# Secure Cloud Solutions

Optimise and secure your organisation’s cloud infrastructure, applications and services.

## Secure Cloud Solutions by design

### Design and build

Support your digital transformation journey from design, build, and operations, to cloud security and monitoring, detection and response.

### Security assessment and hardening

Our team of experts assess, recommend and implement security improvements to your cloud security posture.

### Regional experts

As an AWS and Microsoft Premier partner, we have the largest team of cloud security experts in New Zealand and Australia.

## CyberCX Cloud Solutions

From design and migration to assessment and operations, our Cloud Solutions are uniquely positioned to support you throughout your cloud transformation journey.

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Partnering with leading cloud service and solution providers, we design and implement security solutions to provide real-time visibility of an organisation’s cloud infrastructure, applications and SaaS services. Our solutions enable our customers to measure, prioritise, alert and respond to risks and vulnerabilities across configurations, workloads and code as soon as they occur.](https://cybercx.co.nz/solutions/cloud-security-and-solutions/cloud-security-2/)

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**Cloud Security Assessment** \
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With the region’s largest team of cloud security experts, we assess all major cloud environments from architecture reviews, automated configuration assessments, to hands-on security control validation. Our consultants provide detailed remediation instructions to improve our customer’s cloud security posture and optimise the environment to meet their business objectives.](https://cybercx.co.nz/solutions/cloud-security-and-solutions/cloud-security-assessment/)

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**Cloud Strategy** \
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We help organisations to define digital strategies and deliver digital transformation roadmaps, enabling them to plan, deliver and secure their cloud infrastructure and services. Collaborating closely with our customers, we assist with determining how to effectively migrate business critical systems to the cloud while maintaining uptime, performance and cyber resilience.](https://cybercx.co.nz/solutions/cloud-security-and-solutions/cloud-strategy/)

## Ready to get started?

Design, build and manage secure cloud and data solutions with our expert team of Cloud Security and Solutions experts.

## Secure Cloud & AI Report

###### Addressing the 5 Key Cyber Security Obstacles

This Secure Cloud & AI Report highlights five key challenges facing organisations adopting cloud and AI technologies and delivers practical guidance to help them navigate complexity, mitigate risk, and unlock the full potential of secure transformation.

[Download report](https://cybercx.co.nz/resource/secure-cloud-ai-report/)

## Why Cloud Security and Solutions with CyberCX?

##### Secure by Design

CyberCX provides security assurance by design. We accomplish this at service inception by formalising account design, automating and orchestrating security control configuration and aligning to the regulatory controls relevant to your industry.

##### Trusted partner

Trusted partner to New Zealand’s best-known organisations and one of only a handful of officially recognised AWS Security Competency and Microsoft Premium partners.

##### Accredited and certified

We combine our skills, experience and expertise across the entire cloud portfolio to help mitigate risks, reduce costs, and provide time to meet your objectives.

## Cloud Security FAQs

### What are the benefits of cloud security?

Cloud security offers numerous essential benefits to organisations looking to protect their data and systems when hosted in IaaS and SaaS solutions. These include data protection, reliability and availability, standardised security management, improved protection against attacks, and helps organisations meet their regulatory and compliance requirements.

### What are the different types of cloud security?

Cloud security involves various strategies and tools to protect data, applications, and infrastructure in the cloud. These include Identity and Access Management (IDAM), Data Encryption, Network Security, Security Monitoring and Alerting, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Compliance Monitoring, Application Security and Zero Trust Security.

### What are the three pillars of cloud security?

The three pillars of cloud security are Identity, Access, and Visibility. Identity involves verifying and managing who has access to cloud resources. Access focuses on controlling what data and resources users can access. Visibility ensures comprehensive monitoring and logging of activities within the cloud environment to detect and respond to potential security incidents.

### What is the difference between cloud security and cyber security?

The primary difference between cloud security and cyber security lies in their scope and focus. Cyber security is a broad term that encompasses the protection of all internet-connected systems, including hardware, software, and data, from cyber threats. Cloud security specifically focuses on protecting data, applications, and infrastructure associated with cloud computing environments.

### What are the models of cloud security?

There are three main models of cloud security. The Shared Responsibility Model is the most used model, where the cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for securing their data and applications.

The Multi-Tenancy Model is where multiple customers share the same cloud infrastructure, but their data and applications are isolated from each other to ensure security and privacy. A Risk-Based Model focuses on identifying and mitigating risks specific to the cloud environment, allowing organisations to prioritise their security efforts based on the potential impact of different threats.

### What is the main purpose of cloud security?

Cloud security is essential to protect data, applications, and services hosted in the cloud from various threats as organisations increasingly rely on cloud-based tools and services for their digital transformation. It involves a combination of procedures and technologies designed to address both external and internal threats to business security. This includes key objectives to ensure data privacy and security, managing user authentication and access, and maintaining operational integrity and resilience.