Secure cloud platforms, built to be handed over
Landing zones, guardrails and migration delivered against Australian government security standards. We design and build the cloud platform, prove it against the controls you answer to, then hand it to your team with the documentation and the automation intact.
Flexible. Compliant. Sovereign.A selection of the organisations our engineers deliver for.
What we deliver
Public cloud gives you scale and speed, and it gives you a much larger surface to govern. Our work is the part in between: a platform that is secure by construction rather than secured afterwards, with the guardrails written down so nobody has to remember them.
Who we work with
The build is the same engineering either way. What changes is the evidence you have to produce and who signs off on the residual risk.
- Who. Federal and state agencies, councils, statutory bodies and government owned corporations moving workloads to public cloud under an accreditation obligation.
- Assurance. Landing zones and controls mapped to the Information Security Manual, the Protective Security Policy Framework and the Essential Eight, with evidence produced as a by product of the build.
- Sovereignty. Architected for Australian data residency, with delivery and operations by local personnel and security cleared staff where the environment requires it.
- Procurement. Engagement through established government panels and arrangements, with the security documentation your assessor expects supplied up front.
- Handover. Documentation, runbooks and infrastructure as code handed to your team, so the platform is not dependent on us to keep running.
- Who. Australian mid market and enterprise organisations moving off ageing infrastructure, or trying to bring an unmanaged cloud estate back under control.
- Drivers. Cyber insurance conditions, customer security questionnaires, audit findings and, frequently, a cloud bill that grew faster than anyone forecast.
- Cost. Right sizing, reserved capacity and shutdown automation designed in, so the platform does not quietly bill you for capacity nobody is using.
- Risk. The same control frameworks government relies on, applied to a commercial environment, which is what an insurer or an enterprise customer will ask you to evidence.
- Continuity. Co-managed by design. We build with your engineers rather than around them, so the capability stays in the business.
Where you sit between the two, a government owned corporation, a funded not for profit or a regulated commercial operator, the mixed obligation set is familiar ground for us.
How we engage
Cloud programmes fail in the planning, not the building. The engagement is staged so the expensive decisions are made against evidence.
- AssessA short paid review of the current estate, workloads, dependencies, identity model and spend, with the migration candidates ranked by risk and value.
- DesignTarget architecture, landing zone design, guardrail set and control mapping, agreed with your security and platform owners before anything is built.
- BuildLanding zone deployment as infrastructure as code, with the security controls, logging and automation established before the first workload arrives.
- MigrateWorkload migration in waves, each with a tested rollback, so a failure affects one wave rather than the programme.
- TransitionHandover to your team or to our managed service, with documentation, runbooks and a named improvement backlog rather than a closing report.
Standards and assurance
Public sector clients need the evidence to get accredited. Private sector clients increasingly need the same evidence for insurers, customers and boards. We build to one standard and produce the artefacts once.
- FRAMEWORKACSC Essential Eight
- FRAMEWORKInformation Security Manual
- FRAMEWORKProtective Security Policy Framework
- CERTIFICATIONISO/IEC 27001 certified
- ASSESSMENTIRAP assessed
- MEMBERSHIPDefence Industry Security Program
- SOVEREIGNTYAustralian data sovereignty
- PERSONNELSecurity cleared personnel
- DELIVERYOnshore delivery and support
Our heritage is Federal Government and critical national infrastructure. That is why the design discipline holds when a commercial client is asked, at short notice, to show a regulator or a customer how their cloud environment is actually controlled.
Accreditations
Independent assessment, security clearances and industry recognition, held so that our clients do not have to take our word for it.
Start with an assessment, not a migration plan
Tell us what is driving the move, whether that is ageing infrastructure, an accreditation deadline, a cloud bill nobody can explain or an audit finding. The usual first step is a short paid assessment that gives you a costed plan before you commit to anything larger.