risual has a long-standing relationship with a client in the Central Government sector. This client focuses primarily on supporting the UK’s public services, offering impartial financial administration to the wider government and providing financial support where appropriate. The Central Government client  

The client is planning to migrate services to the cloud (Azure and AWS) and is developing a security strategy to ensure that sensitive data is protected. The consultancy team at Microsoft (supported by risual) was tasked with providing guidance to support the encryption of data when hosted on Azure virtual machines. 

A report was produced which detailed the available encryption options with benefits and drawbacks of each approach. A generic version of the technical content is published here: Azure VM Encryption – risual 

The report now forms part of the client’s security strategy that all customer groups (semi-autonomous departments) must follow. 

The correct guidance may be useful when advising the wider client base. 

Here is an overview of the benefits:  

Clear advice to determine most appropriate encryption option  
Consistency of deployment through detailed instructions 
Customer confidence in security of cloud infrastructure 

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