INFRASTRUCTURE & SECURITY

The estate underneath the AI: built, secured, kept running.

Identity, endpoints, network, firewalls, virtualisation, storage, backup, and the security operations around them. Delivered hands-on by the consultant who currently runs infrastructure and security for a Premier League football club, and who has moved three organisations between Microsoft 365 tenants this year.

2 sites A stadium and a training ground, run day to day as one production estate, with near-zero tolerance for disruption on match days.
CE+ Cyber Essentials Plus and the Premier League Security Baseline, met and maintained, with the evidence to show for it.
20+ Years across Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID, Fortinet, VMware and IT security. One consultant, no helpdesk queue, no vendor reselling.

Current as of 30 September 2026 — reflects the 1 July 2026 Microsoft 365 pricing and packaging changes, the removal of seeded AI Builder credits on 1 November 2026, and the Information Commission taking over from the ICO on 30 September 2026.

WHAT WE COVER

Infrastructure &
security services.

06 — pillars
01 — IDENTITY & ENDPOINTS

Entra ID, Intune & Autopilot

Hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID designed as one identity, with the device estate managed from Intune whatever it runs. Zero Trust as a working configuration, not a slide.

  • Conditional Access, MFA and risk-based sign-in; BYOD policies that hold up
  • Intune across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android; Windows Autopilot enrolment
  • Security baselines, BitLocker, LAPS, Defender and compliance policies
  • Endpoint remediations, device refresh and Windows 10 retirement
02 — NETWORK & FIREWALLS

Fortinet, Aruba & NAC

Perimeter, segmentation and access control designed together. Multi-site estates with guest, corporate, operational and broadcast traffic kept apart and kept up.

  • FortiGate HA pairs: IPS, web filtering, VPN and ZTNA; FortiClient EMS on every endpoint
  • FortiNAC network access control and VLAN segmentation
  • HPE/Aruba switching, PoE and redundant design; SNMPv3 monitoring
  • RADIUS and NPS for switch administration and Wi-Fi authentication

Network security and Fortinet in detail →

03 — VIRTUALISATION & STORAGE

VMware, Hyper-V & storage

On-premises platforms that still earn their place, run properly, with a clear-eyed view of when to renew, migrate or move a workload to Azure.

  • VMware vSphere clusters, HA and iSCSI storage; VMware-versus-Hyper-V renewal decisions
  • NetApp to Synology storage migrations with snapshots and replication between sites
  • Windows Server upgrades and licensing reconciliation
  • Azure landing zones and hybrid architecture where cloud is the right answer
04 — SECURITY OPERATIONS & COMPLIANCE

Sentinel, Cyber Essentials Plus & DR

Visibility first, then the controls and the paperwork that prove them. Built for organisations that have to pass an assessment, not just say they are secure.

  • Microsoft Sentinel SIEM design: firewall, endpoint, domain controller, Entra and M365 log sources
  • External attack-surface reviews and incident investigation
  • Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus: answers, evidence and remediation
  • Security architecture roadmaps and IT disaster-recovery plans

Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus readiness →

05 — MICROSOFT 365 & MIGRATIONS

Tenants, migrations & automation

Moving between tenants, merging several into one, or giving a business unit its own administration inside a shared tenant, with mail flow, devices and users landing where they should.

  • Tenant-to-tenant and cross-tenant mailbox, OneDrive and domain migrations with MigrationWiz
  • Administrative segregation: Entra Administrative Units, Exchange RBAC scopes, Intune scope tags
  • DNS, MX, Autodiscover, SPF, DKIM and DMARC cutovers; file shares to SharePoint
  • Automated joiner, mover and leaver provisioning; licensing optimisation and the AI Builder credit review before 1 November 2026

Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration →

06 — RESILIENCE

Backup & recovery

Backups that have been restored from, not just reported on. Offsite copies, immutable storage where it matters, and a recovery plan someone has actually rehearsed.

  • 3-2-1 backup design with Veeam and Synology snapshot replication
  • RTO and RPO targets agreed with the business, then tested
  • Ransomware protection and recovery runbooks
WHY IT MATTERS

Most AI projects fail on the plumbing.

Copilot surfaces every file a user can already open. Custom agents inherit whatever permissions the service account has. Graph integrations only work when identity is tidy. None of it forgives stale SharePoint permissions, an unpatched firewall or a tenant nobody has looked at since it was set up.

That is why the infrastructure and security work comes first, and why it is done by the same person who then builds the AI on top. There is no handoff between a security consultant and an AI consultant, because they are the same consultant.

See how that plays out in practice in our case studies: a Premier League club, a London hotel group and a modular buildings manufacturer.

HOW WE DELIVER 04 — phases
01

Audit

Switch configs, firewall policies, tenant settings, backups and licences read first-hand. You get a written view of what is there, what is missing and what is exposed.

02

Design

A plan sized to your budget with the trade-offs spelled out: renew or migrate, cloud or on-premises, what to fix now and what can wait a year.

03

Deploy

Phased cutovers with rollback plans, runbooks and handover documents. Work scheduled around your busy periods, not ours.

04

Support

A standing engagement as your infrastructure and security lead, or a clean handover to your in-house team or MSP with the documentation to run it.

Let's look at your estate.

Book a free discovery call. Bring your network diagram, your tenant, or just the list of things that keep you up at night. You'll get a straight view of what needs fixing, in what order, and what it will cost — no obligation, no vendor theatre.