Structured Hardening Standard
The Structured Hardening Project (SHP) is a technical standard for defining, applying, verifying, and certifying bounded security postures.
SYSTEM / 01
SHP replaces informal collections of security tweaks with a structured model.
CONTROL MODEL / 02
SHP starts by defining what a system is being protected against.
Platform-specific threat models establish the adversaries, attack classes, assumptions, exclusions, and operational boundaries relevant to a certification target.
Controls are then defined against that scope.
Controls that cannot be verified do not provide a sufficient basis for SHP certification.
Explore the SHP StandardVERIFICATION / 03
Hardening and verification are separate operations.
SHP verification is designed to produce deterministic, structured, machine-readable results from observed system state.
Certification decisions are derived from verification output rather than informal judgement.
How Verification WorksCERTIFICATION / 04
A certification can therefore be independently examined without treating a badge or document as sufficient evidence by itself.
Understand SHP CertificationBOUNDARIES / 05
PLATFORM BOUNDARY
Hardening controls are not assumed to transfer safely between operating systems, device classes, or network platforms.
Each supported SHP platform requires its own defined scope, threat model, controls, verification behaviour, and certification rules.
No cross-platform certification equivalence is implied.
Explore PlatformsTIER BOUNDARY
SHP tiers represent defined security postures under platform-specific rules.
They are not marketing labels.
Non-Negotiable Controls act as hard certification gates. Where bounded certification is permitted, its exclusions and residual risk must remain explicit and it must never be represented as equivalent to full-tier certification.
Understand the Tier ModelAUTHORITY / 07
SHP is governed through versioned technical documents defining its architecture, mathematics, platform boundaries, threat models, controls, evidence, verification, and certification behaviour.