Cloud Security
The cloud is secure. Your configuration of it might not be. We harden what you have built, govern who can reach it, and connect it to the rest of the estate without opening a side door.
The provider secures the cloud. You secure what you put in it.
Every major provider publishes a shared responsibility model, and almost every serious cloud incident happens on the customer’s side of that line. Not because teams are careless, but because cloud environments grow the way networks do: quickly, under delivery pressure, by people solving the problem in front of them. A storage container opened for a migration. A role granted broadly to unblock a deployment. A test environment that quietly became production.
Two patterns account for most of what we find. The first is identity sprawl — permissions that accumulated and were never revoked, service accounts nobody owns, and standing administrative access where just-in-time access would do. The second is the seam between cloud and on-premises: a connection built to make a migration work, still carrying more reach than anyone intended.
Neither is exotic. Both are findable, and both are fixable without stopping delivery — which matters, because a security programme that blocks the business gets routed around.
What this covers
Configuration and posture review
Assessment of what is actually deployed against provider baselines and recognized benchmarks: exposed storage, permissive security groups, unencrypted data at rest, logging that was never enabled, and public endpoints nobody meant to publish. The output is a prioritized list — what is genuinely dangerous, what is untidy, and which is which.
Identity and access governance
Who can do what, and whether they still need to. Role design that follows least privilege without making engineers file a ticket to do their jobs, removal of standing privilege where elevation would serve, service-account ownership, and federation so cloud access follows the same identity lifecycle as everything else. When someone leaves, their cloud access should leave with them.
Network architecture in the cloud
This is where our network background earns its keep. Segmentation between environments, controlled egress, private connectivity to services rather than routing over the internet, and enforcement between workloads. The same segmentation thinking we apply in a data centre, applied to virtual networks.
Connectivity back to the estate
Site-to-site and hybrid links designed deliberately: what routes, what is filtered, and what the cloud environment can reach on the corporate network — usually far less than the tunnel currently permits. Resilience, failover and encryption handled as design decisions rather than defaults.
Logging, monitoring and evidence
Provider-native logging turned on and retained sensibly, forwarded somewhere it will actually be looked at, and tuned so meaningful events are visible. Auditors ask for cloud evidence now; producing it should not be an archaeology project.
Guardrails for what comes next
Baseline configurations, landing-zone structure and policy guardrails so new workloads start compliant instead of being remediated later. Cheaper to prevent drift than to chase it.
How we engage
Consult
Posture assessment across the environments you run: configuration, identity, network exposure and logging. You get findings ranked by real risk rather than by scanner severity, with the quick wins separated from the structural work — whether or not we do the remediation.
Integrate
Remediation and architecture: hardening, role redesign, segmentation, hybrid connectivity, and guardrails to hold the improvement. Sequenced so delivery teams keep shipping — changes staged and reversible, not dropped in overnight.
Manage
Ongoing monitoring for drift, periodic access review, and keeping baselines current as providers change defaults and add services. Cloud estates move faster than on-premises ones; the review cadence has to match.
Vendor-neutral by design
We work across all major cloud providers and in the hybrid and multi-cloud arrangements most organizations actually run — usually not by strategy, but because an acquisition or a SaaS decision put a second platform in play. We are not incentivized to move you between providers, and consolidating platforms is a business decision with a security dimension, not the other way round. See the vendors we work with.
We also will not sell you a cloud security tool you do not need. A meaningful proportion of what we find is fixable with the controls already included in your subscription and never switched on.
Who this is for
- Organizations that migrated under time pressure and have never gone back to review what the migration left behind.
- Teams where cloud permissions have accumulated over years and nobody is confident who can reach what.
- Estates with a hybrid connection built for a project that is still carrying production traffic.
- Businesses facing an audit, a client security questionnaire or a cyber-insurance renewal that asks for cloud evidence.
- Anyone running more than one provider without having chosen to.
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