Secure Strategic Planning

Zero Trust Isn't a Product. It's a Strategic Posture.

Zero Trust often arrives as a buzzword or a one-time checklist. A more durable path is to treat trust as part of architecture and governance, revisited calmly as systems and risk change. FraCTOnal works with your team to strengthen that posture across infrastructure, AI, and your supply chain.

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Zero Trust Readiness Tracker

Know Where You Stand Before You Decide Where to Go

FraCTOnal's free Zero Trust Readiness Tracker is a structured diagnostic built on NIST SP 800-207 and DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture principles. It evaluates your current posture across identity, devices, networks, applications, data, and visibility, and gives you a prioritized readiness score in minutes.

No sales pitch. No vendor lock-in. Just an honest picture of where your gaps are and what to address first.

  • Aligned to NIST 800-207 and DoD ZT pillars
  • Immediate results. No account required
  • Built by a CISSP with hands-on ZT implementation experience

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Cover of Zero Trust AI Strategy. Securing the Enterprise in the Age of Generative AI
Free strategic implementation guide

Zero Trust AI Strategy. Securing the Enterprise in the Age of Generative AI

A CISO / CTO perspective on governance, risk & compliance

A 50-page strategic implementation guide for CTOs, CISOs, and security architects. It maps Zero Trust principles and the DoD seven-pillar model to generative AI, then walks through IP and secrets risk, the NIST AI RMF and major regulations, and a control stack, roadmap, and board-ready narrative, with AUP and vendor checklists in the appendices.

This isn't a vendor whitepaper. It's the framework I use with clients.

Used as a curriculum reference in the MS Cyber Security Engineering program at the University of San Diego.

Visual summary

Four-slide companion to the book

Same storyline as the implementation guide, distilled into a quick animated walkthrough. Also published as a carousel on LinkedIn.

Animated four-slide Zero Trust and AI infographic summarizing themes from the Zero Trust AI Strategy implementation guide

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Latest thinking

Zero Trust for the Real World

From agentic AI pipelines to social engineering at the infrastructure layer. Here is what is on my mind.

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FraCTOnal works with leadership teams and security organizations on Zero Trust strategy, implementation, and governance.