Azure provides a wide array of configurable security options and the ability to customize them as per your organization’s cloud security requirements with a centralized way to manage your on-premise or Azure environments through the Azure Unified Security Framework.

SNP Offers:

• Data Security Services – Data security and privacy risks are becoming more prominent in the business fabric of small to large organizations today. Businesses across the globe are facing productivity loss and are running at a higher data security risk. SNP’s data-centric consulting and integration services incorporate a risk-based strategy with leading data protection solutions to protect your organization’s critical data across its lifecycle.
• Network Security – SNP’s network security solutions deliver a reliable, resilient network infrastructure that is secured from the edge to the core, from client to server, and provide pre-emptive security that helps ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance. Some of our network security solutions include- Firewall/ VPN, Advanced threat protection, WAN optimization, Endpoint protection, authentication, vulnerability management, etc.
• Coud Application Security – Add and test security features within applications to prevent security vulnerabilities against threats by enabling application security. With this feature, SNP will enable you to configure network security as a natural extension of an application’s structure, allowing you to group virtual machines and define network security policies based on these groups.

SNP’s Azure Advanced Threat Protection cloud service helps customers identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions directed at their organization.

SNP’s Offers:

• Monitor and profile user behavior and activities Azure Advanced – Threat Protection monitors and analyzes user activities and information across your network, such as permissions and group membership, creating a behavioral baseline for each user. We help you identify anomalies with adaptive built-in intelligence, giving you insights into suspicious activities and events, revealing the advanced threats, compromised users, and insider threats facing your organization.
• Protect user identities – Azure Advanced Threat Protection provides you invaluable insights on identity configurations and suggested security best-practices. Leveraging Azure Threat Protection security reports, SNP helps you identify users and devices that authenticate using clear-text passwords and provide additional insights to improve your organizational security posture and policies.
• Identify suspicious activities – Identify attempts to compromise user credentials using brute force attacks, failed authentications, user group membership changes, and other methods.
• Investigate alerts and user activities – Azure ATP is designed to reduce general alert noise, providing only relevant, important security alerts in a simple, real-time organizational attack timeline. The Azure ATP attack timeline view allows you to easily stay focused on what matters, leveraging the intelligence of smart analytics. With seamless integration with Windows Defender ATP, customers get another layer of enhanced security by additional detection and protection against advanced persistent threats on the operating system.

SNP’s Hybrid Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions help organizations protect their business-critical applications and data at the front gate. Organizations are better equipped to defend against hostile login attempts and protect credentials with risk-based access controls, identity protection tools, and strong validation options, without hampering the productivity.

SNP Offers:

Multi-Factor Authentication Service

Leveraging multi-factor authentication, SNP helps you immediately increase your account security by requiring multiple forms of verification to prove your identity when signing into an application.
With multi-factor authentication we:

• We help your organization design an additional layer of security that is best suited for your business needs.
• Ensure you have a back-door entry as a fail-safe for your environment.
• We help you secure your privileged access.
• We simplify the login process by having Microsoft authenticator application.
• Embed multi-factor authentication for your applications including Single Sign-On (SSO) enabled applications.

Azure Active Directory Federation Services

With Active Directory Federation Services, SNP provides a simplified, secured identity federation and Web single sign-on (SSO) capabilities. Federation with Azure AD or O365 enables users to authenticate using on-premises credentials and access all resources in the cloud. As a result, it becomes important to have a highly available ADFS infrastructure to ensure access to resources both on-premises and in the cloud. Deploying ADFS in Azure can help achieve the high availability, scalability, cross-geo redundancy and ease of management with minimal efforts.
With ADFS SNP helps enterprises:

• Design their ADFS farm which is the key step for securing communication with your partner organization.
• We make sure ADFS is always available to the user since it is the center of authentication.
• Our design solution will extend your ADFS infrastructure to Azure.
• We eliminate the need for users to remember multiple login credentials for multiple applications.
• Organizations will have the power to manage and maintain user identity at their end.
• User lifecycle management minimizes the risk.

Azure Active Directory Services

With Azure Active Directory, enterprises get a cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps employees sign in and access resources in:

• External resources such as Office 365 and numerous other SaaS applications.
• Internal resources such as apps on corporate intranet or cloud apps developed by your organization.

SNP helps your organization integrate your on-premises active directory to Azure active directory by using different methods:

• Pass-Hash Sync – The simplest way to enable authentication for on-premise active directory objects in Azure active directory. Users can access their on-premises credentials to access cloud-based applications running on Azure.
• Pass-Through Authentication – This authentication is facilitated via light-weight agents installed on existing servers. These agents have the permission to access to on-premise active directory controllers and outbound access to the internet.
• Federation Authentication – Here Azure AD redirects the user to ADFS as the authentication domain is configured as the federation domain. The ADFS server authenticates the user with on-premise AD.

Leveraging Active Directory Services, we help enterprises get a

• A fully functional hybrid identity solution that would help our clients to leverage their on-premise applications, SaaS and Office 365.
• SNP will even implement security governance by configuring multi-factor authentication and conditional access policies depending on the organization’s needs.
• We enable self-service password reset solutions that would let users reset their passwords and reduce the burden to support services.
• We provide clients with detailed documentation to help prepare them to operate with hybrid identity, multi-factor authentication, and conditional access.

Azure Active Directory Domain Services

This service from SNP provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), and Kerberos / NTLM authentication that is fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. Some benefits include:

• Simple – No domain controller deployment or patching required.
• Available – Highly available domain with automatic remediation and backups.
• Compatible – Fully compatible with Windows Server AD, natively talks to Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP and more, and has the same functionality as your on-premise Active Directory, leaving your apps to just keep working in the cloud.
• Cost-Effective – No need for complicated VPN networking and pay-as-you-go.

SNP’s network security services are designed to protect the usability and integrity of your network and data. SNP Technologies approaches cloud security concerns by implementing business-driven security management across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

SNP’s Offers:

• Security Groups – Security groups provide the first level of protection for cloud network security. Rules allowing traffic are managed by security groups, however, there are no deny rules in security groups. The absence of a rule in this scenario acts as a denial. One of the major drawbacks of this security layer is this layer of security is directly connected to the cloud server. Hence, if there is a breach in the server then there are high chances of a breach in security groups too.
• Network Access Control Lists – Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) are responsible for providing security to the Azure cloud. Each NACL is connected to a VNet in Azure and controls all the instances in that VNet. The centralized NACLs store both allow and deny rules which makes this level of security much stronger than that in layer 1 with security groups.
• Cloud Vendor Security Solution – The best example for this is the new Microsoft Azure FWaaS. It is a next-generation secure internet gateway that acts as a shield between the cloud and the internet.
• 3rd Party Cloud Security Solution – The third-party security solutions develop and deploy firewalls protecting public cloud from the outside world, additionally, it also segments the clouds’ inner perimeter much like an on-premise network.

SNP’s data and information protection services help customers discover, classify and protect sensitive information wherever it resides. With SNP, enterprises get:

• Comprehensive coverage across devices, apps, cloud services, and on-premises.
• The flexibility to customize protection policies to meet your unique security and compliance requirements.
• Helps your team stay productive with built-in experiences in apps and services.
• Extensible
• Get additional coverage from ecosystem partners extending protection to their apps and services.

SNP’s Offers:

• Governance – This is the first and foremost information protection component that acts as the foundation. The major requirement of the governance function is the creation of the framework ensuring IP strategies are aligned with the business goals and are in accordance with all the respective laws and regulations. Governance can be best implemented through – strategic management, reporting & communication, policies, compliance with IP regulations and privacy regulations.
• Program Planning – Planning function moves ahead with what is recommended in the governance function. This is achieved by designing, developing and structuring an IP program that is compliant with the governance framework. The key elements of planning are – standards, baselines, procedures, guidelines, accountability, resources, and metrics.
• Risk Management – Risk management is the third pillar of Information protection (IP) foundation. As the name implies risk management is all about identifying and managing information security risks. Once identified, risks should be prioritized based on a predefined matrix as high, medium or low.
• Incident Response Management – This involves developing and managing the capability to respond and recover from unsettling and damaging events. The key elements of incident response management are – processing, planning, exercises, activation, documentation and continuous improvement. The incidence response management involves the coordination of an incident response team, identifying an incident reporting center and implementation of incident reporting plan.

SNP’s disaster recovery service can reliably recover your single-tier or multi-tier on-premises applications, without the need for your organization to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff. Leveraging Azure Site Recovery, SNP experts help you implement a seamless DR and backup solution by managing and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback of on-premises machines, and Azure virtual machines (VMs) and integrate them to Azure, exceeding the capabilities of most on-premises disaster recovery solutions, at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than competing solutions.

SNP’s Azure Recovery Services contribute to your BCDR strategy:

• Site Recovery service: Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location. When an outage occurs at your primary site, you fail over to a secondary location, and access apps from there. After the primary location is running again, you can fail back to it.
• Backup service: The Azure Backup service keeps your data safe and recoverable by backing it up to Azure

Data Center Disaster Recovery is the organizational planning to resume business operations following an unexpected event that may damage or destroy data, software and hardware systems.

The development of a data center disaster recovery strategy, SNP offers:

• Assess Risks to Data and Operations: Before an organization can begin looking for a data center that can address its disaster recovery needs, SNP’s thorough business assessment helps customers define their business needs, determine what costs are associated with loss of critical systems and create a comprehensive picture of all the ways a disaster could impact operations and infrastructure.
• Develop a Disaster Recovery Plan: Once risks have been identified, we help our customers develop a data center disaster recovery plan that includes a thorough assessment of data assets and mission-critical systems. We perform detailed inventories to identify where data is located, which systems should have priority in the event of a downtime situation, and which services are impacted by compliance requirements.
• Identify Off-Site Backup Locations: Backing up data off-site is one of the foundations of good disaster mitigation services. If data assets are stored in a single location, organizations open themselves up to a variety of risks, including increased downtime and in a worst-case scenario, data loss. Leveraging Azure, we set recovery objectives to determine the maximum downtime window for getting back up and running and minimizing the amount of data permanently lost due to the temporal discrepancy between a given data backup point and the data disaster event.
• Failover & Failback Testing: SNP’s thorough testing plan helps identify gaps and inaccurate assumptions that could compromise data availability or make it more difficult to get systems back online in the aftermath of a disaster. For these reasons, ongoing testing is essential to any proactive approach to disaster recovery.

A hybrid cloud approach can be advantageous to an organization’s disaster recovery strategy. Making use of both privately managed infrastructure and the public cloud, we help businesses make the most of both environments. SNP’s hybrid cloud disaster recovery gives our customers flexibility, an improved user experience, and increased resiliency.

SNP Offers:

• Discovery and assessment services of the client resources and present the discovery results.
• Prepare and present the proposed architecture.
• Provide reference documentation and video snippets.
• Backup infrastructure setup.
• Present as-built documentation of backup infrastructure.
• Present test results and recommendations.

SNP provides an integrated security & consulting approach to implement policies, processes & standards for architecture, acquisition, deployment, operation, and management of cloud computing.

SNP Offers:

• Azure Subscription Management: We help you control resource sprawl through Azure Subscription Management. Organizations can define their organizational hierarchy and subscriptions for better control and security while allowing developers to maintain their agility.
• Azure Role-Based Access (RABC): One of the best ways possible to manage Azure resources is role-based access control (RBAC). Implement role-based access control with SNP Technologies to ensure your organization’s resource allocation is limited to enable users to do their job efficiently.
• Azure Policies: Azure Policies enable real-time enforcement, compliance assessment, and remediation. With the execution of Azure Policies, SNP helps you have better control over creation, assignment, and management of cloud policies, and conduct compliance assessments for resources.
• Azure Blueprints: SNP’s experienced cloud architects help your organization deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts.
• Cost Management: Companies shift their workloads to the cloud in order to escape the high maintenance cost of on-premise solutions. However, if unmanaged and unaccounted for, even cloud costs can exceed the budget. Let SNP experts handle Azure cost management for your company to monitor cloud spend and optimize resources.
• Resource Graph: With resource graph implementation, your organization can query, explore and analyze cloud resources at scale

Azure Hybrid Connectivity gives you the ability to extend your on-premises network to Azure with consistent identity management, application logic, and operations methodology. SNP establishes hybrid connectivity from Azure to on-premises with HA/redundancy.

SNP Offers:

• The Express Route: SNP implements express route to privately connect Microsoft datacenters and the on-premises network. Express Route uses a private, dedicated connection through a third-party connectivity provider to outstretch your on-premises network into Azure.
• Virtual Private Network: Data and information flow between the on-premises network and Azure Virtual Network through the Azure Stack multi-tenant VPN gateway. SNP facilitates site-to-site VPN using marketplace appliance to securely connect on-premises with Azure cloud.
• SD-WAN: Connect your global offices, remote locations, point of sales, and sites seamlessly with Azure Global Network. It gives organizations the flexibility to deploy, monitor and manage their sites and connected virtual networks through unified portal experience. SNP deploys software-defined connectivity which allows automatic branch connectivity on a global scale.
• Load Balancer: By having built-in load balancing for cloud applications and virtual machines, your organization can create highly agile and scalable applications in minutes. Now organizations can scale applications and create high availability for all services.

This enables the organization to have a common login to the organization’s infrastructure and applications.

SNP Offers:

• Azure Active Directory Connect: Integrate on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory, allowing common identity.
• Domain Controllers on Azure: Provide high availability for your on-premise AD infrastructure.
• Managed Domains: Managed Domains on Azure helps build a Dev/Test environment that can be isolated from your on-premise AD infrastructure.
• Federation on Azure: Extend your ADFS farm on Azure for high availability.
• Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On: This provides users with easy access to cloud-based applications without requiring any additional on-premises components.

Azure Unified Security brings in the capability of a centralized security management system for on-premises infrastructure and Azure Cloud.

SNP Offers:

• Azure Security Center: This is a hybrid security management tool and threat protection solution. It enables organizations to have control over centralized policy management, advance cloud defenses, prioritized alerts and incidents, integrated security solutions and threat detection.
• Network Security: Network security provides advance cloud defenses, prioritized alerts and incidents, integrated security solutions and threat detection. Network security groups contain security rules that allow or deny inbound or outbound network traffic from several types of Azure resources. It allows grouping of network traffic rules as security groups using Azure’s NSG (Network Security Group).
• Azure Network Watcher: Organizations can monitor, diagnose and gain insight into their network performance and health. They can remotely capture packet data for virtual machines. Monitor virtual machine network using flow logs and security group view. It also helps diagnose VPN connectivity issues.
• WAF & WAS: Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects against web attacks and simplifies security management without requiring any application changes.

Azure Arc is a bridge that extends the Azure platform to help you build applications and services with the flexibility to run across datacenters, at the edge, and in multicloud environments. Develop cloud-native applications with a consistent development, operations, and security model. 

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For more than 20 years, Windows Server has been the operating system of choice for enterprise workloads—but the cloud is increasingly an alternative destination. And as extended support ends for workloads on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on January 14, 2020, it could be time to evaluate new options that help you innovate and modernize with cloud technologies. Our solutions for Windows Server management, security, auditing, and migration elevate performance. Take advantage of unique Windows Server tools and solutions for:

• Automation and provisioning
• Compliance with regulations such as HIPAA and more
• Security
• Capacity, configuration, and permissions reporting
• Migration and directory consolidation

SNP’s Windows Server Migration Process:

By breaking down the migration process into four steps—Assess, Migrate, Optimize, and Secure and Manage—SNP helps you solve the most pressing migration challenges and deliver the reliability, performance, and security your business stakeholders expect.

• Assess – SNP will undertake a detailed assessment of the client’s existing environment to understand what they have, where it is stored, what are the functions it’s performing, and if it is eligible for migration to cloud or for an upgrade on-premises. The assessment phase result is a listicle of items that have been discovered, ranked as per the business impact and value and a roadmap for the migration.
• Migrate – We use tools such as Azure Site Recovery to rehost virtual machines and Azure Database Migration Services to migrate databases to Azure. Based on each client requirement, we either refactor applications with container services or rebuild or re-architect.
• Optimize – The most important task after migration is to make sure that day the operations are run smoothly. Managing subscriptions and servers are the part of the job and Azure should be scaled up/down to meet the business needs.
• Secure and Manage – We ensure that the client’s Azure environment is safe and compliant. Security is strengthened and compliance is ensured across the hybrid cloud environment using services like Azure Security Center.

Choosing a migration approach:

Based on workload type, criticality, risk assessment, and other factors, you will choose the next steps for each workload and app. SNP offers four solid options, each of which will be explored in detail later in this guide.

• Rehosting workloads on the Azure, using Azure virtual machines: This approach works well for self-contained workloads running on Windows Server. Use Azure Site Recovery or other commercial tools to migrate the machine images from physical or virtual machines to Azure Virtual Machines and use Azure networking services to tie them back to your datacenters.
• Refactor the applications: Do this with minimal coding by placing apps in containers and moving the containers to Azure. You will likely find this process to be the quickest and safest route to move legacy LOB applications.
• Re-Architect or Rebuild applications to take full advantage of advanced managed services in Azure. This approach requires more time and a larger investment than rehosting or refactoring, but it can deliver improved agility, performance, and resilience at a lower total cost of ownership.
• Upgrade on-premises: You might need to keep apps and workloads on-premises, but still need to improve security, reliability, and flexibility. Upgrading these applications to the latest version of Windows Server delivers these benefits whether you adopt a DevOps model or stick with conventional operations. Whatever operating model you use, upgrading to the latest version of Windows Server helps you reduce maintenance costs while simultaneously allowing you to improve your operational processes.

SNP Offers:

• Manage User Accounts in Windows Server: SNP helps you manage access controls, permissions, and security across your windows servers from a single console. Easily identify users with rights to resources across your organization to grant, revoke, modify and overwrite permissions to ensure data integrity.
• Windows Server Security: Our security solutions deliver user and group access control, with real-time visibility and reporting on user activity and permissions which ensures your Windows environment is secure before moving to the cloud.
• Windows Server Compliance: SNP ensures companies achieve and maintain continuous compliance with many regulations including HIPAA and many more. Inventory your infrastructure, audit changes over time, prevent unauthorized changes in real-time, automate data collection across your Active Directory infrastructure -all from a single interface.
• Windows Server Storage: Manage storage device capacity and allocation by users, departments, servers, etc. Easily perform capacity planning and pre-migration analysis, and enforce storage policies with predefined, customizable reporting tools.
• Windows Server Storage: Simplify data protection and ensure continuous access to your crucial Windows-based systems, applications, and data running on physical and virtual servers on-premises and in the cloud. You can reduce the risk of data loss and damage with full incremental and differential backups and address demanding RTOs and RPOs.

SNP has successfully migrated many clients operating on Linux to Azure, assisting them to run their applications in their way and manage the workloads securely and effectively with their chosen Linux distribution on Azure.

Applying lift and shift strategy or rehosting strategy, we move your apps for quick migration of your complete solution. Our migration specialists use a repeatable, proven process that assures the highest levels of availability and fastest migration times possible. We utilize automation tools to rapidly discover interdependencies between applications, storage, and servers, reducing the overall end-to-end server engagements from months to weeks.

SNP’s Offers:

Innovation with Azure

• Leveraging Azure, we use all the Linux tools and commands that our customers are comfortable with to ease their migration journey.
• Perform troubleshooting with integrated technical support for your virtual machines.

Security Services

• With built-in controls for identity, networking, data and security management, we ensure our customers get best-in-class security for their applications and workloads with Azure.
• Detect threats, gain instant insights into your security state and compliance, and follow recommendations to respond to threats and improve your overall security posture with Azure Security Center.
• Simplify security operations and speed up threat response time with Azure Sentinel, an AI-based, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) service.
• Protect against identity threats across your Linux and Windows workloads with role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Active Directory.

Governance and Management

• SNP helps you balance compliance and business agility using governance tools like Azure policy and Azure blueprints.
• Manage your cloud spend with transparency and accuracy with SNP’s Azure cost management services.
• We simplify data protection and help safeguard your business from ransomware and human errors with Azure backup.
• Leveraging Azure Site Recovery, we help customers minimize downtime and ensure business continuity during planned and unplanned outages.
• With our managed governance and optimization services you get full visibility into your applications and infrastructure.

Hybrid cloud capabilities

• Build a truly consistent hybrid cloud by integrating your on-premises and cloud environments with Azure Stack.
• Apply containers to your hybrid Red Hat workloads with Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
• Improve the upload and download speeds of your hybrid high-performance computing (HPC) workloads at the edge with built-in, high-speed data storage from Azure.
• Get high throughput and low latency for all endorsed Linux distributions with Azure.

You may already be taking advantage of cloud computing. If so, your cloud migration scenario could involve transitioning from one cloud provider to another. SNP offers multi-cloud integration services where customers can easily move workloads from private and public clouds to Azure, such as AWS, VMware, Hyper-V, Google Cloud Platform, etc. to any environment.

SNP’s Offers:

• Agility – Simplification of the complex tools, processes, and environments by leveraging Azure, and increasing time to production.
• Visibility & Control – Complete transparency over workloads, tenants and users.
• Total migration – We make sure that you experience successful cloud migration while managing existing tools.
• Reduced costs – Our team of Azure engineers leverage Azure to reduce the overhead costs..

Organizations that have adopted the cloud-first strategy have initially gone to either Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure. However, being on AWS proved to be a bottleneck for many organizations due to reasons like overhead expenses, geographic unavailability. SNP Technologies with Microsoft provides Azure Site Recovery (ASR) as one of the most reliable solutions to migrate workloads from Amazon Web Services to Azure. SNP would lead a seamless migration leveraging ASR in a few simple steps and help you to be productive from day one.

With its impeccable presence in the enterprise market, Microsoft Azure has become the chosen platform for cloud-first organizations. The hybrid cloud strategy adopted by Microsoft has turned out to be the best in the industry as it is able to provide service and workload mobility between on-premises and in-cloud workloads. SNP Technologies being Microsoft Gold Partner leverages Azure Site Recovery to migrate VMWare and Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure.

VMs can be migrated in two ways:

• Migrating through agentless replication or
• Migration with an agent for replication.

SNP Technologies would access Azure Migration services to track discovery, assessment, and migration of your Hyper-V and VMWare VMs to Azure.