About Cloudcentria

This is a principal-led practice. Here's what that means.

Cloudcentria is not a large firm. It's a specialized consulting practice built around one principal consultant — Ronnie Bailey — with 15+ years of hands-on experience inside Fortune 500 companies, federal agencies, and every environment type in between. When something broke at 2am and 32,000 people couldn't log in, that was his problem to solve. That experience is what you're engaging when you work with Cloudcentria.

What this means practically: there's no account manager who sells the engagement and hands it to someone else. No junior consultant assigned to do the actual work. The person you speak with in the first conversation is the person who designs the solution, implements it, and stands behind it. Engagements can bring in trusted specialists for specific workstreams, but the principal involvement and accountability doesn't change.

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Ronnie Bailey
Founder · Principal Security Consultant
15+ years solving identity and access security problems
Worked at Fortune 500 companies and U.S. federal agencies
Security clearance history: DHS, Secret Service, USPTO
Specialist in controlling who has access to what — and making sure that stays correct over time
Works across cloud environments: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud

The same pattern kept showing up in every organization. On paper, the security program looked solid — policies written, tools purchased, audits passed. In the actual environment, something different was true. Employees who left six months ago still had access. Admin passwords shared between four people. Security software installed but never configured to do what it was meant to do. The gap between the documented security posture and what was actually enforced — that's where every problem lived.

Closing that gap requires someone who understands both sides — what the policy says and what the environment actually does — and who can design the path from one to the other in a way the organization can realistically sustain without constant expert intervention.

That's the work Cloudcentria does. Not assessments that produce a report and disappear. Not implementations that hand off a configured tool and leave you to figure out what it does. Work that fits how your organization actually operates, tested against real threats, and documented so your team can manage it going forward.

We don't have vendor partnerships that influence what we recommend. The right tool for your organization is determined by your environment, your budget, and what you're trying to accomplish — not by what we're incentivized to sell. Sometimes the right answer is a well-known enterprise platform. Sometimes it's a simpler solution. The recommendation follows the need.

The best security systems are the ones people don't have to think about. When the right behavior is also the easiest behavior — when logging in securely is as simple as logging in insecurely used to be — that's when security programs actually stick. That's what we build toward.

What makes us different
  • Principal-led engagement — Ronnie Bailey is involved in every client relationship, not just the sales process
  • Trusted specialists brought in for specific workstreams when needed, under the same accountability standard
  • We recommend what's right for your situation, not what we're paid to sell
  • We understand your environment before recommending anything about it
  • We test controls against real attack scenarios — not just compliance checkboxes
  • Documentation your team can actually use after we're done
Sectors Served

Media & Entertainment · Federal Government · Financial Services · Healthcare · Legal · Energy · Retail · Automotive

Federal Background

Public Trust clearance history through engagements at the Department of Homeland Security, United States Secret Service, USPTO, and Department of Veterans Affairs.

Mission & Values

What we believe makes security work — and what usually gets in the way.

Your situation first

No two organizations are the same — not in size, not in how they operate, not in what they're up against. We don't apply the same approach to every client. We learn your situation before we recommend anything.

No vendor commitments

We don't have financial relationships with the vendors we recommend. The right tool is the one that fits your environment, your budget, and how your team works. That's the only basis for the recommendation.

Quick results, lasting foundation

Security takes time to get right. We sequence work so you see real improvement quickly — reducing the most immediate risks first — while building toward a foundation that holds up long-term.

Proof, not promises

Saying your security is strong and being able to prove it are two different things. We build systems where the evidence is generated automatically — so when an auditor or executive asks, the answer is a report, not a conversation.

Security that works with people, not against them

Security programs fail when they fight against how people actually work. The goal is systems where the secure option is also the easy option — so your team doesn't have to choose between doing their job and following security policy.

We stand behind the work

Everything we build, we can explain, troubleshoot, and defend. If something breaks, we're not going to tell you to call the vendor. We designed it — we own the outcome.

Background

Where this experience comes from.

2024 – Present
Senior Identity Protection Engineer
Major Media & Entertainment Enterprise

Zero Trust framework design across Azure, GCP, and M365. BeyondTrust PAM integration with Entra ID. Federation and certificate lifecycle management for 32,000+ users. Conditional access tuning, SAML/OIDC renewal, and hybrid identity synchronization.

2024
Lead Identity Security Architect
Global Legal Information Provider & U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

CIAM platform design using Auth0 and Microsoft Identity Platform. Threat detection via CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. MITRE ATT&CK aligned security posture assessment. FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 aligned authentication architecture for 15,000+ external users.

2022 – 2024
Principal IAM Security Architect
Fortune 50 Retail Enterprise

OneIdentity Safeguard and TPAM PAM implementation for 32,000+ users across U.S. and U.K. operations. Okta SSO/MFA deployment across 40+ applications. Entra ID modernization and AKS workload identity federation. HIPAA and NIST 800-53 compliance posture.

Prior Roles
Identity & Access Management Architect
DHS OCIO · U.S. Secret Service · USPTO · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Wells Fargo · Indivior · Westinghouse Nuclear · Lithia Motors · City of Chesapeake

ICAM architecture and implementation across federal civilian agencies and regulated private sector organizations. NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, SOX, GLBA, and PCI compliance contexts. Hybrid identity environments spanning on-premises Active Directory, Azure AD, and multiple cloud platforms.

Founded
Principal Consultant · Founder
Cloudcentria Security

Identity security consulting practice focused on enterprise and federal environments. PAM implementation, Zero Trust architecture, CIAM design, IGA governance, and security observability. Staff augmentation and advisory services for organizations that need principal-level identity expertise without a full-time headcount commitment.

Want to talk through your situation directly?

The first call is with Ronnie, not a sales rep. Describe what's going on — we'll tell you honestly whether and how we can help, and what a realistic first step looks like.