--- title: "Cloud Security & Infrastructure Hardening" canonical: https://wavect.io/services/cloud-security/ language: en description: "Review cloud access, exposure and recovery. Wavect implements scoped infrastructure controls and documents verified changes, owners and remaining risks." image: "https://wavect.io/img/general/bak/open_graph_preview.jpg" --- Cloud Security # Cloud security your operating team can put to work. Know who can access the environment, what is exposed and how recovery works. We assess the agreed infrastructure, implement prioritized improvements and rehearse selected operating procedures with the people responsible for them. THE ENGAGEMENT ## Know the access. Test the procedure. Name the owner. 1. **Inspect the environment** Agree the accounts, systems and operating risks in scope. 2. **Make bounded changes** Implement the selected access and configuration controls. 3. **Rehearse the handover** Record what the operator can do and what remains open. DIRECT ANSWER Cloud Security covers the agreed running environment: access, exposed resources, configuration, alerts and recovery. The outcome is scoped improvement with evidence and named operating responsibilities. Best for - Product owners with unclear infrastructure access or an untested recovery path - Teams that need hardening while keeping their existing provider or operators Consider another approach - A 24/7 managed security operations center or a blanket uptime commitment - A full provider transition or a build-pipeline implementation ## Start with the environment you already run Identify accounts, workloads, data stores and the people or services with privileged access. Review inherited credentials, public exposure and dependencies before proposing changes. A move to another provider needs its own reason and scope; see [Cloud Migration](/services/cloud-migration/). For repository-to-release controls, use [DevSecOps](/services/devsecops/). A read-only infrastructure review as part of a pre-investment or pre-acquisition assessment is [Technical Due Diligence](/services/technical-due-diligence/); implementing and rehearsing changes stays here. ## Turn infrastructure findings into owned changes Select controls for the actual provider and architecture. Confirm the supported environment during scoping rather than assuming a universal multi-cloud service. Identity and access Review roles, service identities, offboarding and emergency access. Define who can authorize privileged changes. Exposure and runtime configuration Review reachable services, network boundaries, runtime secrets and the agreed host or container configuration. Logs and useful alerts Agree the events to record, sensitive-data handling and retention. Route an actionable alert to a named operator. Backups and recovery Inspect the existing procedure, data assumptions and dependencies. Scope a rehearsal or new implementation according to what is actually ready. ## Operational security for everyday routines Document access revocation, credential rotation, change approval, escalation and the supported recovery steps. Record what your team operates, what needs our help and what requires a new scope. [Dragan Sekerovic](/experts/dragan-sekerovic/) can contribute independent infrastructure expertise where the engagement calls for it; his own clients and credentials remain attributed to him. ## Illustrative acceptance: restore and inspect an agreed data set A named operator follows the runbook to restore an approved, representative backup into an isolated test environment. The record identifies the data point, observed duration, integrity checks, missing dependencies and limitations. A harmless alert test checks the agreed notification route. This illustrates an acceptance exercise; it is not a customer result, an uptime SLA or a recovery guarantee for every failure. ## Separate assessment, implementation and ongoing operation Agree the environment, acceptance and fee before each phase. Ongoing operation is a distinct responsibility, not an unstated extension of a hardening project. 1. **Assessment** - Receive a resource and access inventory, prioritized findings and a plan with dependencies and owners. 2. **Hardening and rehearsal** - Receive agreed configuration changes, validation records, operating instructions and a list of remaining risks. 3. **Continued support** - Define tasks, working hours, escalation and responsibilities in the engagement. Wavect does not offer a general 24/7 NOC or uptime SLA. ## Choose a starting point that matches what is already in place Bring the account and system scope, architecture, access model, data classes, backup procedures, test environment and a person authorized to operate it. If an existing supported recovery path only needs a bounded rehearsal, see [verify one recovery exercise](/services/software-takeover/#recovery-rehearsal). For handover practice, see the [operational independence exercise](/services/software-takeover/#operational-independence). Their existing eligibility and terms apply; neither package is a complete cloud-security implementation. [The Trust Center](/trust-center/) sets out our support boundaries. // proof ## Infrastructure delivery in existing work Hyperstate AI documents the move from manual deployment and a GPU-heavy monolith to containerized, orchestrated services. It is infrastructure delivery evidence, not a certified cloud-security audit or a managed-service uptime record. ### [Hyperstate AI](/case-studies/hyperstate-ai/) - **Status:** Wind Down - **Outcome:** GPU Monolith - → Microservices - **Summary:** Split a GPU-heavy monolith into orchestrated services and swapped self-hosted ML libs for scalable alternatives. Latency and cost … - **Stack:** Python, Django, OpenAI API These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 100+ products since 2018. ## Questions before you start ### Will you operate the environment after the project? We agree who operates each part after handover. Continued support requires its own tasks, coverage and responsibilities; it is not automatically included in the assessment. ### Do you offer 24/7 response or an uptime SLA? We do not offer a general 24/7 network operations center or an uptime SLA. Working hours, escalation and response responsibilities are defined in the agreed engagement. ### Which cloud providers can you work with? We confirm the provider, architecture and required expertise before quoting. The written scope lists the environments covered. ### Does a successful restore prove our recovery targets? It records what happened under the tested conditions. Recovery objectives, representative coverage and any contractual commitments must be agreed separately. ### Do we need to change provider? Often the useful first step is to understand and improve the existing environment. A migration is considered when the findings justify it and needs a separate plan. That plan is scoped as [Cloud Migration](/services/cloud-migration/). ### Is this a compliance certification? No. The engagement produces agreed technical changes and evidence. Formal certification and legal compliance assessments have their own requirements and scope. ## Choose your next step - [Secure the build and release path](/services/devsecops/) - [Review AI data and tool permissions](/services/ai-security/) - [Transfer software and operating ownership](/services/software-takeover/) ## Structured Data ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ], "employee": [ { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Kevin Riedl", "url": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } }, { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Christof Jori", "url": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } } ], "founder": [ { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Kevin Riedl", "url": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } }, { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Christof Jori", "url": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } } ], "legalRepresentative": [ { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Kevin Riedl", "url": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } }, { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Christof Jori", "url": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } } ], "name": "Wavect GmbH", "subjectOf": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/verified-claims.json#dataset", "@type": "Dataset", "creator": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] }, "description": "A machine-readable registry of quantitative and qualitative claims published by Wavect, with review dates, localized page appearances and public third-party citations where available.", "inLanguage": "en", "isAccessibleForFree": true, "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "Wavect verified publication claims", "url": "https://wavect.io/verified-claims.json" }, "url": "https://wavect.io/" }, { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Kevin Riedl", "sameAs": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139796365", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wsdt", "https://github.com/wsdt" ], "url": "https://wavect.io/team/kevin-riedl/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } }, { "@id": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/#person", "@type": "Person", "jobTitle": "Managing Director", "name": "Christof Jori", "sameAs": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139796367", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocr77/", "https://github.com/jo-chris" ], "url": "https://wavect.io/team/christof-jori/", "worksFor": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] } }, { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#website", "@type": "WebSite", "inLanguage": [ "en", "de", "es", "zh" ], "name": "Wavect", "potentialAction": { "@type": "SearchAction", "query-input": "required name=search_term_string", "target": { "@type": "EntryPoint", "urlTemplate": "https://wavect.io/search/?q={search_term_string}" } }, "publisher": { "@id": "https://wavect.io/#organization", "@type": [ "Organization", "ProfessionalService", "LocalBusiness" ] }, "url": "https://wavect.io/" } ] } ``` ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@id": "https://wavect.io/services/cloud-security/#service", "@type": "Service", "areaServed": [ { "@type": "Country", "name": "Austria" }, { "@type": "Place", "name": "Worldwide" } ], "category": "Security & Operations", "dateModified": "2026-10-30", "description": "Review cloud access, exposure and recovery. 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