The foundation most growing businesses skipped.
Identity, encryption, audit logging, and a backup you have actually watched restore. Retrofitting this under a running estate costs several times more than establishing it up front.
When this is the priority
This is the priority if you have shared logins, no MFA, no audit trail, or a backup job nobody has ever restored from. It is also where regulated businesses start.
It is rarely a standalone purchase for businesses already on a well-configured platform — in that case it folds into ongoing operations instead.
- Offering
- SecureBase
- Duration
- 2–3 weeks
- Basis
- Fixed price
- Runs before
- Any migration
What we do
Four controls, deployed not documented.
This is not a policy exercise. Each control is configured in your account, tested, and handed over with the procedure written down.
Identity and access
Least-privilege roles, MFA everywhere, and shared logins eliminated.
IAM · Identity Center
Audit logging
Every API call recorded immutably, queryable when someone asks.
CloudTrail · Athena
Threat detection
Continuous monitoring with findings routed to a human, not a dashboard.
GuardDuty · Security Hub
Backup and restore
Scheduled backups with a restore you have watched work end to end.
AWS Backup
How it runs
Audit, deploy, test the restore.
The restore test is the part that matters. A backup nobody has restored from is a hope with a schedule attached, and we find one most engagements.
Audit
Current identity, logging, encryption, and backup state documented.
Deploy the baseline
Controls configured as code so they can be reproduced and reviewed.
Test the restore
A real restore performed and timed, with your team watching.
Hand over
Runbooks, escalation paths, and a review cadence your team owns.
What changes
Before and after.
- Shared credentials with no MFA
- No record of who changed what
- Backups that have never been restored
- Named identities with least-privilege access
- Immutable audit trail you can query
- A restore procedure you have seen work
Honest limits
Where this is the wrong answer.
Next step
When did you last test a restore?
A short conversation first, then a bounded assessment. You end it with a plan and a price, whether or not you continue with us.