We help you gain visibility into, harden, and continuously protect your cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud landscapes so that your workloads run securely and in alignment with business and compliance requirements.

Our approach combines deep assessment with practical remediation and ongoing assurance:

  1. Cloud Environment Discovery & Baseline Assessment

We begin by discovering all cloud tenancies, accounts, subscriptions, services, and interdependencies. This includes inventorying resources, identities, permissions, networking constructs, and data flows to establish a security baseline and identify shadow or orphaned assets.

  1. Shared Responsibility Alignment

We clarify the division of security responsibilities between you and the cloud provider, ensuring that all layers from infrastructure to applications are appropriately covered and no gaps exist due to assumption mismatches.

  1. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Review and Remediation

Evaluating identity hygiene, role definitions, privilege escalation risk, use of long-lived credentials, multi-factor authentication, service principals, and cross-account access. We enforce least privilege, implement strong authentication, and recommend identity federation, conditional access, and ephemeral credentials where appropriate.

  1. Network & Perimeter Security

Assessing virtual networks, segmentation, security group/firewall rules, ingress/egress controls, VPNs, and exposure of services. We validate secure connectivity patterns, apply micro-segmentation principles, and ensure proper use of private endpoints and zero-trust network design.

  1. Configuration & Hardening (CSPM)

Reviewing cloud-native configurations against industry benchmarks (CIS, CSA, provider best practices) to detect misconfigurations such as open storage buckets, overly permissive roles, insecure logging settings, and default insecure services. Recommendations include automation of continuous posture management.

  1. Data Protection & Encryption

Ensuring data at rest and in transit is protected through appropriate encryption, key management (including use of HSMs or cloud KMS), tokenization, and secure handling of secrets (e.g., vaulting, rotation, access auditing).

  1. Containers and Workload Security

Assessing containers, virtual machines, serverless functions, databases, and application stacks for vulnerabilities, insecure dependencies, and runtime risks. This includes container image/content trust, patching strategies, runtime protection, and workload isolation to safeguard applications across diverse environments.

Implementation:

  1. Container Image Security – Scan container images for vulnerabilities, enforce signed/trusted images, and remove unused or outdated packages.
  2. Dependency & Patch Management – Identify and patch insecure libraries and dependencies across containers and workloads.
  3. Runtime Protection – Implement runtime threat detection and monitoring (e.g., anomalous process execution, privilege escalation, or suspicious network calls).
  4. Workload Isolation – Use namespaces, cgroups, sandboxing, and container orchestration policies (e.g., Kubernetes Pod Security Standards) to prevent cross-workload risks.
  5. Configuration Hardening – Apply secure configurations for container registries, orchestration platforms, and runtime environments.
  6. Continuous Assurance – Integrate security scanning and policy enforcement into CI/CD pipelines for ongoing assurance of container and workload security.
  1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Deployment Pipeline Security

Reviewing templates, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines for insecure patterns, hardcoded secrets, injection risks, and drift. We embed security checks early (shift-left), use policy-as-code tools, and validate deployment artifacts before they reach production.

  1. Compliance & Governance Mapping

Aligning cloud tenancy configurations and controls to relevant regulatory and industry frameworks to ensure compliance, security, and audit readiness. This includes Australian-specific requirements such as:

  • APRA CPS 234 – Information Security requirements for regulated entities, covering governance, incident response, control assurance, and supply chain security.
  • Essential Eight (ACSC) – Maturity model for mitigating cyber security incidents.
  • Australian Privacy Act (incl. APPs) – Governs the handling of personal information in Australia.
  • ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, GDPR, PCI-DSS – International standards for information security, risk management, and data protection.

Implementation:

  1. Control Mapping – Map tenancy configurations, security controls, and operational processes to CPS 234, Essential Eight, Privacy Act, and global frameworks.
  2. Tagging & Policy Enforcement – Apply consistent tagging strategies and automated policy enforcement to maintain separation of duties and compliance boundaries.
  3. Audit Readiness – Configure logging, monitoring, and reporting to provide evidence of compliance and simplify external audits.
  4. Continuous Compliance Monitoring – Automate compliance checks against CPS 234, Essential Eight, and global benchmarks (e.g., CIS, NIST) using cloud-native or third-party tools.
  5. Governance Integration – Embed compliance requirements into CI/CD pipelines and change management processes to ensure ongoing alignment.
  6. Stakeholder Assurance – Provide regular compliance status reporting to executives, regulators, and auditors.
  7. Continuous Assurance & Automation

Implementing continuous posture assessments, automated remediation where safe, scheduled reviews, and alerting for drift or emerging risks. Leveraging APIs and cloud-native tooling to keep security adaptive as environments evolve.

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