Practical write-ups on cloud security posture, compliance frameworks, and what auditors actually look for — from the team doing the assessments.
Most SOC 2 findings trace back to five recurring gaps — access reviews that never happened, logging that isn't retained long enough, and change management that lives in someone's head instead of a ticket. Here's the order we'd tackle them in if your audit window opens in six months, and why sequencing matters more than working every control at once.
Read the file →A wildcard resource in an otherwise scoped policy statement quietly granted far more access than intended. How we found it, and a checklist for catching the same pattern in your own AWS and Azure roles.
Read the file →Treating CIS controls as a pass/fail scan misses the point. A look at how to prioritize findings by actual exposure instead of raw count, so your team fixes the ten things that matter before the ninety that don't.
Read the file →Running workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP makes GDPR data residency harder to reason about, not easier. A practical framework for mapping where data actually lives versus where you assume it does.
Read the file →What to do — and specifically what not to do — in the first sixty minutes after a suspicious API call shows up in your CloudTrail logs, based on incidents we've actually responded to.
Read the file →The single biggest lever for reducing PCI-DSS audit cost and effort is aggressive, correct network segmentation. A walkthrough of how we scope cardholder data environments before a single control gets tested.
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