Secure Landing Zones

Compliant cloud foundations.
Deployed in 30 minutes.

ZAP deploys CIS-aligned Hub & Spoke landing zones across Azure, AWS and GCP — governance, networking, security controls and compliance monitoring built in from the first resource. No SI required. No IaC expertise needed.

30 min — Single LZ deployed vs 6–12 mo — What it replaces Zero IP conflicts — ever 1 week — Fully operational
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Scanning
CIS 2.0
Pre-flight gate
30 min
Landing zone deployed
vs 3–6 weeks SI-led
7
Pre-flight checks
All must pass
215
Azure CIS controls
Enforced from day one
Zero
IP conflicts
IPAM-first architecture
The challenge

Building a compliant landing zone
the traditional way takes months.

01 / Time 6–12 months

6 to 12 months before you can deploy

Engaging an SI to design and deliver a compliant cloud foundation takes 6–12 months. Compliance review, network design, IaC development, testing, approval. Every business workload waits. ZAP compresses this to 30 minutes — your platform team, no SI.

With ZAP — 30 minutes per landing zone. Team fully operational in one week.
02 / Networking Conflict chaos

IP conflicts and network chaos

Without systematic IPAM across cloud accounts, IP address conflicts cause deployment failures, peering issues and network outages. Most organisations discover conflicts only when they happen. ZAP IPAM scans every VNet, subnet and VLAN before assigning any CIDR range — guaranteed conflict-free, every time.

With ZAP — zero IP conflicts, IPAM-first architecture on every deployment.
03 / Compliance After deployment

Compliance discovered after deployment

Traditional landing zone tools deploy infrastructure and scan it afterwards. Non-compliant resources exist from day one. ZAP enforces CIS compliance before deployment — non-compliant configurations are blocked in pre-flight validation and the 5-gate pipeline.

With ZAP — compliant by design. Blocked before creation, not fixed after.
How ZAP builds a landing zone

From request to live.
Seven steps. 30 minutes.

Every landing zone follows the same governed pipeline — IPAM first, compliance enforced at every gate, Platform Lead approval required before anything deploys.

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Zero IP conflicts

IPAM First

ZAP IPAM scans every connected cloud account — every VNet, subnet and VLAN across Azure, AWS and GCP — before any CIDR range is assigned. Conflict-free addressing guaranteed. Auto-suggested CIDRs per region based on existing topology. Every deployed network catalogued in the ZAP IPAM registry. IP conflicts discovered after deployment cause network outages and rework that takes days to resolve. ZAP makes the conflict impossible by resolving it before deployment begins.

Landing zone contents

Every landing zone includes
governance from day one.

Networking
  • Hub & Spoke topology
  • Conflict-free CIDR from ZAP IPAM
  • CIS-compliant NSG/Security Group rules
  • Firewall configuration
  • Bastion / Session Manager
  • VNet/VPC peering configuration
  • DNS configuration
  • Route tables
Security & Compliance
  • CIS benchmark controls enforced
  • Key Vault / KMS configuration
  • Logging and audit trails enabled
  • Defender / Security Hub connected
  • Sentinel / Chronicle integration
  • Encryption enforced at rest and in transit
  • Identity baseline (Azure AD / AWS IAM)
Governance
  • Mandatory tags: owner · cost centre · project · environment · classification
  • Naming convention enforced
  • CMDB entry created
  • Resource locks on critical components
  • Budget alerts configured
  • Cost attribution from day one
Monitoring
  • ZAP continuous compliance monitoring
  • Drift detection — alerts within minutes
  • Backup policy applied and monitored
  • Patch compliance baseline set
  • FinOps scanning enabled
  • Operational health dashboard active
Why it matters

What a governed landing zone
actually saves you.

The 30-minute deployment is the headline. The ongoing governance is where the real value is.

For the CIO

Eliminate SI dependency

Traditional cloud foundation delivery requires a systems integrator for design, build and ongoing changes. Every new landing zone is a project. With ZAP, your platform team deploys and governs compliant environments self-service from week one. SI relationship freed for strategic architecture — not compliance maintenance.

Typical saving: £500k–£2M on initial engagement. £200k–£400k per year ongoing.
For the CISO

Compliance enforced before deployment — not discovered at audit

Every security finding discovered at audit represents days or weeks of prior exposure. For regulated enterprises under FCA, DORA or NHS oversight, that exposure has regulatory consequences. ZAP enforces CIS controls before infrastructure is created. Your audit posture is the same on day one as it is on day 365.

Evidence pack on demand — not assembled over 3–4 weeks before each audit.
For the Platform Lead

Self-service governed infrastructure — without writing IaC

Platform teams are the bottleneck in traditional governance models. Every landing zone request requires IaC development, compliance review and SI sign-off. ZAP removes the bottleneck. Engineers request via wizard. ZAP generates the Terraform. Platform Lead approves the PR. No IaC authoring required from the requesting engineer.

Platform team capacity freed for product delivery — not infrastructure plumbing.
For the CFO

Cloud spend attributed from day one — not allocated months later

Without mandatory tagging enforced at deployment, cloud cost attribution is always retrospective. Finance teams spend weeks per quarter trying to allocate spend to business units. Every resource deployed through ZAP is tagged at creation — owner, cost centre, project, environment. No untagged resources. No allocation debates.

Combined with ZAP FinOps waste detection: 20–35% cloud spend reduction typical in year one.
For the Compliance Team

Audit evidence available in seconds — not assembled over weeks

Compliance teams spend 3–4 weeks per audit cycle manually assembling evidence — pulling scan results from cloud consoles, chasing engineers for remediation records, manually mapping findings to frameworks. ZAP generates a complete compliance evidence pack across all 9 frameworks in seconds.

FCA, DORA, CE+, DSPT, PCI-DSS — one pack, all frameworks, on demand.
For the Engineering Team

Compliance as a guardrail — not a blocker

Traditional compliance is a gate at the end of the process — a review that delays deployment and sends work back for rework. ZAP makes compliance invisible to engineers. The landing zone they get is already compliant. The Terraform they review in the PR is already compliant.

Engineers deploy faster, not slower, with ZAP in place.
The difference

Traditional approach vs ZAP.

Without ZAP
6–12 months to deliver compliant foundation
SI engagement required — £500k–£2M
Compliance discovered at audit
IP conflicts discovered at deployment
No mandatory tagging — cost attribution impossible
Evidence assembled manually over 3–4 weeks
Three cloud consoles — no unified view
Knowledge leaves when SI engagement ends
With ZAP
30 minutes per landing zone
Platform team self-service from week one
Compliance enforced before deployment
Zero IP conflicts — IPAM-first
Mandatory tagging on every resource
Evidence pack in seconds — always current
Azure + AWS + GCP — one dashboard
Platform team owns governance permanently
Works with your toolchain

Your SCM. Your IaC.
Your approval workflow.

ZAP integrates with the tools your platform team already uses.

GitHub
Source Control
  • PR-based approval workflow
  • Branch protection enforcement
  • Full Git audit trail
  • Required status checks
GitHub Cloud + Enterprise Server
Azure DevOps
Source Control
  • Pull request creation
  • Branch policies respected
  • Work item linking
  • Azure Pipelines integration
ADO Services + Server
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
  • ZAP IaC Engine generates automatically
  • Production-quality CIS-compliant code
  • State management included
  • Module registry integration
Terraform 1.4+ supported
Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know.

30 minutes from request to live for a single landing zone. This includes IPAM assignment, Terraform generation, 5-gate pipeline validation, Platform Lead approval and deployment.
No. The engineer uses the ZAP wizard — no IaC knowledge required. ZAP IaC Engine generates production-quality Terraform automatically. The Platform Lead reviews the generated PR — they do not write any code.
The pipeline stops immediately with a specific error identifying which check failed and why. No infrastructure code is generated. The engineer fixes the issue and resubmits — no partial deployments, no cleanup required.
CIS Azure Foundations Benchmark 2.0 — 215 controls across compute, storage, networking, identity, logging and security services. Every resource deployed through ZAP meets these controls at creation.
Yes. ZAP Compliant Scan runs against existing resources regardless of how they were deployed. ZAP AI generates IaC fixes for non-compliant resources. Existing estate brought to compliance iteratively — no migration required.
GitHub and Azure DevOps. Both support PR-based approval workflows with full audit trails and branch protection enforcement.
Yes. ZAP supports air-gapped deployment for regulated environments with no internet connectivity requirements. Used in government and defence environments.
ZAP IPAM maintains a registry of every VNet, subnet and VLAN across all connected Azure, AWS and GCP accounts. When a new landing zone is requested, ZAP scans the full registry and assigns a conflict-free CIDR automatically. No manual IP planning required.
Every deployment creates an immutable audit trail containing: deployment timestamp, requesting engineer, Platform Lead approver, generated Terraform, scan results, approval record and post-deployment scan results. Available in every ZAP evidence pack on demand.
Yes. The generated PR can be reviewed and modified before approval. Platform Leads can add, remove or modify resources before approving. ZAP Compliant Scan re-runs on any changes to catch compliance regressions.
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