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01Services

Network & cloud

Connected, wherever you operate.

Head office, branches, warehouses, people at home and a handful of cloud services: your business runs across all of them. We connect them securely, keep apart what should stay apart, and keep your cloud configuration in line with how your people actually work.

  1. Head office
  2. Branch
  3. Warehouse
  4. Secure backboneEncrypted
  5. Cloud servicesChecked for drift
  6. Guest Wi-FiKept apart
Every site through one secure spine.Each site reaches what it needs through one secure backbone, and the cloud behind it. The guest network reaches nothing it shouldn’t, and the warehouse has a second way in.

01.1Without it

What usually goes wrong.

  • Everything can reach everything.On a flat network, one compromised device in one site can see the rest of the business.
  • Cloud settings drift.Services set up in a hurry stay that way: open storage, forgotten test systems, permissions nobody reviewed.
  • One link carries it all.A single connection between sites and systems turns a cut cable into a stopped operation.

01.2What it covers

Four parts of one job.

  • Secure connectivityEncrypted links between sites, people and cloud services.
  • Cloud configurationA secure, reviewed baseline for the platforms you use.
  • SegmentationNetworks divided by purpose, so trouble in one stays there.
  • ArchitectureA design that fits how the business works, and grows with it.

Works with what you already run

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Fortinet
  • Cisco Meraki
  • Palo Alto Networks

Where it hands over

01.3How it runs

Four steps, then it keeps running.

Scoped and priced before it starts: a fixed fee for the first phase, then a monthly fee for what carries on. Stop after the first phase and you keep everything.

  1. 01Draw the mapEvery site, link and cloud service on one page, with what talks to what, and why.
  2. 02Separate by purposeGuests, offices, tills, machines and servers on networks of their own, with only the paths they need between them.
  3. 03Secure the cloud baselineConfiguration checked against a standard and watched for drift, in every account you use.
  4. 04Plan the second routeBackup connectivity where an outage would stop the business, tested before it is needed.

After the first phaseTypically 6–12 weeks

  • A one-page map of every site, link and cloud account.
  • Networks separated by purpose, one boundary at a time.
  • A secure baseline, checked in every cloud account.
  • A second route where an outage would stop the business, tested.

Then, every month

  • Drift from the cloud baseline caught and put right.
  • Network and firewall changes made through one reviewed process.
  • New sites and services joined to the same design.

What we need from you

  • Access to your network equipment and cloud accounts.
  • A contact at each site, and at your connectivity providers.
  • Agreed times to change each boundary.

01.4What you get

What is different afterwards.

  • Sites that connect without exposing each other.Each location reaches the systems it needs, and nothing more.
  • Cloud settings that don’t drift.A known-good configuration, and a warning when something moves away from it.
  • An architecture you can explain on one page.So the next decision — a new site, a new service — starts from a clear picture.

01.5Where it matters most

Where it carries the most weight.

A case · LogisticsEvery device on the floor, accounted for.One inventory, kept true automatically.A field note · 24 Sept 2026Your network trusts everything that’s plugged into it.4 min read

01.6Straight answers

What people ask about it.