Northforge brings hands-on experience from Australia's most demanding SECRET and on-premises environments — applied to the design, accreditation and operation of modern sovereign cloud platforms for Defence, Defence Industry, Federal Government and National Security organisations.
We've worked at the hard end of Defence — air-gapped SECRET networks, on-premises classified environments, mission-critical systems where failure is not an option.
That experience is what makes our cloud work different. When our team designs a PROTECTED Azure environment or configures an M365 tenant for a Defence programme, we're not applying theory — we're applying the same disciplines, security thinking and operational rigour we developed delivering at SECRET.
Most cloud vendors have never worked inside a classified environment. We have. And that changes everything about how we design, accredit and operate secure platforms.
Northforge was founded to close the gap between secure digital strategy and operational capability — drawing on decades of real programme experience across Defence and national security environments, from on-premises SECRET infrastructure through to modern sovereign cloud platforms.
We exist because accreditation-ready architecture, genuine security depth and operational reliability should not be rare. They should be the baseline.
Hands-on experience delivering SECRET-level on-premises environments — the security discipline that underpins everything we do in cloud.
Cloud, identity, endpoint and collaboration aligned with ISM, IRAP and Australian Government frameworks — built right the first time.
Architectures and artefacts designed for regulated environments from day one — so programmes move through governance faster.
Beyond design and delivery — the governance, uplift and operational rigour to keep secure environments stable, resilient and mission-ready.
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