Guardrails in place. Decided. Built. Followed through.
Technology has become a leadership responsibility. IUXTA gives management one accountable partner – and IT leaders the people they want on their team. Advisors who understand risk, economics and regulation, and engineers who build it properly. From ISO 27001 and NIS2 to Azure, security and agentic AI in safe operation.
IT leader or architect? Go straight to the technical part
One loop, four steps
The board sets the guardrails, management decides within them, the engineers build to them – and the recurring services keep the guardrails true until the next board meeting.
Before guardrails and decisions, we describe the desired future state with you: where should the business be in three or five years, and what must then be true of technology, security and cost? Then we work backwards to SMART goals – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound – owned by the steering group and used to measure every step of the loop.
Risk appetite, roles and what "good enough" means – on one page.
Priorities, budget and KPIs – in a fixed method that is the same from engagement to engagement, or adapted to your own.
Built to good practice – current, automated, maintainable and documented. No loose ends.
Visibility and prioritisation, active cost management and 24/7 security monitoring and incident response – and a quarterly report the board understands.
Six things we take responsibility for
Advice and execution under one roof. Every engagement has one accountable person at IUXTA, and "done" is defined before we start.
Advice without technical depth is just opinion
This is what we actually build, secure and run.
Talk to Artem about the concrete stuff – architecture, security, code. No salespeople in the room.
Let Artem look for skeletonsEntra ID, Conditional Access, phishing-resistant MFA, token protection and PIM. Identity is the new perimeter.
Cloud-based SCEP or internal CA, automated issuance and rotation, TLS hygiene. No certificates expiring on a Friday.
Bicep/Terraform, landing zones, policy-as-code, GitOps. Everything built can be rebuilt.
Agents in Azure AI Foundry on the same rig as Coldbyte's security module – in your environment, with control and oversight.
Data location in Norway/EU, your own keys, air-gapped environments where regulation requires it – and a tested exit plan.
Segmentation, zero trust, hybrid architecture and on-prem where it belongs. Not cloud for the cloud's sake.
Central logging and log analysis/correlation.
M365, Intune, device baseline and tenant-to-tenant migration. Done many times, documented every time.
Coldbyte – one automation studio in your own environment
Its first module gives continuous visibility on security and deviations from good practice in Azure and M365, mapped to requirement sets such as ISO 27001 – whether you run IT yourselves or have outsourced it. The module runs as agents in Azure AI Foundry, with different language models for different needs. The same rig – same guardrails, safeguards and oversight – serves every centralised AI need where you require control and governance, without data leaving your environment.
In the interest of transparency: IUXTA and Coldbyte have cross-ownership. That does not make us neutral about Coldbyte, but it does make us accountable for the platform delivering what we promise.
About Coldbyte and the cross-ownership
Our partner for 24/7 SOC and incident response. A concierge model that suits companies without their own SOC. Automation studio in the customer's environment – visibility, AI and automation on the same guardrails. Our ecosystem of lawyers, specialists, project managers and business architects is presented as roles on a typical project – not as a logo wall.
We own the programme from board decision to certificate or operations – with KPIs and goals management can actually steer by.
Senior engineers build Azure, M365, infrastructure as code, security and networks to last – documented and automated.
Honest advice, modest margins and no lock-in. You should be able to carry the work on without us.
A selection of our certifications includes ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer (PECB), FinOps Foundation – Practitioner, Technology Value and AI Value 2026 – and Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert. The rest we document in every engagement.
When technology becomes the boss's responsibility
Half a day for executives, board members, CIOs and CISOs on the decisions that can no longer be delegated: cyber risk, AI governance and resilience. Nobel Peace Center, Oslo. Under 50 seats, by invitation only. Not an IT seminar. The programme is in Norwegian.
Have a coffee with Pål.
Thirty minutes, no slides. You tell us what keeps you up at night; we tell you honestly whether we can help – and who to call if we can't.
Or let Artem look for skeletons.
An hour on screen with whoever runs your environment. No installation, no access – just the questions that tend to surface what's waiting. You get a list; we get an honest conversation about it. If you want to go deeper afterwards, we do it with read access – by agreement.
IUXTA – pronounced /juk-sta/ – is a Norwegian, employee-owned professional firm. The name is Latin for "alongside" – which is where we want to stand: alongside management when decisions are made, and alongside operations when they are carried out. We don't profit from making ourselves indispensable.
