Zero Trust Architecture on Azure: A Security Blueprint for Gulf Enterprises

AI workloads multiply both the volume of east-west traffic and the attack surface. Static perimeters and flat networks cannot see modern lateral movement, and in a high-target region the cost of one breach routinely exceeds the entire security upgrade.

This blueprint covers the core moves: phishing-resistant identity and conditional access, micro-segmentation of workloads, a modernised SIEM with AI-assisted detection, and automated isolation when a device is compromised — all mapped to the evidence a regulator or an enterprise client will ask for.

It is written as a reference you can hand to an architecture team, with the Azure services named and the trade-offs called out.