Dead Simple Computing / Selected work
Security reviews, cloud migrations and certification. Seven records of the situation, the work and the outcome.
Clients are described by sector. How we describe the work
Each record describes the work completed in that engagement. The Business Premium case covers a pattern of rollouts across several organisations.
A professional services firm asked us to identify its security gaps. The review found 12 risks, several critical. We remediated the findings and moved the firm onto managed services.
Read case studyA defence business moved from separate access arrangements to centralised authorisation on Entra ID, with single sign on, device lockdown and Conditional Access across its platforms.
Read case studyA manufacturer moved its file server, Active Directory and line of business applications from ageing on-premises servers to hosted cloud infrastructure, connected by VPN.
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More than fifty users at an aerospace business moved to Microsoft 365. Email, files and user profiles were transferred through a staged and tested cutover.
Read case studyA construction business moved from no formal IT management to Cyber Essentials certification in eight weeks, with device management, a hosted VPN, written policies and managed patching.
Read case studyAcross several organisations, we configured the security tools behind a basic Microsoft 365 setup: Microsoft Defender, Intune and Conditional Access.
Read case studyA financial services team working remotely adopted desktop virtualisation, with bring your own device access and a centrally managed environment for its work and data.
Read case studyWe first establish the systems, people and decisions involved. That gives the work an agreed scope and a way to check its outcome.
Review the existing environment and the business requirements before proposing changes.
Set out priorities, responsibilities and the sequence of the work, including any dependencies.
Document what was changed, what was checked and any further actions.
Client confidentiality
The clients in these records are described by sector. We publish client names only with written consent, which has not been given for these engagements.
The records explain the business problem, the work and the reported outcome. They omit identifying details and operational information that could expose a client’s systems.
Figures refer to the individual case. Illustrations explain a concept; they do not show a client’s infrastructure, staff or premises.
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