Security in the cloud
Cloud infrastructure is flexible and agile. Is it secure?
A high rate of change and poorly understood risk in a shared-responsibility, multi-tenant environment can be catastrophic. Attackers could steal your data but human error or operational neglect could just as easily damage your reputation.
We help you to create controls that reduce both operational and cybersecurity risk. We screen infrastructure-as-code to improve security without slowing you down. We work with and within teams to build a culture of secure-by-design, leveraging agile ways-of-working to make real and lasting improvements to your security posture.
The software supply chain is increasingly exploited. We work with our clients to shift security controls left through the supply-chain ensuring that both infrastructure and application code is screened well before release into production.
Security across organisations
It can be challenging to manage security risk across organisational boundaries. We build the relationship with suppliers that is needed to accurately identify risk. We also work with penetration testers, providing the resulting threat-models and guardrails to record, prioritise, mitigate and reduce that risk.
Healthy governance process ensures ownership of threats and their associated controls so that risk is kept within a threshold appropriate for your wider business strategy and compliance needs.
We identify risk and control owners within your organisation and can recommend improvements to governance so that aggregate risk is well understood. We then collaborate with the identified key suppliers to improve security.
Coherent strategies, standards, guardrails and patterns
Many organisations are already on a journey with initiatives to improve security and adapt ways-of-working underway.
We help to deliver existing security strategies through the creation of standards, guardrails and patterns. We review existing standards where change is outflanking them, or recommend an overarching strategy to help drive and prioritise security improvements and capabilities.
Balanced pragmatic improvements, prioritised by risk
Threat-modelling identifies threats arising from each component and attack surface. These are then composed to examine aggregate risk and prioritise security improvements where they matter most.
We are pragmatic: sometimes the best control is one with which the team are already familiar. Where innovation is needed it should best use known languages, technologies and approaches, minimising operational cost for the organisation, and reducing cognitive friction for the team.
We're here to help
You can call us on +44 20 3337 3012 today to discuss your current challenges and how we can best help, or email us at help@hanscombe.net.
