Protect your data
Ensure sensitive data is appropriately secured through identity, access, permissions and platform controls — from source systems through to reports and end users.
Data & Analytics — Cloud Analytics Security & Governance
Build Cloud Analytics on Secure Foundations
Security and governance are fundamental to a successful cloud analytics environment. We help organisations assess and strengthen the architecture, controls and governance surrounding their Microsoft analytics platforms — drawing on practical experience from designing, deploying and managing those environments.
Why Cloud Analytics Security & Governance?
Cloud analytics platforms grow quickly. New data sources, users, workspaces, reports and services create value — but they also introduce new security, governance and management requirements. Getting the foundations right makes it far easier to scale analytics while staying in control.
Maintain control
Establish clear ownership, roles, policies and governance across your analytics environment, reducing the risks created by uncontrolled growth and inconsistent practices.
Design for compliance
Build security, auditability, data protection and regulatory requirements into the architecture rather than addressing them after deployment.
Scale with confidence
Create an environment that can support more data, users and analytics use cases without compromising security, manageability or performance.
We Hold Ourselves to the Same Standard
Our guidance on cloud analytics security and governance is grounded in the controls and disciplines we apply to our own organisation. MedModus is independently certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for information security management and certified under Cyber Essentials Plus — so the security posture we recommend is one we maintain ourselves.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Independently audited information security management system, certified by BSI.
Cyber Essentials Plus
UK government-backed scheme covering core technical controls against common cyber threats.
Microsoft Azure-certified team
Our cloud security and governance work is backed by Microsoft Azure certifications in administration, solutions architecture and database administration.
Azure Administrator Associate
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Azure Database Administrator Associate
Our Proven Approach
Security and governance grounded in real-world delivery. Our approach has developed through designing, implementing and operating cloud analytics environments for healthcare and other organisations — so we assess your controls in the context of how your platform actually works, not as an isolated compliance exercise.
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Understand
We review your analytics architecture, data flows, users, operating model and the security and governance arrangements you already have in place.
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Assess
We assess identity and access, data security, environment separation, platform configuration, monitoring, resilience, governance and operational controls.
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Prioritise
We identify gaps and risks and translate them into practical recommendations, separating immediate priorities from longer-term improvements.
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Strengthen
Where required, we help implement the recommended controls and architecture, embedding security and governance into the ongoing operation of your analytics environment.
Security and Governance in Practice
Our security and governance expertise has been developed through real analytics deployments, where protecting data and establishing appropriate controls were essential to successful delivery.
HSE Dublin and Midlands Health Region
Securing regional healthcare analytics at scale
A secure, governed and cost-managed cloud analytics environment serving around 400 users across seven hospitals.
- hospitals on one governed environment
- 7hospitals on one governed environment
- users with centrally managed access
- ~400users with centrally managed access
Navi Group
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A GitHub Actions CI/CD framework giving Fabric a proper software development lifecycle across three environments.
- Fabric environments under CI/CD
- 3Fabric environments under CI/CD
- promotion via GitHub Actions
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Independent review
How Well Governed Is Your Cloud Analytics Environment?
As analytics environments evolve, security and governance arrangements do not always evolve with them. Our Cloud Analytics Security & Governance Review gives you an independent assessment of your current environment and practical opportunities to strengthen its security, governance and management.
The review can cover
- Architecture and platform configuration
- Identity, roles and access
- Data security and protection
- Development and production separation
- Monitoring and auditability
- Resilience and recovery
- Governance and ownership
- Microsoft Fabric and Azure good practice