Cloud & SDLC Consulting
Cloud architecture and configuration reviews, secure development lifecycle design, and pipeline controls that catch issues before they ship.
What the practice does.
Most cloud incidents are configuration, identity and pipeline problems, not exotic exploits. We review how your cloud is built and run, how your software moves from commit to production, and where the controls should sit so that the secure path is also the fast one.
Findings are reproduced like any test. Recommendations are written for the engineers who will implement them.
Deliverables.
Each item is something you keep: a document, a register, a plan. All of it is scoped and priced before the work starts.
Cloud architecture and configuration review
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Microsoft 365: identity and access, network boundaries, logging, encryption, backup, and the drift between what was designed and what is running.
Secure SDLC design
Threat modelling, security requirements, code review practice, dependency management and secrets handling that fit your teams and tooling rather than a reference model.
Pipeline and supply chain controls
Build integrity, signing, software bill of materials, dependency and container scanning, and the gates that stop known-bad from shipping without stopping shipping.
Infrastructure as code review
Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep and Kubernetes manifests reviewed for the issues scanners miss: trust relationships, blast radius and privilege.
Remediation and enablement
Fixes prioritised with your engineers, reference implementations where they help, and the standards that keep the next change secure.
The four steps, applied.
The method is the same for every practice. This is what each step means here.
Accounts, subscriptions, repositories, pipelines and environments in scope, with read-only access arranged and a point of contact in engineering.
Configuration collected with tooling and read by hand. Pipelines traced from commit to deploy. Architecture reviewed against your threat model, not a generic one.
Every finding is reproduced by a second analyst in your environment, with the exact resource, setting and evidence.
A findings report your engineers can work from, an architecture summary for leadership, and a backlog ready to import into your tracker.
The situations this is built for.
You are moving to the cloud or have just arrived
Migration decisions become permanent quickly. Review identity, network and logging design before the workloads land.
Your pipeline has no security gates
Dependencies, containers and infrastructure code ship without checks, or with checks everyone bypasses.
An audit or customer is asking about secure development
SOC 2, ISO 27001 and enterprise customers now ask how software is built, not just whether it was tested.
Asked before most engagements.
Which platforms do you cover?
AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Microsoft 365, plus the common CI/CD platforms: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket.
Do you need write access?
No. Reviews run with read-only access. Any changes are made by your team, with our guidance.
Is this a penetration test?
It is a review of design, configuration and process, which finds a different class of problem. Many clients pair it with an external test from our testing practice.
Often paired with this.
External Security Testing
Network, web, API, cloud and wireless testing run by hand against your real perimeter, with every finding reproduced before it is written up.
Security Consulting
Maturity assessments, threat and risk assessments (STRA / SOAR), and compliance readiness against ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIST CSF 2.0.
Technology Rationalization
An inventory of every security tool you pay for, what each actually covers, where they overlap, and a consolidation plan with the savings priced.
Tell us what you need tested, assessed or governed.
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You will get a written scope and a fixed price, not a call booking link.