As firms of all shapes and sizes accelerate their adoption of cloud infrastructure and software as a service solution’s they face many challenges.
Some challenges like data security, data privacy controls and cyber defences are well understood, and in themselves require considerable preparation, deployment, and on-going management. However, there are less well understood aspects of cloud adoption which we believe are equally essential to ensuring an organisation is setup to successfully manage their cloud migration and on-going life cycle. Not addressing these can have a dramatic impact on a firm’s ability to achieve its objectives, remain compliant with regulations and avoid reputational damage.
Currently, we observe many organizations successfully putting in place robust data, privacy and cyber security controls, but far fewer with a robust and complete cloud management lifecycle capability.
We believe a cloud management lifecycle solution must incorporate the following key aspects:
- Data privacy and security
- Robust and rigorously tested cyber defences
- A comprehensive compliance framework to avoid legal, regulatory, and reputational risks
- A cloud and data deployment and usage policies framework
- An efficient and automated cloud approval process including audit trails and an on-going automated service lifecycle management model
Each of these competencies help organisations to realise the opportunities whilst minimising the risks of using cloud services.
To support this lifecycle, Oortcloud has developed a solution that complements the data security and cyber defence needs, addressing the complexities associated with regional and industry regulations, providing an ability to define usage policies and controls and automates the on-going approval and review processes needed to maintain a business’s robust operations and risk management controls.