7 Steps to Creating an Effective Playbook

playbook

When incidents occur in a cloud environment, it’s critical that everyone knows how to act to ensure a reliable response and swift resolution. The playbook is one key tool to help guide a user through all the steps necessary to make a full recovery.

Adopt AI Responsibly with Proactive AI Security

AI Security

With AI becoming increasingly important in everyday workflows, AI security is an urgent issue, especially for organizations handling sensitive data. These 4 key elements to adopting a proactive AI security posture will help you use AI effectively and safely. Read the full post to learn more.

Cloud Culture & the Samtek Difference 

cloud culture

When problems arise in a cloud adoption effort, the cause tends to be issues associated with an organization’s culture, rather than actual issues with the technology itself. To prevent these issues, organizations need to foster a cloud culture with the right team structures and capabilities.  

Advancing the Government’s Cloud Modernization Story with Microsoft Azure

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Federal agencies face the challenge of modernizing while meeting strict security and compliance mandates across hybrid environments. Samtek’s comprehensive Azure for Government services help agencies meet their mission objectives with greater speed, security, and efficiency—while ensuring continuous improvement, cost optimization, and compliance.

Landing Zone Automation at Scale

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Landing zones are a critical part of today’s cloud environments. Because agencies need upwards of thousands of landing zones operationalized, manual deployment can’t keep up with demand. Automating the landing zone deployment process can lead to rapid delivery, enhanced cybersecurity, and better costs.

Cloud Readiness Assessments for the Government

readiness assessments

A Cloud Readiness Assessment (CRA) can help you prevent budget overruns and operational failures before you decide to bring an application to the cloud. Samtek offers a CRA to evaluate your agency’s technical, operational, and security posture before migrating to help ensure success.

Automating Custom Compliance Scanning in AWS

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Current AWS-provided instance compliance scanning is limited to the vanilla profiles within Amazon Inspector. However, Samtek can build a solution that leverages the document by deploying an SSM Automation Association that runs various Chef InSpec profiles against multiple operating systems within the environment.