Cloud platforms designed against Australian Government security frameworks from the first line of architecture — never retrofitted.
Northforge designs and deploys Azure environments aligned to the Information Security Manual (ISM) and the ASD Blueprint for Secure Cloud. Hub-spoke landing zone topology, private endpoints, workload isolation, and identity-first network design.
Every environment we deliver is designed to support PROTECTED-level workloads, with the architectural patterns and evidence base required for IRAP assessment built in from day one.
Identity is the new perimeter. We make it the strongest layer in the stack.
Microsoft Entra ID architecture with privileged access management, conditional access, multi-factor authentication and Zero Trust principles applied across every workload. Designed for the Essential Eight maturity requirements of Defence and regulated programmes.
Microsoft Intune-managed Windows 11 standard operating environments with ACSC hardening baselines, Defender for Endpoint integration, device compliance enforcement, and integration to secure cloud services. Designed for distributed Defence programmes and mission environments where endpoint trust cannot be assumed.
Before cloud, there was classified. Our team has spent decades inside SECRET-level on-premises Defence environments — air-gapped, hardened, mission-critical.
That experience is the bedrock of everything we do in cloud. Air-gapped networks, hardened on-premises infrastructure, classified information handling, physical and personnel security integration — these are not capabilities we’ve learned from a textbook. They are how we started.
For programmes that span classified on-prem and PROTECTED cloud environments, Northforge brings a unified approach — the same security discipline, applied across both domains, by the same cleared team.
Northforge architects and engineers embedded within existing Defence programme teams — including within prime contractor consortia. We bring sovereign cleared capability without disrupting your governance.
End-to-end capability delivery from assess through to operate — scoped, owned and delivered by our sovereign Australian team. The team that scopes the engagement is the team that delivers it.
Architecture reviews, accreditation preparation, governance uplift and on-prem to cloud transition planning. Targeted engagements for programmes that need expertise without long-term embedding.
We partner with primes. Northforge can be engaged as a specialist subcontractor to deliver the sovereign-cleared portion of larger programme consortia — bringing classified depth where it’s needed.
Building Strength. — Forging Futures.