Guiding Principles

• Business enablement: Align to organization's business objective and risk framework

Foundations of Zero Trust

1. Identity

2. Devices

3. Network

4. Applications

5. Data

• Zero trust principles

• 1. Assume breach

• 1. Explicit verification

     1. Least-privileged access

Example of a tailored Azure landing zone hierarchy

Points to consider

• Tailoring the hierarchy isn't mandatory. The default archetypes and hierarchy we provide are suitable for most scenarios.

• Don't re-create your organizational hierarchy, teams, or departments in archetypes.

• Always try to build on the existing archetypes and hierarchy to meet new requirements.

• Only create new archetypes when they're truly needed.

• Don't create archetypes for environments like development, test, and production.

Green field. New environment

Brown Field. Existing environment

References

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/tailoring-alz#what-is-a-landing-zone-archetype-in-azure-landing-zones

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/organize/cloud-security

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/define-security-strategy