Secure access.
No more than necessary.
Give employees and partners access to the applications they need without granting unnecessary reach across the environment.
Wentland designs identity-led access, segmentation and Zero Trust architectures across cloud, hybrid and on-premise systems, with the engineering capability to implement the change.
THE ACCESS PROBLEM
A Connection Should Not Open More Than It Needs To
A supplier needs one application but receives access to a wider network. An employee's permissions outlast a change of role. The same service is reached through different access rules in the office and remotely.
These arrangements may keep work moving, while making it harder to explain who can reach what and why.
We help separate the access a task requires from the connectivity the existing environment happens to provide. That means considering identities, devices, applications and network boundaries together, rather than assuming a successful sign-in settles the access decision.
ZERO TRUST IN PRACTICE
Zero Trust Is an Architecture, Not a Product.
Zero Trust can sound like a large transformation: more controls, more restrictions and more ways for legitimate work to be interrupted.
However it can be designed and implemented in blocks, at any time.
The design can begin with a specific application, user group or connection where access needs to improve. Existing identity, endpoint and network capabilities are used where they fit. Controls are then proportionate to what is being protected.
A regulated laboratory application should not be treated like a library of marketing documents.
1
Indentity & Role
Who is requesting access?
What are they normally entitled to do?
2
Device Posture
What device is being used?
Is it secure, compliant?
Any known vulnerabilities or missing updates?
3
Access Context
Where, when and how?
Is anything unusual about this request?
4
Policy Decision
Should access be allowed?
How much access is actually necessary?
5
Access Enforcement
What can they do once access is granted?
View, edit, download, print, share?
What must remain impossible?
6
Continuous
Re-evaluation
Have conditions changed?
Would we make the same decision now?
The objective is: give people the access they need, without giving them access they don't.
A PRACTICAL STARTING POINT
You Don't Have To Redesign Everything
Zero Trust can sound like a large transformation: more controls, more restrictions and more ways for legitimate work to be interrupted, but it doesn't have to be that way.
The design can begin with a specific application, user group or connection where access needs to improve. Existing identity, endpoint and network capabilities are used where they fit. Controls are then proportionate to what is being protected.
We establish what access is required, what already works and what must not be disrupted. From there, the architecture can be introduced in stages rather than through a wholesale replacement.
Existing applications, networks and security investments are constraints to incorporate or work around in the design.
Make The Security You Have Work As One.
How We Start
1. Define the access
Who needs to access what, from where, and what should they be allowed to do?
2. Map what you already have
Which existing controls can do the job? Where are the gaps?
3. Design the change
What stays, what changes, and in what order?
THE RESULT
An access architecture built around your environment, not an environment working around a vendor stack.
Most organisations already have many of the capabilities needed for secure access. Identity may sit in Entra or Okta. Device health may come from Intune, Defender or CrowdStrike. Vulnerability information may come from another platform. Zscaler may control application access, while Cisco and the underlying network still determine what can connect to what.
The challenge is making those systems enforce the same access decisions.
That may mean aligning authentication with device and endpoint risk, restricting application and network paths, defining download or sharing rights, or tightening privileged and supplier access.
Wentland brings the identity, ZTNA, SSE/SASE and networking expertise to design and implement that architecture across the technologies already in your environment.
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How We Start
1. Define the access
Who needs to access what, from where, and what should they be allowed to do?
2. Map what you already have
Which existing controls can do the job? Where are the gaps?
3. Design the change
What stays, what changes, and in what order?
THE RESULT
An access architecture built around your environment, not an environment working around a vendor stack.
When It's No Longer Clear
Who Can Access What
- Replacing traditional VPN
- Giving suppliers secured access
- Controlling what AI assistants and agents can access or act on
- Securing access both in the office and remotely
- Onboarding an acquired company into your environment
- Preparing for Microsoft 365 or cloud changes
Start With The Access You Need To Change.
Bring us the users, applications or connections you're concerned about. We'll help determine what they actually need, what can stay as it is, and what needs to change.