Cloud Security Design

Cloud Security Design helps you embed effective security patterns and controls into your cloud platforms from day one. It focuses on designing security that is practical for delivery teams, measurable for governance, and strictly aligned with your regulatory and assurance obligations across public, private, and hybrid environments.

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Features & Benefits

Features	Benefits
Threat modelling and risk assessment	Improved security posture by design
Identity and access management architecture	Reduced risk of misconfiguration
Network segmentation and boundary controls	Faster secure delivery for teams
Encryption, key management and secrets design	Clearer compliance control alignment
Logging, monitoring and detection design	Better detection and response readiness
Security baseline and hardening standards	Consistent security patterns across services
Secure landing zones and guardrails	Reduced audit and assurance friction
Incident response integration and playbooks	Lower likelihood of data exposure incidents
Compliance mapping and evidence requirements	Simpler security decisions for projects
Design documentation and implementation guidance	More resilient cloud architectures

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Service Detail

Secure-by-Design Implementation

Our Cloud Security Design practice moves security from a "gatekeeper" function to an "enabler" by embedding effective patterns into platforms from day one. We focus on designing technical controls that are practical for engineers to implement, measurable for governance, and strictly aligned with regulatory frameworks like NCSC and Data Protection. By implementing these through automation, we ensure consistent application across public, private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud deployments. We build defence-in-depth across the identity, network, compute, and data layers, utilizing segmentation, encryption, and continuous monitoring to protect your assets.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

We bridge the gap between abstract policy and technical reality by mapping controls to ISO27001, NIST, and CIS benchmarks. This service is intrinsically linked to Cloud Compliance as Code, where we translate high-level requirements into repeatable, auditable checks rather than manual point-in-time exercises. By integrating security into CI/CD Delivery pipelines, we maintain least privilege access and provide the evidence needed for assurance without slowing down the delivery roadmap. This results in clearer security governance and improved confidence in platform hardening across the entire estate.

Operational Security and Resilience

Security designs are delivered with the run-state in mind, including alerting, playbooks, and a clear incident response and escalation model. Our operating model is designed for measurable outcomes, planned in short iterations, and handed over cleanly to your internal teams. During onboarding, we confirm your specific security constraints and change windows to produce essential run artefacts like runbooks and dashboards. For long-term stability, we align with ITIL-style service management, ensuring that releases, patches, and configuration changes are documented, controlled, and auditable.

Data Handling and Portability

We strictly prioritise data protection; we follow your specific retention rules, protect data at rest and in transit, and ensure you retain full ownership. Our designs are also built for portability, using automation and documented configurations so you can migrate, re-host, or exit without vendor lock-in. This holistic approach reduces security oversights and ensures that your cloud architecture is resilient enough to handle evolving threats while remaining compliant with your assurance obligations.