How Nick helped the Department of the Environment migrate to a more secure cloud.
Nick
Lead Architect, Canberra
These days nothing stands still for long in government. Growing demand for new online services requires government agencies to be innovative and flexible, while staying secure. The Department of the Environment was no different.
The Department of the Environment (The Department) were looking to make life easier for their users and customers by simplifying access to information – while not compromising their mandated levels of security, especially while using the Internet. One such innovation was their Cloud Foundation project, which enabled The Department to access services from different kinds of cloud service providers.
Traditionally, organisations that use Microsoft public cloud services access them through the (very) public Internet, or through encrypted links that bypass secure internet gateways. And that can be very problematic for maintaining security compliance and detecting malicious cyber threats.
Enter Nick from Macquarie Government, The Department’s Secure Internet Gateway provider. Within 3 weeks, Nick and his team created a solution for The Department based on our Secure Cloud Exchange. This purpose-built service allows government agencies to connect to Microsoft Office365, Azure or AWS public cloud services without compromising security compliance or user experience – through dedicated links with guaranteed bandwidth.
To beef up security and maintain ISM compliance, our Security Operations Centre (SOC) monitors the service for anomalies, mitigates threats and retains an audit trail. Plus The Department can dial up more bandwidth as and when they need it.
The result? Communication that’s as adaptable as it is secure.
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