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REGULATED ENTERPRISE CLOUD STRATEGY

Regulated cloud,
read from your own evidence.

Moving regulated work to cloud? Our eight-week engagement helps you decide what to move, what depends on shared services and what your team needs to prepare. Start that work while the platform is being built.

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FOR IT OPERATIONS AND CYBERSECURITY LEADERS

  • Cloud operations

    Prepare people, processes and operations

    • Ownership
    • Skills
    • Change & recovery
    • Handoffs

  • Compliance preparation

    Frame the evidence and decisions

    • System boundary
    • Authorities
    • Inheritance & retained duties
    • Evidence
THREE WAYS IN

Start where the trail starts for you.

Start hereEight weeksFrame how today's operations extend into cloud, with compliance preparation built into the strategy.See the eight weeks →Go deeperFocused modulesGo deeper where you need it: dependencies, architecture and operations, zero trust, service and AIOps readiness.Explore the modules →Stay compliantComplianceKnow what you own, what you inherit from the provider and shared services, and what still has to be shown.Prepare the conversation →
WHERE GROUNDWORK CLOUD GOES

Built for the organizations that answer to a regulator, an auditor or a court.
Proven at the defense bar.

One evidence method, read in each sector's own terms: its frameworks, its auditors and its regulators.

  1. Federal civilian

    Agencies whose cloud services are authorized under FedRAMP, up to High, and who answer for the rest themselves.

  2. State, local and education

    The same method for public agencies, systems and institutions that answer to their own frameworks.

  3. Defense industrial base

    Contractors who must hold a CMMC status: the same practices, read in CMMC's terms. The contract's requirement sets the CMMC level and the FedRAMP classification.

  4. Pharmaceutical

    Manufacturers and laboratories moving GxP applications to cloud: IT verifies and qualifies, so the quality unit can validate and release.

  5. Legal and e-discovery

    Firms and providers that hold privileged and client data under professional and court obligations: legal holds, chain of custody and matter-centric access kept through every move.

  6. Electric and water utilities

    Critical infrastructure under NERC CIP and America's Water Infrastructure Act: corporate systems and CIP information to cloud, control systems kept inside the perimeter.

  7. Regulated commercial

    Enterprises bound by contracts, auditors and well-architected standards: the same method, read against the organization's own controls.

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WHY START NOW

Make platform availability a milestone.
Not the start of discovery.

A cloud platform can move forward while application dependencies, security responsibilities and operating handoffs remain unresolved. Work through those questions early. Give your team a preparation plan that can develop alongside the platform schedule.

Cloud operations

Extend the way you operate today into cloud. Clarify service ownership, skills, change, recovery and the handoffs your teams need to work at cloud speed.

Authorization

Clarify the proposed system boundary, decision authorities, what controls can be inherited from the provider and shared services, and the responsibilities your team keeps. Identify the evidence your regulator, auditor or quality unit will expect.

How we work: we start from the records your organization already holds and bring the researched road, so the eight weeks place you on it. No discovery-tool rollout.

FOCUSED MODULES

Go deeper where your organization needs it.

Explore focused engagements in application dependencies, enterprise architecture and operations, Zero Trust preparation and Service-AIOps readiness. Build on the eight weeks or bring equivalent existing work.

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THREE-HOUR WORKSHOP

Start with the decision in front of you.

Bring your business, technology, security and operations leads. We’ll discuss your starting point, explain the shared-service and provider relationships and identify what needs to be confirmed next.

A useful first conversation.

  1. Bring the right leads

    • Business
    • Technology
    • Security
    • Operations

  2. Three-hour workshop

    Discuss the decision in front of you

    • Starting point
    • Enterprise relationships
    • What to confirm next

  3. Useful first conversation

    A bounded next move

    • Shared understanding
    • Key questions
    • Priority follow-ups
    • Proposed next actions

No completed assessment required

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A useful first conversation. No completed assessment required.