Zero Trust Architecture
AHEAD’s CISA-aligned Zero Trust methodology drives your security posture from the ground up, with expertise in identity, network, cloud, data, and infrastructure for both IT and OT environments.
Practical Zero Trust Design for a Healthcare Organization
A large nonprofit healthcare organization engaged AHEAD after being directed by the Office of Inspector General to improve cybersecurity for 28 critical applications and pursue a Zero Trust Architecture. AHEAD began with a CISA‑aligned maturity assessment across identity, devices, network, applications, and data, then worked with security and IT leaders to build a multi‑year Zero Trust roadmap that leveraged existing investments rather than starting from scratch. Within three years, the organization is on track to meet its audit requirements and desired Zero Trust posture, with clearer policies, reduced attack surface, and a stronger, more measurable cyber resilience program.
What are the Barriers to Zero Trust Architecture?
What Zero Trust Architecture Design Services Does AHEAD Offer?
Network Security
With emerging technologies like AI, the attack surface of your organization is ever-expanding. Our teams can help smoothly procure for, design, and implement complex projects in IT, OT and IoT security.
Our network experts can help design and implement all things network security, from NextGen Firewalls to Network Access Controls to complex micro and macro segmentation.
AHEAD has an opinionated multi-cloud networking reference architecture to assess network maturity based on resilient connectivity, secure edge, consistent experience, advanced security, comprehensive NetSecOps, and automation.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
AHEAD helps organizations develop, plan, and execute multi-year, cross-domain SASE adoption strategies.
Consolidate your SASE products (DLP, SDWAN, FWaaS, CASB and more) into a single, fully integrated cloud-native platform, while creating a modern end user experience for your distributed workforce.
Reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your systems without the headache. AHEAD’s SASE solution lets you create centralized and modernized access policies while also defining and enforcing strict, granular access controls.
Cloud Security
No matter your public cloud of choice, we offer assessments that test your current cloud security posture for your AWS, GCP, Azure, or O365 platforms.
Simplify and modernize your cloud security operations through consolidations of core tools like CIEM, CWPP, CSPM, DSPM, SSPM and more.
Through our teams, create centralized, cross-cloud security posture governance and rigorous SecOps processes for prioritized findings with bi-directional integration.
Identity Access and Management (IAM)
Control who has access to organizational data, and when. Manage user account additions, changes, and removals for enterprise-wide applications leveraging IAM tools and automation.
Utilizing a suite of access management tools and Multi-Factor Authentication, give only the required privileges for users to complete necessary work.
AHEAD helps you your security architecture, helping you inspect and log all activities to keep security policies in check.
Developing a Zero Trust Maturity Roadmap
Learn more about AHEAD's holistic approach to zero trust and the architectural strategy required to enable it.
Read ArticleWhy AHEAD for Zero Trust Security Architecture Design Services?
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Vendor‑Agnostic, Framework-Aligned Approach
AHEAD treats Zero Trust as a philosophy and architecture, anchoring every engagement to CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model and NIST 800‑207, then designing policies and architectures across identity, network, cloud, data, and workloads before selecting or reusing tools to support that design.
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Cross-Domain Expertise
AHEAD goes far beyond simply implementing security tools. Our technical experts secure platforms across network, data center, cloud, data, AI, and hybrid environments, taking the outputs of each tool to strengthen your overall security posture across all your environments.
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Deep Industry Experience
AHEAD has worked with some of the largest organizations across industries such as healthcare, retail, manufacturing, aerospace, oil and gas, and financial institutions, providing our customers with a solid security posture and the confidence that they can recover in the unfortunate event of an attack.
