Managed services are yet another benefit of the cloud. The provider abstracts away the operation and maintenance of key infrastructure services by providing them as services that can be utilized on demand. An example is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) which lets you avail of managed databases on demand without having to maintain the underlying infrastructure. Migrating from a wholly owned datacenter-based model to a managed service can deliver significant cost and operational advantages, but needs to be done correctly in order to avoid downtime for users.
Standard Operating Procedures and run books for operating and managing cloud, backup and restore procedures, disaster recovery implementation plans and procedures, monitoring, patching and other operational tasks are defined and implemented. Long term infrastructure lifecycle management, automation and organization process refinement is also performed during this stage.
Oteemo consults and enables clients who want to automatically enforce compliance and security policies for Continuous ATO (cATO). Many of these controls can be enforced and automated in zero trust architecture, as well as standards and technologies such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) or Kyverno. We can help define the system’s security boundaries and prepare assessment documents for cATO.