Cloud Migration and Advisory

Securing your critical assets in cloud

Establishing a strategy is about more than just moving data and applications to the cloud. We help organizations create a cloud strategy that aligns with their business priorities and creates solutions to optimize performance and realize returns while managing costs.

This includes addressing concerns around security and compliance, achieving scalability to handle growth and integrating cloud services with existing on-premises systems.

The Cloud Security Assessment is part of a global Cloud Cybersecurity Strategy to secure your critical assets along management plane, cloud application solutions offered by CSP

Our Approach

During a Cloud Security Assessment, we evaluate your Cloud Security posture based on industry best practices such as CSA Cloud Control Matrix v4.

We analyze the security status of your Cloud architecture, governance and policies, your capability to manage your defenses and your ability to react as the situation changes.

Our Cloud Security experts can help you to assess any SaaS solution regardless of its intended business purpose, the size or the location of the vendor and ensure that you can maximize the return on your Cloud Security investments.

At Maverick, we offer two broad types of cloud assessments:

As a cloud migration security assessor we:

1. Evaluate your Cloud Security posture based on industry best practices such as CSA Cloud Control Matrix v4.
2. Perform Gap analysis of the cloud migration project prior or post implementation to include:
   • Assessment of compliance within regulations like SOX, GDPR, PCI etc.
   • Cloud provider’s cyber security framework analysis and critical controls assessment
   • Cloud data protection assessment – assess controls on PII, financial and other sensitive information
3.  Perform Gap analysis of the cloud migration
4. Assess access controls around critical componenets like management plane, cloud application security and SEIM solutions offered by cloud provider

As a cloud migration advisor we:

1. Build/Evaluate cloud migration/transition plan – Drivers, Security, Risks, Benefits
2. Advise on the selecting the best implementation model – Public, Private, Hybrid, Community
3. Negotiate key aspects of cloud computing with the CSPs like Architecture, Encryption, Key Management, IAM, Data processing security, Data Storage strategy, DLP, Backup, DR and Business Continuity
4. Review and assess Virtualization architecture and security, Data and media sanitization
5. Assess CSA’s top threats working group’s ‘Notorious 9’ Most common threats
6. Assist client with implementing, Data Discovery, Classification of discovered data, Data Privacy, Data loss protection (DLP)
7. Cloud environment BCDR – Selecting BCDR strategy, Creating, Implementing and Maintenance of the plan