Zero Trust Architecture & Design
Fortura’s Zero Trust Architecture & Design service helps organisations design security architectures that reduce implicit trust, limit blast radius, and align access decisions to identity, context, and risk.
Zero Trust is often misunderstood as a product or a destination.
In practice, many organisations adopt Zero Trust terminology while retaining legacy trust assumptions embedded in networks, identities, and application access. This results in fragmented controls, inconsistent enforcement, and limited risk reduction.
Effective Zero Trust design is not about adding tools — it’s about restructuring trust, informed by how users, systems, and attackers actually interact with your environment
Reduce implicit trust across networks, identities, and applications
Improve access control consistency and enforcement
Limit lateral movement and blast radius during compromise
Align Zero Trust initiatives to business priorities and constraints
Create a practical roadmap for phased Zero Trust adoption
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Network-based trust models and identity complexity require a phased, realistic Zero Trust roadmap aligned to business priorities and operational constraints.
Clarify Zero Trust Strategy
Zero Trust is a strategic objective but lacks clarity or direction
Zero Trust is a strategic objective but lacks clarity or direction
Existing architectures rely heavily on network-based trust
Streamline Security Controls
Identity sprawl and access complexity have increased risk
Security controls feel fragmented or overlapping
Security controls feel fragmented or overlapping
Manage Identity & Access Risk
Leadership needs a clear, realistic Zero Trust roadmap
Clarify Zero Trust Strategy
Zero Trust is a strategic objective but lacks clarity or direction
Zero Trust is a strategic objective but lacks clarity or direction
Existing architectures rely heavily on network-based trust
Streamline Security Controls
Identity sprawl and access complexity have increased risk
Security controls feel fragmented or overlapping
Security controls feel fragmented or overlapping
Manage Identity & Access Risk
Leadership needs a clear, realistic Zero Trust roadmap
Clarify Zero Trust Strategy
Zero Trust is a strategic objective but lacks clarity or direction
Zero Trust is a strategic objective but lacks clarity or direction
Existing architectures rely heavily on network-based trust
Streamline Security Controls
Identity sprawl and access complexity have increased risk
Security controls feel fragmented or overlapping
Security controls feel fragmented or overlapping
Manage Identity & Access Risk
Leadership needs a clear, realistic Zero Trust roadmap
This delivery area focuses on practical outcomes, clear prioritisation, and evidence you can use with technical and business stakeholders.
What this can include
Define scope and objectives
01
Confirm business drivers, risk priorities, and architectural constraints.
Analyse trust relationships
02
Identify where implicit trust exists across users, systems, and services.
Assess exposure and attack paths
03
Evaluate how trust assumptions could be exploited.
Design target-state architecture
04
Define Zero Trust-aligned access and control patterns.
Develop transition roadmap
05
Create a phased plan aligned to risk reduction and practicality.
Support decision-making
06
Provide guidance to inform investment and implementation choices.
Define scope and objectives
01
Confirm business drivers, risk priorities, and architectural constraints.
Analyse trust relationships
02
Identify where implicit trust exists across users, systems, and services.
Assess exposure and attack paths
03
Evaluate how trust assumptions could be exploited.
Design target-state architecture
04
Define Zero Trust-aligned access and control patterns.
Develop transition roadmap
05
Create a phased plan aligned to risk reduction and practicality.
Support decision-making
06
Provide guidance to inform investment and implementation choices.
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