Platform, Cloud and Cybersecurity
Cloud that survives the second year, with controls that survive the audit
Most migrations are judged on whether the workload moved. The harder test comes later, when the bill arrives and someone asks to see the control evidence.
We design and lead cloud and platform programs, and we run the security uplift that has to hold up alongside them. The business case, the landing zone, the migration waves, the operating model and the control evidence are built as one piece of work.
Security programs rarely fail at the technical layer. They fail at the accountability layer — controls designed and never landed, maturity self-assessed and never evidenced, a risk register nobody has read since it was accepted.
Failure modes
What usually goes wrong
We name the failure mode before we name the fix.
The workload moved and the controls did not
Compute lands in the new environment while the control set still describes the old one. The gap is found by an assessor rather than by the program.
Lift and shift, then the bill
Migration succeeds on its own terms and the run cost lands 40% above the business case, with no FinOps practice and no owner for the number.
A landing zone designed for one workload
The first migration works. The fifth exposes an identity, network or tenancy decision that should have been made once, centrally, at the start.
Maturity claimed, not evidenced
An Essential Eight level stated in a tender that collapses the moment someone asks for the configuration, the exception and the review date behind it.
Scope
What we do
Cloud strategy and business case
The investment case in the form your approvers use, with run cost modelled honestly and the workloads that should not move named early.
Landing zones and platform engineering
Identity, network, tenancy and guardrail design across public, private and hybrid — built once, centrally, before the wave plan depends on it.
Migration wave planning and delivery
Application assessment, disposition decisions, wave sequencing and cutover, with dependencies and resilience treated as design inputs.
Security uplift and control evidence
Essential Eight and Information Security Manual alignment, identity and access programs, and the control mapping that shows which obligation each control answers and who owns it.
FinOps and platform operations
Cost visibility, tagging, showback and the operating model that keeps the second-year number defensible.
Boundaries
Where we stop
We are not a security operations centre and we do not monitor your environment, triage alerts or run incident response as a service. We do not perform penetration testing or issue formal assessments against a scheme we are not accredited for. We design, lead and assure the uplift, and we say plainly which parts need an accredited assessor or a managed provider.
Questions
Asked before an engagement starts
Do you hold cloud vendor partnerships?
No. We hold no vendor partnership and take no margin on licensing, which is why we can recommend staying put, or moving less than you expected, when that is the right answer.
Can you get us to a specific Essential Eight maturity level?
We can design and lead the uplift and assemble the evidence, and we will tell you honestly what level the environment actually supports. We do not issue the assessment ourselves — a claim is only worth what the evidence behind it can survive.
Where do you start?
Usually an assessment, because it is the cheapest place to find out that the plan is wrong.
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Start with a scoping call
A short conversation about what is likely to go wrong and whether we are the right firm for it. You get an honest read on fit and a realistic start date. If the work sits outside what we do, we will say so.