Zero Trust Engineering — Architecture conformance and technical verification

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Capability definition and hierarchyarchimate
Operational activity sequencesecurity
Exception and recovery activity sequencesecurity
Conformant decision branchsecurity
Denied, conditional or degraded branchsecurity
Identity-scoped information exchangec4
Context and decision inputsecurity
Policy authority and evaluationsecurity
Decision distribution and resource mediationsecurity
Enforcement decision evidencesecurity
Policy ownershiparchimate
Security control and protected resourcesecurity
Control and failure risksecurity
Conformance obligationarchimate
Capability assurancearchimate
Resource trust boundarysecurity
Activity-to-capability realizationarchimate
Logical service capability realizationarchimate
Assurance evidence collectionsecurity
Independent finding verificationsecurity
Finding-to-response processsecurity

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Governance and assurance engineering reference for architecture conformance and technical verification, including policy, logical interfaces, recovery and assurance.

Purpose: Architecture conformance and technical verification. Domain: Governance and assurance. Family: assurance. Scenario trigger: Assess deployed resource against reference security architecture. Input assurance: Design invariants, configuration evidence and scenario tests. Evaluation: Compare observed enforcement with documented reference obligations. Governing policy: Architecture verification test and conformance review policy. Resource-side obligation: Publish verified deviations and gated acceptance status. Protected concern: Enterprise security architecture conformance record. Logical interface: Model requirement implementation test expectation and result. Evidence: Conformance scenario results deviations and auditor evidence. Failure: Passed diagram review despite failed negative-path test. Required recovery: Reject reference-ready status and remediate failed scenario. Architectural invariant: Architectural conformance requires observable behavior and negative tests Adoption: replace reference roles with concrete owner-controlled services. Specify exact provider/consumer identities, schema fields and classifications, signal provenance and freshness, idempotency, authorization lifetime, timeout/retry limits, observation and tamper evidence. A denied or failed operation must not silently become a permitted one. Scope: original vendor-neutral, implementation-agnostic technical reference model. Illustrative logical components and behaviors are neither a deployed system nor evidence of regulatory compliance. Package identities remain stable within the package; cross-package semantic reconciliation requires separate explicit registry support.

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Capability
Governance and assurance, Architecture conformance and technical verification
Role
Governance and assurance owner
Business Actor
Security telemetry or evidence producer
Activity
Assess deployed resource against reference security architecture, Verify: Design invariants, configuration evidence and scenario tests, Assess: Compare observed enforcement with documented reference obligations, Execute: Publish verified deviations and gated acceptance status, Exception: Passed diagram review despite failed negative-path test, Recover: Reject reference-ready status and remediate failed scenario, Verify and disposition finding
Application Component
Design invariants, configuration evidence and scenario tests, Compare observed enforcement with documented reference obligations, Publish verified deviations and gated acceptance status, Authenticated observation source, Detection and evidence correlation
Application
Enterprise security architecture conformance record
Policy
Architecture verification test and conformance review policy
API
Architecture conformance and technical verification logical interface
Message/Event Schema
Model requirement implementation test expectation and result
Data Store
Conformance scenario results deviations and auditor evidence, Versioned technical finding
Control
Architecture conformance and technical verification enforcement assurance
Risk
Passed diagram review despite failed negative-path test risk
Requirement
Architectural conformance requires observable behavior and negative tests
Measure
Architecture conformance and technical verification assurance completeness
Trust Boundary
Architecture conformance and technical verification authority boundary
State
Control condition verified, Control gap or untrusted signal