Cloud security architecture
Landing zones, guardrails and identity boundaries for public and private cloud, designed before the workloads arrive.
Capability 02
Infrastructure Security
Harden cloud, data centre and hybrid estates, and keep them hard. We baseline, engineer and assure the controls your platforms depend on, with the evidence to show they still operate.
- Delivered as
- Assessment, project or programme
- Works with
- Platform, cloud, network and operations teams
- Related perspectives
- 900 million requests later: a year at the edge
- Hardening is a lifecycle, not a project
The challenge
Estates drift faster than they are hardened.
A hardened baseline is a starting point. Cloud accounts multiply, containers ship daily, on-premises systems outlive their owners, and the configuration that passed the last audit is not the configuration running today. Most incidents in the estate are not exotic; they are a control that was installed once and never run.
Infrastructure security is a lifecycle: observe, tune, enforce, review. The work is making that lifecycle routine, across every platform you own, with evidence that does not depend on someone remembering to check.
What we deliver
Offerings.
Take one offering on its own, or combine them into a programme with a named lead and agreed exit criteria.
Configuration hardening and drift control
Baselines against CIS Benchmarks, expressed as policy code, with drift detected and reported rather than discovered in an audit.
Vulnerability and patch programme
Prioritised by exposure and business criticality, with fix times measured and reported.
Identity and privileged access
Least privilege, MFA and privileged access management for the infrastructure itself, not only for the applications on it.
Edge and perimeter controls
Web application firewalls, load-balancer and DDoS controls selected, tuned and run to a baseline, as in our own estate.
Resilience and recovery
Backup, recovery and disaster recovery tested against agreed objectives, so recovery is proven rather than assumed.
Approach
How an engagement runs.
A named practice lead from scoping to close, with deliverables agreed before work starts.
Baseline
Inventory the estate, measure it against benchmarks and map exposure to the services it supports.
Prioritise
Order the work by business criticality and exposure, not by tool category.
Harden
Engineer the controls with your platform teams and automate what can be automated.
Assure
Continuous configuration assurance, with evidence that controls still operate.
Outcomes
What changes for you.
Measured outcomes from real engagements will be published here once clients consent.
Fewer exposed misconfigurations
Baselines enforced as code, drift caught between audits rather than by them.
A recovery you have rehearsed
Objectives tested, not stated in a policy.
One view of the estate
Inventory, health and exposure connected to the business services that depend on them.
Platform · Rhinexa NMS
See the whole estate in one console.
Discovery, health, topology, traffic and alerts for the whole estate, self-hosted, with no agents on devices.
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Sample dataQuestions
Frequently asked.
Which platforms do you cover?
Public cloud, private cloud, containers and on-premises data centres, and the hybrid estates most enterprises actually run.
Do you operate our infrastructure?
No. We engineer and assure the controls; operations remain with your team or your provider, with our runbooks and evidence.
How does this relate to Rhinexa NMS?
Rhinexa NMS gives a live, agentless view of the estate. We use it where it helps, or work with the monitoring you already have.
Can you work in air-gapped or controlled sites?
Yes. Our practices and our platforms are designed for estates without an internet route.