Cloud Security & Governance is the ongoing posture work. Identity boundaries, configuration baselines, network segmentation, policy enforcement, and the evidence pipeline that proves they hold. Across AWS, Azure, and GCP, against the framework your auditor reviews.
Cloud is software-defined infrastructure. Every commit and emergency change moves the security posture. The well-configured account from your last audit is not the account that will face your next one.
The work is making governance continuous: baselines that catch drift in hours, identity boundaries that hold up under privilege creep, and policy that runs in the pipeline instead of a PDF. We stand up the program once, then operate it on a cadence your auditor and your engineers can both live with.
Every commit and emergency change moves the baseline. Most drift is found at audit time.
IAM roles accumulate. The identity boundary from last year isn't the one running now.
Network boundaries that don't survive the next architecture change.
Policy that lives in a PDF instead of running in the pipeline.
The migration happened years ago, or last year, or in pieces. Speed was the priority. Security caught up partially. The accounts exist, the workloads run, and no one can answer with confidence whether the configuration today matches what the auditor will see next quarter.
A customer just asked for cloud-specific evidence. An auditor expanded their scope. A new regulation reaches your cloud workloads in a way the prior cycle did not. The questions are specific, and 'we use AWS' is not the answer.
Different products on different clouds. Different engineering teams with different defaults. Different baselines, different logging, different evidence stories. Three answers to the same security question depending on who you ask.
Organizational units, accounts, subscriptions, and projects laid out for clear boundaries. Guardrails set at the org level, exceptions documented at the workload level, ownership named for each.
Federation, role hierarchies, machine identities, break-glass paths, and secrets management. The least-privilege architecture an auditor will accept and an engineering team will keep using.
Baselines for every service that matters, mapped to CIS or NIST benchmarks. Drift events caught in hours. Exceptions logged with rationale, not absorbed into the baseline silently.
Segmentation between tiers, egress controls, private connectivity to managed services, and the inspection points for your SOC. Reviewed against the next architecture change, not the last one.
Guardrails enforced at deploy time, not at audit time. The non-compliant configuration fails the build. Policies version-controlled, reviewed, and tested like the code they govern.
Automated capture from cloud APIs where possible, scheduled cadence where not. Evidence mapped to the controls in the framework you report against, in a single repository the auditor can walk.
Drift rate, exception trend, identity sprawl, framework coverage, top findings by severity. A weekly view the security team uses and a monthly view the executive can present.
Whatever we stand up runs after we step back. Your team, your managed service, or our Managed Security Services. Same control set, same evidence base, same governance model.
Current posture read across the six pillars. Configuration drift sampled against CIS or NIST baselines. Identity audited for sprawl and over-privilege. Logging coverage tested against your SOC's actual detections. Compliance evidence checked against the controls your auditor cites.
The governance model written for your environment. Account structure, identity baseline, configuration baselines, network policy, pipeline guardrails, logging pipeline, and evidence mapping decided with engineering and signed by the security executive.
Baselines deployed. Drift detection live. Policy as code in the pipeline. Logging wired into the SOC. Identity reviewed and remediated. Evidence pipeline capturing the first quarter against the live controls, not against a reconstructed history.
Ongoing cadence. Weekly drift review, monthly posture report, quarterly framework review, annual baseline refresh against updated guidance. Findings closed in the same forum that governs the rest of the security program.
Continuous configuration assessment across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The drift detection that catches the change your engineering team made on a Friday, before it becomes the finding on Monday.
See expertiseFederation, role design, privileged access, machine identities, and secrets management. The layer that absorbs the largest share of cloud incidents and the largest share of audit attention.
See expertiseAudit-grade logging across cloud control plane, workload, and application layers. Retained and searchable for the windows your framework requires, tuned to the detections your SOC actually uses.
See expertiseControl inheritance from the provider's attestations, then the controls you operate on top, cross-mapped to SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, PCI, and NYDFS in one evidence base.
See expertiseThirty minutes with a senior partner. Bring the cloud provider, the framework you report against, and the next audit date. We will tell you what governance has to be running by then.