Security & Compliance Management

AWS Security Baseline

Security on AWS operates on a shared-responsibility model. AWS secures the physical infrastructure, the global network, and the managed service layer. You are responsible for everything you build on top of it — your data, your applications, your identities, and your configurations.

That responsibility is significant. We make sure you meet it — implementing a security baseline that protects your AWS environment to the standard of the most security-sensitive organisations on the platform.

What We Do

Threat Detection and Continuous Monitoring

We enable and configure the core AWS security services across your estate: AWS Security Hub aggregates findings from across your environment into a single prioritised view; Amazon Guard Duty provides intelligent threat detection based on AWS API calls, DNS logs, and VPC flow logs; AWS Config maintains a continuous inventory of your resources and evaluates them against compliance rules. Together, they give you real-time visibility into your security posture and a reliable signal when something requires attention.

Preventive and Detective Guardrails

Security guardrails operate at two levels. Preventive guardrails — implemented through AWS Service Control Policies — stop non-compliant actions from happening at all. Disabling a Region, preventing the disabling of CloudTrail, enforcing encryption on S3 buckets: these controls apply across every account in your organisation regardless of what individual teams do. Detective guardrails identify issues after the fact and feed findings into your response workflow.

Identity and Access Governance

We implement identity management and access control aligned with the AWS CAF Security Perspective. Workforce identities are managed through a centralised identity provider — not individual IAM users — so access is provisioned, updated, and revoked from a single location. IAM policies follow least-privilege principles, are reviewed regularly, and are validated against AWS Access Analyzer. Privileged access is monitored and time-limited.

Data Protection

Data is encrypted at rest and in transit across all services — S3, RDS, EBS, EFS, and DynamoDB. AWS Key Management Service manages encryption keys with regular rotation. S3 bucket policies and access control settings are audited continuously. Sensitive log data is masked where required and protected in an isolated log archive account.

Compliance Alignment

AWS manages compliance programmes for dozens of frameworks within its infrastructure. We extend that compliance posture to your workloads — mapping your environment against SOC 1 and SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 27018, PCI DSS Level 1, FedRAMP, and FISMA. Automated evidence collection reduces the burden of audits significantly.

Why It Matters

Security scales with your AWS usage — but only if it is architected to do so. A security baseline established at the start of your AWS journey is far less expensive than remediating security debt accumulated over years of ungoverned growth.