Cloud security by default — not as an afterthought

Most cloud security incidents are not caused by sophisticated attacks. They are caused by misconfigurations — an open storage bucket, an over-broad IAM role, a forgotten port. The problem is rarely a lack of tooling. It is that security arrives too late.

At CloudVigil we do the opposite. Security is a property of the system from day one, not a coat of paint applied afterwards.

Start with the threat model

Before a single line of infrastructure is written, we ask three questions: What are we protecting? Who wants it? What happens if they succeed? The answers drive the architecture — not the other way around.

A simple threat model early saves weeks of remediation later.

Make the secure path the easy path

Developers always take the path of least resistance. Our job is to make that path secure:

• Infrastructure as code with reviewed modules, so the correct configuration is the default.
• Least privilege as the starting point — never *:*.
• Encrypted by default, both at rest and in transit.

When the secure option is also the convenient one, nobody has to think about it.

Watch continuously

A cloud is not static. It changes every day, and every change is a potential risk. That is why we run continuous posture management — the same principle behind our product CSPM.io — catching drift in real time instead of at the next audit.

Security is not a state you reach. It is a habit you maintain.

In short

Cloud security by default is not about more tools. It is about order: model the threats, make the secure path the easy path, and watch continuously. Do that, and security stops being a cost — it becomes a competitive advantage.