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Guardrails in the deployment path, not in a wiki

Cloud security expressed as code in the path to production: landing zones that start compliant, posture management that keeps them there, workload protection at runtime, and an explicit, per-service split of what the provider secures and what you must.

What we deliver

Services in this focus area

Every engagement is scoped to your environment - deploy a single capability or the full stack.

  1. 01

    Cloud Security Strategy & Responsibility Mapping

    CloudHybridAdvise

    An explicit, per-service line between provider-managed and customer-managed controls, written down and owned.

    • Service-by-service responsibility matrix across the providers in use
    • Control ownership assignment and gap identification
    • Cloud security operating model and decision rights
  2. 02

    Secure Landing Zone & Guardrail Engineering

    CloudHybridBuild

    A foundation that is compliant on day one instead of remediated in year two.

    • Account, subscription and project topology with organisational guardrails
    • Baseline identity, network, logging, encryption and backup configuration
    • Infrastructure-as-code modules with policy-as-code enforcement in the pipeline
  3. 03

    Cloud Security Posture Management

    CloudHybridBuildRun

    Continuous detection and correction of the misconfiguration class that causes most cloud incidents.

    • Multi-cloud posture baseline mapped to your control library
    • Automated remediation for high-confidence, low-risk findings
    • Root-cause routing so fixes land in the code that generated the drift
  4. 04

    CNAPP & Cloud Workload Protection

    CloudHybridBuildRun

    One correlated view from code to running workload, with attack paths ranked instead of findings counted.

    • Agent and agentless coverage design across accounts and workload types
    • Attack-path analysis combining identity, network, vulnerability and exposure
    • Runtime protection for virtual machines, containers and serverless functions
  5. 05

    SaaS Security Posture Management & CASB

    CloudHybridBuildRun

    Control over the estate IT never provisioned and finance keeps renewing.

    • SaaS discovery, shadow-IT inventory and risk scoring
    • Tenant configuration hardening across the major business suites
    • OAuth grant, third-party app and external-sharing governance
  6. 06

    Multi-Cloud Policy-as-Code Governance

    CloudHybridAdviseBuild

    The same guardrails whichever provider the team builds on, enforced before deployment.

    • Common control library expressed as machine-readable policy
    • Preventive admission and pipeline guardrails with clear failure messages
    • Exception, drift and policy-version governance
  7. 07

    Cloud Data Security, Residency & Sovereign Controls

    CloudHybridAdviseBuild

    Residency, encryption and key custody arranged so the answer is defensible in every market you serve.

    • Data residency, replication and cross-border transfer design
    • Customer-managed and externally held key patterns with revocation
    • Provider access transparency, logging and confidential computing options
  8. 08

    Cloud Migration Security Assurance

    CloudHybridAdviseBuild

    Move workloads without carrying old weaknesses into a larger blast radius.

    • Per-workload pre-migration security assessment and target control design
    • Migration-phase compensating controls and validation testing
    • Post-migration verification and source-environment decommissioning
  9. 09

    Cloud Incident Response & Forensic Readiness

    CloudHybridAdviseBuild

    Be able to investigate in an environment where the evidence evaporates by design.

    • Log retention, coverage and forensic-readiness baseline
    • Cloud-specific playbooks, snapshot and memory-capture procedures
    • Break-glass access, provider escalation and evidence-handling workflow
  10. 10

    Cloud Resilience, Backup & Recovery Assurance

    CloudHybridAdviseBuild

    Prove that cloud workloads can be recovered, not merely that they are backed up.

    • Multi-zone and multi-region resilience and dependency review
    • Backup immutability, cross-account isolation and restore-path testing
    • Recovery exercises measured against committed objectives

Technical deep dive

Guardrails in the deployment path, not findings in a dashboard

Applies to any multi-account, multi-team cloud estate where infrastructure is created by pipelines faster than a posture tool can raise tickets about it.

What this is

Preventive cloud security. The same control library is expressed as policy-as-code and evaluated at three points: in the pull request, at admission to the cloud control plane, and continuously against running state. Detected drift is corrected by a pull request against the module that generated it, not by a click in a console.

The problem being solved

Three cloud providers across dozens of accounts, created by acquisition, by corporate standard and by a team with a departmental card. Posture management is deployed and raises several thousand findings a week. They are triaged by a small central team, fixed in the console, and reappear on the next deployment because the module that generated them was never changed. An audit asks for a list of internet-reachable storage holding regulated data; the answer takes nine days and is contested. Meanwhile developers experience security as a queue that blocks them after the fact, so they route around it.

Why it is hard

  • Console fixes do not persist. Anything corrected by hand is overwritten the next time the pipeline runs, so remediation without root-cause change is a treadmill.
  • Detection is too late in a system where creation is automated. A misconfiguration that lives for six hours has still been live on the internet for six hours.
  • Three providers have three different policy languages, three IAM models and three logging schemas - so a single control has to be expressed once and compiled outward.

Reference architecture - step through it

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DEVELOPER FLOWPOLICY DECISIONCLOUD ESTATEASSURANCEEngineerwrites infrastructure codePull requestplan output evaluatedShared modulesthe paved roadDeployment pipelinecredentials scoped per envControl librarywritten once, compiled outwardPre-merge evaluationfails with a fix, not a codeAdmission controlorg policy at the controlplaneException servicetime-boxed, owner, expiryProvider Aaccounts and org unitsProvider BsubscriptionsProvider CprojectsRunning workloadsVM, container, serverlessPosture managementcontinuous state evaluationWorkload protectionruntime, attack pathsDrift → pull requestfix at the sourceEvidence & queriesanswerable in secondscompiled per providerPR against the module
One control, evaluated pre-merge and enforced at admissiontext
# ─ control library entry (provider-neutral, compiled outward) ─────────────
control: CLD-DATA-003
  intent: >
    Data services must not be reachable from the public internet unless an
    active, expiring exception exists, and must encrypt with customer-managed
    keys.
  applies_to: [object_storage, managed_database, message_queue, search]
  severity: critical

  assert:
    - public_network_access == false
    - encryption.key_type == "customer_managed"
    - logging.data_plane == true
    - tags.owner is defined and tags.data_class is defined

  exception:
    allowed: true
    requires: [named_owner, compensating_control, expiry <= 90d]
    grants: this_resource_only          # never a wildcard

# ─ pre-merge: the engineer sees this in the pull request ──────────────────
✗ CLD-DATA-003  storage/analytics-export  (module: modules/bucket v2.1.0)
    public_network_access = true        expected false
    encryption.key_type   = "provider"  expected "customer_managed"

    apply this change:
      -  public_access = true
      +  public_access = false
      +  kms_key_id    = module.keys.analytics.id

    or request an exception:  gg exception request CLD-DATA-003 --resource …
    evaluated in 14s · 3 other resources in this plan passed

# ─ admission: the same control, enforced provider-side ───────────────────
provider_a: SCP  Deny s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock where value != true
provider_b: Azure Policy  deny  publicNetworkAccess != 'Disabled'
provider_c: Org Policy  constraints/storage.publicAccessPrevention = enforced

# ─ drift: correction lands as a pull request, not a console click ────────
drift detected  storage/legacy-reports  public_network_access → true
  changed_by  console session, identity ops-admin-3, 04:12Z
  root cause  resource not managed by a module (imported 2024)
  action      PR #4471 opened → import into modules/bucket v2.1.0
  interim     admission policy already blocking new reads externally

Measured change

MeasureBeforeAfter
Misconfigurations reaching production~3,400 findings/weekunder 40/week, all exception-tracked
Mean exposure window for a public data servicehours to daysprevented at admission
Remediation that persistsconsole fixes, recurringPR against the generating module
Time to answer a cross-cloud audit query9 days, contestedseconds, with a timestamp
Developer feedback latencydays, via ticket14 seconds, in the pull request

Security moved from the end of the process to inside it. The finding count fell not because the tooling got quieter but because the misconfigurations stopped being created.

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