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Architecture Review & Technical Due Diligence
Before an investment, an acquisition, a major contract or a re-platforming decision, someone needs to say plainly whether the technology will carry what is being asked of it. We review the architecture, the delivery practice and the security posture, and report what is sound, what is at risk and what it would take to fix.
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Who it is for
Investors and acquirers, boards, and CTOs or programme leads who need an independent view before a decision.
What is included
- Architecture review: structure, dependencies, scalability and single points of failure
- Security and compliance posture
- Resilience, disaster recovery and operational maturity
- Delivery practice: pipelines, testing, release and change control
- Cloud cost and efficiency
- Team, knowledge and key-person risk
What you get
- A written report with a red, amber and green view by area
- Risks ranked by impact, with the cost and effort to address each
- A briefing for the decision makers
Findings are confidential to you. We review under a non-disclosure agreement and publish nothing about the systems we see.
Why Cipherer
- Principal-led. The person who scopes the work does the work, with no hand-off to a junior team.
- SC-cleared principal consultant (National Security Vetting), and a Cyber Essentials certified company.
- Seventeen years of delivery across government, healthcare, banking and Web3, including an organisation-wide cyber security programme for the Scottish Government.
- Security by design in everything we build and run, from a community website to a bank's data platform.
- One partner from advice to operation, based in Scotland and working across the UK.
Every engagement starts with a short call to agree scope, then a written proposal setting out deliverables, timeline and price.