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Yes, Bespin Global advises Government entities to go to cloud! Amongst the many reasons, one of the top reasons is that cloud computing gives government entities a higher level of security and scalability that isn’t usually available with in-house IT systems. We can’t recommend a specific cloud solution until we perform an assessment to determine sensitivity level of the data and type of workload. However, based on our experience, the hybrid model is extensively being used by government entities today.

One of the biggest challenges being faced is the difficulty to meet all the governance & compliance rules and policies for customers with varying needs.

We cannot recommend until an assessment has been performed to determine sensitivity level of the data and type of workload. However, based on our experience, the hybrid model is extensively being used by government entities today.

Public, private and hybrid.
As AWS Premier Consulting Partner, we can assure you that AWS supports more security standards and compliance certifications than any other cloud provider, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST 800-171, etc. helping customers satisfy compliance requirements for virtually every regulatory agency around the globe.
The SASE model (Secure access services edge) is ideal to ensure security on the cloud. Secure access service edge combines networking and security functions in the cloud to deliver seamless, secure access to applications, anywhere users work.Core functions include software-defined wide area network, secure web gateway, firewall as a service, cloud access security broker, and zero-trust network access.

The benefits vary based on the chosen XaaS model. Depending on what chosen, security aspects can be offloaded to the cloud provider.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) — Customers are responsible for securing their data and user access.
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) — Customers are responsible for securing their data, user access, and applications.
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) — Customers are responsible for securing their data, user access, applications, operating systems, and virtual network traffic.

Agile makes development cycles more efficient whereas DevOps enables collaboration between development and operation teams. We recommend that organizations use a combination of both Agile and DevOps to achieve the required results.

Good communication shows how digital transformation is in everybody’s benefit by demonstrating that extra work is worth the effort by communicating:

– that inaction is not an option and consequences if they refuse to change.

– the impact of failing to embrace digital could have great effects on their jobs. This will help reshuffle priorities and speed up change.

Devops is a culture that can be implemented in any operation like development, testing, or implementation.

A needs analysis will be performed by evaluating requirements. After an assessment is done, we use appropriate tools to implement DevOps.

The main difference between a cloud and a data center is that a data center refers to on-premise hardware and infrastructure while the cloud refers to off-premise computing. The cloud stores your data in the public cloud while a data center stores your data on your hardware .

DevOps is NOT a product. It is a culture to enable your business to go to market faster.

If your private cloud is built to scale, then most of the DevOps practices can be applied similar to public cloud.

Both. It is not a one person task and rather requires cross functional teams to work together. It is a culture not a product or service.

There are multiple options on the cloud. For example, dedicated hosting allows you to use per socket / per use for VMs.
Continuous deployment is an agile methodology for software development whereby any code commits are given automated tests and released into production where they are immediately visible to end-users. Conversely, continuous delivery involves the release of new code to quality assurance for testing on a rapid, continuous basis.
Due to the number of relatively simple and often repetitive tasks, Artificial Intelligence for Agile/DevOps can automate to help realize great efficiencies in the CI/CD pipeline.
DevSecOps means thinking about application and infrastructure security from the start. It also means automating some security gates to keep the DevOps workflow from slowing down.
By implementing agile methodologies.

One of the components of DevOps is configuration management. The key role of Conf management is to achieve automation. And automation is the core result by adopting DevOps.

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Implementing Test Data Management Processes and Tools with test automation is a must, as efficient management of data utilized for testing is necessary to supplement the testing efforts and to maximize return on investment for the highest levels of success and coverage.

This depends on the model chosen by the client which will help define what security aspect of the shared responsibility model will each party be responsible for.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) — Customers are responsible for securing their data and user access.
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) — Customers are responsible for securing their data, user access, and applications.
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) — Customers are responsible for securing their data, user access, applications, operating systems, and virtual network traffic.

By training and enabling cross functional teams and making change a positive aspect of the work environment.

Helps in evaluating the current setup in order to take decisions in cost optimization, security, and operation ehancement.
Yes. We offer SASE modelled XDR for cloud workloads as well as Management of the Security solutions deployed on public cloud workloads
DevOps VSM is a visual representation of how IT and business build, deploy, and manage workflows. It helps build, analyze, and share the work in all stages with developers and stakeholders for better understanding all around. By mapping out the current DevOps stream, identifying the waste in it, and building new DevOps stream, it communicates the changes to the organization.

There are many. One of them is the lack of actual tool knowledge from the various tools available. Adding to this, focusing on choosing the right tools before understanding the bigger picture will lead to failure.

Automation and collaboration.
  • Ensures that all services, applications, and resources are running on the servers properly.
  • Monitors the status of servers and determines if applications are working correctly or not.
  • Enables continuous audit, transaction inspection, and controlled monitoring.
Automate the little and regular processes to begin with.
We’ve actually seen a higher adoption to cloud during COVID. This has resulted in many enterprises trying to replicate on-prem security on the cloud. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work. Cloud Security is a little different. Security is more oriented towards zero trust, IAM and SASE.

If the question is, “do we do DevSecOps?”, then the answer is Yes. Need more clarity what *this* is.

It depends on the business model of the organization.
End to end testing is the category of tests that’s drawn at the top of the testing pyramid which gives a guideline to the number of tests we should have. Because they are easy to write and maintain, and fast to run, it’s valuable to have many unit tests. Unit test is the lowest level of testing where programmers write a small routine to test the routine they are actually writing.

By performing an initial Assessment, we can understand the business cycle and apps environment and we would then be able to recommend a platform based on your current workload.

The best place to start automating security best practices is the CI/CD pipeline. With the help of static and dynamic analysis tools we can identify vulnerabilities that were missed out during the development and testing stages. The idea is to improve the security and quality of the overall code.
Centralized Version Control is a version control system using server/client model and server contains all the history of source code. Distributed Version Control is a version control where each client can have same copy of source code as server has and both server and client maintain history of source code.
Some modules provide pay-as-u-go model.
No. An assessment will give the answer based on ur workload.

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Companies can select the best provider for each specific workload, and don’t become beholden to a single cloud provider’s services, infrastructure, or pricing model.
DevOps is not related to a public or private cloud provider.
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This means that there is an issue in the agile process because if the best practices are applied right, debugging won’t be an issue.

This is a generic question. What we aim to provide is a framework with a converged offering of delivering unified threat and data protection capabilities. Cloud security is unique and we aim to offer a solution where we can help secure cloud workloads

Combining two distinct departments and processes (development and operations) leads to increased transparency and focus on continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous testing, continuous deployment, continuous operations, and continuous collaboration.

As AWS Premier Consulting Partner, we can assure you that AWS supports more security standards and compliance certifications than any other offering, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST 800-171, helping customers satisfy compliance requirements for virtually every regulatory agency around the globe.
There is no specific language that we would recommend.

A lot of the public cloud offerings already have certifications like HIPAA, DESC’s compliance, PCIDSS etc. This offsets the need to have infra compliant and customers can focus on the application level compliance.

Helps developers in:

  • Automation
  • CI/CD, Testing
  • going to market faster
  • reducing risk
  • makes it easy to rollback changes

By using security services on the cloud which helps to implement PCI- DSS compliance, for example.
By implementing the right DevOps tools.

No, our services are designed for public cloud implementations only.