People
A specialist practice.
Fortova does one thing: security for Oracle Fusion Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Engagements are led by senior Oracle security specialists who have delivered this work many times.
Founder
Andrew Blackman
Andrew Blackman founded Fortova and leads its engagements. He has spent over two decades in the Oracle ecosystem, the last several of them designing and delivering security architecture for Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the PaaS layer between them: identity and access, segregation of duties and Risk Management and Compliance, Cloud Guard and CIS benchmarks, integration security, SIEM interfaces and, most recently, governance and guardrails for AI in the Oracle estate.
His security work has covered a global financial-markets infrastructure group, a manufacturer's E-Business Suite to Fusion Cloud migration, a healthcare non-profit, and a global retail-property group. Before that, two decades of Oracle enterprise architecture across financial services, healthcare, federal and state government, industrial and transportation clients, including Oracle Consulting engagements on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Certifications held
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Security Professional
- Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration Certified Specialist
- Oracle Financials Cloud: Payables Implementation Certified Professional
- Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Certified Professional
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate and Foundations Associate
How we engage
How we work with you.
Alongside your team
Your administrators own the environment. We design the controls, put them in place with you, and document them so your team runs them with confidence.
Alongside Oracle
We work comfortably inside Oracle-led programs and with Oracle's published patterns, which we cite by name in everything we produce.
Independent
Fortova is an independent practice. It is not affiliated with Oracle and does not resell software.
Talk to us.
Tell us what runs in the estate and what prompted the question. We reply directly, normally within one business day.