Zero Trust Architecture Design
Move beyond the old castle-and-moat model to 'never trust, always verify'. We design a pragmatic Zero Trust architecture for your organisation — identity-centric, least-privilege and staged so it's achievable, not aspirational.
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Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
What's covered
- Zero Trust maturity assessment against your current state
- Identity-centric access architecture design
- Micro-segmentation and least-privilege strategy
- Device trust and conditional-access design
- Phased, prioritised implementation roadmap
- Alignment to recognised Zero Trust frameworks
What you receive
- Zero Trust maturity assessment
- Target-state architecture and design
- Phased implementation roadmap
- Reference diagrams and policy patterns
- Executive briefing
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Advisory and design engagement
- Implementation delivered by your teams or a separate engagement
- Depends on accurate input on your current environment
- Not a single product purchase — an architectural approach
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Is Zero Trust a product we buy?
- No — it's an architecture and a set of principles. We design a practical path using tools you likely already have, sequenced so each phase delivers value rather than a risky big-bang change.
- Where do we start?
- Usually with identity and access, the foundation of Zero Trust. We assess your maturity and build a roadmap that starts with the highest-impact, most achievable steps.
- What do you need from us?
- An overview of your identity, network and device landscape, and access to architects for working sessions. No live-system testing is required for the design.
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