Zero Trust & Identity
Identity-first access control that retires the flat network and the standing VPN — every request authenticated, authorised, and logged against the device and person behind it.
Discuss This ServiceThe network perimeter stopped being a meaningful boundary the moment your staff started working from home and your workloads started talking to services you do not host. Identity is the perimeter now, whether or not it has been treated as one.
The flat network and the standing VPN
Traditional access control assumes that being inside the network implies trust. In practice, one phished credential or one compromised laptop puts an attacker inside that boundary, where lateral movement is largely unmonitored and access is broad by default.
Zero Trust replaces that assumption with a simple rule: every request is authenticated and authorised against the identity and device behind it, every time, with no implicit trust granted by network location.
What's Included
Identity consolidation
One authoritative identity provider with single sign-on, ending the scattered local accounts and shared logins that never appear in an offboarding checklist.
Phishing-resistant MFA
Rollout of authentication that survives a convincing phishing page — hardware keys or platform authenticators rather than SMS codes.
Conditional access
Policies that weigh user, device posture, location, and risk signals at each request, so unusual access is challenged or blocked automatically.
Privileged access management
Standing administrative rights replaced with just-in-time elevation that is time-boxed, approved, and logged in full.
VPN replacement
Application-level access that publishes individual services to authorised users, rather than dropping devices onto a network segment and hoping for the best.
Device trust
Posture checks — encryption, patch level, endpoint protection — enforced as a condition of access rather than assumed from asset inventory.
Common Questions
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Ask a QuestionWill this disrupt our staff?
Handled properly, most people notice fewer prompts, not more — single sign-on removes passwords they used to juggle. We roll out by group with a pilot cohort first, so friction is found on twenty people rather than four hundred.
What about legacy applications?
Older applications that cannot speak modern authentication sit behind an access proxy, which gives them the same conditional access and logging without modifying the application itself.
Is this a rip-and-replace project?
No. It runs in phases — identity consolidation, then MFA, then conditional access, then privileged access — each delivering value on its own. Nothing requires committing to the whole programme up front.
Find Out What's Exposed Before Someone Else Does
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