Playbook Security Architecture Review

Security Architecture Review

Objective

Review structural security properties of a design, platform, or workflow.

Inputs

• architecture diagrams or descriptions
• trust assumptions
• IAM, secrets, logging, network, and resilience context

SMEs involved

Typically security-architecture, with support from security-threat-modeling and security-qa.

Flow

1. intake and boundary identification
2. architecture review
3. control-gap analysis
4. risk prioritization
5. QA

Gates

• sufficient architecture context
• explicit trust boundaries
• QA pass on evidence and claims

Outputs

• design findings
• control recommendations
• tradeoffs and residual risk

Limitations

This playbook does not prove implementation correctness by itself.

Sanitized example

Review how secrets and audit boundaries are handled across a platform integration layer.