Build security into the platform rather than bolt it on before an audit. We implement zero-trust network policy, admission control, runtime threat detection, and secrets management as part of how the platform works day to day — so compliance readiness is a byproduct of good engineering, not a separate scramble.
Who this is for
Teams preparing for a SOC 2, ISO 27001, or customer security review who are finding gaps in network policy or audit trail; teams who’ve had a security finding in cluster configuration; or teams who want zero-trust network boundaries and secrets management built in from the start rather than retrofitted.
Expected outcomes
Explicit network policy instead of a flat, trust-everything cluster network; admission control that rejects non-compliant workloads before they run rather than flagging them after; runtime detection for anomalous behavior; and centralized secrets management instead of credentials in environment variables or config maps.
Scope & deliverables
We implement network policies and, where mTLS-everywhere is a real requirement, a service mesh; admission control via OPA/Gatekeeper (or your existing policy engine) to enforce standards at deploy time; runtime detection via Falco or equivalent; and secrets management via Vault or your cloud provider’s equivalent, with a clear migration path off any credentials currently sitting in plain configuration.
What this engagement does not do: issue a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification. Those come from an accredited external auditor assessing your organization as a whole. What we deliver is the technical platform posture — policy, detection, and audit trail — that a compliance review will actually examine.
Our approach
We start with your current compliance target (if any) and an assessment of what’s already in place, then prioritize gaps by what an auditor or security review would actually flag first. Policy and admission control usually come before runtime detection, since enforcing good configuration prevents more incidents than detecting bad ones after the fact.
Client responsibilities & exclusions
You’ll need to identify who owns security policy decisions (what’s blocked at admission, what’s merely flagged) — we’ll implement the mechanism, but the policy itself reflects your organization’s risk tolerance, not ours. This engagement delivers the technical platform controls; engaging an accredited auditor for formal certification is a separate process we don’t provide.
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