Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

A handful of mistakes account for most cloud incidents. A storage bucket set to public that holds customer data. An IAM role with a wildcard policy that lets a compromised service do anything. A database or management port open to the whole internet because a security group was left wide during testing. A long-lived access key committed to a repository. None of these needs a sophisticated attacker; they need someone to notice before the wrong person does.

In the cloud, the network boundary matters far less than who can assume which role. An over-permissive IAM policy is a bigger risk than most software vulnerabilities, because it lets a single foothold escalate to full control. We spend real time on identity: mapping who and what can reach your crown jewels, finding privilege-escalation paths, and cutting permissions back toward least privilege without breaking your workloads.

We connect to your accounts read-only and assess the full posture against CIS Benchmarks and cloud-provider best practice, across identity, storage, network, logging and encryption. You get a clear picture of where you stand and, more usefully, which findings an attacker would actually use.

A public bucket of marketing images is not the same as a public bucket of customer PII, and a CSPM tool rates them the same. We prioritise by exposure and impact: what is reachable, what it protects, and whether a finding chains with another into a real path to your data. This is where an offensive background changes the output from a checklist into a risk assessment.

We help you fix the findings and, just as important, put guardrails in place so the same mistakes cannot recur: preventative policies that block a bucket from being made public, service control policies that stop dangerous actions, and alerts on the changes that matter. Fixing today’s misconfiguration without a guardrail just means fixing it again next month.

Drift detection over time

Cloud environments change every day as teams ship. A setting you hardened gets reverted, a new resource launches with a bad default, someone widens a security group for a demo and forgets. Continuous monitoring catches this drift as it happens, so your posture does not quietly erode between assessments.

We scan Terraform, CloudFormation and similar templates for insecure settings before they are applied, so a public bucket or an open port is caught in a pull request rather than in a breach report. Catching it here is faster, cheaper and does not require an incident to motivate the fix.

Policy-as-code lets you enforce the rules automatically: block the merge that would open a database to the internet, require encryption on new storage, forbid wildcard IAM. This turns your security standards from a document people ignore into gates the pipeline enforces on every change.

When we look at your cloud, we ask how an attacker who landed one foothold would reach your data: which role they could assume, which trust relationship they could abuse, which exposed key would open the next step. That chaining view finds the risks a per-setting checklist misses, and it is why our remediation list is ordered by what actually reduces your odds of being breached.

The best cloud security posture management tools still produce enormous noise out of the box. We tune the findings to your environment and validate the important ones by hand, so your team gets a workable list rather than an anxiety generator. Fewer, real, ranked findings beat thousands of raw ones every time.

You can take a one-off assessment and hardening engagement, or have us run posture management continuously as a managed service. For fast-moving cloud estates the continuous option is usually the right call, because a point-in-time review is accurate for about a week.

ISO 27001 controls for access, configuration and cloud services (including A.8.9 configuration management and A.5.23 for cloud), SOC 2 security and confidentiality criteria, GDPR’s technical-measures obligation, and DORA’s ICT risk requirements all touch cloud configuration directly. We map the assessment to whichever apply and document it so your auditor gets evidence, and your customers’ cloud-security questionnaires get real answers.

Auditors increasingly ask you to demonstrate least privilege, not just claim it. Our IAM review gives you the evidence: who can do what, what was cut, and why the remaining access is justified.

The industry is folding posture management, workload protection and identity analysis into a single view often called a cloud-native application protection platform. You do not need to buy a large platform to get value, and for many mid-market estates a focused posture assessment plus targeted workload checks is more sensible than an enterprise CNAPP rollout. We help you decide what actually reduces your risk rather than what fills a procurement box, and if a CNAPP is the right move, we scope and run the rollout so it produces action instead of another dashboard.

A misconfiguration is a door left open; a detection tells you when someone walks through it. We connect posture findings to your monitoring so an exposed resource is both fixed and watched, and so a change that widens your exposure raises an alert rather than sitting unnoticed until the next assessment.