Cloud Security, Hardening & Posture Management
Cloud security that grows with your environments.
Cloud resources can be created faster than security settings and responsibilities are established. We help harden your environment and review its security posture regularly. Technical controls, versioned policies and a clear workflow for findings make security part of everyday development and operations.
Your options
Services that move your project forward
Review the security foundation
We capture accounts, subscriptions, or projects, critical workloads, and existing controls. Responsibilities between vendor, platform, and application are clarified.
A common picture of the most important protection tasks.
Harden identities and permissions
Far-reaching roles, technical identities and administrative access are considered in a targeted manner. Emergency procedures and necessary exceptions are also planned.
Identify and address unnecessary access.
Protect networks and data
Public accessibility, connections, encryption and relevant data storage are checked. Protective measures are based on actual data flows.
Comprehensible protection for access routes and sensitive information.
Automate policies
Appropriate rules are versioned and implemented via checks or platform policies. Impacts, exceptions, and incremental enforcement are taken into account.
Recurring requirements can be implemented more consistently.
Prioritize findings
Findings from configuration and posture checks are linked to business relevance and existing controls. Responsible persons and processing goals become visible.
Your team gets actionable tasks instead of an unordered list of alerts.
Maintain operational effectiveness
Logging, follow-up checks, change paths and regular reviews accompany the introduction. Documentation and knowledge transfer ensure further maintenance.
Security measures remain traceable even with new workloads.
Where to start
Cloud Security, Hardening & Posture Management Use cases
Three example situations show how we can help.
Harden your existing cloud environment
A productive environment has grown over several projects. We start with critical access and resources and coordinate changes with the responsible teams.
Onboarding new teams safely
A common platform is to support other applications. Guidelines and templates create a reusable security basis for their introduction.
Targeted reduction of many cloud findings
A posture tool delivers more reports than can be processed. We connect findings to impacts and responsibilities and prioritize effective actions.
From requirements to results
A clear process with agreed milestones
Define the scope and protection needs
We agree on the affected platforms, workloads, and available evidence.
Assess controls and risks
Configuration, architecture and responsibilities are examined in context.
Implement controlled changes
Prioritized improvements are introduced with testing, approvals and suitable rollback procedures.
Establish regular reviews
Guidelines, exceptions and findings are given fixed responsibilities and review cycles.
Your benefit
What you receive
- Assessment of agreed cloud security areas.
- Prioritized hardening measures and documented exceptions.
- Versioned rules or configuration changes to the agreed scope.
- Handover of review and remediation workflows to your teams.
Ways to work with us
Choose a starting point that fits your needs. We agree the scope and required effort in a tailored proposal.
Cloud security review
For clarity: prioritized assessment of selected accounts, workloads, and security controls.
Request a quote: Cloud security reviewHardening and policy pilot
For improvements: controlled implementation of the most important measures with tests and handover.
Request a quote: Hardening and policy pilotPosture workflows and expansion
For ongoing improvement: finding assessment, policy management and adoption across additional environments.
Request a quote: Posture workflows and expansionSYNEDAT PLATFORM
Platform experience for your project
We use these selected tools in SYNEDAT PLATFORM or its delivery processes. We adapt suitable practices to your project and align their integration with your existing systems.
Quality and the software supply chain
SonarQube · Trivy · Dependency-Track · DefectDojo · Renovate · Syft · Cosign
Code quality, vulnerabilities, dependencies and artifact provenance require different checks. Findings need to be linked to the product and delivered version, with a defined process for resolving them. Automated checks complement reviews and informed decisions.
Security and quality information that teams can act on.
Identities, secrets and policies
Keycloak · OpenBao · External Secrets · Kyverno
Sign-in, technical secrets and platform policies serve different purposes. We connect them with roles, limited permissions and documented exceptions. The selected tools form part of a common access and operating model.
Controlled access and more consistent platform policies.
Questions before you get started
Which cloud platforms can be included?
We consider Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud according to the agreed scope. On-premises and OpenShift environments can be incorporated into an overarching approach. Available features and tools vary by platform.
Doesn't the cloud provider already take care of security?
Providers and customers have different tasks. Which configurations, identities, data and applications you are responsible for depends on the respective service. We make these responsibility limits visible for the services used.
What is Cloud Security Posture Management?
Security-relevant settings and deviations in cloud environments are regularly evaluated. The benefits arise from reliable assignment, prioritization and processing of findings. A tool alone does not eliminate organizational or technical causes.
Can hardening affect running applications?
Yes, for example, if access or network rules are changed. Therefore, effects, testing options and fallback routes are checked in advance. Critical changes are made in a coordinated process with the responsible teams.
How do you deal with necessary exceptions?
Exceptions have a documented reason, an owner, suitable compensating controls and a review date. Deliberate deviations remain visible and are reassessed instead of becoming forgotten long-term risks.
How does Infrastructure as Code contribute?
Recurring settings can be maintained through versioned configuration and reviews. Checks before deployment complement reviews of the actual environment. Existing resources may need preparation before they can be managed this way.
Does a good posture score prove that we are secure?
A score can provide clues to specific configuration gaps. It is not a substitute for an assessment of actual business risks, application security, or operations. We look at the underlying findings and the agreed protection needs.
Is ongoing IT operations included?
The introduction and ongoing service can be agreed separately. For regular support, the scope, service times, response channels and responsibilities are expressly defined.
Discuss your next step
Which cloud risks should you reduce first?
Describe platforms, critical workloads and current findings. We clarify an appropriate scope of testing and the first specific measures.
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