EXPERTISE
Engineering depth across safety, security and evidence.
Pictor works where system safety, product security and embedded architecture meet — in programmes where decisions must hold up to review years after they were taken.
- System safety
- Product security
- Embedded architecture
- Assurance evidence
DOMAINS
Four areas that reinforce each other.
Engagements normally touch more than one. Keeping them connected is what makes the evidence hold together.
01
Safety-critical systems
Hazard-driven engineering for systems where failure has physical consequences.
- Hazard analysis and risk management as a continuous activity
- Fail-safe strategies and degraded-mode behaviour
- Safety requirements connected to verification and acceptance
- Independent review of a safety argument before it meets a customer
02
Product security and CRA
Cybersecurity treated as a lifecycle obligation, not a release checklist.
- Product scope, classification and economic-operator role
- Secure development lifecycle mapped to real engineering activities
- Vulnerability intake, triage, disclosure and reporting
- SBOM and component governance across suppliers
03
Embedded and distributed architecture
Architecture decisions in high-availability, resource-constrained and networked systems.
- Distributed and cooperating system behaviour
- Availability, latency and reliability requirements
- Interface and supplier boundaries with clear ownership
- Architecture decision records that outlive the project team
04
Assurance and traceability
The connective tissue that turns engineering work into defensible evidence.
- Traceability from scope through risk, architecture and verification
- Technical documentation and evidence maps
- Review, audit and customer-scrutiny preparation
- Governance cadence that keeps evidence current
SECTORS
Where the work happens.
- Defence
- Programme-driven safety work with demanding documentation, review and customer requirements.
- Telecom
- High-availability distributed systems, network products and connected infrastructure.
- Industry
- Industrial and connected equipment where safety, security and uptime are inseparable.
- Research programmes
- Applied collaboration with universities, institutes and industrial partners on assurance and modelling.
METHODS
Established practice, adapted to your product.
Methods are chosen for the programme in front of us — never applied as a template without context.
- MIL-STD-882E-aligned system safety practice
- Preliminary, system and operating & support hazard analysis
- Risk registers with named owners and verification links
- Threat modelling and product cybersecurity risk assessment
- Requirements and verification traceability structures
- Architecture decision records and design rationale
- Model-based and blended modelling approaches
- Assurance-case thinking applied to industrial evidence
QUESTIONS
How Pictor engages.
NEXT STEP
Put senior engineering judgement on the problem.
Tell us what has to hold up under review and we will suggest the right scope.