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Cloud security posture review
Automated posture scanning paired with architectural review of IAM, networking, data stores, logging, and monitoring. We use a layered toolchain plus manual review — findings come with context, not just a CSV dump.
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Cloud Security & Zero Trust
Azure and AWS security architecture, IAM modernization, Zero Trust design, and least-privilege workload identity.
What we put our name behind
Architecture-level review, CIS-mapped deliverables
Every engagement is led by a practitioner holding AZ-500 and/or AWS Security Specialty, with findings mapped to the CIS Benchmark sections you actually have to defend during audit. We review your IAM and identity architecture at the blast-radius level — not as a scanner output — and every recommendation is paired with the exact Terraform/CloudFormation change your platform team needs.
Overview
Cloud security failures almost never come from a zero-day in the cloud provider. They come from over-permissive IAM, exposed storage, unreviewed cross-account trust, and identity architectures that were right at 50 employees and wrong at 500. The cloud providers give you good primitives — the question is whether your architecture is using them.
We review cloud environments at the architecture level, not the scanner level. What does your identity plane actually look like? Where is least-privilege being enforced and where is it aspirational? Which workloads can reach which data, and who has signed off on the blast radius? We're AZ-500 and AWS Security Specialty certified and we've seen enough of both cloud providers to know which controls matter and which are checkbox theater.
What's included
Every engagement is senior-led and scoped in writing before kickoff.
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IAM modernization
Audit of users, roles, policies, and trust relationships. Concrete plan to migrate from long-lived credentials to short-lived workload identity (AWS IAM Roles Anywhere, Azure Managed Identity, OIDC federation from your CI).
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Zero Trust architecture review
Evaluation of your network perimeter, identity-aware access, service-to-service auth, and the gap between where you are and where Zero Trust principles say you should be. Includes a phased migration plan.
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Workload identity & least-privilege
Audit of every workload's IAM permissions against actual API calls (CloudTrail, Azure Activity Log). We'll show you exactly which permissions each service uses and which it doesn't.
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Data protection review
Encryption at rest (KMS key management, rotation, BYOK), encryption in transit, storage access controls, and data residency compliance.
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Logging & detection baseline
CloudTrail / Azure Activity Log coverage, GuardDuty / Microsoft Defender tuning, and a baseline detection rule set for high-value account actions.
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Multi-account / multi-subscription architecture
AWS Organizations / Azure Management Groups design, SCPs / Azure Policy, landing zone review, and cross-account trust hardening.
What you get
- Current-state architecture diagram with risk annotations
- Target-state Zero Trust architecture diagram
- Prioritized remediation roadmap (quick wins + strategic investments)
- IAM modernization plan with specific role-by-role changes
- Detection baseline rules ready to deploy
- Executive summary for leadership
Ideal for
- Teams scaling past their original cloud footprint and outgrowing manual IAM
- Companies adopting Zero Trust as a strategic initiative and needing a pragmatic roadmap
- Engineering orgs preparing for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI on cloud infrastructure
- Teams migrating from long-lived IAM users to workload identity
Frequently asked
- Which cloud providers do you work with?
- All of the major ones. Our deepest certifications are AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer Associate) and AWS Certified Security – Specialty, and we have hands-on production experience with GCP and OCI as well. The underlying security primitives — identity, network segmentation, key management, audit logging, least-privilege workload identity — translate across vendors, and we apply the same principles regardless of which cloud you're on.
- Do you do Google Cloud (GCP) or other clouds like OCI?
- Yes. We have hands-on experience in both GCP and OCI, and we're capable of applying our security knowledge to any cloud vendor. Multi-cloud and single-cloud engagements get scoped the same way — start with the architecture, identity plane, and blast radius, then work outward.
- How is this different from Prisma Cloud / Wiz / Orca?
- CSPM platforms are scanners. They tell you what's misconfigured. We tell you what to do about it, how to get there, and stay to help you execute. Most of our clients use a CSPM tool alongside our engagement — we just turn its output into a remediation plan that actually ships.
- Can you help us implement the recommendations too?
- Yes. Many engagements include a follow-on implementation phase where we pair with your platform team to ship the changes. Scoped separately so you're never locked in.
Related services
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Kubernetes Security
Cluster hardening, CIS benchmarks, admission control, supply-chain security, and runtime defense. CKS-led.
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DevSecOps
Pipeline-integrated SAST, DAST, SCA, and IaC scanning. Secrets management. Security as a CI step, not a quarterly review.
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Penetration Testing
Manual, senior-led exploitation for internet-reachable web applications and REST/GraphQL APIs. First engagement: we find a high-severity vulnerability or you don’t pay.
Ready to scope a cloud security engagement?
A 30-minute call with a senior specialist. Written scope before kickoff. No SDRs.