Your responsibilities when joining the cloud platform

As a member of the Scottish Government’s cloud platform, you’re responsible for your own area. This includes responsibilities as you:

Getting set up

For your area of the cloud platform, you’ll need to:

design and build your own cloud tools and services
manage and maintain any workloads
classify and protect your data and identities
make sure you follow data protection legislation
maintain your part of the platform – carrying out updates and security patches
pay for the cost of running your service and for any services you share with others

For your area of the cloud platform, you’ll need to:

identify IT and cybersecurity risks to your workloads
review risks
take actions and put in place controls to limit risks
keep the cloud platform team up-to-date on risks
escalate risks to the cloud platform team when needed
keep any specific groups or roles that may be affected by particular risks up-to-date
take part in service reviews with the cloud platform

For your area of the cloud platform, you’ll need to:

conduct security and privacy assessments
choose and use appropriate security controls for all parts of your service
secure how people connect to your workloads
log, monitor and prepare for security incidents
fix any security issues you find, such as vulnerability remediation or system patching
collaborate with the Security Operations Centre to work out if they need to support you
do annual penetration tests on every workload or anytime you make significant changes
update people’s access rights as they join, move jobs or leave teams
back up your workloads
make sure your own third party suppliers meet your security standards
follow legislative requirements and best practice, such as NCSC cloud security principles
remove personal information from log files you send to the cloud platform. For example, for archiving or sending onto the Security Operations Centre
define and manage user permissions for programmatic access (if you're integrating non-human service accounts)
rotate keys every 60 days (if you're integrating non-human service accounts)

You’ll also have responsibilities you need to do with the cloud platform team. This includes:

The Scottish Government’s cloud platform team are responsible for the platform. They do this with help from:

For the cloud platform, they’ll:

give you support and guidance to onboard
give you guidance on best practices and standards to design your architecture
give you standardised accounts and subscriptions - we can customise these if needed
set up groups and create roles, so you can manage permissions within your accounts
give you control of your workload web addresses, such as sub-domains of gov.scot
give you access to storage, compute and databases
recharge your organisation for its costs

For the cloud platform, they’ll:

For the cloud platform, they’ll: