Use Cases
What this looks like in practice.
Three illustrative scenarios drawn from the patterns we see most often in enterprise and regulated environments. Each is a composite — not a named client — but the situations, challenges, and approaches are real.
A multi-state bank needed zero-trust access for 2,400 employees — and audit evidence before the next exam.
Situation
The organization ran a legacy VPN and flat network. Remote access was inconsistent. Auditors had flagged gaps in access logging and device posture for two consecutive cycles.
Challenge
Implement zero-trust access that enforced identity and device posture for every session — and produce the documentation package a compliance exam required — without disrupting operations during a peak business period.
Approach
Acclivity designed and deployed multi-factor authentication and network access policy controls across the environment in a phased cutover, standing up zero-trust access alongside the legacy VPN before deprecating it. Every access event is now logged. The audit evidence package was ready before the exam date.
Illustrative composite scenario based on common engagement patterns. Not a named client.
A portfolio of acquired healthcare practices needed unified security posture — and HIPAA compliance evidence — across nine sites.
Situation
A private equity firm completed three healthcare acquisitions in 18 months. Each entity ran its own network, firewall policy, and access controls. There was no unified posture, no common audit trail, and an upcoming HIPAA review.
Challenge
Rationalize firewall policy and segmentation across nine sites, implement consistent access controls, and produce a HIPAA evidence package — all while keeping patient-facing systems online.
Approach
Acclivity conducted a portfolio posture assessment, rationalized firewall rules across all sites (removing hundreds of dead rules), implemented macro-segmentation between clinical and administrative networks, and delivered HIPAA control mapping documentation to the compliance team.
Illustrative composite scenario based on common engagement patterns. Not a named client.
A technology company wanted to deploy private LLMs for internal use — and needed to know where the security boundaries were before the first model went live.
Situation
The organization had a serious AI initiative and a CISO who understood that the network security model had not been designed for AI workloads. Models, data, and users all shared the same plane. There was no inference audit log.
Challenge
Design the security architecture for a private AI deployment: isolate the AI inference plane from the data plane, implement access controls on model endpoints, and establish logging for every inference session.
Approach
Acclivity worked with the engineering and security teams to define the AI Sovereignty Architecture for the deployment: a dedicated AI plane with in-kernel enforcement, adapter patterns controlling data access, and a monitoring plane that logs every inference. The network-security foundation — already in place — provided the network isolation and identity enforcement the design required.
Illustrative composite scenario based on common engagement patterns. Not a named client.
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