Cloud, Security & Operations
Cloud Security
Security posture management for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud: identity and permissions, network exposure, logging, encryption and guardrails that stop misconfigurations before they reach production.
Capability overview
What cloud security involves
Most cloud breaches trace back to configuration rather than sophisticated exploits: a public storage bucket, an access key committed to a repository, or a role with far more permission than it needs. Cloud security work finds these issues and, more importantly, stops them recurring.
We assess accounts and subscriptions against the CIS Foundations Benchmarks for each provider, then put preventive guardrails in place using native services such as AWS Service Control Policies, Azure Policy or Google Cloud organisation policies, backed by threat detection.
Findings are reported per account owner, so each team sees its own issues rather than a single list for the whole organisation.
What is included
What the work covers
Posture assessment
Accounts, subscriptions and projects scanned and reviewed against CIS Benchmarks, with findings ranked by exposure to the internet and to sensitive data.
Identity and permissions
Unused keys removed, human access moved to single sign-on and service roles reduced to least privilege using access analysis tools.
Preventive guardrails
Organisation-level policies that block public storage, unencrypted volumes and resources in unapproved regions.
Detection and logging
CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs or Cloud Audit Logs centralised, with GuardDuty, Defender for Cloud or Security Command Center alerts routed to a responder.
How we work
How we deliver cloud security
Read-only access
A read-only audit role created in each account so the assessment cannot change anything.
Automated baseline
Posture tooling such as Prowler or the provider's native service run across all accounts to produce a first findings list.
Manual review
IAM relationships, network paths and data stores examined for attack paths that automated rules miss.
Guardrail rollout
Preventive policies applied to non-production first, then production, with exceptions documented.
Continuous posture checks
Scheduled scans and alerts kept running so new drift is flagged within a day rather than at the next audit.
Related capabilities
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Network Security
Design, hardening and review of firewalls, VPNs, wireless and internal segmentation across offices, data centres and branch sites, so a single compromised device cannot reach everything.
Endpoint Security
Protection for laptops, desktops, servers and mobile devices through endpoint detection and response, hardening, patching and device management that works for remote and office staff.
Identity & Access Management
Single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, joiner-mover-leaver automation, privileged access control and access reviews that make sure the right people have the right access, and no more.
Data Security
Discovery, classification and protection of sensitive data across databases, file shares, SaaS and cloud storage, including encryption, key management, data loss prevention and DPDP Act readiness.
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Questions & answers
Questions about Cloud Security
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Ask a questionYes. Assessments can span AWS, Azure and Google Cloud together, with findings normalised so leadership sees one view across providers.
Only partly. Under the shared responsibility model the provider secures the underlying infrastructure, while identity, configuration and data protection remain your responsibility.
Posture assessments are fixed price based on the number of accounts or subscriptions. Guardrail implementation is quoted per phase, and continuous monitoring is a monthly managed service.
Guardrails are introduced in audit mode first so teams can see what would have been blocked. Blocking is enabled only for clearly unsafe configurations, and an exception route exists for genuine edge cases.
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