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CASE STUDY
Cloud Security Posture Management for a Hyper-Growth SaaS Company
Identified 140+ cloud misconfigurations across AWS and Azure environments for a Series-C SaaS startup, and implemented automated remediation pipelines to enforce continuous compliance.
THE BRIEF
A Scaling SaaS Company Had Outgrown Its Security Controls
A Series-C SaaS company had grown from 10 to 200 engineers in 18 months. Cloud infrastructure had expanded rapidly across AWS and Azure, but security controls had not kept pace. The security team of two had no visibility into their true cloud risk posture.
- No centralised cloud security posture management tooling in place
- Infrastructure provisioned by 15+ teams with no security guardrails
- Public S3 buckets and overly permissive IAM policies across the estate
- No automated compliance checking against SOC 2 or CIS benchmarks
Our goal was to give the security team complete visibility and automated enforcement of cloud security baselines across both cloud providers.
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TESTIMONIAL
“We went from not knowing what we had to having full visibility and automated compliance in eight weeks. Encyphers delivered far beyond our expectations — they found things that had been hiding in plain sight for months.”
Priya Nair
VP Engineering, SaaS Platform
SNAPSHOTS
Cloud Posture Improvements at a Glance
THE CHALLENGE
The Cloud Risk They Were Carrying
Rapid engineering growth had created a sprawling, unmanaged cloud footprint:
- 140+ misconfigurations identified across AWS and Azure on day one
- 23 S3 buckets with public access enabled, 6 containing production data
- IAM roles with wildcard permissions across multiple AWS accounts
- No logging enabled on 40% of Azure resources
The organisation was unknowingly carrying critical risk while preparing for a Series-D fundraise that required demonstrated security controls.
THE SOLUTION
How We Secured Their Cloud Estate
We delivered a complete CSPM implementation with automated, continuous enforcement:
- Deployed and tuned a CSPM platform across all AWS and Azure accounts
- Built automated remediation pipelines for 80% of identified issues
- Implemented infrastructure-as-code security scanning in all CI/CD pipelines
- Created a real-time compliance dashboard mapped to SOC 2 and CIS benchmarks
The security team went from reactive fire-fighting to proactive, automated posture management with a 30-minute mean time to remediate.
THE RESULTS
Real Outcomes That Enable Confident Scaling
The security improvements that unlocked their Series-D
140+ Misconfigurations Resolved
Every critical and high-severity misconfiguration was remediated within the first six weeks of the engagement.
SOC 2 Compliance Achieved
Automated compliance mapping and evidence collection fast-tracked their SOC 2 Type II audit by three months.
Zero Public Data Exposure
All 23 public S3 buckets were secured and a preventive control was implemented to block future misconfigurations.
Automated Remediation Live
80% of misconfiguration categories now trigger automated remediation within minutes of detection.
Full Cloud Visibility
The security team has real-time visibility across 14 AWS accounts and 4 Azure subscriptions from a single pane of glass.
Series-D Security Review Passed
Investor security due diligence was passed with zero critical findings — directly attributable to the CSPM programme.
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