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title: "Forward Deployed Engineering | ZioSec"
description: "ZioSec engineers work alongside your team to secure AI rollouts, configure permissions and guardrails, and leave your team with practical controls and runbooks."
url: https://ziosec.com/forward-deployed-engineering
---

# Move AI into production. With security built in.

Bring ZioSec engineers into your AI transition. We work alongside your security and platform teams to configure the rollout, establish permissions and guardrails, and work through the security scenarios that appear in production.

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## Working controls. A team ready to operate them.

- Configured admin consoles and tenant controls
- Permissions and approved-tool boundaries
- Rollout guidance and operational runbooks
- Hands-on knowledge transfer to your team

## Hands on the systems you are rolling out.

For teams adopting AI coding tools, enterprise assistants, or agent workflows who need engineering support to put security decisions into practice.

### Configure the rollout

Work through admin consoles, tenant settings, user access, and deployment choices. Turn the requirements of your security team into configuration your organization can use.

### Set the boundaries

Define which tools, data, and actions an agent can access. Apply least-privilege permissions and guardrails around the workflows your teams are introducing.

### Work through real scenarios

Bring offensive security experience to the situations your rollout creates: untrusted input, sensitive data access, tool misuse, and unexpected agent behavior.

## Supporting a Claude Code rollout to 1,000 developers.

ZioSec is working directly with the security team at an enterprise of roughly 11,000 people as it rolls Claude Code out to 1,000 developers. The work includes admin console setup, permission design, and the security scenarios that come with adoption at that scale.

## How we work together

1. **Scope the rollout.** Identify the platforms, teams, and workflows involved. Agree on priorities, access, responsibilities, and the engineering work in scope.
2. **Build alongside your team.** Configure controls and work through implementation decisions with the people who own your environment.
3. **Exercise the controls.** Review permissions and guardrails against the security scenarios that matter to your rollout. Address gaps with your team.
4. **Hand over the operation.** Document the configuration and runbooks, transfer knowledge, and agree what your team will maintain as adoption grows.

## Frequently asked questions

### How is this different from consulting?

Forward deployed engineering focuses on implementation alongside your team: configuring systems, applying controls, and working through rollout scenarios. Consulting focuses on reviewing architecture, identifying risks, and helping your team decide what to build or change. We can scope both when you need them.

### Do we need to use ZioSec products?

An engineering engagement can focus on the AI platforms and workflows your organization is already adopting. We scope the work around your environment and the security decisions you need to implement.

### Can you also pentest the environment?

Yes. We can scope expert-led pentesting of AI and voice agents, applications, APIs, and servers, with the option to set up continuous pentesting after the initial engagement.

## Bring us into your AI rollout.

Tell us which platforms you are adopting, who will use them, and where your team needs engineering support.

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## Related services

- [AI Security Consulting](/ai-security-consulting): Get help with the architecture, threat model, and security decisions behind your rollout.
- [Pentesting](/ai-agent-pentesting): Test AI and voice agents, applications, APIs, and servers, with optional continuous testing after the engagement.