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Much like our own blood, data is the lifeblood that flows through the arteries of business today. Organizations must ensure that data is protected appropriately based on that data’s sensitivity, criticality, and regulatory or contractual requirements. These protections are provided through administrative, technical, and physical controls. The primary goal of these controls is to provide preventative, detective, or corrective capabilities.
An organization’s protection strategy needs to be holistic. You can ensure completeness by aligning to a security industry framework such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). The NIST CSF provides organizations with a flexible and adaptable methodology for developing a comprehensive approach to managing cybersecurity risk. This holds regardless of whether an organization is generating, processing, and storing its data with self-hosted, or cloud-based technology services.
The cloud has become a significant part of the technology strategy for many organizations today. Research conducted in 2023 by Foundry identified that 65% of organizations default to cloud-based services to upgrade or purchase new technology capabilities. There are many choices to consider when determining which cloud service provider (CSP) may be the best choice for your organization. Decision criteria include things such as security, ease of use, and cost to name a few.
At 11:11 Systems our core cloud solution for production workloads is our infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud platform; we also provide backup as a service (BaaS), and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Security and privacy are top of mind and at the forefront of the services and solutions we provide. Our cloud platform is aligned and compliant with over 20 certifications, attestations, and frameworks. These include the NIST CSF and several special publications (SPs), International Organization of Standardization (ISO), System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC2), Payment Card Industry (PCI), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), and many more.
“Security and data protection are at the heart of the 11:11 Systems Cloud’s design and architecture. The environment is built on VMware technology, which many organizations run or have run in their data center environments.”
Security and data protection are at the heart of the 11:11 Systems Cloud’s design and architecture. The environment is built on VMware technology, which many organizations run or have run in their data center environments. That familiarity enables ease of use and reduces the potential for misconfiguration and other issues due to a lack of understanding. This provides the added benefit of facilitating a greater level of security and decreasing the time and cost that may otherwise be necessary to learn a new virtualization technology. Secure and scalable end-to-end cloud network virtualization is accomplished through industry-leading virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) and NSX technology.
Curated templates that are periodically patched and updated to incorporate foundational best practices are provided for common server operating systems, allowing customers to deploy secure virtual machines (VMs) easily and quickly. These templates include the ability to leverage industry-leading solutions from Trend Micro to provide anti-malware, intrusion prevention, application control, web reputation to protect against web threats, integrity monitoring to detect unexpected changes to the registry and other aspects of the system and log inspection to aid in identifying important system and application events. Vulnerability scanning is also included to provide customers with the necessary information to effectively manage risk for publicly exposed services and workloads. This differs from many CSP solutions that often provide a standard operating system image requiring a bring-your-own security solution or incur an upcharge for an add-on solution. Of course, there is always the option for customers to bring their operating system images, virtual machine templates, and security solutions.
The underlying storage is encrypted, however, there is also an optional ability to leverage VM or OS volume-level encryption for increased data protection. Additional data protection and resiliency options are available to provide advanced backup and disaster recovery leveraging Veeam, Zerto, and Cohesity based solutions. All built-in features and solutions are easily managed and monitored through our award-winning unified global management cloud console. Our console features intuitive dashboards and panes for management and monitoring with built-in security, including multifactor authentication (MFA), role-based access control (RBAC), and logging for activities and events.
The 11:11 Systems cloud platform enables peace of mind and predictability through straightforward sizing, a robust feature set, ultimate flexibility, and simplified costing. VMs can be right-sized using completely configurable combinations of CPU, memory, and storage to improve efficiency and optimize cost. Data transfer costs are predictable based on the bandwidth contracted, not the amount of data transferred.
For more information about the 11:11 Systems Cloud, check out these additional resources:
- Unified Management Console – 11:11 Cloud Console
- Cloud – 11:11 Cloud
