We established our partnership with W2 almost five years ago, when we were initially brought in to support their Office 365 environment.
However, after experiencing organic growth and an increase in remote working, they needed additional support to unite their devices and cloud systems. After utilising a variety of solutions, such as Rackspace for virtual datacentre services and GitHub as their preferred code storage system, they needed to streamline and unify their infrastructure.
As W2 were already using a selection of Microsoft services, for example, some users had started to adopt OneDrive for cloud storage. We recommended Azure AD and Intune to provide them with the modern workplace solution they required.
Utilising Microsoft technology, we migrated W2’s entire infrastructure to the cloud. We designed a scalable cloud infrastructure that incorporated their corporate, development and production environments, making it easy for W2 to deploy and maintain all devices across the organisation moving forward.
Crucially, we combined this with virtual cloud servers in Azure alongside Fortinet best-of-breed firewalls. In doing so, we helped W2 build the foundations of a zero-trust framework, enabling a wholly secure, cloud-based IT infrastructure across multiple sites.
The two major benefits of this project were W2’s ability to completely manage their devices remotely and to deploy robust security policies and processes throughout their entire cloud estate.
It was important to take a security-first mindset throughout the project; that is why we also implemented Microsoft’s complete Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) suite. With EMS, W2 can now improve their protection, detection and response capabilities throughout their remote workforce.
EMS also increases the security features of Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, with further capabilities extending across W2’s infrastructure. The essential benefits of EMS include:
✅Identity and access management – ensuring secure connections between people, devices, apps and data.
✅ Microsoft Cloud App Security – a cloud access security broker that provides discovery insights, behavioural analytics, risk assessments and data protection.
✅ Information protection – protecting sensitive business data everywhere, even in transit and when shared.
✅ Threat protection – using adaptive, built-in intelligence to detect and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities and malicious actions across the complete cloud environment.
✅ Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – providing endpoint protection, detection and response (EDR), vulnerability management and mobile threat defence.
By providing W2 with a truly modern Microsoft 365 solution, we have facilitated a secure, cloud-first workplace for their entire organisation.
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