Zero-Trust Readiness Review
Architectural assessment of identity verification, micro-segmentation, device posture verification, and encrypted interconnects.
Why This Audit Exists
Traditional corporate networks rely on the "castle-and-moat" model: once a user connects via VPN, they have broad lateral access to the entire internal network. If a single employee device is compromised, attackers can move laterally to domain controllers and sensitive databases.
Zero-Trust reverses this assumption: never trust, always verify. Every request must be authenticated, authorized, and encrypted based on user identity, device health, and context. This audit evaluates your current architecture and builds an achievable technical roadmap to transition to zero-trust without disrupting employee productivity.
What Is Inspected (Scope)
1. Identity & Access Management (IAM) Foundation
Review of single sign-on (SSO), conditional access policies, phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2/WebAuthn), and session lifetime controls.
2. Device Posture & Endpoint Trust Verification
Assessment of device compliance checks (disk encryption, EDR agent presence, OS patch level) required before granting network access.
3. Network Segmentation & Micro-Perimeters
Inspection of internal network zoning, evaluation of VPN replacement solutions (Software-Defined Perimeters, WireGuard/Tailscale meshes), and service-to-service mTLS.
4. Application & Data Layer Access Control
Decomposition of legacy web apps behind modern reverse proxies with identity-aware authentication headers and granular RBAC.
What Is Excluded
This assessment delivers architectural evaluation, readiness scoring, and a sequenced implementation blueprint. Deploying corporate-wide MDM software or migrating thousands of client devices is scoped under subsequent engineering execution phases.
Deliverables Included:
- ✔ Executive Summary
- ✔ Zero-Trust Maturity & Architecture Matrix
- ✔ Identity & Network Segmentation Findings
- ✔ Target Architecture Blueprints
- ✔ 90-Day Action Plan
- ✔ 60-Minute Senior Engineer Debrief