8c8 Cloud | Cloud Assessment

Describe your Cloud expertise

We dont have experience with the cloud

We have limited inhouse expertise (<2 person managing)

We have outsourced our IT

We have an established team managing our cloud infra

How do you approach security and governance?

We outsource everything

Adhoc and reactive based on scenarios/situations

Midst of formalising controls based off established best practices

Robust process with automation to ensure efficient security and compliance with perioidic security tests

How do you approach cost control and management for your IT?

Not sure of the impact a Cloud OPEX model will bring

Basic understanding of how cloud costing works

Have an understanding or our cost which includes both direct (i.e IaaS) and indirect cost (i.e training)

We have periodic checks and governance with automation to ensure our IT resources are optimised and wastages are minimised

How do yout best describe your security strategy?

We outsourced it

Minimal use of any on prem or cloud security tools

Security integrated with the development team

Mature security program that is part of developmenet process with automation

Do you have access and able to use data for your daily work??

No

Have access to some but can be better

Yes have access but not sure how to use it

Yes with data analytics tools integrated

How do you describe your data usage?

We dont collect and store data

We have data but we dont get/dont know how to get value from it

Data is centralised and easily accessible thru use of tools such as PowerBI - but may be unclean

Our data is clean,reliable and provides value thru a unified dashboard

Our people are trained to use Business Intelligence tools (i.e MS Dynamics)

We are using machine learning to be proactive in data utilisation and creating new offerings