Zero Trust Workshops & Consulting Services

Zero Trust Workshops & Consulting

With new, dynamic threats and rapidly changing environments, more organizations are considering a Zero Trust security model to “never trust, always verify.” Through our comprehensive consulting workshops, we can help guide your organization on its journey to Zero Trust adoption.

Establish Your Roadmap for Zero Trust Adoption

A Zero Trust security model is an end-to-end strategy around least-privilege that involves integrating identity, infrastructure, monitoring, analytics, and automation. While it is all-encompassing, it does not require an entire re-architecture. Our Zero Trust workshops are designed to facilitate your journey through iterative, manageable steps to:

Understand your current maturity level and enhance your Zero Trust transformation
Drive the adoption of critical capabilities in interactive steps
Optimize existing controls to align with your organization’s goals for reducing risk

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Zero Trust Starts with the
Three Key Pillars

Our cybersecurity practitioners help you methodically address the three pillars of a Zero Trust security model that adheres to your environment and initiatives. We’re here to accelerate your Zero Trust adoption by working with you to understand your inventory of business assets; configure your access management, IGA, and PAM solutions; ensure you have the necessary visibility into your network and application traffic; and optimize, centralize, and automate your policies – all without re-architecting your entire network.

Trust and Identity

Verify the identity of devices, users, locations, and time of day
Understand your current security posture
Define business roles and functions (and employees vs. contractors)

Policy Enforcement

Centrally manage and automate security policy enforcement
Centrally enforce network access policy
Leverage identity in the access policy
Govern client-server and server-server access policy

Visibility and Monitoring

Understand application and traffic profiles
Design and validate access policies
Detect abnormal traffic or policy violations
Have visibility over homegrown applications

Gain the Benefits of Adopting a Zero Trust Security Model

Zero Trust principles not only provide a model for improving your cybersecurity posture, but they also help improve your business agility. By implementing a Zero Trust strategy, you can:

Gain comprehensive visibility across your enterprise
Secure workloads and assets in cloud and on-premise
Reduce the scope and cost of compliance
Enable digital transformation
Adopt a model of “Least Privilege” security model for users, devices, identity, network, and data
Provide a superior end-user experience
Facilitate support for cloud migration efforts

Our security consultants lead Zero Trust Workshops to help you efficiently adopt the core principles through a consumable, iterative process that develops and aligns use cases to your environment and maturity.

Network Access

Organizations with rapidly expanding mobile workforces need to access data and resources hosted in public and private clouds. In these scenarios, organizations should consider a ”least-privilege access model.” Our team of Zero Trust experts leverages a defined framework to establish business requirements for the mobile workforce’s secure access to organizational assets – regardless of where they are located.

We work with you to:

Ensure strong identity and enforcement capabilities are tightly integrated with existing security tools and processes
Develop various Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) use cases, determine what controls are already in place or need to be implemented to meet the business requirements for each case
Integrate and optimize services to design, implement and support ZTNA use cases

Identity & Access Management

With the traditional network perimeter dissipating, Identity & Access Management has become a top priority for authentication and authorization.

We work with you to:

Conduct a rigorous review of your environment
Provide a roadmap for implementing and optimizing the three pillars of IAM: Identity Governance and Administration, Access Management, and Privileged Account Management
Understand your unique use cases, roles, and policies to select the best-fit solutions, zero trust technologies, and perimeterless security that meets your business requirements

Cloud Micro-Segmentation

Cloud environments are flat by default and require additional workload separation to limit lateral movement and reduce the impact of a breach. Many cloud security designs include macro-segmentation because it is difficult to achieve true micro-segmentation without full automation.

We work with you to:

Classify and segment cloud workloads based on business function
Reduce your attack surface by implementing workload segmentation, where only those ports/protocols that are required for operation are permitted
Automate security policies to ease the deployment of new workloads into a secured environment

Monitoring and Visibility

Simply implementing controls and walking away isn’t enough. Continued monitoring and visibility are necessary to ensure that the policies and tools you’ve created as part of your Zero Trust plan are working as expected.

We work with you to:

Develop content libraries for monitoring Zero Trust environments
Configure appropriate alarms and notifications in Zero Trust tools
Build automation and orchestration around Zero Trust use cases

Getting Started with Zero Trust:
Our Workshop Methodology

When it comes to Zero Trust, there are many questions that you must be able to answer to ensure that you’ll achieve the desired results. Our workshops employ a proven 5-phased approach built upon our three pillars of the Zero Trust security model that is highly customized to meet your specific requirements and environmental challenges:

Discover

In this initial phase, we identify key stakeholders in your organization, review your Zero Trust business drivers, capture the relevant use cases and requirements, and review your existing security architecture.

Assess

Assessment of your environment includes identifying high value assets and determining your classification policy, conducting a gap analysis between your Zero Trust use cases and your existing security architecture, determining success criteria and developing a Zero Trust roadmap.

Design

This phase of the workshop includes selecting best-fit technologies for your environment and requirements, remediating identified gaps from the Assess phase, conducting a detailed design document and securing proper sign off, reviewing and updating the roadmap and updating the Zero Trust desired business outcomes.

Build

In the “build” phase, we work with you to develop Zero Trust configuration policies, test and validate those policies in pilot groups, document the exception process and perform final policy tuning, roll out the Zero Trust policy and provide next day support.

Maintain

Once we have your zero trust environment set up, we help you ensure it is maintained over time by providing knowledge transfer and operational training, exception and change remediation training, configuration and device management procedures, quarterly health checks and best practice assessments, and violation monitoring tuning.

Who Can Our Zero Trust Consulting Services Help?

Our zero trust workshops and services, while beneficial for pretty much any organization, are particularly useful for those charged with safeguarding infrastructure deployment models that include SaaS applications, unmanaged devices, legacy systems, and multi-identity and/or multi-cloud environments.

Through our workshops and training services, your team will:

Gain a better understanding of how risk-based conditional access ensures that interruptions to your workflows only occur in the event that your risk levels become elevated
How zero trust provides your team with a time buffer to respond to data breaches by limiting credential scopes and access paths that threat actors can use to compromise your network
How to stop the real-world data breaches that occur in modern IT environments for any endpoint, identity, workload, or data

It is no longer feasible for security teams to manage terabytes of data, different pieces of hardware or software applications, and threat feeds while still attempting to achieve superior zero trust — our workshops will educate you on how to decrease costs and security complexity while protecting against and remediating security threats.

Customized to Your Needs

It’s important that zero trust training and workshops are customized to meet your organization’s specific security needs. We assume the approach of a trusted advisor who intimately understands your cybersecurity posture and ecosystem to offer zero trust consulting services that fit your unique goals and business challenges.

Our zero trust consulting services consider the gaps and vulnerabilities that are present in your current environment(s). At the end of your training, you will be ready to eliminate implicit trust, ensure that both your on-site and remote employees can still benefit from a consistent experience, and meet your journey toward superior zero trust head-on with the help of security services that grant you inline security monitoring and universally composable.