FORTERA SECURITY

Services

Cloud security capability built around implementation.

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

Cloud Security Audit & Assessment

The problem

Before weaknesses can be remediated, they need to be found. Organisations often do not have a clear picture of where cloud and infrastructure security gaps exist.

What Fortera supports

Fortera performs structured cloud and infrastructure security audits and assessments to identify gaps, weaknesses and risks across the environment, and prioritise what should be addressed.

Typical triggers

  • Pre-remediation scoping
  • Internal security initiative
  • Pre-acquisition or investment review
  • Cloud migration readiness

Typical technical areas

  • Configuration review
  • Identity and access review
  • Network exposure
  • Logging and monitoring gaps
  • Encryption coverage
  • Posture assessment
  • Risk prioritisation
  • Gap analysis

Expected outcome

A clear, prioritised view of where cloud and infrastructure security gaps exist and what should be addressed first.

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.

Other Infrastructure Gaps

The services above cover the areas Fortera is most often engaged on, but cloud and infrastructure security is broad. If a specific concern is not listed, it does not mean Fortera cannot help. The following areas are also within scope as standalone work or as part of a wider engagement.

Host & Workload Hardening

  • Operating system baselines and hardening
  • Container and image hardening
  • Kubernetes cluster security
  • Serverless function configuration
  • Workload identity and service mesh

Application & API Security

  • API gateway and routing controls
  • Web Application Firewall configuration
  • Authentication and authorisation at the edge
  • Rate limiting and abuse protection
  • Security headers and TLS termination

Data Protection & Privacy

  • Data classification and handling
  • Data loss prevention controls
  • Tokenisation and data masking
  • Database and storage security
  • Retention and deletion controls

Vulnerability & Posture Management

  • Continuous posture management
  • Vulnerability scanning and prioritisation
  • Patch and update management
  • Configuration drift detection
  • Exposure and attack surface management

Detection & Response

  • Threat detection rules and alerts
  • Incident response readiness
  • Forensic logging and retention
  • EDR and workload telemetry
  • Playbooks and runbook automation

Network & Perimeter

  • DDoS protection and edge configuration
  • DNS security and domain management
  • VPN and remote access controls
  • Zero Trust network architecture
  • Firewall and security group review

Supply Chain & Third Party

  • Dependency and package security
  • Artefact signing and verification
  • Third party integration review
  • Supplier and vendor risk assessment
  • Open source licence and risk review

Compliance & Control Mapping

  • ISO 27001 control implementation
  • SOC 2 control coverage
  • PCI DSS scoping and segmentation
  • GDPR and UK GDPR technical controls
  • DORA and operational resilience

Cloud Platform & Architecture

  • Multi-cloud and hybrid architecture
  • Landing zone and account structure
  • Cost and resource governance
  • Tagging and resource organisation
  • Environment promotion and separation
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