Infrastructure and Cloud Security
Secure the infrastructure your organisation runs on — cloud, on-premises and everything in between.
Four capabilities, run as one sequence
Discovery
Map your estate — assets, topology, dependencies and the systems nobody remembers owning.
Cloud Security Assessment
Assess your cloud security posture and architecture across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
On-prem Security Assessment
Assess the security of your data centre, network and on-premises platforms.
Design and Architect
Design the secure target state — segmentation, hardening and controlled paths — that your teams can build and run.
How each capability works
Discovery
Every assessment and every design decision are only as good as the picture of the estate underneath it. In most organisations that picture is years out of date. We build it from evidence, not interviews alone: discovering what is actually on the network, how it actually connects, and what actually depends on what.
- Asset discovery and inventory across cloud, on-premises and network estates, including unmanaged assets, shadow IT and end-of-life systems.
- Network topology and dependency mapping — how systems actually connect, and what breaks what.
- Current-state findings report and estate baseline, feeding directly into assessment and design work.
Cloud Security Assessment
Cloud security failures are rarely sophisticated — they are architecture and identity decisions made quickly during migration and never revisited. We assess your cloud posture as architects, not auditors: not just whether a setting deviates from a benchmark, but whether the design it belongs to can be defended.
- Cloud architecture and landing zone review — account and subscription structure, guardrails, and workload isolation.
- Cloud identity and access review — privileged roles, service identities, federation and conditional access design.
- Network design review — exposure of services, private connectivity, and traffic control between environments.
- Data protection review — encryption, key management and storage exposure.
- Logging, monitoring and alerting coverage — whether you would see an attack in progress.
- Multi-cloud and hybrid posture review, with findings prioritised by exploitability and business impact.
On-prem Security Assessment
On-premises infrastructure carries the systems too critical or too old to move which makes it both the most important part of many estates and the least recently examined. We assess it with people who have run it: data centre, network, virtualisation and platform practitioners. Where an obligation applies, such as the network segregation requirements the Enhanced CIRMP Rules impose on eligible critical infrastructure entities, we assess against it explicitly.
- Network security assessment — segmentation and zoning, firewall rulebase review, and east-west traffic control.
- Remote access and perimeter review — VPN, vendor access and the paths in from outside.
- Server, virtualisation and storage platform security review.
- Backup and recovery infrastructure security — whether backups would survive the incident they exist for.
- Legacy and end-of-life system risk assessment, with compensating control recommendations.
- Findings consolidated with your cloud assessment into a single prioritised remediation view.
Design and Architect
Our architects are SABSA-certified and design to a method, so every control in the target state traces to a business risk rather than a product preference. Because Avocado's DNA is building and automating infrastructure, we design what can actually be built — patterns your engineers can implement, automate and operate. We stay accountable through delivery; the design is done when it is running, not when it is presented.
- Security architecture and target-state design using the SABSA methodology, traced to business risk.
- Network segmentation and zoning design, including segregation obligations where they apply.
- Zero trust network architecture: identity-aware access, least privilege paths and controlled lateral movement.
- Secure cloud platform and landing zone design across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
- Secure remote access and hybrid connectivity design, and platform hardening standards your teams can automate and reuse.
- Design assurance and implementation support through to a running target state.
What you walk away with
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Not sure whether you need discovery, assessment or design first? Talk to us about where your estate stands. Contact us for a tailored quote.