Infrastructure decisions are scope decisions
Every VM, subnet, and storage account inside your CUI boundary has to satisfy the applicable controls and produce evidence for them. Architecture that ignores this fills your assessment with systems that never needed to be there. We start from the other end: the boundary defines the architecture, and segmentation does compliance work that tooling alone can't.
What we build
- Landing-zone architecture deploys identity, network topology, logging pipelines, and Azure Policy guardrails as a hardened, repeatable pattern mapped to 800-171 objectives.
- CUI enclave design puts CUI workloads and their users in segmented environments, which cuts the number of systems the full control set applies to.
- Network segmentation and boundary protection implement the five-point controls (boundary protection, monitoring, session authenticity) once in the network fabric, so you don't add them VM by VM.
- Hardening baselines are documented as they're deployed, and the same artifacts feed your SSP and your assessor's testing.
- Azure Government migration moves workloads from commercial Azure or on-premises systems into the federal cloud in planned stages, sequenced with your GCC High migration where both apply.
Questions contractors ask us
When do we need Azure Government instead of commercial Azure?
The logic is the same as for GCC High: your contracts drive it. ITAR/EAR technical data and certain sovereignty requirements point to Azure Government, while other CUI workloads can sometimes run in commercial Azure with the right configuration. The boundary and the contract clauses decide.
What is a CUI enclave, and is it cheaper?
An enclave is a segmented environment that holds only CUI workloads and the users who touch them, so the full weight of 800-171 applies to a fraction of your infrastructure. It's usually the biggest cost lever available, because fewer systems in scope means fewer controls to implement, evidence, and assess.
Do you build landing zones from scratch?
We deploy a hardened landing-zone pattern mapped to NIST SP 800-171 control objectives (identity, networking, logging, and policy guardrails as code), then adapt it to your workloads. Starting from the pattern and customizing second is what keeps the timeline fixed.
Get your target-state architecture scoped.
Tell us what you run today and what your contracts require, and a practitioner will map the enclave-or-migration decision with real numbers. Or email rj@indirectit.com directly.