase 01
Classify & Assess
Know what you're building
Every project starts with a question: how much security does this actually need? The Business Impact Assessment scores risk across five dimensions - operational, financial, reputational, legal, and health & safety - then automatically classifies the project and determines everything downstream: control depth, assurance requirements, and who needs to approve.
Phase 02
Design the Architecture
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
Map Controls
Map once, comply everywhere
NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, SOC 2 - stop mapping the same control to four different spreadsheets. Controls are assigned to architecture components automatically based on classification, cross-mapped across frameworks, and tailored to your specific cloud provider and technology stack. One control satisfies every standard it touches.
Phase 04
Model Threats
See the attack surface
Every component in your architecture has an attack surface. Alvor maps threats directly to the components they target - STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK, and your own custom catalogs - with mitigations linked to the controls that address them. Threats stay connected to the architecture, not buried in a separate document nobody opens.
Phase 05
Test & Prove
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. When the auditor asks how you verified a control, the answer is already there, timestamped and traceable.
Phase 06
Approve & Ship
The right people say yes
Four independent approvers - Architect, Assurance, Business Owner, Technical Owner - each review from their own lens. Conditional approvals, risk acceptances, and full audit trails. Nothing reaches production without every stakeholder's documented, timestamped sign-off. This is where governance becomes permanent record.
Risk intelligence
How much security does this project actually need?
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
Your architecture, with security built into every line
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.
Approval gates
Nothing ships without the right people saying yes
Four independent approvers - each with their own lens, their own decision, their own timestamp. This is where governance becomes permanent record.
Architect
Architecture reviewed. Controls verified.
Signed Feb 14, 2026 at 09:42
Assurance
Pen tested. Scanned. Clean.
Signed Feb 18, 2026 at 14:15
Business Owner
Risk R-2847 accepted. Rationale documented.
Signed Feb 20, 2026 at 11:33
Technical Owner
Load test results outstanding.
Awaiting since Feb 20, 2026
Secure by Design
Security that starts at the architecture layer, not the alert layer
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.