Cloud Security
& Compliance
Protect your cloud estate with Zero Trust architecture, defence-in-depth strategies, and audit-ready compliance frameworks — because a breach costs far more than prevention.
Protect your cloud estate with Zero Trust architecture, defence-in-depth strategies, and audit-ready compliance frameworks — because a breach costs far more than prevention.
IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average breach cost at $4.88 million globally, with UK organisations facing an average of £3.4 million. For smaller businesses, a single breach can be existential — 60% of SMEs that suffer a significant breach close within 6 months.
UK organisations face an overlapping web of regulatory requirements — UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, PCI-DSS, FCA regulations, NHS DSPT, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and sector-specific mandates. Non-compliance carries fines of up to £17.5 million or 4% of global turnover.
Multi-cloud environments create blind spots where misconfigured resources, excessive permissions, and unencrypted data go undetected. Without centralised security posture management, your security team is playing whack-a-mole across disparate cloud consoles.
Over 80% of breaches involve compromised credentials. Legacy perimeter-based security models are ineffective in cloud environments where users, services, and devices access resources from anywhere. Without Zero Trust principles, your identity layer is your weakest link.
Our security practice takes a risk-based, defence-in-depth approach that layers preventive, detective, and responsive controls across your entire cloud estate. We do not just configure security tools — we design comprehensive security architectures that protect your data, meet your compliance obligations, and scale with your business. Every control we implement is documented, auditable, and mapped to specific regulatory requirements so you are always audit-ready.
Design and implementation of Zero Trust principles — verify explicitly, use least privilege, assume breach — across identity, network, application, and data layers using Azure AD Conditional Access, AWS IAM Identity Centre, and micro-segmentation.
Enterprise IAM design including SSO, MFA, RBAC, privileged access management (PAM), service principal governance, just-in-time access, and regular access reviews to eliminate excessive permissions.
Implementation of technical controls mapped to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, Cyber Essentials Plus, and NHS DSPT. Includes policy-as-code enforcement, evidence collection automation, and audit preparation support.
Continuous assessment of cloud configurations against security benchmarks (CIS, NIST) using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub, or Prisma Cloud with automated remediation of critical findings.
Encryption at rest and in transit, customer-managed key management (Azure Key Vault, AWS KMS), data classification, DLP policies, and data lifecycle governance aligned with your data protection obligations.
SIEM deployment (Microsoft Sentinel, AWS Security Lake), threat detection rules, security playbooks, incident response procedures, and tabletop exercises to ensure your team can respond effectively to security events.
We conduct a thorough assessment of your cloud security posture, scanning configurations against CIS benchmarks and mapping existing controls to your regulatory requirements. The output is a prioritised risk register with clear remediation recommendations ranked by severity and business impact.
We map your regulatory obligations (GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) to specific technical controls and policies. Azure Policy, AWS Config Rules, and GCP Organisation Policies are codified to enforce compliance guardrails automatically, preventing non-compliant resources from being deployed.
We implement Zero Trust architecture across your identity, network, and data layers — configuring Conditional Access policies, least-privilege RBAC roles, PAM for administrative access, MFA enforcement, and just-in-time access for sensitive operations.
We deploy and configure CSPM, SIEM, vulnerability scanning, secret management, and WAF solutions across your cloud environments. Detection rules are tuned to minimise false positives whilst ensuring high-fidelity alerting for genuine threats.
We develop comprehensive incident response playbooks, define escalation procedures, and conduct tabletop exercises simulating realistic breach scenarios. Your team practises responding to incidents in a safe environment, building muscle memory for when it matters.
Security is not a one-time project. We provide ongoing security monitoring, quarterly vulnerability assessments, annual penetration testing coordination, compliance evidence collection, and continuous improvement recommendations as the threat landscape evolves.
The average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2025. Proactive security architecture, detection, and response capabilities reduce both the likelihood and impact of a breach significantly.
Organisations implementing Zero Trust architecture experience up to 73% fewer security incidents, with significantly reduced blast radius when incidents do occur due to micro-segmentation and least-privilege access.
Automated compliance evidence collection and policy-as-code enforcement reduce audit preparation time by up to 80%, transforming a 6-week audit preparation scramble into a routine process.
Organisations without proper security tooling take an average of 292 days to identify and contain a breach. Our SIEM and detection capabilities reduce this to hours or days, dramatically limiting damage.
A UK-based payment processing startup needed to achieve SOC 2 Type II compliance within 6 months to secure a partnership with a Tier-1 bank. Their Azure environment had grown organically with minimal security governance — over-permissioned service principals, unencrypted storage accounts, no centralised logging, inconsistent network segmentation, and no documented incident response procedures. They also needed to demonstrate GDPR and PCI-DSS compliance as part of the bank's due diligence process.
TotalCloudAI conducted a comprehensive security assessment, identifying 147 findings across critical, high, medium, and low severity. We implemented Zero Trust architecture with Azure AD Conditional Access, PIM for just-in-time admin access, and micro-segmented networking. All storage was encrypted with customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault. Microsoft Sentinel was deployed for SIEM with custom analytics rules for PCI-DSS-relevant threats. Azure Policy was configured to enforce 85 compliance controls automatically. We produced comprehensive documentation including security policies, data flow diagrams, incident response playbooks, and risk assessments. The team was trained on security operations through 4 tabletop exercises simulating breach scenarios.
Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Defender for Cloud
AWS Security Hub AWS GuardDuty
GCP Security Command Centre
HashiCorp Vault
Cloudflare WAF
Snyk
SonarQube
Terraform (Policy-as-Code) Azure AD / Entra ID
Okta
ELK Stack
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