Assessments & Cloud Advisory — CloudFirst
Asset discovery, cloud and security assessments, cyber-insurance readiness, migration planning and a ransomware financial impact analysis — the work that establishes what you actually have before anyone proposes changing it.
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Key Features
Most projects fail on the inventory
Migration and security programmes overrun because the estate turns out to contain systems nobody remembered. Asset discovery is unglamorous and it is where the schedule risk actually lives.
Ransomware financial impact analysis
A structured analysis identifying the true cost of an incident and mapping which security services are fully deployed, partially deployed or absent. Its real function is internal: it turns a security request into a quantified business case that a board can act on.
Cloud assessments
Establishing which workloads should move, which should stay, and what each would cost to run properly — before commitments are made rather than after the first invoice.
Cyber-security assessments
An independent read on where the controls actually stand, as distinct from where the policy documents say they stand.
Cyber-insurance compliance
Readiness work against what insurers now require. Policies increasingly demand evidence of specific controls, and discovering a gap at renewal — or at claim — is expensive.
Migration planning
Sequenced planning that accounts for dependencies, so the migration has an order rather than a list. This is where the IBM i estate and other awkward systems get surfaced instead of deferred.
Advisory before commitment
Assessment work is deliberately available ahead of any managed service commitment, which is the right sequence — and a reasonable test of whether a provider's advice is independent of what they want to sell.
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