Engagement Model
Selective collaboration for high-assurance infrastructure programs
Engagements are structured for institutions with material reliability and security obligations. STIGNING prioritizes depth, architectural clarity, and sustained delivery ownership.
Structure
Collaboration model
- Qualification: Initial review of system criticality, current architecture maturity, stakeholder readiness, and threat exposure profile.
- Architecture Baseline: Constraint mapping, risk analysis, protocol and infrastructure assessment, and scoped engineering roadmap definition.
- Implementation Program: Targeted engineering delivery for protocol, security, reliability, and operational hardening milestones.
- Assurance and Transition: Verification, operational readiness, documentation transfer, and long-term sustainability planning.
Admission
Selectivity criteria
- Security criticality and infrastructure consequence profile.
- Clear technical ownership and decision authority.
- Alignment on long-term operational maintenance responsibility.
- Ability to support disciplined architecture and verification workflows.
Scope
Accepted engagement types
- Architecture advisory and threat-surface assessments.
- Protocol and distributed system hardening initiatives.
- Post-quantum migration planning and execution programs.
- Long-term infrastructure resilience partnerships.