Cloud · Security & Compliance

Secure your cloud like your auditors are watching — because they are.

Q: How do you handle CMMC compliance?

We design cloud architecture aligned to CMMC Level 2 (or Level 3) practices — CUI protection, access control, audit logging, and incident response. The architecture provides the technical controls; your organization provides the policies and procedures.

Q: Do you provide ongoing security monitoring?

Yes. We offer managed security operations that include continuous monitoring, alert triage, vulnerability management, and incident response. Or we design the monitoring architecture and hand it off to your team.

Q: How often is DR tested?

We recommend quarterly DR testing for critical workloads. We design DR procedures with automated testing capabilities and conduct the initial DR test as part of implementation. Ongoing testing can be managed by your team or included in managed operations.

Operationally complex businesses handle ITAR-controlled data, customer financial information, proprietary product designs, and supply chain intelligence. Moving to the cloud doesn’t change your compliance obligations — it changes how you meet them. We design cloud security that satisfies auditors and protects your operation.

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The Problem

Moving to the Cloud Doesn't Remove Your Compliance Obligations

Cloud problems usually start when infrastructure is moved before ownership, recovery, cost control, and data dependencies are designed around the AI, ERP, and integration workloads.

What leaders see

The system is in the cloud, but risk still feels local.

Performance, outage exposure, security questions, backup confidence, and monthly spend are still hard to explain.

What is actually happening

The environment was sized around assumptions.

Workload behavior, recovery requirements, network paths, observability, and operating accountability were not designed together.

What gets worse

The cloud becomes another rented server room.

The business pays for flexibility without gaining a stronger foundation for AI, ERP control, reporting, and data readiness.

What Changes

What this work should improve.

Identity & Access Management

Role-based access control, least-privilege policies, MFA enforcement, and service account governance. Every user and system has exactly the access they need and nothing more.

Network Security

VPC segmentation, security groups, WAF, DDoS protection, and private connectivity to on-premise. Network architecture designed to isolate workloads and limit blast radius.

Encryption

Data encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+). Key management with customer-managed keys where compliance requires it. Encryption applied consistently across all storage and communication layers.

Compliance Frameworks

Architecture designed to meet SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, NIST 800-171, and industry-specific requirements. Control mapping documentation that auditors can use directly.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Automated backups with defined RPO/RTO targets, cross-region replication for critical workloads, and documented DR procedures that are tested regularly — not just written.

Security Monitoring & Incident Response

Cloud-native security monitoring (GuardDuty, Security Center), centralized logging, alert routing, and documented incident response procedures. Threats detected and responded to, not just logged.

How It Fits Your Operations

Where this work touches your business.

Operating infrastructure and data readinessWhich workloads move first, what has to stay isolated, and how rollback works.

Governance dependencyThe infrastructure has to support uptime, recovery, security, observability, cost control, and data access before AI depends on it.

Systems the foundation supports

ERP workloads

databases

API services

backups

logs and cost data

What Launchpad captures before Metrotechs scopes delivery

Which system owns the record of truth.
Where manual work or reconciliation enters the workflow.
Which integrations, rules, or data cleanup have to come first.

Bring the problem into Launchpad

Build the Roadmap before you build the solution.

Launchpad documents what is wrong, captures what your team knows, and connects this service to the business outcome it needs to improve.

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Built around the people, processes, records, and decisions that make the business work.

Measured by what becomes easier, clearer, safer, or more reliable after launch.

Delivery sequence

How the work moves from problem to measurable change.

Operationally complex businesses handle ITAR-controlled data, customer financial information, proprietary product designs, and supply chain intelligence. Moving to the cloud.

Compliance Assessment

Identify all compliance requirements — regulatory, contractual, and internal policy. Map requirements to cloud security controls and identify gaps.

Security Architecture

Design the security architecture — IAM, networking, encryption, monitoring, and DR — with controls mapped to each compliance requirement.

Implementation

Implement security controls as infrastructure-as-code for consistency and auditability. Every control is version-controlled and reproducible.

Validation & Audit Prep

Validate controls against compliance requirements. Generate control documentation, evidence packages, and audit-ready reports.

FAQ

Questions that usually decide the scope.

Straight answers to what operators ask before committing budget to this work.

Can AWS/Azure meet ITAR requirements?

Yes. AWS GovCloud and Azure Government provide ITAR-compliant infrastructure. We design the architecture to ensure ITAR-controlled data stays within compliant regions and access is restricted to US persons as required.

How do you handle CMMC compliance?

Do you provide ongoing security monitoring?

How often is DR tested?