Turn Your Zero Trust Strategy into a funded, executable program.
A proven 4-phase engagement methodology, built on real-world experience across dozens of enterprises, with a bias toward rapidly delivering value to the business.
Overview
With our structured, expert led approach you'll be able to reliably transform your intention to adopt Zero Trust into a funded, executable program. And you'll be confident that you can keep it on track one it's underway. Our unique approach provides a simple, structured way to achieve concrete security results, meet strategic goals, and deliver substantiative value to the business.
Each phase's outputs are the next phase's inputs.
Assessment
A two-week deep dive into your current state, with the Zero Trust Readiness Assessment gauges your organization’s commitment, program formality, and supporting business initiatives, while the ZTMM+ Maturity Assessment benchmarks you across all five pillars using our enhanced version of CISA’s model. Together they give you the clear starting point needed to chart your Zero Trust roadmap, without a long, drawn-out analysis.
Strategy Phase
A two-week phase focused on two short deliverables: the Vision document, a non-technical “north star” that articulates why your organization is adopting Zero Trust and aligns future decisions and investments with that direction, and the Program Definition, which establishes your Steering Committee’s structure, cadence, and responsibilities for leading the initiative. Together, they give your Zero Trust program a clear strategic foundation before moving into execution.
A short, non-technical, "north star" that explains why and how your organization is adopting Zero Trust, including goals, expected outcomes, and benefits. Writing it down forces security leaders, and stakeholders to discuss, debate, and clearly articulate their intent, so that every future decision, investment and project can be validated against it.
Defines the structure, membership, and operating cadence of your Steering Committee (sometimes called a Program Council or Governance Board), the group responsible for setting higher-level goals, metrics, and resource planning. Following our guidance ensures the committee is well-formed from day one, with clear tasks and decision rights.
Roadmap Phase
Traditional IT planning models don’t capture what makes Zero Trust different: the dependency between access policies and the underlying capabilities needed to enforce them. This two-week phase closes that gap, producing two aligned roadmaps that keep your Zero Trust initiative grounded in what your organization can deliver. The Access Policy Roadmap schedules the activation of access policies your organization is already equipped to enforce. The Capability Roadmap plans the technology and process work needed to unlock the policies that aren’t ready yet, with ensuring nothing gets activated before it’s actually capable of being enforced.
Capability Roadmap
Capability Roadmap plans technology and process changes for improved capabilities, increasing Zero Trust maturity.
Access Policy Roadmap
Access Policy Roadmap maps out and plans current and future access policies. Enforce stricter and more dynamic access as enterprise security capabilities grow.
Execution Phase
A roadmap is only as good as its execution, and our support services ensure that your initiative remains on track, and delivers on its promised value. Engage with us via monthly or quarterly structured checkpoints, or have us help you drive the roadmap through our fractional Zero Trust Program Manager offering. Either way, together we help you orchestrate the technology deployments and process changes defined in your roadmap, enabling the enforcement of dynamic, fine-grained and more effective access policies. Together, we’ll ensure you define outcome-based metrics, not just deployment milestones. No matter how you choose to work with us through this execution phase, our ongoing engagement keeps the initiative on track, ensuring successful outcomes.
Resources to support your Zero Trust journey.
Ready to build your roadmap?
Take the Zero Trust Readiness Assessment to evaluate your commitment level, program formality and which business initiatives Zero Trust will support.