Cloud security and compliance

Security work has a bad reputation with engineering teams, usually deserved. It arrives late, blocks a release over something that could have been caught weeks earlier, and leaves a spreadsheet behind.

We approach it as a property of a well-built platform rather than a gate at the end.

The things that actually cause breaches

Not exotic exploits. Long-lived credentials that were never rotated, a security group opened for a debugging session and never closed, an account with administrator access that nobody has used in two years, and no audit logging to reconstruct what happened.

So that is where we start: identity and access governance with short-lived credentials and least privilege, secrets in a managed store rather than environment variables, network boundaries that default to closed, and encryption at rest and in transit as a platform default rather than a per-team decision.

Audit logging comes first in practice, because without it every other question becomes unanswerable. If you were breached today and could not say what was accessed, nothing else matters much.

Continuous, not annual

Cloud environments change daily, so a point-in-time assessment describes an environment that no longer exists. We deploy continuous posture management that evaluates your accounts against benchmark policy on every change, with findings ranked by exploitability in your specific environment rather than raw CVSS score.

Compliance as a by-product

If the platform is built properly, most of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 is already satisfied - you simply need to evidence it. We map controls to what exists, close the genuine gaps, and automate evidence collection so the next audit is a report rather than a scramble.

For HIPAA and GDPR the same applies with specific additions around data residency, retention and encryption of personal data.

Shift left where it helps

Scanning in CI and IaC catches misconfiguration while it is still a diff on a pull request, when fixing it is a one-line change. That is genuinely cheaper than finding it in production - but only if the tooling is tuned. An unfiltered scanner producing four hundred findings gets ignored, which is worse than not running it.

Start with our free security audit. Over 2,300 checks, and the report is yours regardless.