Managing Risk with Cloud Computing: Our Cybersecurity Approach

We explain how we manage risk by using a layered security strategy that aligns governance, controls, and continuous improvement to your goals.

Our approach clarifies the shared responsibility model up front: major providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure) secure infrastructure while we and your team secure configurations, identities, and data.

We acknowledge the benefits of agility and cost efficiency, and we also address exposure points such as limited visibility, misconfigurations, and third‑party dependencies.

By combining policy, architecture, and operations, we reduce the chance and impact of incidents that cause financial loss and reputational harm.

Our goal is protection that enables teams to move fast while keeping controls easy to adopt and hard to bypass.

• We follow a layered security plan that maps to business objectives.
• Shared responsibility defines what providers secure and what we must protect.
• Evidence-based controls reference SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and current breach data.
• Our services focus on identity, data protection, and operational visibility.
• We balance faster adoption and audit-ready controls to lower total cost of ownership.

As more workloads migrate, teams face wider exposure across microservices, APIs, and third‑party integrations. Market momentum is clear: 57% of businesses migrated workloads in 2022, and the market may exceed $1.24T by 2027. That scale drives agility, but it also increases the surface attackers can probe.

Modern architectures—containers, serverless, and distributed services—create many short‑lived assets. These assets require consistent policies and guardrails to avoid misconfigurations that lead to incidents.

The average cost of a breach reached $4.88M in 2024. Direct response costs and long‑term reputational damage affect contracts, compliance posture, and customer trust.

• Providers certify platforms (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS) but most incidents stem from customer configuration and process gaps.
• Visibility across dynamic assets needs unified telemetry and posture management to enable timely detection and response.
• Opportunity: align security and engineering to reduce incident time and limit loss through automation and strong controls.

Clear definitions speed decisions: we separate exposures, adversaries, and operational hurdles so teams can prioritize fixes and investments.

We define risks as weak spots created by design, configuration, or daily operations in your cloud environment. Examples include public APIs, unscoped permissions, and unmanaged services that expose sensitive data.

Threats are the attackers and methods that exploit exposures—zero‑day exploits, APTs, phishing, and malware. We map these to detection layers and incident response playbooks.

Challenges are the practical barriers to applying controls at scale: IAM complexity, fragmented tooling, talent gaps, and compliance demands. These slow adoption and create gaps.

• Practical example: a public API (exposure), an attacker probing endpoints (threat), and the difficulty of protecting performance while enforcing rules (challenge).
• How we act: posture scanning, layered detection, automation, and governance to reduce exploitable points and speed detection.
• Outcomes: fewer exploitable risks, faster threat detection, and lower friction for secure development and operations.

Our approach clarifies who holds which controls across infrastructure, platforms, and hosted services so teams can act decisively. We define a practical shared responsibility model that separates provider duties from customer duties and ties each control to an owner.

What providers secure: physical facilities, networking fabric, and virtualization layers. Major providers undergo regular audits and maintain certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR).

What customers secure: identities, configurations, application logic, and sensitive data. We help enforce policies for identity, segmentation, encryption, logging, and backup, then tailor them to your compliance needs.

• Structured assessments (architecture, configuration, privilege) that produce prioritized remediation and clear owners.
• Continuous improvement via automated drift detection, control health checks, and tabletop exercises.
• Change management that embeds security reviews into CI/CD to prevent unsafe updates reaching production.

We measure success by misconfiguration counts, mean time to detect and respond, and fewer incidents. That lets governance enable fast delivery while keeping controls practical and auditable.

Top exposures in modern deployments often stem from limited visibility and unmanaged assets across accounts and services. We start by making inventory, tags, and continuous discovery standard. That reveals shadow IT and forgotten instances before they cause harm.

Misconfigurations and human error cause many incidents. We apply policy-as-code, pre-deployment checks, and automated remediation to prevent drift. Those steps reduce data loss and the chance of costly breaches.

APIs and third-party integrations are frequent weak points. We enforce OAuth/OIDC, API gateways, schema validation, and rate limits to harden access and stop abusive calls.

To deter account hijacking, we require MFA, credential rotation, and anomalous sign-in monitoring. For insider threats, we apply least privilege, session recording, and behavioral analytics tuned to your environments.

• Map controls to compliance frameworks and automate evidence collection for audit readiness.
• Assess vendors continuously and require contractual security attestations from providers.
• Harden container images, sign artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, and validate dependencies in CI/CD.

Our objectiveis measurable: fewer misconfigurations, less data loss, and resilient environments that enable safe, auditable progress.

Effective identity practices make access predictable, auditable, and scalable across modern services. We treat identity and access as a program that blends design, technology, and continuous oversight.

We begin by decoupling role engineering from any single provider. Roles map to job functions so permissions translate across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.

Least privilege is our default: deny-by-default policies, scoped roles, and regular recertification prevent permission creep. We enforce MFA for consoles, admin APIs, and high‑value workflows to reduce credential-based attacks.

Privileged access management (PAM) is essential. We implement break‑glass controls, credential rotation, session recording, and approval workflows. Just‑in‑time elevation issues short-lived credentials to limit standing privileges.

1. Role engineering that maps across systems and providers.
2. Least privileged policies and periodic access review.
3. MFA coverage for high-risk users and services.
4. PAM and just‑in‑time elevation for sensitive tasks.
5. Continuous monitoring for anomalous user or service activity.
6. Policy-as-code validation through CI/CD pipelines.

Separation of duties reduces blast area by splitting identity, network, and data administration. We also review provider IAM updates to adopt safer defaults and retire legacy configurations.

We prioritize the protection of sensitive data by mapping business value to technical controls. Classification drives where we apply the strongest measures, so the most critical assets receive encryption, strict access, and focused monitoring.

We enforce encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest using provider KMS/HSM offerings. Key rotation, split access, and least-privilege key policies keep control of cryptographic material out of code and images.

Backups span regions and accounts, use immutable copies and versioning, and follow defined RTO and RPO targets. Regular, timed recovery tests validate that recovery works in practice, not just on paper.

• Prevent public exposure by enforcing private access paths and continuous policy validation for storage services.
• Limit exfiltration via monitoring for unusual transfer patterns and alerting for large or cross-region moves.
• Reduce data exposure in integrations through tokenization, masking, and scoped access tokens.
• Log granular data access and retain evidence for investigations and compliance reporting.

Securing applications and integrations requires controls that span the software lifecycle, from code to runtime.

We embed secure coding standards into development and CI pipelines. That includes SAST, DAST, and SCA scans to catch vulnerabilities early. We also require signed artifacts, protected branches, and SBOMs to prove supply chain integrity.

APIs are frequent attack vectors; 92% of organizations reported incidents last year. We place APIs behind gateways that enforce OAuth/OIDC, schema validation, throttling, and threat detection.

We manage secrets centrally, rotate keys, and favor workload identities over static credentials. CI/CD runs under least privilege and checks IaC templates and images before merge.

At runtime, we limit syscalls, monitor process behavior, and apply workload protection to detect anomalies.

Policy-as-code blocks unsafe deployments at PR time. Guardrails and automated remediation reduce misconfigurations and speed safe delivery.

Unified tooling turns scattered telemetry into actionable security signals across environments. We aim to give teams a clear picture of posture, runtime activity, and control status so they can prioritize work effectively.

CSPM helps identify misconfigurations across accounts and services. We extend that capability to CNAPP to combine posture, workload, and application protection for end‑to‑end oversight.

We centralize logs from providers and services to correlate events and spot anomalous activity quickly. Alerts are tuned to reduce noise and surface high‑impact threats.

Proactive threat hunting complements detection by searching for stealthy adversaries that evade signature tools. That offensive posture improves mean time to detect and mean time to respond.

We map controls to PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2, and automate evidence collection from APIs and pipelines. Policies link to IaC templates, IAM settings, and logging configs so audits are evidence‑ready.

• Regular assessments and documented acceptance timelines keep remediation focused.
• Tool alignment to team workflows reduces friction and cost while improving coverage.
• Metrics drive improvement: MTTD, MTTR, and misconfiguration counts guide investments.

Implementation note:we schedule periodic assessments and align tooling to teams so controls remain practical and sustainable. This approach makes security and compliance measurable and operational.

When governance, architecture, and operations act together, teams gain both speed and resilient protection. We believe modern cloud platforms can be safer than on‑premises systems when ownership is clear and practical controls are applied.

Essential measures include least‑privilege IAM, encryption and key management, automated posture checks, tested recovery, and secure delivery pipelines. These steps protect data and reduce breach costs.

Adopting policy‑as‑code, automated remediation, and continuous assessments delivers business benefits: faster delivery, fewer incidents, lower total cost, and audit‑ready evidence.

Our commitment: we bring expertise and tooling; you bring goals. Start with a discovery workshop, prioritize quick wins, and build a phased roadmap to sustain improved security and measurable business outcomes.