Cloud migration projects almost always treat security as a downstream concern something to bolt on after workloads have already moved, once the “real” migration work is done. Across dozens of enterprise migrations spanning finance, healthcare, and manufacturing workloads, that ordering is consistently the source of the costliest rework: reopened firewall rules, retrofitted identity models, and access reviews that should have happened before a single virtual machine was provisioned.
The pattern holds regardless of which cloud provider is on the receiving end. What follows is a framework provider-agnostic by design for embedding zero-trust principles into the migration process itself, rather than applying them after the fact.
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