By Lior Atias, DevSecOps Engineer & CS Manager at Cloudride
For leaders managing security in large, dynamic enterprise cloud environments, the mission has shifted from detection to Cloud Breach Prevention. Modern, high-end security platforms deliver incredible, preemptive intelligence, providing the visibility and attack storylines needed to secure the cloud before a full-blown breach occurs.
The platform provides the indispensable intelligence – it shows you the weaponized threats and the precise path to remediation. Yet, a crucial operational challenge remains: the CISO Gap. This is the chasm between having sophisticated security data and achieving immediate, decisive, organization-wide action.
Your organization owns the best tools. Now, the goal is to fully leverage that technology to achieve security outcomes today. Security is not just about monitoring, but also execution.
Bridging the Gap: Intelligence Meets Execution
The key to closing the CISO Gap is recognizing that advanced technology requires an equally advanced operational engine.
This is where the partnership between Skyhawk Security’s platform and the devoted SecOps team at Cloudride is indispensable. Skyhawk provides the definitive intelligence, and Cloudride provides the specialized operational layer that turns that intelligence into tangible security posture improvement, guided by Cloudride’s three core pillars:
Smart-Simple, Agile, and Cost-effective.
To illustrate the value of this combined approach, here are two common enterprise security challenges:
Scenario A: The Silent Lateral Move
Picture this: a sophisticated attacker gains initial access through a known vulnerability on a non-critical EC2 instance. Skyhawk’s platform detects the threat immediately, correlating the initial access with subsequent suspicious behavior: the compromised instance attempts to create a new, high-privilege IAM role and probe a database cluster.
- Platform Role (Skyhawk): Identifies the full attack storyline—from initial access to attempted privilege escalation—and flags it as a weaponized threat requiring immediate action.
- SecOps Team Role: Because of the Smart-Simple integration, the Cloudride SecOps team receives a single, high-fidelity alert, instantly correlated with the asset’s business criticality. They bypass the standard ticketing queue and execute an agile automated response: they immediately block network access for the compromised instance via a pre-approved security group change, while simultaneously pushing a pull request to the customer’s IaC repository to enforce a stricter IAM policy moving forward. The breach path is stopped in minutes, not hours.
Scenario B: The Accidental Insider Risk
A DevOps engineer introduces a configuration error in a CloudFormation template, accidentally leaving an S3 bucket with sensitive PII data publicly accessible. The high-end security platform quickly identifies the misconfiguration and the sensitive data exposure.
- Platform Role (Skyhawk): Detects the configuration drift and immediately identifies the severity based on the type of data (PII) residing in the exposed bucket, generating a clear remediation recommendation.
- SecOps Team Role (Cloudride): This scenario highlights Cost-Effective Scaling. The customer’s internal team, focused on core product development, is not pulled away. Instead, Cloudride’s dedicated SecOps team automatically takes the platform’s recommendation and executes a corrective IaC fix in the staging environment for approval. They then open a ticket detailing why the misconfiguration occurred, ensuring the fix is permanent and automated, all without draining the customer’s expensive in-house engineering resources.
Cloudride’s Core Pillars in Practice
These scenarios are enabled by the disciplined application of the operational partnership
- Smart-Simple Remediation. Cloudride’s SecOps team leverages the intelligence of the Skyhawk Security platform with a smart and simple approach that makes it easy for your organization to understand and act. By automatically analyzing the platform’s data in the context of your specific business assets, they generate a highly focused execution plan based on real risk. The result: a clear, prioritized action list that removes guesswork and helps your team address what matters most—immediately.
- Agile Execution. In the cloud, security posture is a moving target. The delay between threat detection and remediation is the definition of vulnerability. Our SecOps team ensures your security response is agile, operating at the speed of DevOps. They consume the platform’s remediation recommendations and instantly write automated Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) fixes, embedding security directly into the CI/CD pipeline. This accelerates MTTR from weeks to minutes, allowing your engineering teams to move quickly and securely.
- Cost-Effective Scaling. Hiring and retaining the elite engineers required to maintain a seamless operational loop is financially unsustainable for most enterprises. We are here to help you gain access to a full team of execution specialists—the essential human layer—at a cost-effective fractional rate. This operational partnership maximizes your return on investment (ROI) in your security platform without the multi-million dollar overhead of scaling an in-house expert team.
The Holistic Security Model
The most secure enterprises are those that recognize and address this CISO Gap proactively. They don’t just buy technology; they operationalize it.
By pairing a market-leading Cloud Breach Prevention platform with a dedicated DevSecOps execution partner, security leaders gain immediate, approachable, and actionable control over their cloud environment.
This unified approach ensures your security posture is not just monitored, but is continuously enforced, allowing your enterprise to innovate and scale with complete confidence.
About the writer
Lior Atias is the DevSecOps Engineer and Customer Success Manager at Cloudride.
Founded in 2019, Cloudride is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner dedicated to helping businesses harness the full potential of the cloud. Their professional services include:
- Cloud migration
- Cloud security and operations (SecOps)
- Financial operations and cost optimization (FinOps)
- Architecture design and software development operations (DevOps)
- Platform reselling
With recognized competencies in Education, Financial Services, Small and Medium Businesses, and Migration & Modernization, the company is well-experienced in tackling common cloud challenges, ensuring a smart-simple, agile, and cost-effective transition to AWS.
