These days, everyone is talking about the cloud as if it was just created a few months or years ago. In reality, cloud computing has been around since the beginning.
As organizations grow and become more mobile, they look to turn fixed infrastructure costs into flexible operational expense, to do more with existing infrastructure, to leverage untapped cyber-space provided by mega infrastructure providers and to be able to use as they go.
Small and medium businesses look to leverage the cloud to save on infrastructure costs and to enable more global applications for specific industries to engage. Why waste valuable resources on quick-to-age infrastructure when that can go to talent, marketing, client engagement and new product development instead?
Global enterprises and large established businesses face international regulatory requirements. Legacy IT and existing infrastructure represents decades-long investments. As these organizations look to leverage competitive advantages or to scale temporarily or in global regions on a seasonal basis, taking applications, databases, business functionality and key service offerings out to a secure, private cloud offers flexibility, cost-savings and competitive advantages that are difficult to ignore.
Whether your firm plans on using private cloud, public cloud and or hybrid-cloud models to gain cost-savings, greater flexibility and quick ramp ups and scalability, maintaining security still has to be part of your plan.
That’s where Security Inspection can help.
According to the Cloud Security Alliance, information security is cited as the primary reason organizations are hesitant to embrace Cloud Computing. Without proper education and understanding, these organizations are wise to hesitate. Security Inspection can help educate your team while demonstrating the advantages, benefits, strengths and weaknesses represented by varying cloud service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
What can we do for your cloud?
Security Inspection provides security and compliance assurance while helping organizations leverage a right-sized cloud strategy as follows:
- Strategic consulting, training and education
- Planning and implementing your cloud utilization strategy
- Security and Vulnerability Assessments to mitigate risk
- Beta-testing to ensure your cloud service model prior to production
- Compliance as a Service—in the Cloud
- Cloud partner and provider reviews
- Cloud implementation as a service
As your organization looks to leverage cloud computing, Security Inspection provides value and flexibility by combining all aspects of our cloud security, assessment, design and implementation services into our entire menu of security offerings.
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