Services

Cloud security capability built around implementation.

Fortera provides specialist cloud and infrastructure security services focused on strengthening technical controls and resolving security requirements inside real technology environments.

Cloud Security Remediation

The problem

Assessments and reviews identify weaknesses in cloud configuration, architecture and workload security, but closing them requires engineering time the team does not have.

What Fortera supports

Fortera works through prioritised findings and implements the technical changes within the existing cloud environment, alongside the internal team.

Typical triggers

Cloud security assessment
Penetration test findings
Customer security review
Audit remediation

Typical technical areas

Account and subscription structure
Guardrails and policy
Workload configuration
Storage exposure
Security baselines

Expected outcome

Prioritised cloud security weaknesses are addressed in the live environment with a record of what changed and why.

Identity & Access Management

The problem

Permissions accumulate over time. Broad roles, shared credentials and unclear ownership make access difficult to justify during a review.

What Fortera supports

Fortera reviews and redesigns identity structures, implements least privilege role models and remediates over-permissive access.

Typical triggers

IAM findings
Enterprise due diligence
Rapid team growth
Cloud migration

Typical technical areas

IAM architecture
Role design
Federation and SSO
Service identities
Access review processes

Expected outcome

Access is structured, explainable and aligned with least privilege principles.

Privileged Access

The problem

Administrative access to production infrastructure is often broader and less controlled than the organisation expects.

What Fortera supports

Fortera helps design and implement controlled paths for privileged operations, including approval, isolation and logging of high impact actions.

Typical triggers

Privileged access findings
Compliance control requirements
Incident follow-up

Typical technical areas

Break-glass access
Just-in-time elevation
Separation of duties
Admin session logging

Expected outcome

Privileged operations are limited, deliberate and auditable.

Logging & Monitoring

The problem

Security relevant activity is either not captured, not retained, or spread across systems in a form nobody can use as evidence.

What Fortera supports

Fortera implements centralised logging, retention and alerting across cloud and infrastructure services.

Typical triggers

Logging gaps in a review
Detection requirements
Audit evidence requests

Typical technical areas

Audit trails
Log centralisation
Retention policy
Alerting
Infrastructure telemetry

Expected outcome

Security relevant activity is captured, retained and usable for investigation and assurance.

Encryption & Key Management

The problem

Encryption is often partially implemented, with inconsistent key ownership, rotation and coverage across environments.

What Fortera supports

Fortera implements consistent encryption in transit and at rest and establishes a workable key lifecycle.

Typical triggers

Data protection requirements
Customer encryption questions
Compliance control gaps

Typical technical areas

KMS design
Key rotation
Envelope encryption
TLS configuration
Data classification alignment

Expected outcome

Sensitive data is protected consistently with clear ownership of keys.

Secrets Management

The problem

Credentials end up in code, pipelines, configuration files and shared tools, with no reliable rotation path.

What Fortera supports

Fortera introduces managed secret storage, removes embedded credentials and integrates secrets into deployment workflows.

Typical triggers

Secrets discovered in repositories
Pipeline security findings
Credential rotation requirements

Typical technical areas

Secret stores
Dynamic credentials
Pipeline integration
Rotation
Developer workflow

Expected outcome

Credentials are centrally managed, rotatable and removed from source control.

CI/CD Security

The problem

Delivery pipelines often hold significant privilege while receiving less security attention than production itself.

What Fortera supports

Fortera hardens pipeline permissions, isolates environments and introduces controls around what can be deployed and by whom.

Typical triggers

Change control questions
Supply chain concerns
Pipeline compromise risk

Typical technical areas

Pipeline identity
Deployment approvals
Artefact integrity
Environment separation
Branch protection

Expected outcome

Deployment paths are controlled, reviewable and constrained to what they need.

Infrastructure as Code Security

The problem

Manual infrastructure changes make controls inconsistent and hard to evidence across environments.

What Fortera supports

Fortera helps standardise infrastructure through code, with security defaults, review and policy enforcement built in.

Typical triggers

Configuration drift
Inconsistent environments
Audit evidence requirements

Typical technical areas

Module design
Policy as code
Drift detection
State security
Review workflow

Expected outcome

Infrastructure changes are repeatable, reviewed and consistent across environments.

Network & Environment Security

The problem

Production, staging and internal systems are often less isolated than an architecture diagram suggests.

What Fortera supports

Fortera implements segmentation, private connectivity and controlled ingress and egress between environments.

Typical triggers

Network findings
Enterprise architecture questions
Multi-tenant requirements

Typical technical areas

Segmentation
Private endpoints
Security groups
Egress control
Environment isolation

Expected outcome

Environments are separated and network exposure is intentional rather than inherited.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

The problem

Backups exist, but recovery has not been tested and recovery objectives have not been validated.

What Fortera supports

Fortera designs backup and recovery architecture and helps run recovery exercises that produce real evidence.

Typical triggers

Resilience questions in due diligence
Ransomware risk
Business continuity requirements

Typical technical areas

Backup isolation
Recovery testing
Infrastructure rebuild
RTO / RPO validation

Expected outcome

Recovery capability is demonstrated rather than assumed.

Security Evidence & Technical Assurance

The problem

A control may be implemented, but the organisation cannot readily demonstrate that it operates in practice.

What Fortera supports

Fortera helps produce technical evidence — configuration, logs, diagrams and validation output — to support assurance processes.

Typical triggers

Evidence requests
Customer security reviews
Internal assurance programmes

Typical technical areas

Control mapping
Configuration exports
Architecture documentation
Validation output

Expected outcome

Implemented controls can be shown, not just described.

AI Infrastructure Security Controls

The problem

AI systems and agents introduce new identities, permissions, integrations and data flows into existing environments.

What Fortera supports

Fortera strengthens the cloud and infrastructure controls surrounding AI enabled systems, focusing on identity, data access and logging.

Typical triggers

New AI workloads
Agent and automation access
Data access questions from customers

Typical technical areas

Service identity
Scoped permissions
Secrets handling
Data access boundaries
Activity logging

Expected outcome

AI enabled systems operate within defined identity, data and infrastructure boundaries.

Outcomes describe the intended result of an engagement. Scope, environment and priorities are agreed for each piece of work.

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