Architecture  ·  AI  ·  Security  ·  Identity

Stone by stone. Leave nothing to chance.

Security — from the first stone

A varde stands because every stone was placed with intent — so does an enterprise platform. Azure & M365 architecture, enterprise AI deployment, Zero Trust security, and identity automation.

01 / ARCHITECTURE

Azure & Microsoft 365

Enterprise-scale cloud foundations built deliberately — landing zones, governance, and platforms that age well.

02 / AI

Enterprise AI

AI deployed like infrastructure — architecture, governance, and guardrails that make it enterprise-ready, not experimental.

03 / SECURITY

Zero Trust by design

Assume breach, verify explicitly. Security woven into the architecture from day one, not bolted on after.

04 / IDENTITY

Identity automation

Lifecycle, entitlements, and access — automated so the right people have the right access, always.

Modules

Pick a stone, not the whole cairn.

Fixed-scope engagements that slot into what you already run. Each one stands alone; together they stack.

AI

AI landing zone

Private networking, identity, and logging around Azure OpenAI — before the first prompt.

2–4 wks
AI

Copilot data-boundary review

Oversharing, sensitivity labels, and SharePoint permissions — found before Copilot finds them.

1–2 wks
AI

Copilot pilot → production

Rings, success metrics, and the licence math behind a defensible rollout decision.

2–3 wks
AI

RAG pilot, on your tenant

Azure AI Search over your own documents, inside your own boundary. Working software, not slides.

3–5 wks
AI

Prompt & PII guardrails

DLP for AI — what may leave, what gets logged, what gets blocked.

1–2 wks
AI

Azure OpenAI cost & quota

Token quotas, chargeback tags, and budget alerts per workload — before finance asks.

1 wk
AI

AI usage policy & register

Who uses which model for what — written down, EU AI Act-shaped.

1 wk
Cloud & M365

Azure landing zone

CAF-aligned foundations — management groups, policy, hub networking, identity. Built to age well.

3–6 wks
Cloud & M365

Landing-zone health check

Drift, policy exceptions, and orphaned resources in an existing platform — mapped and remediated.

2 wks
Cloud & M365

Conditional Access hardening

The policy set rebuilt around personas and risk — with break-glass done properly.

1–2 wks
Cloud & M365

PIM & privileged access

Standing admin out; just-in-time, approved, audited access in.

1–2 wks
Cloud & M365

Identity lifecycle automation

Joiner, mover, leaver — wired from HR through Entra to every app that matters.

2–4 wks
Cloud & M365

Zero Trust assessment

Where the architecture actually stands — mapped, prioritised, no theatre.

2 wks
Cloud & M365

Governance as code

Azure Policy and Bicep/Terraform guardrails — versioned, reviewed, and deployed like software.

2–3 wks
Cloud & M365

Intune baseline

Compliance policies, hardening profiles, and update rings that hold under audit.

1–2 wks
Cloud & M365

Cost & Well-Architected review

Where the money leaks, and what the framework actually says to do about it.

1–2 wks
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