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Security Architecture January 2025 · 8 min read

Zero Trust Architecture: Beyond the Buzzword

Most organisations say "Zero Trust" and mean "more MFA". A genuine Zero Trust architecture requires rethinking identity, network segmentation, and access policy from first principles — and it is significantly harder than any vendor will tell you.

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Zero Trust Architecture: Beyond the Buzzword

Unpacking what Zero Trust actually means architecturally — identity planes, policy engines, network segmentation, and the common failure modes organisations hit when they try to implement it.

SecurityZero Trust
Jan 2025
8 min →
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Cloud Landing Zones: The Foundation Organisations Get Wrong

A landing zone is the architectural expression of your governance model. Most organisations build it backwards — starting with accounts and subnets instead of guardrails and principles.

InfrastructureCloud
Feb 2025
10 min →
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Digital Transformation Starts with the Operating Model

Technology is rarely the reason transformations fail. The culprit is almost always a mismatch between the new capability and the operating model expected to sustain it.

TransformationStrategy
Mar 2025
7 min →
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Five Solution Design Principles Every Architect Should Own

Good solution design is about judgment — knowing which trade-offs are acceptable and which ones will haunt you in production. Here are five principles that have guided every engagement.

Solution ArchitectureDesign
Mar 2025
9 min →
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Security by Design: Why Threat Modelling Belongs in Sprint Zero

Threat modelling is not a compliance exercise. When done early and collaboratively, it fundamentally changes the architecture decisions a team makes — for the better.

SecurityArchitecture
Apr 2025
6 min →
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Platform Engineering: Building the Roads, Not Just the Cars

Platform engineering is about enabling developer velocity at scale — but it only works when the platform is treated as a product with real customers, not as an infrastructure project.

InfrastructurePlatform Engineering
May 2025
8 min →