Find the cloud misconfig before the attacker does.
Continuous configuration assessment for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Petronella Technology Group benchmarks your tenants against CIS Foundations, NIST, CMMC, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, surfaces the drift, prioritizes the fix, and produces audit-grade evidence on demand.
What Cloud Security Posture Management Actually Is
CSPM is continuous configuration assessment. It looks at the way your cloud is built, compares the live state against a benchmark or policy, and tells you where reality has drifted away from intent. It is not antivirus, it is not a firewall, it is not a SIEM, and it is not a CASB. Below is the alphabet soup decoded so the rest of this page reads cleanly.
The plain English version. Every cloud platform exposes thousands of switches. Storage bucket public or private. Database encrypted or not. IAM role scoped to one resource or wildcarded across the whole account. Logging on or off. Multi-factor on the root account or skipped during the rush of go-live. CSPM is the discipline of inspecting all of those switches against a known-good baseline, every few minutes, forever. When a switch moves in the wrong direction, CSPM raises a finding. The finding gets triaged, prioritized by blast radius, and either auto-corrected by policy or routed to a human engineer for a controlled remediation.
What CSPM is not. CSPM does not stop a process running on a virtual machine. It does not look inside a container at runtime. It does not block a malicious SaaS app from being adopted by a department. Those problems belong to neighboring categories. Petronella combines CSPM with the right adjacent capabilities so coverage is not assumed, it is verified.
If you need the broader site picture, see our cybersecurity practice overview and the Cloud Security in Raleigh spoke. If you arrived here because of an active compliance project, jump to CMMC, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS directly.
CSPM
Cloud Security Posture Management. Continuous configuration inspection of cloud control planes against benchmarks. Read-only by default. Catches the public S3 bucket, the wide-open security group, the missing CloudTrail, the unencrypted database.
CWPP
Cloud Workload Protection Platform. Lives inside workloads. Watches processes, file integrity, kernel events, container runtime. Where EDR meets cloud. Different problem, different tool, complementary to CSPM.
CASB
Cloud Access Security Broker. Sits between users and SaaS apps. Catches shadow IT, enforces DLP, blocks unsanctioned data exfil to consumer apps. Identity and data layer, not control plane.
CIEM
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management. Focused specifically on identity. Maps who-can-do-what, surfaces dormant access, finds the role that has accumulated 47 permissions and only uses 6 of them. Modern CSPM platforms include CIEM signals.
CNAPP
Cloud Native Application Protection Platform. The marketing umbrella that combines CSPM plus CWPP plus CIEM plus a few other letters into one console. Useful framing, but the four disciplines underneath still have to be done properly.
SIEM / SOAR
Where the CSPM findings flow when remediation needs orchestration, ticketing, or correlation with workload, identity, and network signals. See our Managed XDR practice for the SOC side of the picture.
Why The Misconfig Lane Is The Most Crowded Attack Path In Cloud
For most of the past decade the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has placed misconfiguration in the top tier of cloud breach causes. Pick any major cloud data-exposure incident in living memory and the post-mortem reads the same way. Not a clever zero-day. A switch left in the wrong position.
The categories repeat. Engineers do not need a list of percentages to recognize the shape of cloud incidents. The same handful of patterns show up year after year across regulated and unregulated industries alike. Public-readable object storage with sensitive data inside. Database services exposed to the internet without authentication. Identity roles that are trusted by every account in the world instead of just the one that needs them. Logging silently disabled six months ago and never reactivated. Credentials checked into a public repository and noticed by a scraper before the engineer noticed the mistake.
Cloud changes faster than humans can audit. A modern engineering team can spin up dozens of resources per day across multiple regions across multiple accounts. Manual quarterly review has not been a workable cadence since roughly 2015. CSPM exists because the rate of change in cloud control planes exceeds the human inspection budget. Automation is the only way to keep up, and the question is no longer whether to automate inspection. It is whether your inspection covers every account, every region, every resource type, and every benchmark family that applies to your business.
Why misconfig keeps winning. Engineering teams optimize for shipping. Security teams optimize for control. The default workflow during a sprint is to make the cloud do something new, and the default workflow at audit time is to discover that the way the new thing was built does not match the policy that was written eighteen months ago. Without a continuous posture loop, the gap between policy and reality is whatever the time elapsed since the last manual audit happens to be. We have closed those gaps for engineering firms, defense contractors with controlled unclassified information obligations, healthcare practices governed by the HIPAA Security Rule, law firms, and financial-services clients across North Carolina. The story rhymes in every sector.
Multi-Cloud Coverage. Same Standard. Different Control Planes.
Petronella Technology Group runs CSPM across the four major public clouds plus the hybrid edge. We use an enterprise-grade CSPM platform that normalizes findings into a single dashboard so a control gap in Azure can be triaged with the same workflow as a control gap in AWS. Onboarding is read-only IAM by default. No agents on production compute. No write paths until you authorize them.
Amazon Web Services
- IAM users, roles, policies, permission boundaries, SCPs
- VPC architecture, security groups, NACLs, peering, transit gateways
- S3 bucket policies, public access blocks, encryption defaults
- RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift encryption and exposure
- KMS key rotation, grants, and cross-account trust
- CloudTrail multi-region trails, CloudWatch logs, GuardDuty enablement
- EC2 instance metadata service version, EBS encryption, snapshot exposure
- Lambda function permissions, environment variable handling
- EKS cluster authentication, secrets encryption, network policy
- SSO and IAM Identity Center federation hygiene
Microsoft Azure
- Entra ID conditional access, MFA enforcement, privileged identity management
- Subscription, management group, resource group RBAC sprawl
- Network security groups, application security groups, route tables, firewall
- Storage account public access, blob anonymous read, Key Vault firewall
- SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Synapse encryption and TLS minimum
- Key Vault soft-delete, purge protection, secret expiry hygiene
- Diagnostic settings, activity log retention, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- App Service authentication, managed identity adoption, FTPS-only enforcement
- AKS cluster integrations with Entra ID, network plugin posture, secrets
- Microsoft 365 tenant boundary controls and licensing alignment
Google Cloud Platform
- IAM bindings at organization, folder, project, and resource scope
- VPC design, firewall rules, shared VPC posture, private Google access
- Cloud Storage bucket ACLs, uniform access, retention policies, public bindings
- Cloud SQL, Spanner, BigQuery authorized networks and CMEK adoption
- Cloud KMS key rotation cadence and HSM tier selection
- Audit log sinks, log retention, organization policy enforcement
- Compute Engine OS Login enforcement, shielded VM posture, serial console
- Cloud Run and Cloud Functions identity and ingress controls
- GKE workload identity, private cluster posture, binary authorization
- Workload Identity Federation and external identity provider hygiene
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Identity domains, federated tenancies, group and compartment hierarchy
- Object Storage bucket visibility, pre-authenticated request hygiene
- VCN security lists, network security groups, internet gateway exposure
- Autonomous Database, MySQL, NoSQL encryption and IP allowlists
- Vault key rotation, master encryption keys, secret expiry
- Audit service retention, logging service sinks, cloud guard detector recipes
- Compute instance shape, agent posture, custom image hardening
- Container engine for Kubernetes posture and workload identity
- FastConnect, dynamic routing gateway, and hybrid edge posture
- Tenancy-wide policy statements and risky resource manager runs
CIS Foundations Benchmarks, Automated From Day One
The Center for Internet Security publishes Foundations Benchmarks for each major cloud platform. They are the closest the industry has to a vendor-neutral, peer-reviewed baseline for cloud control plane configuration. Petronella runs the current versions of each benchmark continuously, treats Level 1 controls as table stakes, and brings Level 2 controls into scope where data sensitivity or regulator expectation requires it.
| Benchmark | Version we automate | Sections covered | Posture goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIS AWS Foundations | v3.x current |
Identity and Access Management. Storage. Logging. Monitoring. Networking. Workloads. Compliance. | Level 1 across all accounts. Level 2 for production accounts handling regulated data. |
| CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations | v3.x current |
Identity and Access Management. Microsoft Defender. Storage Accounts. Database Services. Logging and Monitoring. Networking. Virtual Machines. Key Vault. AppService. | Level 1 baseline tenant-wide. Level 2 for subscriptions hosting controlled unclassified information or PHI. |
| CIS Google Cloud Foundations | v3.x current |
Identity and Access Management. Logging and Monitoring. Networking. Virtual Machines. Storage. Cloud SQL Database Services. BigQuery. KMS. | Level 1 for every project. Level 2 for projects hosting regulated workloads or shared services. |
| CIS Kubernetes Benchmark | v1.10 current |
Control Plane. Worker Node. Policies. RBAC. Pod Security. Networking. Logging. | Run on every managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS, AKS, GKE, OKE) including hybrid edge clusters. |
| CIS Docker Benchmark | v1.7 current |
Host. Daemon. Daemon configuration files. Container images. Container runtime. Docker security operations. | Applied to self-hosted container hosts and edge appliances. Optional for fully managed runtimes. |
| CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations | v3.x current |
Account and Authentication. Application Permissions. Data Management. Email Security. Auditing. Storage. Mobile Device Management. | Level 1 across every tenant. Tied to our Microsoft 365 security hardening service. |
Benchmarks evolve. We track CIS version releases and update controls into your environment when the publisher revises them. Findings carry the benchmark version they were evaluated against, which keeps audit conversations short and accurate.
The Recurring Cast Of Cloud Misconfigurations
These are not theoretical. Every item below has appeared during a Petronella CSPM onboarding inside the last 24 months. Names are withheld; the categories are not. Each one is detectable in minutes and fixable in hours when the relationship between platform engineering and security is in good shape.
Public-readable object storage
Why it matters. A bucket flipped to public can be discovered by an automated scraper inside hours, sometimes minutes. Sensitive PHI, PII, CUI, source code, customer exports, and database backups have all been exposed this way. CSPM evaluates effective permissions, not just the toggle.
Security group open to 0.0.0.0/0 on admin ports
Why it matters. SSH on port 22, RDP on 3389, and database management ports exposed to the entire internet are the cheapest possible foothold for a brute-force or credential-stuffing attacker. Findings rank by port, protocol, and the workload behind the rule.
Audit logging disabled, paused, or unbacked
Why it matters. If CloudTrail is off, the activity log is not flowing, or the diagnostic setting on a critical resource was never enabled, you are running blind. Without telemetry there is no incident response, only theory. CSPM tracks logging state per account, per region, per resource.
Unencrypted databases, snapshots, or volumes
Why it matters. Regulator expectations under HIPAA, CMMC, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 treat unencrypted persistent data as a finding. A snapshot copied to a different region without customer-managed keys can quietly negate every other control upstream of it.
Overprivileged roles and wildcarded policies
Why it matters. A role with * on action and resource is a free pass for whatever credential is compromised. CIEM signals quantify entitlement creep by comparing granted permissions against permissions actually used in the last 90 days.
Root or break-glass account without MFA
Why it matters. The root or global administrator account is the single most valuable identity in a tenant. CSPM evaluates MFA enrollment, hardware token attachment for the most sensitive identities, and break-glass account custody.
Stale access keys and unrotated KMS keys
Why it matters. Keys never rotated since the account was opened are a standing invitation. CSPM tracks last-used dates per key and surfaces keys that have not been rotated within policy thresholds.
Public-facing managed databases and caches
Why it matters. Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and cache services launched into a default public VPC subnet can accept connections from the internet. Findings rank by data sensitivity and authentication posture.
Orphaned snapshots, AMIs, and unattached volumes
Why it matters. Yesterday-sensitive data tends to linger in snapshots that nobody owns. CSPM surfaces the orphans so retention policy actually applies.
Identity federation trust scoped too broadly
Why it matters. SAML or OIDC trust relationships with an external IdP scoped to * conditions accept tokens that should be rejected. Findings break out federation by issuer, audience, and condition.
Resources outside infrastructure-as-code
Why it matters. A console-clicked resource that is not in Terraform, Bicep, or Deployment Manager is invisible to your governance pipeline. CSPM detects out-of-band resources and tags them for either adoption into IaC or removal.
Default VPC, default subnets, default everything
Why it matters. The provider-supplied default VPC frequently violates the principle of least exposure. Workloads placed there inherit the wrong baseline. CSPM detects production workloads still relying on the default network constructs.
Detection. Drift. Decision. Remediation. Verification.
A healthy CSPM program is not a dashboard, it is a closed loop. Petronella runs the loop on a defined cadence per environment and severity tier. Production gets a human-in-loop posture for any change with material blast radius. Lower environments can accept higher levels of automated remediation where you authorize it in advance.
Continuous inspection
Every cloud account, every region, every resource type evaluated against the active benchmark and policy set. Findings reach the SOC inside minutes of resource state change.
Blast-radius scoring
Each finding is scored against data sensitivity, exposure surface, regulatory scope, and exploitability. Critical findings page within minutes; informational findings flow to the weekly report.
Auto or human
Pre-authorized fixes for known-safe categories (closing a public bucket, removing 0.0.0.0/0 on admin ports in a dev account) trigger automated remediation. Production changes always involve a human engineer.
Documented runbooks
Each finding category has a tested remediation runbook in our internal knowledge base. Manual fixes follow the runbook; automated fixes execute the runbook through SOAR with full audit trail.
Closed only on re-scan
A finding is not closed because somebody clicked Close. It is closed because the next inspection cycle proves the underlying state matches policy. False-positives are routed back to detection tuning, not silenced.
Auto-remediation is not magic and it is not a substitute for engineering judgment.
Petronella defaults production environments to human-in-loop remediation, full stop. The temptation to enable broad auto-fix policies on day one is real and we say no. Auto-remediation is correct for narrow, well-understood patterns in non-production environments. For production, the engineer who has the context decides, then approves the change, then watches the verification cycle. The loop is automated. The judgment is not. Anyone who tells you otherwise has not handled the call when the auto-fix took an application down at 2 a.m.
This is the same posture our offensive testing practice brings into engagements: structured, evidence-led, and refusing to overstate what tools can do without a human in the loop.
The Identity Side: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management
CSPM and CIEM overlap, and the overlap is widening every year. Modern cloud breaches do not start with a kernel exploit. They start with an identity. A leaked key. An unused role with too many permissions. A federated identity scoped too generously. Petronella treats CIEM as a first-class part of the CSPM program rather than a separate purchase.
Entitlement creep. Permissions accumulate. The role that started life with three actions in 2022 has nineteen actions in 2026, and nobody can tell you which seven are actually needed. We baseline current permissions against permissions used in the last 60 to 90 days, then shrink the policy back toward least-privilege with the engineering team in the loop.
Dormant identities. Service accounts whose last sign-in was 14 months ago, IAM users whose access keys have not rotated since 2023, federated users whose home tenant deactivated their account but whose inbound trust is still valid. CSPM catches all three classes and gates them behind documented retirement runbooks.
Role explosion. Some organizations end up with thousands of IAM roles, dozens of which differ by one or two actions. CIEM reports consolidate near-duplicate roles, surface the parent set that could replace them, and document the consolidation plan so an engineering team can execute it during a quiet sprint.
Federation hygiene. Where Petronella runs the federation review alongside CSPM, we examine inbound SAML and OIDC trust relationships, look for wildcarded conditions, audit IdP-side group claims, and align federated access with the same least-privilege expectations we apply to native identities.
Which CSPM Findings Satisfy Which Framework Controls
A CSPM finding is also an audit artifact. When the SSP or the QSA or the assessor asks for evidence that controls are operating, the relevant CSPM screenshot, export, or API call answers the question without an engineer manually building a slide deck. The table below shows the most common mappings we deliver.
| Framework | Control families CSPM addresses | Example evidence we produce |
|---|---|---|
| CMMC L1, L2, and L3 | Access Control (AC). Audit and Accountability (AU). Configuration Management (CM). Identification and Authentication (IA). System and Communications Protection (SC). System and Information Integrity (SI). | IAM role inventory mapped to AC.L2-3.1.1. CloudTrail multi-region trail evidence for AU.L2-3.3.1. Encryption-at-rest reports for SC.L2-3.13.11. Drift detection logs for CM.L2-3.4.1. |
| HIPAA Security Rule | Technical safeguards including access control 164.312(a), audit controls 164.312(b), integrity 164.312(c), transmission security 164.312(e). | Unique user identification reports. Encryption status of ePHI repositories. Audit log retention proof. TLS configuration baseline. |
| PCI-DSS v4.0.1 | Requirement 1 (network), 2 (system hardening), 3 (cardholder data protection), 7 (access need-to-know), 8 (identify users), 10 (logging and monitoring). | Network segmentation evidence between CDE and corporate VPC. Hardening baseline reports. Quarterly access review exports. |
| SOC 2 Common Criteria | CC6 (logical and physical access). CC7 (system operations). CC8 (change management). Trust Services Criteria for security, availability, and confidentiality. | User access review reports. Change detection logs for production. Backup and DR posture exports. Vulnerability state reports. |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | Identify (assets, governance). Protect (access control, data security). Detect (continuous monitoring). Respond (analysis, mitigation). Recover (recovery planning). | Cloud asset inventory. Data-at-rest classification. Telemetry coverage report. Documented response runbooks. Recovery testing logs. |
| NIST SP 800-171 r2/r3 | Same 14 families as CMMC L2 underneath. Often used as the bridge framework for defense contractors before CMMC assessment. | Same artifacts as CMMC L2 with the 800-171 control numbering applied for the SSP. |
| FedRAMP Moderate (where relevant) | NIST 800-53 Rev 5 control families. CSPM addresses configuration management, identification and authentication, access control, audit and accountability, and system and information integrity. | Continuous monitoring deliverables, control implementation evidence, deviation tracking, and POA&M-aligned finding exports. |
For clients with an active compliance project, CSPM findings flow into ComplianceArmor so an SSP, POA&M, and evidence package can be generated against the same control catalog the assessor will use. Engineering firms with controlled unclassified information obligations should also read our engineering firms cybersecurity practice.
From Read-Only IAM To Quarterly Cadence
CSPM onboarding does not require a six-month implementation project. The fastest path to value starts with a read-only IAM role and a baseline scan inside the first week. By the end of month one, the cadence is steady-state, the remediation backlog has been worked down, and the audit-evidence pipeline is producing artifacts on a quarterly rhythm.
Read-only IAM role
- Cross-account role deployed in AWS, app registration created in Entra ID, service account issued in GCP, dynamic group provisioned in OCI
- Strictly read-only. No write paths. No agents on production compute
- Approval chain documented. Petronella signs an engagement-scoped data handling agreement before connection
Baseline scan and findings report
- Full inspection of every connected account, region, and resource type
- Findings normalized across clouds and ranked by blast radius
- Initial report delivered with prioritized remediation queue and rough-order-of-magnitude effort
- Compliance crosswalk produced for whichever frameworks are in scope
Prioritized remediation
- Critical and high findings closed first, working sessions with the engineering team
- Documented runbooks for each remediation pattern handed over for internal reuse
- Auto-remediation enabled in non-production for pre-authorized categories only
- Production remediations stay human-in-loop unless you explicitly choose otherwise
Steady-state cadence
- Continuous inspection with severity-tiered alerting into the SOC
- Weekly drift report to the engineering and security leads
- Monthly executive scorecard with trend lines per benchmark family
- Quarterly compliance evidence package generated for active frameworks
- Benchmark version updates rolled in as CIS publishes new releases
Custom-Quoted, Scoped By What You Actually Run
Petronella does not publish a per-seat or per-resource sticker for CSPM because the work does not scale that way. A 12-resource Azure tenant for a small healthcare practice is a different engagement than a 4,000-resource multi-account AWS organization for a defense contractor with CMMC Level 2 obligations. We quote against the engagement reality, then hold to that quote.
Inputs to the quote. Number of cloud accounts and subscriptions. Number of regions in active use. Resource volume per account. Number of distinct frameworks in scope. Whether you need ongoing remediation capacity from Petronella engineers or only the platform and the findings. Whether integration into your existing SIEM, ITSM, or SOAR is in scope. Whether you have an active assessment date driving the timeline.
What is always included. Read-only onboarding. Baseline scan and prioritized findings. Compliance crosswalk for at least one framework. Documented remediation runbooks for every category that comes up in your environment. Quarterly evidence package. North Carolina based engineers who answer the phone.
The fastest way to a number is a 30-minute scoping conversation. Use the contact form or call (919) 348-4912. We will provide a written engagement scope inside two business days.
Questions Cloud Owners Ask Before Engaging Us
Decision-makers ask the same dozen questions. Here are the honest answers.
What is the difference between CSPM and a vulnerability scanner?
A vulnerability scanner looks at software, packages, and CVE exposure inside workloads. CSPM looks at the configuration of the cloud control plane around those workloads. A perfectly patched virtual machine sitting in a public subnet with a 0.0.0.0/0 SSH rule is a CSPM finding, not a vulnerability finding. You need both, and Petronella runs both as complementary practices.
Do you require agents on our virtual machines or containers?
No. CSPM by definition is agentless. It inspects cloud control plane APIs through a read-only IAM role. If you also want runtime workload protection (CWPP), that is a separate decision and a separate scope, and the agents that come with it are evaluated against your change-management and performance constraints.
Can CSPM enforce changes automatically in production?
It can. We default it off. Petronella treats production auto-remediation as a deliberate, narrow, opt-in capability for known-safe patterns. Most clients enable auto-remediation in development and staging while keeping production gated behind human approval. We will not flip this switch on for you without a written authorization that lists exactly which categories are pre-approved.
How fast are misconfigurations detected after a change?
Most categories are inspected within minutes of resource state change because the platform subscribes to cloud event streams (CloudTrail, Azure Activity Log, Cloud Audit Logs, OCI Audit). A small number of derived findings require a full inspection pass and surface inside the next cycle, typically under an hour.
Which platform do you use?
We integrate enterprise-grade CSPM tooling that has earned analyst-recognized coverage for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes, and Microsoft 365. We do not name vendors on a public services page because we choose the right platform per client based on scope, regulator expectations, and existing toolchain. Vendor names are part of the scoping conversation.
Will CSPM help us pass our CMMC, HIPAA, PCI, or SOC 2 audit?
It will give you the technical evidence the assessor wants for the cloud control families. It does not write the SSP, conduct the assessment, or close every administrative control. Petronella handles the surrounding work through our compliance practice and ComplianceArmor platform. CSPM is the engine that produces the artifacts; the assessment package is built around it.
What happens to findings that we cannot remediate immediately?
They go on a documented Plan of Action and Milestones, with an owner, a target date, and a compensating control where applicable. A finding that lives on a POA&M for six months is a different conversation than a finding that has been open for two years; the cadence keeps the conversation honest.
Do you cover hybrid and on-premises infrastructure?
CSPM is for cloud control planes. For hybrid edge clusters, private cloud, or on-premises hypervisors, the equivalent practice is configuration management against a defined hardening baseline (CIS Distribution Independent Linux, CIS Microsoft Windows Server, CIS VMware). Petronella runs that practice through our managed IT services arm. Where you run hybrid, we connect both views into one report.
Can you integrate with our existing SIEM or ticketing system?
Yes. CSPM findings can be forwarded to Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Elastic, or other SIEMs, and to ServiceNow, Jira, or other ITSM platforms. We define routing rules per severity, per cloud, per account so the right team sees the right finding in the tool they already use.
What does the deliverable look like at the end of an engagement?
An executive scorecard with trend lines per benchmark family. A technical findings export per cloud. A remediation runbook library tailored to your environment. A compliance evidence package per framework in scope. And, where you choose to continue past the initial engagement, a steady-state cadence that produces those artifacts on schedule.
How does CSPM relate to your Managed XDR and pen-testing services?
CSPM is the prevention layer for cloud control planes. Managed XDR is the detection and response layer for the SOC. Penetration testing is the periodic offensive validation that confirms the prevention and detection layers actually work together. The three sit on top of each other; clients who run all three get the most defensible posture.
Are you a North Carolina firm or a national outsourcer?
Petronella Technology Group has been headquartered at 5540 Centerview Drive, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27606 since 2002. CMMC-AB Registered Provider Organization #1449. BBB A+ accredited since 2003. The engineers who answer when you call are the engineers who do the work. We serve clients across Raleigh, the Research Triangle, and statewide.
Adjacent Practices That Make CSPM More Effective
Managed XDR
Detection and response across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and email.
Penetration Testing
Adversary-simulation engagements scoped to your cloud, identity, and application surface.
CMMC L1, L2, and L3
CMMC readiness, gap remediation, and assessment support for defense contractors.
HIPAA Compliance
Security Rule technical safeguards, risk analysis, and BAA management for covered entities.
PCI-DSS v4.0.1
QSA-aligned readiness, segmentation evidence, and continuous monitoring for cardholder data environments.
ComplianceArmor
SSP, POA&M, policy, and evidence package generation across CMMC, HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, NIST CSF.
Scope A Cloud Security Posture Engagement
Thirty minutes on the phone is enough to size the work. You leave the call with a written engagement scope inside two business days, a fixed quote that does not change after onboarding, and a clear plan to get from read-only IAM to quarterly cadence inside one month.