We are excited to announce our newest solution offering – Managed Protected B Landing Zone Accelerator for Microsoft Azure. This managed accelerator enables Canadian public sector organizations and regulated enterprises to rapidly establish a secure, compliant, and production-ready Microsoft Azure environment aligned to the Government of Canada’s Protected B control profile.
The accelerator combines prescriptive architecture, Infrastructure as Code, and policy-driven governance to reduce implementation risk, simplify regulatory alignment, and support scalable cloud adoption.
Current Challenges
Across Canada’s public sector and regulated industries, cloud adoption continues to accelerate in support of modernization and service delivery objectives. Achieving alignment with Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) guidance for Protected B remains a complex undertaking.
- Inconsistent Governance: Without a standardized landing zone, you are exposed to the risk of not being able to apply controls evenly across environments, increasing exposure to configuration drift and audit findings.
- Security Gaps: Manually implemented or unenforced controls create blind spots that elevate operational and cyber risk.
- Delivery Friction: Interpreting ITSG-33 requirements, repeatedly provisioning environments, and conducting manual security reviews slows your execution and diverts engineering capacity.
- Audit Readiness Risk: Fragmented logging, monitoring, and control documentation make it difficult to demonstrate compliance during audits.
A Secured-by-Design Foundation
Our Managed Azure Protected B Landing Zone Solution Accelerator is an automation-driven framework that deploys a standardized, government-aligned foundation on Microsoft Azure.
Built using Azure Verified Modules, Terraform, and Azure Enterprise Policy as Code (EPAC), our managed solution establishes pre-configured services and security guardrails required to support Protected B workloads from the outset.
- Consistent Cloud Foundations: Every environment starts from the same trusted blueprint deployed upfront.
- Policy-Driven Security: Policy-as-Code enforces more than 140 policy sets and 3,000+ policy definitions aligned to integrity and availability requirements.
- Faster Time to Production: Organizations reduce deployment timelines from months to weeks through automated, repeatable provisioning.
- Audit-Ready Operations: Centralized logging, standardized controls, and traceable configuration baselines provide clear evidence for auditors and security authorities.
Key Capabilities
- Protected B Alignment: Designed to meet Canadian Federal PBMM security and compliance requirements
- Enterprise Landing Zone: Management group hierarchy and subscription association
- Network Architecture: Hub-and-spoke topology with centralized connectivity and security controls
- Multi-Subscription Model: Separation of platform services and application workloads
- Security-First Design: Encryption by default, network isolation, private endpoints, and Azure Firewall
- Centralized Observability: Integrated Log Analytics and diagnostic settings across resources
Solution Accelerator Components
- Reference Architecture Framework and Detailed Solution Design
- Five structured workshops covering design, security, and operational readiness
- Infrastructure as Code: Fully managed Terraform implementation using Azure Verified Modules
- Policy-as-Code Governance: Enterprise Policy as Code (EPAC) for centralized Azure Policy management
- Policy sets aligned to ITSG-33, Federal PBMM, NIST SP 800, CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark, and Azure Security Benchmark
Establishing a Compliant Azure Foundation Faster
Ateko’s Solution Accelerator provides a managed, enterprise-grade approach to deploying a Protected B-ready Azure environment, supporting regulatory confidence, operational consistency, and scalable modernization initiatives.
Contact us today and let’s talk about getting your organization ready for the fastest, most reliable path to establishing a Protected B-ready environment on Azure.
