Security by Design: The controls go in before the workloads

We set up identity, guardrails, keys and logging in your accounts as code, then prove each control by trying the change it should stop.

Plan your guardrails See every request checked

Every request meets the same checks

Your accounts

Allowed:An engineer reads production through single sign-on and MFA.

Every decision, allowed or stopped, is written to a log in your account, with data-access logging on where the data needs it.

Threats named before anything is built

An engineer smiles as she points to a sketch on a whiteboard while a colleague looks on

Threat model

Illustration

Threat: Stolen developer keyRisk: HighControl: Short-lived access and MFA
Threat: Data made public by mistakeRisk: HighControl: Blocked for the whole organization
Threat: A pipeline pushes a risky changeRisk: MediumControl: Policy check before it applies
Threat: Logs wiped after a break-inRisk: MediumControl: Logs in a separate account

We work it through with your team, threat by threat, and each control goes into the build.

Defaults we change on day one

Often left as: A shared admin login
From day one: Named people, single sign-on and MFA
Often left as: Access keys that never expire
From day one: Short-lived credentials for people and pipelines
Often left as: Admin for whoever asks
From day one: Each role holds what its job needs, and unused access is removed
Often left as: Storage one setting away from public
From day one: Public access blocked for the whole organization
Often left as: Logs a team can switch off
From day one: Logs in a separate account the workload teams cannot change
Often left as: Encryption left to defaults
From day one: Your own keys, in your account, where the data needs them

The tools, on each cloud

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Identity and access: IAM Identity Center and IAM Access Analyzer
Guardrails: Control Tower controls, service and resource control policies
Data and keys: AWS KMS and AWS Secrets Manager
Logs: An organization trail in AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config
Detection: Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub

Checked against the CIS benchmark for each cloud.

Customer work

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Where you will meet it

Questions

Is this the same as Audit & Compliance?

No. Design puts the controls in, and Audit & Compliance checks what is there and ranks the gaps. A penetration test is a separate engagement.

Who holds the keys and the admin access?

You do. The accounts, keys and logs are yours. Our access is a role you can remove, time-boxed for changes, and our calls are recorded in your audit log.

Do you certify us?

No. We prepare you for standards such as PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2. An accredited assessor or auditor issues the certificate or report.