Cloud Security & Compliance Readiness
We assess your cloud security posture, identify control gaps, and implement the technical improvements needed to prepare for security and compliance requirements. From infrastructure and identity controls through logging, monitoring, and readiness for external assessment.
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Compliance gaps often start as engineering gaps
Most organizations start preparing for SOC 2, HIPAA, a regulation, or an enterprise customer security review only after someone asks a question they cannot answer. What that question usually uncovers is not a missing policy document. It is that the environment cannot demonstrate how its controls are implemented or maintained.
- Access controls
- Infrastructure configuration
- Logging and monitoring
- Encryption
- Secrets management
- Network security
- Vulnerability management
- Backup and recovery
- Change management
- Security documentation
Compliance readiness starts with understanding the actual state of your systems, not with completing a checklist about them.
Cloud security and compliance capabilities
Assessment and engineering, in the areas where security and compliance requirements usually land.
Security Posture Assessment
Review cloud infrastructure, applications, identity controls, configuration, and operational practice to find the weaknesses and control gaps that actually exist rather than the ones a template predicts.
- Cloud configuration
- Identity and access
- Logging and monitoring
- Encryption
- Network controls
- Secrets management
Compliance Gap Assessment
Assess the technical environment against the agreed requirements or control framework, and document where controls, configuration, process, or evidence fall short. A readiness assessment, not an audit.
- SOC 2 readiness
- HIPAA security requirements
- Customer security requirements
- Control review
Cloud Security Architecture
Design and improve cloud environments with security built into the architecture rather than added to it, across identity, network design, encryption, secrets, logging, and recovery.
- Identity
- Network architecture
- Encryption
- Secrets
- Backup and recovery
Identity & Access Management
Review and improve how users, services, and systems reach cloud environments and sensitive resources. Access is where most findings concentrate and where remediation pays back fastest.
- Role-based access
- Least privilege
- Privileged access
- Authentication controls
- Access reviews
Logging, Monitoring & Visibility
Improve visibility into infrastructure and security-relevant events, so an incident is something you can reconstruct afterwards and an auditor can see evidence of.
- Centralized logging
- Audit trails
- Monitoring
- Alerting
Infrastructure Security & Configuration
Assess and harden cloud configuration to reduce unnecessary exposure. Much of what gets flagged in an assessment is a default nobody revisited.
- Network configuration
- Public exposure
- Security groups and firewall rules
- Hardening
- Configuration management
DevSecOps & Secure Delivery
Build security checks into infrastructure and application delivery, so configuration drift and secrets handling are caught by the pipeline rather than by an assessment months later.
- Infrastructure-as-code controls
- Secrets management
- CI/CD security checks
- Change controls
Security controls across the cloud environment
The control areas an assessment covers, and where remediation work usually lands. Having these in place is not the same as being compliant, but no framework is reachable without them.
Identity
Authentication, authorization, privileged access, and how access is granted, reviewed, and removed.
Infrastructure
Secure cloud configuration, network controls, and infrastructure hardening.
Data Protection
Encryption, access restrictions, storage security, and the controls around data at rest and in transit.
Visibility
Logging, monitoring, audit trails, and whether a security-relevant event leaves a record anyone can find.
Resilience
Backup, recovery, availability, and whether restoration has been tested rather than assumed.
Delivery
Secure engineering workflows, configuration management, infrastructure-as-code, and change control.
Prepare your systems for security and compliance requirements
Which requirements apply depends on your industry, the data you handle, your customers, where you operate, your architecture, and your contracts. An engagement starts by establishing which of these are actually in scope, rather than running every organization through the same list.
SOC 2 Readiness
Assess the technical environment against SOC 2 criteria, identify control gaps, support remediation, and prepare the technical evidence and documentation an external examination will ask for. Readiness and preparation only.
- Technical gap assessment
- Remediation support
- Evidence preparation
HIPAA Security Readiness
Assess and strengthen technical safeguards for systems handling electronic protected health information. Technical controls are one part of HIPAA obligations, not the whole of them.
- Access controls
- Audit logging
- Encryption
- Infrastructure security
- System monitoring
EU Cyber Resilience Act
For organizations placing products with digital elements on the EU market. We support the engineering side: security by design in the architecture, vulnerability handling processes, and the technical documentation the regulation expects.
- Security by design
- Vulnerability handling
- Technical documentation
DPDP Act Readiness
For systems processing personal data under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. We assess and implement the technical safeguards, access controls, and breach-detection capability the obligations depend on.
- Technical safeguards
- Access controls
- Breach detection
- Data handling
Flexible support based on where you are today
Four ways to engage, depending on whether you need to find out where you stand, prepare for something specific, fix what you already know about, or keep the work going.
Security Assessment
For organizations that want an independent engineering view of their current technical security posture, with findings they can act on.
- Posture review
- Findings and gaps
- Prioritized roadmap
Compliance Readiness
For organizations preparing for SOC 2, HIPAA requirements, the EU Cyber Resilience Act, DPDP obligations, or a customer security review.
- Gap assessment
- Remediation plan
- Evidence preparation
Remediation Support
For organizations that already know where the gaps are and need engineering capacity to close them inside the real environment.
- Control implementation
- Infrastructure changes
- Delivery pipeline changes
Ongoing Security Engineering
For organizations that want the work to continue after remediation, as the environment changes and new requirements arrive.
- Continuous improvement
- Architecture review
- New requirement readiness
Kainskep provides assessment, engineering, remediation, and compliance readiness support. Independent audits, attestations, certifications, and formal regulatory determinations are performed by appropriately qualified external parties.
From security assessment to remediation
Five stages. The order matters: prioritisation sits between finding gaps and fixing them, because not every gap is worth the same effort.
Assess
Review the cloud environment, infrastructure, applications, security controls, and operational processes against the agreed scope and requirements.
Identify Gaps
Document where existing controls, configuration, process, or evidence fall short of the agreed security or compliance objectives.
Prioritize
Rank remediation by risk, business impact, technical complexity, compliance requirement, and what the existing architecture makes practical.
Implement
Work with your engineers to implement or improve the technical controls across cloud infrastructure and applications.
Prepare
Organize the technical documentation, control evidence, and remediation records needed for the next stage of an external audit or assessment.
Cloud security is a shared responsibility
Cloud providers secure the layers they operate. Everything above that line, how identity is configured, what is exposed, how data is encrypted, what gets logged, remains yours. Running on a secure platform does not make a workload correctly configured, and it is that gap that assessments and auditors find. We work on the part that belongs to you.
Explore Cloud Infrastructure- Configuration
- Identity and access
- Data protection
- Logging and evidence
Where this work usually applies
SaaS Platforms
Companies facing enterprise customer security reviews, or preparing for SOC 2 because a deal now depends on it.
Healthcare Technology
Systems handling electronic protected health information, where technical safeguards are a precondition rather than an improvement.
Financial Services
Data-intensive platforms where auditability and access control are contractual as well as regulatory.
Products in EU Markets
Organizations placing products with digital elements on the EU market and working through Cyber Resilience Act obligations.
Systems Handling Personal Data
Platforms processing personal data under DPDP or similar obligations, where safeguards and breach detection have to be demonstrable.
Cloud-Native Engineering Teams
Teams on AWS or Azure whose environment has grown faster than the controls around it.
How we approach cloud security and compliance
Engineering Before Checklists
We start from the actual architecture, infrastructure, applications, and operating environment. A questionnaire answered against a system nobody examined is not readiness.
Assessment Before Remediation
Gaps are identified and prioritized before changes are recommended. We do not propose controls because they appear on a generic list.
Security Built Into the Environment
Where remediation is in scope, improvements go into the real infrastructure and engineering workflows. The objective is a better operating environment, not a folder of documents.
Readiness, Not Audit Claims
We prepare organizations for external assessment. Independent audit opinions, certifications, attestations, and regulatory determinations remain with appropriately qualified external parties, and we are clear about that from the first conversation.
Questions we get before a security engagement
The boundaries, stated plainly, before anyone signs anything.
Do you perform SOC 2 audits?
No. We support SOC 2 readiness: technical assessment, gap remediation, and preparation of technical evidence. The formal SOC 2 examination and report are performed by an independent qualified auditor, who is not us.
Can you help us prepare for HIPAA requirements?
Yes, within the agreed scope: assessing and implementing technical safeguards such as access controls, audit logging, encryption, infrastructure security, and monitoring. Those safeguards are one part of HIPAA obligations. Implementing them does not by itself constitute complete HIPAA compliance.
Can you assess our existing AWS or Azure environment?
Yes. Both are environments we work in, covering configuration, identity and access, network controls, encryption, secrets handling, logging, and backup and recovery.
What happens after the security assessment?
You get findings, gaps prioritized by risk and effort rather than listed flat, and a remediation roadmap. From there you can take the work in-house, have us implement the agreed remediation, or continue into readiness preparation for a specific framework.
Can you fix the security gaps you identify?
Yes. Remediation is engineering work and we can implement the agreed changes in your cloud infrastructure, applications, and delivery pipelines, rather than handing over a report and leaving.
Do you provide security monitoring or a managed SOC?
No. We do not operate a security operations centre or provide 24/7 monitoring. We can improve your logging, monitoring, and alerting so that security-relevant events are visible and reconstructable, but operating that capability day to day is not a service we offer.
Can you guarantee that we will pass an audit?
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is worth being careful with. We can improve your readiness and close the technical gaps we identify. The outcome of an independent audit or regulatory assessment is determined by the assessor, on evidence, and cannot be guaranteed by us.