Security & Compliance
A security posture assembled the week before an audit is not a security posture, it is a costume. We build least-privilege IAM, centralised secrets management, and region-aware data residency into the infrastructure from the first Terraform commit, so the audit trail already exists when someone asks for it.
Compliance is a byproduct of how the system is built, not a report written after.
Every service account gets exactly the permissions its job requires, and nothing carries a standing credential it does not need that day. Secrets live in a managed vault, rotated on a schedule, never in an environment file committed by accident. Data residency is a deploy-time constraint — EU or US region, as the workload requires — rather than a promise made in a sales call. Audit logs are shipped and retained before the first request hits production, so an incident review has evidence to work from instead of a shrug.
Least-privilege IAM
Role-based access scoped to the narrowest permission set each service or person actually needs, reviewed on a cadence rather than granted once and forgotten — so a compromised credential has a small, known blast radius.
Secrets management
API keys, database credentials, and certificates held in a managed vault with automatic rotation and access logging, replacing the `.env` file quietly copied between three people's laptops.
Compliance guardrails & data residency
Encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging on every privileged action, and region-pinned storage for EU or US residency requirements — configured as policy in the pipeline, so a non-compliant deploy fails before it ships rather than after an auditor finds it.
- IAM audit and least-privilege role redesign
- Secrets migration to a managed vault with rotation policy
- Audit logging pipeline covering every privileged action
- Data residency configuration for EU/US region requirements
- Backup and disaster-recovery policy
- verified by restore drills
- Pen-test readiness review and remediation plan
The engagement
Audit
Enumerate every identity, credential, and standing permission in the current environment, and flag the access nobody can justify on the spot.
Remediate
Migrate secrets to a managed vault, rewrite IAM roles to least privilege, and wire audit logging into every action that touches production data.
Attest
Hand over a documented security posture — logs, rotation policy, residency configuration — that a pen tester or compliance reviewer can verify without a meeting.