Start with the real risk.
Understand the business and what it needs to protect. Make the trade-offs explicit before choosing the technology.
About / Aliaksei Brusiantsou
I’m Aliaksei, a security architect with 15+ years in the space between enterprise risk and hands-on engineering.
I’ve worked across energy services, banking, government digital platforms and global IT services. The environments change; the work is always about helping people make good security decisions and carry them through.
That has meant designing Zero Trust for a large hybrid estate, building a vulnerability management programme, shaping a bank’s move to Azure, and leading a security R&D and deployment team of 24.
Explore the workHow I work
Principles for the work.
And for the people doing it.
Understand the business and what it needs to protect. Make the trade-offs explicit before choosing the technology.
A control needs to fit the way people deliver and operate a product. Design for the team that will live with the decision.
Good architecture gives engineers, leaders and auditors a common language. Explain the decision as carefully as the design.
Create repeatable workflows, clear ownership and useful evidence. Help the team keep improving after the engagement.
Professional foundation
Architecture, information security, cloud security, assurance and privacy.
Across environments
Energy, banking and public services bring different constraints. I’m interested in the decisions beneath them: what matters to the organisation, how people work, and what makes a control useful in practice.
That is the thread connecting the case studies here and the notes in my notebook.
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Have a security challenge, an interesting role, or a different perspective?
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