Cloud Services - Taking It to the Cloud

We can see it. You can see it. The future of IT is in the cloud.

But making a smooth transition from the current IT reality to the promise of the cloud is not guaranteed.

Most organizations currently operate in IT environments that were never built in a coherent, planned way. They are environments that were bolted onto one another over a period of years and then recently started interacting with a host of 3rd-party SaaS applications. To make things even more complicated, many of those 3rd-party SaaS applications use 4th-party connections on the back-end of their applications, often without disclosing those facts to their clients.

And unfortunately, as all this was coming together, security was not even a thought in anyone's mind.

Learn how we help you build a secure cloud program.

Today's networks are usually highly disorganized, unnecessarily complicated, wasteful, and virtually impossible to correctly secure. Typically, the network owners (and especially the top management) do not know what their network looks like nor where their data is - or how it flows. It's just this indefinable "thing" that everyone depends upon for their livelihoods.

No one in their right mind would set out to design such networks. Obviously, the networks we must live with today are the products of the haphazard way things have unfolded over a period of years.

But now it is time to evolve to the cloud. It is time to move to a new, better, and different IT paradigm.

This kind of move is an opportunity to make a great leap forward in power, capability, and security while setting the stage for spending far fewer dollars on IT. But only if it is done right. If done incorrectly, you'll just trade one nightmare for another. And waste your money in the process.

A new nightmare can be avoided if a clear road map is built between the current IT environment and the new one. A carefully crafted architecture must be built and used to drive and control the transition. Only then will the new benefits of the cloud be realized.

No matter which cloud environment you choose(Amazon, Google, Azure, or others), the basic process for the transition is the same:

1. Map and understand the current environment.
2. Define the requirements for the new cloud environment as it relates to your growing business.
3. Architect the new cloud environment and make security a core foundation, i.e. always monitor and control where your data is and who is touching it.
4. Architect the transition between the current environment and the new environment.
5. Incorporate best practice SDLC and dev ops into the architecture and build-out and maintenance processes.
6. Build and thoroughly document all aspects of the new environment.
7. Security test the new environment, both before going live and periodically thereafter.
8. Archive and turn off the old and turn on the new.

CyberCecurity offers your company the full suite of services necessary to plan and execute your move to the cloud and position you to take full advantage of all its important benefits - today and tomorrow. We have deep experience with the processes, the tool-sets, and (most importantly) the security of successful cloud deployments.

Call us today to discuss your cloud future 303-997-5506