Ransomware lives on lateral movement. Segmentation decides whether a breach stays one system or reaches your whole estate.
Proven at global scale
Runs on your existing Microsoft stack: Windows Firewall on your hosts and Azure NSGs in the cloud, no new appliance.
Aligns with Zero Trust (NIST SP 800-207), the model Microsoft itself runs.
Proven at a scale no other approach could handle.
Key challenges
Your network grew flat without anyone designing it that way. The advice to segment is right; making it work is the problem.
11
days median dwell time
The time between entry and discovery has fallen, but an attacker still has days to move laterally across a flat network. In an estate without segmentation, that is ample time to reach the critical systems.
Mandiant M-Trends 2025, median dwell time 11 days, ransomware 6.
46%
saw lateral movement last year
Segmentation is broadly on the agenda, but in an estate of legacy, OT and live production, segment everything will not simply land. The adviser who wrote it down rarely takes the step back to make it executable in your context.
Order of magnitude; Omdia 2026 and Akamai 2025, vendor research.
30%
have done fine-grained microsegmentation
Most organisations have some form of segmentation, but only a minority have segmented the critical systems finely. A policy that exists but was never carried through or tested will not stop an attacker at the moment it has to.
Order of magnitude; Cisco/Vanson Bourne and Akamai 2025, vendor research.
Regulators and leadership do not ask whether a segmentation policy has been signed off. They ask whether a breach stays contained to where it enters, and whether that holds. That is the difference between a control that exists on paper and a control that works in practice.
The difference
Not whether you segment, but whether the segmentation sits where your exposure is, and whether it holds once an attacker is inside.
A policy across the whole estate that is nowhere fully carried through. Too broad and too fine-grained at once stalls.
We segment first where your exposure is greatest, one critical environment at a time. Not a multi-year project that has no owner anywhere.
Agent-based enforcement everywhere does not work on OT, IoT and much legacy, and adds operational load. The method then dictates the environment.
Identity-driven where it can be, network-based where legacy and OT require it. The environment sets the approach, not the other way round.
Segmentation goes live on how the traffic should flow. Operations fears downtime, application owners fear compatibility, and the rollout stalls.
We observe what systems actually do before we enforce anything, alongside the business and application owners. The disruption is addressed up front, not after the fact.
Success is measured by whether the policy is signed off. Whether the segments stop an attacker under pressure stays unanswered.
We test whether lateral movement is actually stopped, and keep that current in an ongoing cadence. Design and existence become operating effectiveness.
How it works
On the left, what gets segmented; in the middle, the order that decides and tests; on the right, what you keep. Your existing network and solutions stay in place.
The distinction
In a real estate, legacy, OT, live production, it falls over.
A central firewall that all your traffic has to pass through.
The segmentation runs on the controls you already have: Windows Firewall on your hosts, Azure NSGs in the cloud, not on a central chokepoint. A means is a means, not an end.
Hundreds of IP-bound rules that age the moment workloads move; you lose the thread, with no east-west visibility.
Policy follows the workload by identity, not by an IP address that changes. You keep a readable policy and your delivery pace does not get stuck on segmentation.
A central firewall in a hub-spoke does not see traffic within a segment; whoever is in moves freely to their neighbours in the spoke. And freely over every open port between segments.
Protection reaches down to the workload, not to a coarse network zone an attacker still roams. The exact paths ransomware uses to spread laterally, closed.
Know the CVE first and patch in time, and hope you are faster than the attacker.
The segmentation stops lateral movement regardless of the vulnerability: known, unknown, or just discovered. Now that flaws are exploited faster than they can be patched, that is the difference between a breach and a disaster.
A report saying "segment your network", with the execution left to you.
The same senior who decides what to segment helps land it in practice and tests it. We do not leave the hardest phase with you.
A tool bought, and you left to recruit and retain scarce specialists yourself.
Microsegmentation needs scarce expertise and a method you cannot build cost-effectively for a single environment. You get the capability without standing up a team of your own: we run it with you.
A provider runs a black box; you are locked into tool and contract.
We run the cadence, but the decisions on segmenting, excepting or accepting and the ownership stay with you. Policy, runbooks and content are documented and transferable: no black box, no lock-in.
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Not a hundred-page segmentation plan. One conversation in which we decide what must be segmented first in your estate, and whether an attacker could move laterally right now.
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