Konect

Cloud and critical digital infrastructure

Building and operating infrastructure whose location, availability and reversibility are under control.

The issue

The problem as it presents itself.

Infrastructure has become a question of sovereignty: where the data resides, who holds the keys, and what happens if the relationship with the supplier ends. Those answers must be known before deployment, not after.

Intended outcome

What the organisation gets.

Infrastructure whose location is known, whose availability is measured, and whose exit was planned at design time.

Before committing

Four preliminary questions.

An organisation that cannot answer these questions does not yet have a programme: it has an intention. Formulating them costs less than discovering them mid-delivery.

  1. 01For each system, do you know in which country the processing runs and where the backups reside?
  2. 02Who holds the encryption keys, and who can technically reach the data in clear?
  3. 03How long would it take to rebuild the whole environment from nothing?
  4. 04Is the exit plan from your current supplier written, costed and enforceable?

Our role

What we take on.

  • Architecture decisions expressed against sovereignty and continuity requirements.
  • Automation of deployment and of full reconstruction.
  • Monitoring, capacity and performance management.
  • Exit and reversibility plan formalised before go-live.
  • Maintenance in operational and security condition.

Security

Principles applied.

  • Encryption keys held by the client where required.
  • Isolation of environments and separation of administrative roles.
  • Encrypted backups with restoration tested periodically.
  • Resilience to the loss of a site and to power interruption.

Deployment

Available modes.

  • National data centres.
  • Hybrid environment.
  • Environment isolated from the public network.

The mode depends on the organisation’s own sovereignty, continuity and classification requirements. It is settled before design, not after.

Deployment modes

Encryption keys held by the client organisation

Konect keeps no copy, whichever mode is chosen.

  1. National infrastructure

    • AccessPublic network
    • ProcessingPublic network
    • DataSegregated

    Execution and data residency within the organisation’s own territory.

  2. Hybrid environment

    • AccessPublic network
    • ProcessingSegregated
    • DataSegregated

    Sensitive processing stays local; the rest may be shared.

  3. Isolated environment

    • AccessSegregated
    • ProcessingSegregated
    • DataSegregated

    No link to the public network. Exchanges pass through a controlled transfer.

Schematic. A layer marked “public network” can be reached from outside the organisation’s perimeter; the others cannot. The mode is the organisation’s choice, settled before design begins.

Transfer of skills

End of engagement.

Training of the operations teams, handover of procedures, and a full reconstruction exercise carried out by the client itself.

Related domains.

Consultations · Pre-qualifications · Partnerships

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Detailed material — methodology, references, capability statement — is provided within a controlled framework, at the request of an identified organisation.

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