Secure Cloud

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2025-09-17T14:06:27.857+02:00 12 August 2020
Cloud technologies are now widely used and the benefits are clear. But how do secure government departments and businesses within the high-trust sector, whose mission is centered around holding sensitive or classified data, take advantage of these technologies and ecosystems for both public and private cloud? And, how can they do this whilst maintaining the security they need for their data, mission and ever more sensitive applications?
Secure Cloud

Many people see cloud and security as pulling in opposite directions, and think that you can't work efficiently and securely across security boundaries or put sensitive data in the cloud. But, if you know what you’re doing, secure organisations can get the benefits of both private and public cloud, with modern ways of working, whilst remaining secure. But it does need a different set of technologies, processes and controls to what most people are used to. So come and talk to the experts.

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We specialise in helping secure government departments and high-trust sectors make the most of cloud and other digital technologies, and we have a track record of helping customers with:

  • The need: Organisations want to achieve the benefits of public cloud for sensitive business and mission applications, whilst maintaining a low risk profile 
  • Typical challenges include: 
    • Understanding the threats, technical and business risks, and what appropriate security controls look like (beyond market standard controls) 
    • Choosing whether to rationalise legacy cloud environments or not, and whether to rehost, refactor, review, rebuild or replace applications 
    • Monitoring the secure cloud environment, through a new cloud-based monitoring solution or integrating to an existing SOC
  • The need: Organisations want to take advantage of public and private cloud environments and technologies at different security markings, whilst balancing seamless interoperability between environments with security of the data and environments
  • Typical Challenges include:  
    • Transferring classified data between domains, whilst maintaining security and business efficiency
    • Providing appropriate connectivity to private clouds to allow them to be easily kept up-to-date, and to enable usage of public cloud services from private cloud environments
    • Collaborating securely (voice, video and data) within and between organisations across secure environments
    • Developing applications on public cloud for use on my private cloud
    • Applying modern ways of working for teams working across environments, classifications and geographies
  • The need: To achieve the massive agility and efficiency benefits and the ecosystem that serverless approaches bring, whilst remaining secure
  • Typical Challenges include: 
    • Understanding what security practices look like in serverless
    • Assuring and accrediting solutions when the technologies change so quickly
    • Security monitoring within a serverless solution

We work closely with our customers to address these challenges: we have proven and continuously evolving ways of working across security environments, and work with customers on embedding any cultural change; our cross domain products enable secure information transfers between environments and are used globally by secure government customers and high-trust sectors; we have developed a modern threat-based cloud security approach to new and organisation-specific challenges.

 

Our approach allows our customers to achieve the agility and resilience that cloud offers and to become a modern digital organisation, without compromising on security.

 

 

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