Stryde

Stryde builds nodal seismic acquisition technology. Ahmed owns the infrastructure, identity and security posture behind a global engineering workforce.

The brief

Bring a fast-growing engineering company's infrastructure to an audit-ready standard: certify against Cyber Essentials Plus, tighten identity governance, satisfy external IT general controls audits, and move ageing on-premises file servers into Azure without disrupting engineering teams.

What was delivered

Security and certification

• Cyber Essentials Plus remediation, taking assessment findings from 64 to 1
• Conditional Access requiring phishing-resistant MFA
• Emergency patching of a critical remote-code-execution vulnerability on a cloud-hosted engineering system

Identity governance and audit

• Entra ID governance including Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
• Evidence for an external IT general controls (ITGC) audit, including an access review workbook built from Microsoft Graph data

Cloud infrastructure

• Migration of on-premises Windows file servers to Azure Files using Azure Storage Mover, Azure File Sync, Robocopy and AzCopy
• Kerberos authentication through on-premises AD DS, with File Sync caching at branch offices
• Azure PostgreSQL and virtual machine management; a Kubernetes-hosted artefact repository
• Azure Blob Storage with managed identity for an internal AI project

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