Secure Cloud

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EY can provide deep expertise helping you deploy new applications fast, or economically transition older applications to the cloud — ensuring they are highly available, 24/7, in a secure, scalable environment.

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The team

Richard Bergman

Richard Bergman

EY Global Cyber Transformation Leader

What EY can do for you

The EY team can help businesses transform their operations to realise the value of the cloud while meeting strict security requirements.

In the Classified Cloud, we store, process and manage all data, applications and hardware in Australia. Our strong security ensures data is protected at all times, while advanced attack detection, proactive remediation and incident response guards against cyber threats. In the Fortified Cloud (for Azure) we add the management and security layers to ensure that customers get all the benefits of the public cloud whilst relying on proven people and processes to keep their environments safe and optimised.

Classified Cloud

The Classified Cloud is a Private Cloud service that has been designed around specific Government security requirements and has been IRAP assessed to PROTECTED level. The Classified Cloud allows customers to adopt cloud services whilst leveraging a highly compliant infrastructure “as a service”.

Classified Cloud helps Australian Government business and organisations requiring the highest security, transform their operations to realise the value of cloud hosting while meeting the strict ISM requirements for managing sensitive information.

Located in data centres in Canberra and Melbourne, the service is supported by a strong, proven security posture and dedicated Government accredited staff to ensure that data is protected at all times. Advanced attack detection, incident response and remediation have been developed to guard against cyber threats.

  • Choose the Classified Cloud when security, compliance and performance are your top priority.

    • When your applications and data require the most stringent security requirements
    • When data sovereignty insists that all content resides in Australia
    • When you are running mission critical systems which require high performance that only a customised compute, storage and networking solution can deliver
    • When ongoing adherence to specific compliance and regulations is required. Classified cloud meets the Australian Federal Government’s ASD Information Security Manual controls for securing information and systems rated at PROTECTED classification
    • When you require your IT to be delivered “as a Service” by security experts, including the management of the operating system and database layers
    • When you need visibility over your data and services at all times

  • Benefits

    • We work closely with you to design, migrate and then manage and optimise your environment
    • Purpose built, physically isolated layers to provide your applications and data with a highly protected environment and performance advantage
    • Built from the ground up to adhere to strict security compliance
    • Built for high availability and redundancy
    • Virtualisation built on VMware Software-Defined Data Centre
    • Optimised Enterprise storage for performance and capacity
    • Network built on Datacentre fabric
      • Industry leading technologies
      • Simplified migration from internal environments
      • Ability to seamlessly integrate with Public clouds
    • We can take on the responsibility for the complete platform so you can concentrate on the application layer.
    • Unparalleled visibility and control over your complete environment

Fortified Cloud for Azure

Fortified cloud for Azure is a service that has been designed to deliver a fully managed, hardened solution for Government and Enterprises wishing to adopt the Microsoft cloud.

Adopting Azure for your organisation opens additional obligations and challenges to manage the new “Responsibility Zones” between Microsoft and your organisation. Fortified Cloud for Azure delivers the ongoing PaaS system, process and staff compliance, coupled with the security management you need so that you can concentrate on the application layers and users.

Our team designs new solutions, as well as analyses existing environments, to align to best practice architecture, security, compliance, flexibility and scalability needs. We then monitor and manage the infrastructure configurations, system software, and service consumption using proven processes and tools.

  • The managed service provides:

    • An integrated IT service management solution
    • The ongoing management of virtual machines, storage, operating systems and databases (if required), including patching and availability management
    • Infrastructure configuration management to agreed templates
    • Security management, including active directory, traffic management, network security, threat detection, cyber protection and backup/restore
    • A real-time monitoring platform
    • Service Level Agreements
    • Access to additional certified resources as required for migration, architecture, or governance services

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