Cloud Infrastructure Design and Build for Mortgage Servicing Company

Business Challenge

• Correct security configuration so external entities cannot gain access to their environment, leaving their systems vulnerable to breaches.
• Move applications from the company’s data center to the cloud since the cloud migration was stopped and all applications were reverted back to local.

Solution

Cloud foundation framework including:

• Review of legacy environment
• Whiteboard session to develop hybrid cloud design
• Design included core cloud configurations, standards and governance, identity access management (IAM), networking interconnectivity, security and operational processes
• Network redesign into hybrid configuration using a hub and spoke topology based on Palo Alto’s VM-Series NGFW (next-generation firewall)
•  Azure with the new network design

Business Outcomes

• Highly available hybrid network design utilizing redundant Palo Alto firewalls

• A secure platform for IT modernization through the implementation of an Azure landing zone

• Faster more confident deployment of cloud infrastructure with Lightstream