Security Strategy and Compliance

This hub collects our writing on security strategy and compliance, the layer of decisions that sits above tooling and code. It covers how engineering leaders set direction on cloud security best practices, compliance frameworks, and risk communication, rather than the day-to-day work of hardening a single application, which we cover separately in Application Security. The articles here are written for people who own budget and roadmap decisions, not for practitioners looking for a config guide.

Some of the most-read pieces compare how the major providers handle cloud provider security tradeoffs, walk through HIPAA encryption obligations for regulated data, and lay out cloud security best practices for teams migrating workloads at scale. Other articles address compliance as a business lever rather than a checkbox, cybersecurity best practices for distributed teams, and the harder problem of getting staff to actually follow the controls you write down.

We wrote most of these after actual project work, so the framing tends to be operational rather than theoretical. When the discussion moves from what to consider to what to build, our cybersecurity services team picks up the engagement, and for organisations further along, our application security services group handles the code-level implementation.

If you are choosing where to begin, start with cloud security best practices, since it frames the tradeoffs the other articles assume, helping you decide how much control to centralize before comparing providers or mapping compliance obligations against your current architecture and team structure.