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Cloud Security Hardening

Most cloud breaches are not clever attacks; they are defaults nobody changed and permissions nobody revoked. We work across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud to bring every account up to a defined baseline: identity cut back to least privilege, secrets taken out of code and rotated on a schedule, networks segmented with egress controlled, data encrypted and backed up, and audit logging switched on everywhere and actually retained. Hardening is applied as code wherever possible, so it survives the next deployment instead of drifting back within a quarter.

Our Process

Account & Workload Discovery

We inventory every account, subscription and project — including the ones spun up by a team years ago and never decommissioned — and map what actually runs in each.

Identity & Permission Review

Human and machine identities are cut back to least privilege: over-broad roles replaced, unused credentials removed, privileged access put behind approval and MFA.

Baseline Hardening

Accounts are brought up to a defined benchmark — encryption, network segmentation, egress control, public-exposure removal, secrets management and key rotation — applied as code where your estate supports it.

Logging & Detection Coverage

Audit logging is enabled on every account and region, centralised somewhere tamper-evident, retained to meet your obligations, and wired to alerts for the events that genuinely matter.

Validation, Guardrails & Handover

We re-test against the baseline, put preventative guardrails in place so the configuration cannot silently drift, and hand over documentation your team can maintain.

Key Benefits

Smaller Blast Radius

When one credential or workload is compromised, least privilege and segmentation stop it becoming an estate-wide incident.

Misconfiguration Caught First

Public buckets, open security groups and forgotten keys get found by us rather than by someone scanning the internet for them.

Audit Evidence That Exists

Logging and retention configured deliberately, so when you are asked what happened six months ago there is an answer.

Hardening That Holds

Guardrails and infrastructure-as-code mean the baseline survives the next sprint instead of eroding back to defaults.

Lock down AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — identity, secrets, network, data and logging, hardened to a known baseline.

Every engagement ends with something you can act on — a report, a tested configuration, a decision with a cost attached. Not a dashboard nobody opens.

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Tools & Technologies

CIS Benchmarks

Published hardening baselines for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud to measure against.

Native Posture Services

Security Hub, Defender for Cloud and Security Command Center, configured properly rather than left on defaults.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform or OpenTofu so hardening is version-controlled and repeatable, not a one-off manual pass.

Managed Secrets Stores

Secrets Manager, Key Vault or Vault, replacing credentials embedded in code and pipelines.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which cloud platforms do you cover?+

AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, including estates that span more than one. Hybrid setups with on-premise infrastructure are handled alongside our network security work.

How is this different from SaaS & Cloud Protection?+

This is a scoped engagement that fixes the configuration — a defined piece of work with a start, an end and a report. SaaS & Cloud Protection is the continuous monitoring that runs afterwards and tells you when something changes. Most clients want both: harden once, then watch.

Will hardening break our applications?+

Changes are staged and tested rather than applied wholesale. Permission reductions in particular are run in audit mode first so we can see what would have been denied before anything is enforced.

Do we need to pause deployments while you work?+

No. We work alongside your delivery, and where you already use infrastructure as code we submit hardening as changes your team reviews and merges normally.

Related Services

Network Architecture & Hardening

Design and harden the network itself — segmentation, firewall policy and controlled egress, built to contain a breach.

Risk Assessment

A clear-eyed read of where you actually stand, and which controls are worth your money first.

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