Case Study

Implementing Service Mesh on stand-alone architectures (non-Microservices)

published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

Problem The government programme started with no security requirements for encryption information in transit (TLS). After a review, a new requirement came to encrypt all in-flight communications using TLS. Requirement Use Hashicorp Vault as central CA Implement encryption in transit for all in-flight  communications Solution The solution was designed and implemented using the service mesh […]

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Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration

Keeping viruses out of the shared file system during file transfer

published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

Problem The existing file transfer solution does not process and perform Anti-Virus validation on a self-isolated environment per file. So any file opened potentially can contain a virus and infect the whole server and other files within the server. The current file transfer solution requires the provision of servers utilising a large amount of resources […]

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Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration

Securing your Hashicorp-Vault secrets avoiding storing secrets as unencrypted environment variables or files on the file system

published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

Problem Many applications need to use secrets (username, passwords, tokens, …) to connect with other services like databases or protected services. The classical way to provide secrets to an application is using environment variables, configuration files, JVM parameters or command line parameters, meaning if an attacker can get into the machine they will be able […]

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Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration

Reducing infrastructure costs and improving performance in Systems Integration; replacing ESB with Camel Microservices

published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

Problem The SOA solution implemented using WSO2 APIM and WSO2 EI, was following old guidelines and originally designed to live within a secure network. There were a number of issues to resolve: The solution was migrated to the cloud without any security uplift. This SOA solution was implemented on top of VMs and the product […]

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Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration

Enabling multi-Cloud security utilising Hashicorp-Vault

published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

Problem A government client is required to validate every incoming request from external systems to prevent attacks. The existing system: Only provided token validation for incoming requests. Did not support attack detection or encryption in transit for legacy internal applications. Allowed incorrect requests to pass through the system because it does not validate incoming JSON/SOAP/XMLpayloads. […]

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Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration

Have Linux, Docker, Cloud platforms

published on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

HEE wished to move TIS to the Cloud. Our team leveraged extensive Docker/Docker-Compose experience on Linux/AWS/Azure: -Collaborated on data migration: MySQL to AWS Aurora using AWS. -Proposed migration of data from MySQL to MongoDB; demonstrating POC using AWS Aurora, DMS, Kinesis Data Streams and Lambdas. -Prototyped End-to-End application workflow using Docker, facilitating visualisation of business […]

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Filed under: Clients, Cloud Migrations, Solutions

Case Study: HMRC Messaging Delivery Group Digital Transformation

published on Thursday, September 5th, 2019

HMRC required a Digital Transformation team to provide integration services for new HMRC Digital Services. Our consultants: Worked in conjunction with in-house & third-party suppliers to collaboratively create Brexit-critical Digital Services; leveraging existing legacy systems and new bespoke & COTS applications; for the Customs domain. Established integrations with European Union (EU) systems: facilitating the continued […]

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Filed under: Case Study, Digital Transformation, Solutions

Case Study: HMRC Messaging Delivery Group Agile Adoption

published on Monday, August 12th, 2019

HMRC required a new agile team to provide integration services for new HMRC Digital Services. Our consultants: Created a multi-disciplinary Scrum Team comprising: a Scrum Master, a Technical Business Analyst (acting as pseudo-Product Owner), a Lead Developer, two Senior Developers and an Automated Tester. Created an Agile Backlog (leveraging JIRA) in conjunction with the wider […]

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Filed under: Agile Adoption, Case Study, Solutions

Experience of working with both traditional and modern interfaces and systems integration, to document proposals for possible solutions and drive the solution of choice with the developers and others

published on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016

HMRC wanted to develop 12 file transfer journeys using SOS-Berlin JobScheduler and Java based Microservices. Our team worked with traditional/modern interfaces to drive the solutions forward: -Designing architectural-patterns to interface FTP and Microservices with legacy-services (messages->queues->flat files and vice versa); facilitating dual running during trader migration. -Worked closely with programme architects to discover viable solution-options, […]

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Filed under: Agile Delivery, HMRC, Solutions, Systems Integration