Application Security Architecture Review

Fix risks at the design stage

Architecture Reviews That Improve Security—And Clarity

Most critical issues start as design choices: permissive trust between services, muddled authorization, unclear data ownership, or fragile secrets handling. Forgepath reads your system like an attacker and a builder—charting trust boundaries, inspecting identity and session models, testing assumptions in service interactions, and pressure-testing how data moves, is protected, and is observed

We focus on what drives impact: authorization by design (roles/attributes, resource scoping, multi-tenant isolation), token lifecycles, API and event contracts, data classification and encryption strategy, secrets/keys management, and CI/CD guardrails. You get decisions and patterns your teams can implement—backed by sequence diagrams and reference snippets. Each engagement culminates in a working session and follow-up checkpoint to validate progress and lock in improvements.

Focus On What Matters

Inside Your Application Security Architecture Review

We model your system, evaluate identity and data flows, and specify patterns that close real attack paths. Where appropriate, we validate key assumptions with targeted tests—so design changes come with confidence.

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We build a concise model of how the system works and where it can break.

What we do: map services, APIs, queues/events, data stores, identities, and external integrations; mark trust boundaries and threat agents.
How we do it: lightweight diagrams (context + sequence), DFDs for sensitive flows, abuse-case inventory tied to business actions.
Output: prioritized attack paths and the design decisions that will neutralize them.

Authorization is an architecture, not a toggle.

What we do: assess identity providers, token formats (JWT/opaque), session rotation/invalidations, and authZ models (RBAC/ABAC/reBAC).
How we do it: simulate cross-tenant/object access (BOLA/BFLA), analyze admin/function boundaries, review consent/impersonation flows.
Output: reference patterns (policy enforcement points, claims design, resource scoping) and examples per framework.

Reduce blast radius and make misuse noisy.

What we do: classify data, trace where it travels, and examine crypto strategy (KMS/HSM, key rotation, envelope encryption, tokenization).
How we do it: validate storage/network protections, link retention and redaction to privacy needs, inspect secret lifecycles (build/runtime).
Output: data-at-rest/in-transit patterns, key and secret rotation plans, and observability for sensitive actions.

Interfaces are contracts—secure them like it.

What we do: review API schemas (REST/GraphQL/gRPC), gateway policies, rate-limit/quotas, message semantics, and idempotency.
How we do it: check input/serialization boundaries, service-to-service trust, replay/race windows, and event spoofing/poisoning risks.
Output: hardened contracts (validation, authZ hooks, safe defaults), and gateway/policy examples ready to adopt.

Keep secure design intact from build to prod.

What we do: assess CI/CD trust (artifact signing, SBOM, provenance), image/base selection, runtime isolation, and configuration hygiene.
How we do it: map who can change what, where controls live (policy-as-code), and what detections prove guardrails hold.
Output: pipeline checks, deployment policies, and runtime controls that preserve design intent.

Why teams choose Forgepath

Key Benefits You Can Expect

Clear Design Decisions

Concise, defensible choices—what to adopt, what to deprecate, and how to stage change without breakage.

Stronger Authorization by Design

Role/attribute models, resource scoping, and enforcement points that eliminate common authZ flaws.

Data Protection by Default

Practical patterns for classification, encryption, keys, and secrets that shrink blast radius.

Fewer High-Severity Flaws Later

Design changes that prevent BOLA/BFLA, logic abuse, and misconfig exposures before code ships.

Guardrails Teams Reuse

Drop-in examples, gateway/policy rules, and CI/CD checks that keep secure design in place.

Executive-Ready Roadmap

Prioritized actions with owners, sequencing, and acceptance criteria—easy to track quarter to quarter.

Cloud Systems & Security Manager

Zero.health

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on our network and app security tests.
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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on both our network penetration test and application security assessment.

When a critical customer need arose, they quickly adjusted their schedule to meet our urgent timeline without compromising quality.

Their technical expertise, clear guidance, and hands-on remediation support helped us meet our EOY goals efficiently.

We were especially impressed by their flexibility, responsiveness, and professionalism throughout the process.

Chief Executive Officer

parsysco.com

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner.
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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner to Parsysco. They took the time to understand our requirements and how things were working with our previous provider.

We were impressed by how quickly they formulated a new strategy and approach. They helped us identify our challenges and consistently brought forward solutions that were in Parsysco’s best interest.

Most vendors only care about selling something, Forgepath took the personal relationship and partnership approach that we value greatly.

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Make Secure Design the Default

Start with your most critical service or integration. We’ll deliver clear design decisions, secure patterns, and a follow-up checkpoint to confirm progress.

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