What leadership can act on
Approve the design, approve it with conditions, redesign material elements, or defer until the required evidence exists.
Product
Secure Design Decision Record
Turn a security decision into a target design the team can implement and verify.
What you receive
A target design with testable requirements and proof criteria.
Records current and target architecture, material tradeoffs, testable requirements, implementation conditions, sequencing, exceptions, and validation gates.
Created through
Created through Secure Design Review or when another service requires a formal target-design decision.
What it contains
- Current and target architecture, trust boundaries, identity, authorization, data flow, dependencies, failure, recovery, and operating constraints.
- Material tradeoffs, testable security requirements, implementation conditions, sequencing, owners, exceptions, acceptance criteria, and validation gates.
Format and use
A reviewed design record that keeps design authority, implementation status, validation result, and residual risk distinct and traceable.
The record applies to the agreed design and operating assumptions. It is not production approval or proof of implementation.