People
A specialist practice, led by a principal.
Fortova does one thing: security for Oracle Fusion Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Engagements are led end to end by a principal, so the person who scopes the work is the person who delivers it and stands behind it.
Principal
Andrew Blackman
Draft bio — for review
Andrew Blackman leads Fortova's 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, Cloud Guard and CIS benchmarks, integration security, SIEM interfaces and, most recently, guardrails for AI workloads.
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.
He writes the build documents himself.
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
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
How we engage
Principal-led, by design.
No handoff
The principal who scopes the engagement leads its delivery and presents its findings. Nothing is learned on your clock.
Alongside your team
Your administrators run the tooling and own the environment. We supply the plan, the method and the write-up.
Alongside Oracle
We work comfortably inside Oracle-led programmes and with Oracle's published patterns, which we cite by name in every build document.
Independent
Fortova is an independent practice. It is not affiliated with Oracle and does not resell software.
Talk to a principal.
Tell us what runs in the estate. You will hear back from the person who would do the work.