Cloud & Platform Security Foundations
Guardrails, Identity and Observability as a secure foundation for AWS, Azure, GCP and Hybrid-Cloud. DevSecOps-ready.
- Landing Zone / Account Structure + Guardrails (Policy as Code)
- Identity & Access (Human + Workload Identities, CIEM-ready)
- Logging, Detection, SIEM Integration + Incident Readiness
Confidential. Remote. Practical.
What are Cloud & Platform Security Foundations?
Foundations are the security baseline that makes cloud platforms secure by default: clear account and role models, guardrails, secure deploy patterns, logging and ownership. The goal is: fewer misconfigurations, less credential risk, faster incident response.
Governance & Guardrails
- •Account/Subscription structure and naming standards
- •Policy as Code: Allowed services, secure defaults
- •Baseline for regions, network, storage, encryption
Identity & Access (Control Plane)
- •Least Privilege role model (Human + Workload Identities)
- •MFA/Conditional Access, Key Rotation, Token Hygiene
- •CIEM-ready: Roles, permissions, drift visibility
Workloads & Platform
- •Network segmentation, Ingress/Egress Controls
- •Secrets & Key Management (KMS, Vault patterns, Rotation)
- •Workload Baselines (VM, Container, Kubernetes as needed)
Observability & Detection
- •Central logs (Cloud-native + SIEM), Audit Trails
- •Detection Use Cases: Identity, Exfiltration, Misconfig
- •Incident Readiness: Alert Triage, Runbooks, Ownership
Cloud Security in Numbers
Three KPIs that explain the biggest risks in cloud environments.
Cloud security failures stem from customer-side configurations and access decisions (Gartner forecast, through 2025).
IBM (citing Gartner)
In the "Basic Web Application Attacks" pattern, approximately 88% of breaches involved stolen credentials (Verizon DBIR 2025).
Verizon DBIR 2025
Global average cost per data breach (IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025).
IBM 2025 Report
Microsoft reports that 97% of identity attacks are password spray attacks, and that identity-based attacks increased by 32% in H1 2025 (MDDR 2025).
What we focus on
Misconfigurations + Control Plane + Identity are the default attack surface.
Misconfigurations
Typische Symptome
Public buckets, open security groups, missing encryption, default policies.
Was wir tun
Baselines + Guardrails (Policy as Code) + continuous checks (CSPM).
Control Plane & Identity
Typische Symptome
Overly broad roles, long-lived keys, missing MFA, tokens in CI/CD.
Was wir tun
Least Privilege, MFA/Conditional Access, OIDC instead of secrets, CIEM/Permissions Review.
Observability Gap
Typische Symptome
No central logs, no audit trail, alerts without ownership.
Was wir tun
Logging blueprint, SIEM integration, Detection Use Cases + Runbooks.
What we build
Landing Zone / Account Model (AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zone, GCP org-setup depending on platform)
Guardrails & Policy as Code (secure defaults, allowed services, drift prevention)
IAM Role Model + CIEM Readiness (Human + Workload Identities)
Secrets & Key Management (KMS/Vault Patterns, Rotation, OIDC for CI/CD)
Network Baseline (Segmentation, Ingress/Egress Controls, private endpoints)
Workload Security (VM/Container/Kubernetes Baselines, CNAPP-ready)
CSPM Setup and Tuning (Signal over noise, Ownership)
Central Logging + SIEM Integration (Audit, detection use cases)
Incident Readiness (Runbooks, Escalation, regular reviews)
Tooling that fits your delivery flow
We integrate existing tools (e.g., Microsoft Defender, Wiz, Prisma, Sentinel, Splunk) or deploy pragmatic open-source components.
What matters is not the number of tools, but: coverage, ownership, tuning, workflows.
CI/CD checks for IaC and deployments: Policies are checked early (PR/GitOps), not after production.
Your Output
- Cloud Security Baseline (Blueprint): Target state + secure defaults + responsibilities
- Prioritized action list (Quick Wins + Roadmap 30/60/90)
- Guardrails as Policies (Policy as Code) + IaC Patterns (e.g., Terraform Modules)
- Identity Hardening Plan (MFA, role model, rotation, CI/CD identity patterns)
- Logging and Detection Blueprint (incl. SIEM use cases and alert ownership)
- Optional: Mapping to common frameworks (e.g., CIS, ISO, NIS2/CRA Readiness - no legal advice)
What sets us apart
DevSecOps Perspective
We connect cloud and application security (pipeline, deployments, runtime) instead of isolated silos.
Enterprise Experience
Experience from large cloud environments and complex deployments (e.g., VW, Arvato, ADAC).
Practice over Paper
Focus on real controls, automation and ownership, not just documentation.
How we work
Implementation
Done for you / Done with you / Done by you (Consulting + Engineering available).
View Implementation"Nexode Consulting has been our reliable partner for the architecture, optimization and maintenance of our AWS workloads for many years. Thanks to the extensive experience of Christoph and his team, especially in handling complex cloud environments and applying modern DevSecOps methods, we were able to significantly increase the resilience, security and cost efficiency of our AWS workloads. We unreservedly recommend Nexode."
Marc Diederichsen
Managing Director, FRS Systems
Frequently Asked Questions
No. We support cloud, private cloud and hybrid. Focus is on guardrails, identity, logging and secure deploy patterns.
Typically not for the health check. For assessment/implementation depending on depth: read-only access or screenshare.
AWS, Azure, GCP. Also hybrid platforms (e.g., Kubernetes on-prem) and enterprise setups.
Foundations secure the platform (Control Plane, Config, Identity, Logs). Secure Software Delivery secures code, dependencies and pipeline gates.
Baselines + Guardrails + continuous checks. Goal: secure defaults and less drift.
Least Privilege, MFA/Conditional Access, Token/Key Hygiene, Workload Identity Patterns (e.g., OIDC).
Yes. Vendor-neutral. We integrate existing tools or define a suitable toolchain.
No. We design gates pragmatically (Warn vs Block) and set up ownership/workflow to remain scalable.
Health-Check: 30-45 min. Assessment: 1-3 days. Implementation: typically weeks to a few months depending on scope.
Blueprint, prioritized actions, policies/patterns, logging use cases, and optionally IaC components.
We deliver technical readiness and evidence workflows (e.g., CIS/ISO/NIS2/CRA Readiness). No legal advice.
With the free health check. Then we decide together whether an assessment or direct implementation makes sense.
Start Cloud Security Foundations - without tool sprawl
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