How Ascot Group Standardized Security Design Reviews with Seezo
How Ascot Group used Seezo to standardize security design reviews and achieve consistent outcomes at scale.
About Ascot
Ascot Group is a global specialty insurance and reinsurance company providing risk solutions across financial lines, specialty lines, marine, cyber, casualty, and other sectors. Raj leads cybersecurity architecture and engineering, with responsibility for driving consistent and effective security programs across the organization.
The Challenge
Ascot needed a more scalable and consistent approach to security design reviews.
Security teams were spending hours manually reviewing architecture documentation, mapping components, data flows, and trust boundaries before any real risk assessment could begin. The process was time-consuming and reviewer-dependent, making consistent outcomes across projects, teams, and regions difficult to guarantee.
For a global insurance and reinsurance business, that variability wasn't acceptable and it was limiting their ability to scale security oversight as the organization grew.
Ascot briefly considered building an internal solution. But once the team understood the development timeline involved and the maintenance overhead they'd inherit, those conversations ended quickly. A purpose-built solution was already available. It didn't make sense to divert their resources.
The Solution
Ascot integrated Seezo into its security design review process to automate the analysis of architecture and design documentation. Seezo identifies system components, trust boundaries, and data flows, reducing the manual effort required to prepare assessments and allowing security teams to focus on validating findings, evaluating risks, and providing actionable guidance.
The platform also introduced a consistent review framework across the organization, enabling broader participation in security reviews while ensuring every assessment follows the same standard, regardless of reviewer or location.
With a structured and repeatable process in place, more people across Ascot can contribute to and collaborate on security. The organization now has confidence that every review meets the same standard, supported by a security review process that can scale alongside the business.
The Impact
Significantly reduced review preparation time
Work that previously took hours of manual effort to compile can now be completed in a fraction of the time, allowing security teams to focus on reviewing findings, assessing risks, and making better decisions.
Consistent review quality
Every security design review follows the same standard, regardless of reviewer or location, ensuring consistency across a global organization operating in multiple jurisdictions.Broader security collaboration
A structured and repeatable process enables more people across Ascot to participate in and contribute to security reviews, improving collaboration and shared ownership.Scalable security reviews
With a standardized review framework in place, Ascot can support business growth while maintaining the same level of rigor, consistency, and confidence across every assessment.
Why It Matters
Ascot’s goal was clear: ensure every security design review met the same standard, regardless of reviewer or location. With Seezo, they achieved consistent, scalable reviews while giving their security team more time to focus on meaningful risk analysis.
About Seezo
Seezo automates security design reviews by analyzing design documents and PRDs from tools like Confluence, Google Docs, SharePoint, Jira, or ServiceNow. It extracts components, data flows, and trust boundaries, generates threat model artifacts, and delivers context-specific security findings directly into Jira tickets, Slack messages, Linear, or Google Doc comments, where developers already work. Seezo integrates with your coding conventions, understands your internal terminology, and maps rules to your actual risk profile.
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