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Stop talking IPs. Start talking business.

PAE is the Rosetta Stone between your business and your security architecture. Cryptic firewall rules become plain-language business approvals.

Security policy reviews should not block deployments or stretch audits into weeks. PAE translates raw flows into the names your business owners already use, so approvals happen at the speed of the question.

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PAE · liveBTA · v1.0
Rosetta Stone workflow8w → 4d
  1. 01
    Discover
    10.5.10.12 :1433 → 10.20.30.5
  2. 02
    Enrich
    BillingPortal-Prod → Customer-PII
  3. 03
    Ask
    Owner attests business intent
  4. 04
    Enforce
    Policy pushed to all enforcement points
Audit-grade by default✓
Outcomes

Compliance posture up. Engineering hours back.

PAE is built to move three numbers that show up on every CISO and CFO dashboard.

  • 55%
    Reduction in policy review and approval time
  • 80%
    Reduction in human effort on policy enforcement
  • 70%
    Improvement in compliance posture (case study)
How it works

From cryptic flows to business intent.

Four steps that turn an audit-week into an audit-hour and an approval-month into an approval-day.

  • 01

    Discover the technical truth

    PAE connects to your visibility tools and captures the ground truth of every flow across applications, workloads, and environments.

    • Multi-vendor
    • Hybrid + cloud
    • No agent rip-and-replace
  • 02

    Enrich with business context

    Cryptic IPs and ports map to the human-readable names your CMDB or tagging system already uses. 10.5.10.12 becomes BillingPortal-Prod. tcp/1433 becomes Customer-PII.

    • CMDB-aware
    • Ownership tags
    • Data classification
  • 03

    Ask in plain English

    PAE auto-generates a workflow your business owner can read: "BillingPortal-Prod is requesting access to Customer-PII. Is this required for its business function?"

    • Plain-language workflows
    • Owner attestation
    • Audit trail by default
  • 04

    Enforce business intent

    When the owner clicks Attest, PAE turns that single decision into hierarchical policies and deploys them to every enforcement point, from the data-center firewall to the eBPF agent on the workload.

    • Reversible cutovers
    • Multi-point enforcement
    • Continuous attestation
Case study

Real Policy Automation Engine work, in the field.

A representative engagement showing how BTA scopes, deploys, and hands off.

Case study
Financial Services
Global financial organization
  • Cisco Secure Workload
  • Zero Trust
  • Micro-segmentation

Zero Trust micro-segmentation during an IT migration.

A global financial organization stood up Zero Trust and micro-segmentation during a major migration, using Cisco Secure Workload as the enforcement plane and PAE to keep policy aligned to business intent. Compliance posture improved by 70%, with audit-grade trails by default.

  • 70%
    Compliance posture improvement
  • 100%
    Audit-grade attestation coverage
  • 0
    Production incidents during cutover
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What makes us different

We're architects who execute.

Three principles every BTA engagement runs on. Visible in the work itself.

  • We architect, deploy, and stay through Day-2.

    Every engagement is end-to-end. We design the target environment, deploy it in stages, and remain on hand through the operational handoff.

  • We train your team to own the outcome.

    Training is part of every engagement. By the close of an engagement, your operators can run, maintain, and defend the system to an auditor.

  • We measure success when your team runs it alone.

    An engagement closes when your team is operating the solution without us in the room. SIMPLE methodology enforces this exit criterion on every project.

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We meet you where you are.

Some teams want the full BTA delivery from architecture to handoff. Others bring us in for a single advisory window or a fully managed operations contract. Pick the model that fits and adjust as the business changes.

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Architect, deploy, train, hand off.

The complete BTA engagement. We design the target environment, deploy in stages, and train your operating team along the way. SIMPLE methodology end to end. Your team owns Day-2.

  • SIMPLE methodology
  • 1,000+ projects
  • 0 project failures
  • End-to-end project management
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PAE · FAQ

Policy Automation Engine, answered.

Direct answers to what most evaluators ask before deployment.

  • How quickly can we become audit-ready?

    Most organizations using PAE compress audit preparation from weeks to hours. Customers have reported compliance sign-off cycles shortening from two months to one day, with audit-grade attestation logs produced as a byproduct of the workflow.

  • What is the business risk of not automating policy management?

    Organizations managing 10,000+ firewall rules manually face three compounding risks: over-permissive access that creates breach vectors, audit failures that trigger regulatory penalties, and engineering time consumed by manual reviews. PAE addresses all three.

  • We already have a firewall team. Why do we need this?

    PAE works alongside your firewall team. The team runs audits in hours rather than weeks, and PAE handles the operational workload so your engineers focus on architecture and strategy.

  • Who needs to be involved to get started?

    A typical PAE deployment involves your CISO or network security lead, your compliance or risk officer, and your IT operations team. BTA manages the technical onboarding. Your team participates in a discovery session and signs off at key milestones.

  • What does it cost us if we don't act?

    Failed audits. Breach exposure from over-permissive access. Engineering hours consumed by manual reviews. One compliance failure can cost more than a full PAE deployment, and PAE remains a working asset in your environment afterwards.

  • Does PAE integrate with Cisco platforms?

    Yes. PAE integrates with Cisco ACI, Secure Workload, Nexus environments, and identity-based controls, alongside Palo Alto, Fortinet, F5, and major cloud providers.

  • Can PAE scale across hybrid and multi-cloud environments?

    Yes. The engine supports enforcement across on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures, with the same business-intent layer driving policy across each.
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Bring your hardest architecture problem. We’ll tell you what we’d do, what it costs, and how long it takes.

  • 30-minute scoping call
  • 1,000+ projects shipped
  • Training in every engagement

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