The Flagship Service

AWS Startup Security Baseline

A fixed-scope, 7 to 14 day sprint that hardens the AWS controls most likely to fail a SOC 2 audit, block an enterprise deal, or cause a preventable incident. Delivered by one practitioner, on a fixed price, with no long-term contract.

Built for teams that
outgrew their AWS setup fast.

Seed to Series B startups and small SaaS teams, five to one hundred fifty people, running production on AWS with no dedicated security hire yet.

AWS-based small businesses with real customer data and real exposure, even without venture funding behind them.

MSPs and boutique dev agencies who build on AWS for clients and want a security specialist to bring in rather than build the practice in-house.

The gaps that show up
right before they matter.

These are not hypothetical risks. They are the specific, common findings we run into in AWS accounts that scaled faster than anyone had time to secure them.

Unclear root account boundaries

Nobody remembers who has root access, MFA is inconsistent, and one shared login has more reach than anyone realizes.

IAM permissions sprawl

Old contractor accounts, wildcard permissions, and roles nobody remembers creating. Nobody has time to clean it up until something forces the issue.

Patchy CloudTrail coverage

Logging looks complete until you check a secondary region or an old account nobody uses anymore, and find a blind spot.

Ad hoc backups

Backups exist somewhere, probably, but nobody has actually tried restoring one to confirm it would work when it matters.

SOC 2 anxiety

The audit is coming and nobody is confident the AWS side will hold up to scrutiny, but there is no time to find out the hard way.

No proof to show a buyer

An enterprise prospect's security questionnaire lands, and there is nothing concrete to point to that shows the account has been reviewed.

What's in, and what's deliberately left out.

The first sprint stays tight on purpose. A narrow scope is what makes the fixed price and the short timeline possible.

In

Root, IAM, CloudTrail, S3, backups

Root account and MFA review, IAM users and roles audit, CloudTrail and logging coverage, S3 bucket and data protection checks, and backup and recovery verification.

In

A before and after report

What we found, what we fixed, what's recommended next. Written in plain language, formatted to hand to an investor, a customer, or an auditor.

Out

Full penetration testing

Not part of the first sprint. If you need one, we will tell you plainly and point you toward it rather than pad the scope.

Out

Application code review and non-AWS infrastructure

We stay inside AWS. Multi-cloud environments and application-level code are a separate conversation, not this sprint.

01

Day 1: Kickoff

A thirty-minute call to confirm scope, get scoped and time-limited access, and set the two working session dates.

02

Days 2-4: Working session one

Live, sixty to ninety minutes. We review root account, MFA, and IAM findings together on screen.

03

Days 5-9: Independent audit

CloudTrail, S3, and backup review. Findings get logged as we find them, not batched to the end.

04

Days 10-14: Working session two and readout

We review remaining findings, fix what we can together live, then deliver the final report on a closing call.

7-14
Days, Fixed
Fixed Price
Two Live Sessions
No Long-Term Contract
Scoped Access Only

A report you can
actually use.

A documented list of every finding, rated by severity, in language your team and your leadership can both act on.

Fixes made live during the two working sessions, not just a list of things to do later on your own.

A before and after report built to attach to a SOC 2 kickoff, an enterprise security questionnaire, or an investor diligence request.

Ready to see if this fits your setup?

Book a fifteen-minute fit check. If it's not a match, we will tell you directly instead of trying to make it one.