Cloud security posture management
AWS Security Hub CSPM running continuous, account-level configuration and security checks, producing a security score and naming the specific accounts and resources that need attention.
Standards & compliance mapping
Controls assessed against the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard and external frameworks including CIS, PCI DSS and NIST, so evidence maps to the framework your auditor already uses.
Threat detection & consolidated findings
GuardDuty, Inspector and Macie findings normalised into the AWS Security Finding Format and correlated in one place, with supported third-party products feeding the same view.
Automated triage & response
Automation rules that update or suppress findings against defined criteria, and EventBridge-driven custom actions that raise a ticket or trigger remediation the moment a finding appears.
Identity, secrets & data protection
Least-privilege IAM, no shared accounts, KMS encryption at rest, TLS in transit, and Secrets Manager with automated credential rotation.
Edge & application defence
WAF and Shield in front of public endpoints, API Gateway request validation and throttling, and dependency scanning in CI.
Audit trail & evidence
CloudTrail and CloudWatch with alarming for a tamper-evident record, and S3 object-lock retention where artefacts must not be altered.
Incident response & recovery
Documented runbooks, defined escalation, multi-AZ deployment and restore procedures that are actually tested rather than assumed.
We start by turning on the evidence. Security Hub CSPM only detects findings generated after it is enabled and only in the Region where it is enabled, so the first job is enabling it across every supported Region with AWS Config recording, which is what most control findings depend on. From there we baseline: which controls fail today, what the security score actually is, and which of those failures matter for your risk and your framework. We fix in priority order, automate the triage that is safe to automate, and leave a human in the loop for anything that changes access or moves money. Every control we implement is defined as infrastructure-as-code, so the security posture is reviewable and reproducible rather than described in a document nobody has read.
Most breaches are not clever
The security incidents that actually hurt Australian businesses are rarely sophisticated. They are a permissive role created during development and never tightened, a credential in an environment file, a public storage bucket nobody remembers creating, an unpatched dependency, or a logging gap that meant nobody noticed for six weeks. None of these require an adversary of any particular skill. They require only that no one is continuously checking.
This is the gap continuous posture management closes. Instead of an annual review that describes the environment on the day it was written, automated checks run against every account continuously and produce a score and a named list of resources that need attention. The value is not the dashboard. The value is that the list is current.
Evidence, not assertion
Every organisation says it takes security seriously. Very few can produce, on request, a current statement of which controls pass, which fail, and what is being done about the failures. That difference matters commercially: it is what enterprise procurement asks for, what a cyber insurer prices against, and what a regulator expects after an incident.
We build toward the evidence. Controls are assessed against recognised standards — AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, CIS, PCI DSS, NIST — so the output maps to the framework your counterparty already recognises, rather than to a proprietary scoring system that means nothing outside our reporting.
One view, in one format
Security tooling has a tendency to multiply. A threat-detection service here, a vulnerability scanner there, a data-classification tool somewhere else, each with its own console, severity scale and notification channel. The predictable result is that findings are triaged by whoever happens to be looking at that particular console.
Consolidation fixes it. Findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie and supported third-party products are normalised into a single finding format and correlated so the highest-priority issues surface first. One queue, one severity scale, one place where something is either acknowledged or it is not.
Automate the triage, not the judgement
Automation rules can update or suppress findings against defined criteria, and EventBridge can trigger a custom action the moment a finding appears — open a ticket, notify a channel, invoke a remediation. Used well, this removes the noise that causes real alerts to be ignored.
Used badly, it hides problems. Our rule is simple and we do not bend it: automate detection, routing and enrichment freely; require a human decision for anything that changes access, alters customer data or moves money. Every automated step is logged, and every suppression rule has an owner and a reason attached to it.
Where this sits in the work we do
This is not a separate practice bolted on. It is the same discipline behind the payments and collections platforms we run — Cloud Payment Group, Collect AU and the Debtrak gateway layer — where PCI-DSS scope, tokenisation and a tamper-evident audit trail are not optional, and behind the Know Your Asset platform, where enterprise buyers and investors both wanted evidence the architecture would hold before they committed.
If your business is being asked security questions by a customer, an insurer or a board, the answer is easier to give when the controls are already running and the findings already have owners.
What is AWS Security Hub and why do you standardise on it?
AWS Security Hub CSPM gives a comprehensive view of your security state in AWS and assesses the environment against industry standards and best practices. It collects security data across accounts, AWS services and supported third-party products, correlates findings so the important ones surface first, and presents them in one place. Rather than managing findings from many sources in different formats, everything arrives in the AWS Security Finding Format. Full reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/what-is-securityhub.html
Which compliance standards can you evidence against?
Security Hub CSPM supports multiple standards, including the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard developed by AWS, and external frameworks such as CIS, PCI DSS and NIST. Each standard contains controls representing a security best practice, and continuous checks generate control findings you can hand to an auditor.
Do we need anything else turned on first?
Yes. Security Hub CSPM uses service-linked rules from AWS Config to run most control checks, so AWS Config must be enabled and recording resources. It is also worth knowing that Security Hub only detects findings generated after it is enabled — it does not backfill — and it processes findings in the Region where it was enabled, so full CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark coverage requires enabling it in all supported Regions.
Can findings be actioned automatically?
Selectively. Automation rules can modify or suppress findings against criteria you define, and the EventBridge integration can trigger custom actions — raising a ticket, or invoking an automated remediation. We automate the safe, repetitive triage and deliberately keep a human approving anything that changes access, alters data or affects a customer account.
Is this a one-off audit or an ongoing service?
Ongoing. A point-in-time audit tells you the posture on one afternoon. Continuous checks, a tracked security score and consolidated findings tell you the posture today, which is the only version that matters when something goes wrong.
Do you work alongside our existing security team or provider?
Yes. We commonly own the AWS posture and detection layer while an internal team or MSSP owns endpoints and corporate IT. Findings route to whichever system you already run.