What is Secure Application Hosting?

As organisations increasingly rely on complex applications to drive their operations, the need for secure and reliable hosting solutions has become paramount.

This is especially true for industries handling sensitive data, such as government, defence, and civil nuclear sectors. Secure application hosting emerges as a crucial service, ensuring that critical applications run smoothly while maintaining the highest levels of security.

Secure app hosting refers to the process of deploying, managing and maintaining applications within a secure environment, typically provided by a third-party managed service provider. This service ensures that applications are not only available and performant but also protected against a variety of cyber threats. Secure app hosting is particularly essential for applications that handle sensitive or classified information, where any breach could have severe consequences.

Key Aspects of Secure Application Hosting

Secure app hosting environments are designed with robust data protection mechanisms, including encryption both at rest and in transit, ensuring that sensitive information remains safeguarded from unauthorised access. Applications in these environments benefit from network isolation and segmentation, where different applications or tenants are kept separate to minimise the risk of cross-contamination in the event of a breach.

Compliance is another critical aspect, with secure app hosting providers ensuring that their environments meet industry standards and regulations, such as GDPR and ISO 27001. This compliance is essential for organisations that must adhere to strict regulatory requirements. Additionally, secure app hosting environments are built for high availability, incorporating backup solutions and recovery plans to ensure that applications remain operational even in the face of failures or disruptions.

Advanced identity and access management (IAM) features are integral to secure app hosting, ensuring that only authorised users can access hosted applications. These features often include multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls. Continuous monitoring and threat detection further enhance security, enabling proactive identification and mitigation of potential risks. Finally, secure app hosting environments are highly scalable, allowing organisations to easily adjust resources to meet growing demand or deploy new applications as needed.

Applications Hosted in Secure Environments

A wide range of applications can be deployed in secure hosting environments, especially those critical to the operations of organisations handling sensitive data. Examples include CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) applications, which are essential in industries like defence and civil nuclear, where precise engineering and design are paramount. Other engineering tools that support simulation, modelling, and analysis are also commonly hosted in secure environments to protect intellectual property and sensitive project data.

Mindmapping and creative applications are also hosted securely to ensure that strategic planning and creative development processes remain confidential. Productivity applications, such as project management, document collaboration, and communication tools, are another key category, with secure hosting guaranteeing that sensitive organisational data is protected.

Secure App Hosting as Part of a Secure Managed Service

When secure app hosting is integrated into a broader secure managed service platform such as Logiq’s DISX platform, it offers organisations a comprehensive solution for managing both their IT infrastructure and the critical applications they rely on. This integration ensures that all aspects of the IT environment—from the network infrastructure to the applications themselves—are managed with security as the top priority.

By hosting applications within a secure managed service, organisations benefit from a unified security approach. The stringent security measures applied to the network and data infrastructure are extended to the applications, creating a seamless and secure environment. Centralised monitoring and support are additional benefits, providing continuous oversight to quickly identify and address any potential security issues. Centralised support also simplifies technical issue resolution by providing a single point of contact.

Secure app hosting within a managed service framework can also lead to cost savings, as organisations avoid the need to invest in their own secure infrastructure and instead leverage the expertise and resources of the managed service provider. This allows internal teams to focus on core business activities rather than IT management. The scalability of secure managed services means that as organisational needs evolve, app hosting solutions can easily adjust to meet increased demand or accommodate new applications.

Moreover, hosting applications within a secure managed service ensures that all components of the IT environment align with regulatory requirements, simplifying governance and reducing the risk of non-compliance. This holistic approach to compliance is particularly beneficial for organisations in highly regulated sectors.

a Critical Component of Modern IT

Secure app hosting is a vital component of modern IT infrastructure, especially for organisations that handle sensitive data. It provides a secure environment for critical applications, ensuring their availability, performance, and protection against evolving cyber threats. When integrated into a broader secure managed service platform, secure app hosting offers unified security management, centralised monitoring, and the flexibility to scale as needed.

For organisations in sectors like government, defence, and civil nuclear, secure app hosting and managed services are indispensable. They ensure that sensitive data and critical applications are protected, compliant, and ready to support the mission at hand. As digital operations continue to expand, the importance of secure app hosting within a comprehensive managed service platform will only grow, making it an essential strategy for safeguarding organisational assets.

Maintained. Secured.

Logiq’s rapidly deployable cloud-based secure managed service, DISX, combines security and functionality, and is relied upon by the MOD and Defence industry to collaborate on sensitive projects, but also provides an unrivalled secure cloud service for all organisations handling sensitive data and subject to stringent regulations.

Secure App Hosting utilises the robust digital environment of Cloud services to securely host the applications within DISX and all applications are monitored through the DISX Security Operations Centre (SOC). With the most up-to-date security services such as multi-factor authentication and location restrictions, users can be certain that their work is always protected.

As part of the service and inherent with DISX, we take the hassle out of maintaining your essential apps including security patching and stability updates. Consistently monitoring and maintaining the DISX environment and your apps we can ensure frictionless operation and best-in-class security. Meaning you’re free to focus on using your digital tools and not their maintenance.

Contact us to discover more about our defence-standard secure managed services that deliver cyber secure data collaboration, communication and productivity.