Derisking Enterprise Cloud Adoption

2. Speakers and agenda

4. Who is SGN and what are we doing?
• Provider of safety-critical and CNI services
• 6m homes and businesses. 14m Customers
• 5000 staff, 75,000km network
• £5.3bn assets. Annual revenue £1bn+
• Forward-thinking regulator, board, and executive
• Award-winning use of technology and Innovation

6. The energy industry is being disrupted

7. 77
If our industry is being disrupted…

8. We developed a new technology strategy…

9. …with all-in cloud migration at its heart
Accept different security, commercial, and operational models
Invest in strategic partners - became "lighhouse" customers
Avoid FUD—multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, lift-and-shift
Automate, automate, automate
Become informed buyers
Assume breach model

11. Moving from risk to opportunity
All about delivery of the corporate strategy and mitigating corporate risk,
not a “technical vanity” programme
Committedoutcomes
Reduce risk
Drive opportunity
Improved security
Improved resilience and availability
Increased agility/opportunity
Reduced Totex
Align to new ways of working

12. Enabling SGN’s corporate strategy
The new reality
Fanny – June 2008
Flame - May 2012
EG CVE-2013-1123 2013
Duqu 2.0 -2015
Equation Group Auction –
Aug 2016
Vault 7 – March 2017
Snowden Leaks - 2013
Snowden Leaks - 2014
Stuxnet – June 2010
> 1 year
Ivanlef0u – July 2010
Sold on black market – 2013
10 months
Russian Doll –
2015
5 months
WannaCry
2 wks
Disclosure Date Repurpose Date
Time to Repurpose
Improved security
Improved resilience
and availability
Increased
agility/opportunity
Reduced Totex
Align to new ways
of working

13. Enabling SGN’s corporate strategy
Improved SLAs
Automated scaling
Near zero RTO/RPO
Active-active workloads
Improved security
Improved resilience
and availability
Increased
agility/opportunity
Reduced Totex
Align to new ways
of working

14. Enabling SGN’s corporate strategy
Improved security
Improved resilience
and availability
Increased
agility/opportunity
Reduced Totex
Align to new ways
of working
“Network companies require a licence to operate,
not just from the regulator, but from their own
customers who must be confident they are
getting good value for money.”
Ofgem's Senior Partner for Networks
Jonathan Brearly

15. Enabling SGN’s corporate strategy
Improved security
Improved resilience
and availability
Increased
agility/opportunity
Reduced Totex
Align to new ways
of working

16. Enabling SGN’s corporate strategy
Award-winning use of technology and InnovationImproved security
Improved resilience
and availability
Increased
agility/opportunity
Reduced Totex
Align to new ways
of working

18. Engage and excite the board
Explain how technology
will impact company investment
Paint a vision of the future and
demonstrate how it’s real
Don’t underestimate your
business’s capabilities.

19. Speak in the language of the CFO
Be creative!
Understand financial accounting culture
Use external resources like the FASB
Engage Finance in the formal programme governance
Understand capitalisation rules and tax implications
Get to know your auditor

20. Partner with line of business owners
Be clear to execs
strategic technology
partners are changing
Encourage direct
business engagement
Align executives focused
on industry outcomes

22. Think of it as a rebuild rather than a migration

23. Evaluate your team and culture
Review and change your capabilities—
not everyone will make the journey
Develop new and strategic partnerships
Consider separating teams in to different
physical working spaces

24. Not everyone will be happy about the change
Be clear how you will manage
potential enterprise risk
Engage the workforce and unions
(if applicable)
Don’t underestimate people’s
resistance to change!

25. Character (Culture and Courage) +
Capability + Capacity = Commitment
Be bold and move quickly!
Avoid complexity of mixed
models running in parallel
Be upfront,
it’s not going to be easy

27. Look for strategic and cultural alignment
Amazon Web Services are agents of change within SGN

29. AWS Managed Services benefits for SGN
Breaks the SI stranglehold
Mitigates resource/skills risk
Aligns to operational models
Accelerates onboarding timeline
Improves security and compliance
Maintains pace with innovation
Reduces operational costs

31. Enterprise adoption opportunities

34. AWS out-of-the-box

37. Visit the AWS Managed Services
pod here at the summit.
Or contact us directly:
John Brigden: brigden@amazon.com
Richard Malaure: malaurer@amazon.com