Building compliance-focused infrastructure with robust data security and operational transparency

Cloud platforms have rapidly evolved to support critical services. Many State and Local Agencies are increasingly using commercial cloud services to fulfill policy missions due to their speed, efficiency, and accessibility; especially, during the pandemic times when traffic surges and remote workforce demands are met utilizing those cloud services. The cloud-enabled applications and services are developed and deployed rapidly. However, the availability of these services is also often impacted by outages. These outages happen due to Denial of Service attacks that compromise the shared security posture of cloud-enabled services, vulnerability, and misconfiguration exploitable through cascading and amplitude overspill effects, hyper-scaling resource and burst behavior that overshoot for resources, functional integrity risks, and physical data center threats. As sensitive data moves into cloud services, so does concern for data security. Therefore, it is crucial to build infrastructure that defends against such outages. Such additional defensive measures can help agencies manage their workload demands without interruption, fulfilling their mission.