Cloud Security

Our cloud security service keeps your Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud environments configured securely, month after month. You get landing zones that set good defaults, guardrails that stop risky changes and continuous monitoring that finds anything that slips through, so misconfigurations get fixed before someone else finds them.

Cloud providers secure their data centres and platforms. Under the shared responsibility model, you secure what you build on them: identities, configuration, data and workloads. We look after your side of that line as part of our continuous operations services.

Cloud platforms your auditors can trace

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud each offer secure settings, but they sit among hundreds of options that are easy to get wrong. Misconfiguration, not exotic hacking, is behind many cloud incidents. We assess your estate against the Center for Internet Security (CIS) cloud benchmarks, fix issues in risk order and build guardrails so new workloads launch secure.

Because every change is tracked against a benchmark, you can show an auditor what was found, what was fixed and when.

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Who cloud security is for

This service suits organisations that run production systems or sensitive data in the public cloud and do not have a dedicated cloud security team. It also fits teams whose developers move quickly and need guardrails that keep pace without blocking delivery.

It is especially useful if you face regulatory scrutiny. Firms in financial services and insurance, for example, need to show how cloud risk is controlled, not just say that it is.

What cloud security covers

Build it right: landing zones and guardrails

• Account and subscription design — A clear hierarchy using AWS Organizations, Azure management groups or Google Cloud folders, with production, non-production and security tooling kept apart.
• Policy guardrails — Preventive controls such as no public storage, mandatory encryption and approved regions, enforced by the platform through AWS service control policies, Azure Policy or Google Cloud organisation policies, rather than by checklist.
• Identity integration — Staff and workload identities federated to your identity provider, in line with our identity and access management standards.
• Logging you can rely on — Central, tamper-resistant audit trails, with alerts on the events that tend to come before real incidents.

Keep it right: posture management

Cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools scan every account continuously for misconfigurations. We use the providers’ native tools, such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Google Security Command Center, or a third-party platform where you already have one. Findings are fixed within agreed timescales, and we watch for drift between your infrastructure-as-code templates and what is actually deployed.

Findings feed the same process as our threat and vulnerability management service, prioritised by how exploitable they are and what they would affect.

Secure the workloads

Containers, Kubernetes and serverless functions add their own risks. We cover container image scanning, Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) and admission policies, tight permissions for serverless functions and proper secrets management. This is where application security meets infrastructure, and where CI/CD security stops problems reaching production in the first place.

How we work

• Assess — We benchmark every account, subscription and project against CIS benchmarks and your own requirements, and rank what we find by risk.
• Remediate — We fix issues with your platform team, highest risk first, so knowledge transfers as the fixes land.
• Guard — We put preventive policies and landing zone structure in place so the same issues cannot quietly return.
• Sustain — Continuous posture monitoring, drift detection and regular reporting show you where things stand each month.

Compliance evidence from the same work

Running cloud security properly produces the records auditors ask for: benchmark results, policy definitions, change history and remediation logs. That evidence supports ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, CIS Controls and PCI DSS programmes. Regulated firms can map it to DORA and NIS2, with help from our compliance support team.

Services that work alongside

Cloud security connects to the rest of your estate. Endpoint management secures the devices that sign in to your cloud, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace administration covers your productivity tenancy, and managed services runs the wider infrastructure.

For design and build work, architecture and design shapes the target state and cloud engineering handles migration and platform builds. Penetration testing checks for application-layer issues that configuration scanning cannot see, and a security posture review gives you a point-in-time baseline. See how it fits together in our secure cloud environments solution.

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