Cloud & DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure Security, Networking & Compliance

VPC networking, IAM and zero-trust security, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes hardening, CSPM, disaster recovery, and compliance implementation — on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The Risk

Cloud Security Threats Your Business Faces Today

Cloud misconfiguration, credential exposure, and compliance gaps are the leading causes of breach and audit failure. These are the risks a well-architected security posture eliminates.

Misconfigured Cloud Resources

Public S3 buckets, open security groups, and over-permissioned IAM roles are the leading cause of cloud breaches. One drift from policy puts entire environments at risk.

Excessive Identity Permissions

Service accounts, developer credentials, and third-party integrations accumulate privilege over time. Without least-privilege enforcement, lateral movement becomes trivial.

No Visibility Into Runtime Threats

Without centralised log aggregation, SIEM integration, and anomaly detection, attackers can persist in cloud environments for months before detection.

Compliance Gaps at Audit Time

Manually assembled compliance evidence, inconsistent tagging, and undocumented network flows mean every audit is a scramble — and findings recur.

No Disaster Recovery Plan

Untested backup policies, single-region deployments, and missing runbooks mean an outage becomes a data-loss event. Recovery times are measured in days, not minutes.

Compliance

Security & Compliance Framework Coverage

We implement the technical controls required by each framework as part of infrastructure design and delivery.

These are frameworks we implement for clients — not a claim of Kansoft's own certifications.

SOC 2 Type II

SaaS & Managed Services
  • Access control policies
  • Encryption at rest & transit
  • Audit logging & monitoring
  • Incident response procedures

HIPAA

Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • PHI access audit trails
  • Encryption of ePHI
  • Business Associate Agreements
  • Breach notification readiness

ISO 27001

Enterprise & Global Clients
  • Information security management
  • Risk assessment processes
  • Asset classification
  • Supplier security reviews

CIS Benchmarks

AWS, Azure & GCP Hardening
  • Instance hardening baselines
  • Network configuration checks
  • Identity and IAM controls
  • Logging and monitoring configs

PCI DSS

Fintech & Payments
  • Cardholder data environment scoping
  • Network segmentation controls
  • Vulnerability management
  • Change management logging

UAE ITA / NESA

UAE & Middle East Clients
  • Critical information infrastructure
  • Data residency requirements
  • Incident reporting obligations
  • Vendor risk assessments
What We Do

Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services

From network design to zero-trust access and DR planning — the full scope of cloud infrastructure security we deliver for clients across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

VPC & Network Architecture

Subnet design, transit gateway configuration, VPN and Direct Connect, security group rule management, WAF, and CDN — secure, high-availability network foundations on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

IAM & Zero-Trust Security

Role-based and attribute-based access control, least-privilege IAM policies, workload identities, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), and zero-trust access architecture.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform and Pulumi — all infrastructure defined, versioned, peer-reviewed, and deployed as code. Policy-as-code gates (OPA, Checkov) block non-compliant changes before they reach production.

Kubernetes & Container Security

EKS, GKE, and AKS cluster hardening, admission controllers, pod security standards, namespace RBAC, image scanning (Trivy), and runtime threat detection with Falco.

Cloud Security Posture Management

CSPM tooling — AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Google Security Command Center — integrated with alerting pipelines and compliance dashboards.

Observability & SIEM Integration

Centralised log aggregation (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics), anomaly detection, threat intelligence feeds, and SIEM integration for real-time incident visibility.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

RTO/RPO-aligned DR strategies — multi-region failover, automated backup validation, runbook creation, and scheduled DR drills to verify recovery procedures hold under real conditions.

How We Design

Secure Architecture Patterns We Apply

Every engagement draws from a library of proven patterns — battle-tested across regulated industries and scaled production environments.

Multi-Account Landing Zones

AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones, and GCP Organization Policies — dedicated accounts for prod, staging, security, and shared services with centralised governance.

Immutable Infrastructure

Golden AMI pipelines, container image signing, no manual server access, and automated replacement of drifted resources — infrastructure that can't be silently changed.

GitOps Security Controls

All infrastructure changes go through pull requests, automated policy checks, and approval workflows. The Git history is your complete audit trail.

Network Micro-Segmentation

East-west traffic controls, service mesh mTLS (Istio / Linkerd), workload-level firewall rules, and blast-radius minimisation for every production tier.

Secrets & Key Management

HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS, and Azure Key Vault — dynamic secrets, automatic rotation, envelope encryption, and HSM-backed key hierarchies for regulated workloads.

Continuous Compliance Scanning

CSPM and SSPM tools running on every change — misconfigurations surface in minutes, not at the next quarterly audit. Evidence is generated continuously and exportable on demand.

Technology

Security & Infrastructure Tooling

We work with the cloud-native security ecosystem — and integrate with your existing toolchain rather than replacing it wholesale.

Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure GCP

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Pulumi

Containers & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes Helm Argo CD

Security & Secrets

Vault Cloudflare

Observability

Datadog Grafana

CI/CD & Policy

GitHub Actions OPA / Checkov Trivy

AI-Assisted Security Operations

Where clients require it, we integrate AI-powered security analytics into the observability stack — anomaly detection on CloudTrail and audit logs, automated triage of CSPM findings, and intelligent alerting that reduces noise and surfaces real threats faster. These capabilities are designed into the monitoring architecture from the start, not retrofitted later.

Industries

Securing Cloud for Regulated Industries

We've designed and secured cloud infrastructure for compliance-driven sectors across India, UAE, USA, Europe, and Australia.

Results

Secure Infrastructure in Production

Cloud security delivered at scale — across financial services, healthcare, and SaaS platforms in regulated markets.

Fintech & Financial Services

Zero-trust network architecture reduced attack surface by 80% for a UAE payments platform

Multi-account AWS landing zone with micro-segmented VPCs, Vault-managed secrets rotation, and CIS-compliant baselines — passed PCI DSS audit with zero findings.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences

HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure supporting 2M+ patient records across three regions

EKS-based platform with pod-level RBAC, ePHI encryption at rest and in transit, centralised audit logging, and automated BAA evidence generation for annual review.

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SaaS & Product Companies

Infrastructure as Code migration eliminated 100% of manual drift for a 200-service platform

Full Terraform rewrite of a legacy click-ops AWS environment — state imported, policy gates added, and GitOps pipeline deployed in 8 weeks. No change without a PR.

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Why Kansoft

Why Clients Choose Us for Cloud Security

Security-First Engineering

Security controls are designed into infrastructure from day one — not added as a layer after the fact. IAM policies, network rules, and encryption defaults are built into every Terraform module.

Everything as Code

No manual console changes. Every firewall rule, IAM policy, and resource configuration is in version control, peer-reviewed, and automatically tested before deployment.

Multi-Region, Multi-Cloud Expertise

We've designed and operated cloud infrastructure for clients across India, UAE, USA, Europe, and Australia — including data residency, cross-border compliance, and latency-optimised deployments.

Audit-Ready From Day One

Continuous compliance evidence generation, pre-built audit dashboards, and remediation playbooks. Our clients walk into SOC 2 and HIPAA audits with confidence, not panic.

Ongoing CSPM & Monitoring

Infrastructure security doesn't end at deployment. We set up CSPM tooling, drift detection, and alerting pipelines so misconfigurations are caught in minutes, not discovered at the next audit.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about cloud infrastructure security — answered clearly.

What is cloud infrastructure security and why does it matter?
Cloud infrastructure security is the set of controls, processes, and architecture patterns that protect cloud environments from misconfiguration, unauthorised access, data breach, and compliance failure. It matters because the shared responsibility model means the cloud provider secures the underlying platform, but your configuration — IAM policies, network rules, encryption settings, and access controls — is entirely your responsibility. Misconfigured cloud resources are responsible for the majority of cloud security incidents. A well-designed secure infrastructure reduces attack surface, supports compliance certifications, and enables you to detect and respond to threats before they become breaches.
What compliance frameworks do you implement?
We implement controls mapped to SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks (AWS, Azure, GCP), PCI DSS, and UAE ITA / NESA requirements. We work with your compliance team to scope the environment, implement required controls, generate audit evidence continuously, and prepare for external audits. Importantly, these are frameworks we implement for our clients — not a claim of Kansoft's own certifications. Our engineers are trained in each framework's technical requirements and know which cloud-native controls satisfy each audit criterion.
What does 'infrastructure as code' mean for security?
Infrastructure as code (IaC) means every cloud resource — VPCs, security groups, IAM roles, storage buckets, databases — is defined in code (Terraform or Pulumi), version-controlled in Git, and deployed through automated pipelines rather than manually via consoles. For security, this means all changes are visible, reviewable, and auditable. Policy-as-code tools (OPA, Checkov, tfsec) scan every change before it reaches production and block configurations that violate your security or compliance baselines. There's no way for a misconfigured resource to quietly appear — every change goes through a pull request.
How do you implement zero-trust security on AWS, Azure, or GCP?
Zero-trust means no implicit trust based on network location — every request must be authenticated, authorised, and encrypted regardless of where it originates. On cloud platforms, we implement this through workload identities (IRSA on AWS, Managed Identities on Azure, Workload Identity on GCP) so services authenticate with short-lived credentials rather than static keys; micro-segmented VPCs and service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) with mTLS for east-west traffic; strict IAM policies granting only the permissions each workload needs; and centralised secrets management with dynamic credentials and automatic rotation via HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native equivalents.
Can you assess and secure an existing cloud environment?
Yes — this is a common engagement type. We start with a cloud security posture assessment: automated scanning with CSPM tools, manual architecture review, IAM analysis, and network configuration audit. We produce a prioritised findings report mapping each issue to its risk level and the compliance frameworks it affects. We then implement remediations in priority order, starting with critical misconfigurations and working through hardening baselines. Existing environments can be brought into a fully IaC-managed, policy-gated state incrementally — without downtime.
How does disaster recovery planning fit into cloud infrastructure security?
Disaster recovery is a core component of cloud infrastructure security because availability and resilience are part of every major compliance framework — SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS all require documented and tested recovery procedures. We design DR architectures aligned to your RTO and RPO targets, implement automated backup policies with validated restoration testing, deploy multi-region or multi-AZ failover configurations, and create runbooks that your operations team can execute without guesswork. Critically, we schedule and run DR drills — because a backup process that hasn't been tested is not a backup process.

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