Microsoft security architecture
The Microsoft security stack designed as a coherent whole — workspace topology, log source onboarding, analytics rules, access models, data labelling and DLP.
Independent Azure & Microsoft security consultancy
Secure Azure platforms, designed to last.
Oakdale Technology Solutions delivers Microsoft security architecture and Azure platform engineering for UK public sector and enterprise organisations — hands-on design, build and operational handover from a senior architect, not a delivery pyramid.
- 20+Years across cloud, security and enterprise delivery
- MicrosoftSentinel, Defender, Purview and Entra specialism
- CAF / ALZLanding zone aligned platform architecture
- UKCentral government and enterprise engagements
Services
Four capabilities, delivered end to end
Every engagement covers design, implementation and the documentation your team needs to own the outcome afterwards. Work is scoped to a defined deliverable, not an open-ended day rate.
Azure platform & landing zones
CAF-aligned platform and application landing zones designed so the platform still holds together at the tenth workload, not just the first.
Infrastructure as code & platform engineering
GitHub-first delivery pipelines on reusable Terraform and Azure Verified Modules, with secretless authentication throughout.
Security operations & threat detection
Detection engineering that reduces noise rather than adding to it — tiered analytic rules, KQL tuning, watchlist enrichment, SOAR playbooks and triage runbooks.
How we work
Senior delivery, without the overhead
Oakdale is deliberately small. You engage the architect who does the work, and the working pattern reflects that.
Scope to an outcome
Engagements are defined by deliverables — a design signed off at governance, a platform in production, a detection suite in operation — with the milestones agreed before work starts.
Build in the open
Design decisions, trade-offs and rejected options are written down as the work happens. Your team sees the reasoning, not just the result, and infrastructure lands as code in your repositories.
Hand over properly
Every engagement ends with as-built documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer. The measure of a good outcome is that the platform runs well after the engagement closes.
About
Twenty years of building things that have to hold
Oakdale Technology Solutions Ltd is the consultancy practice of Lawrence McCann, a UK-based senior solution architect with over twenty years across cloud architecture, security, infrastructure and enterprise delivery.
The specialism is Microsoft security architecture — Sentinel, Defender, Purview and Entra — underpinned by a long senior Azure background in landing zones, platform design and infrastructure as code.
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