Andy’s Web Services

AI-Driven Applications & Cloud Security

AI-Driven Applications
& Advanced Cloud Security

We build intelligent, secure cloud solutions and find the weaknesses scanners miss. From AI-powered applications that transform how you work, to preventative security controls that protect what matters most, to assessments that uncover how small misconfigurations chain into a breach.

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Services

Intelligent, secure cloud solutions

AI-Powered Applications

Custom applications built on foundation models and machine learning pipelines. We design, build, and operate AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Preventative Security Controls

Advanced cloud security architectures with defense-in-depth. Organization-wide guardrails and automated compliance that stop threats before they start.

Cloud Architecture

Secure-by-default landing zones, multi-account strategies, and infrastructure as code. Built for compliance, optimized for operational excellence.

Attack-Path Assessments

We go beyond scanner checklists to find composite vulnerabilities: small misconfigurations that chain together into privilege escalation or full compromise. Then we close each path with code.

Guardrails

Preventative controls that hold, even when something goes wrong

Most cloud incidents start with an ordinary mistake: a resource shared too widely, a leaked password, a role with too much power. These five guardrails apply to every account in your AWS organization, so the mistake stops at the boundary instead of becoming a breach.

YOUR AWS ACCOUNT OUTSIDE YOUR ORGANIZATION
Inbound protection Outsiders can't get in. Requests from outside your organization stop at the edge, even if a door was left open by mistake.

GUARDRAIL 01

  • Covers your stored data, encryption keys, passwords, queues, software images and sign-in roles.
  • Holds even when one of those is shared publicly by mistake.
  • Your own accounts keep working across the organization as normal.

Technical nameResource control policy (RCP)

YOUR ORGANIZATION OUTSIDE YOUR ORGANIZATION
Outbound protection Your data can't get out. Nothing can be copied or sent to an account outside your organization, even with stolen credentials.

GUARDRAIL 02

  • Covers copying data, remote sessions, software downloads, alerts and sharing.
  • A leaked password or key can't move data to an account you don't own.
  • Moving data between your own accounts is unaffected.

Technical nameService control policies (SCPs)

YOUR AWS ACCOUNT READABLE HERE YOUR KEY STOLEN COPY
Encryption Stolen data stays locked. Your encryption keys only work inside your account, so a copied file is unreadable anywhere else.

GUARDRAIL 03

  • Every encryption key names one owner: the account it lives in.
  • Copied backups, snapshots and files can't be opened anywhere else.
  • Your applications decrypt their own data with no change.

Technical nameAWS KMS key policies, backed by the RCP

YOUR AWS ACCOUNT OUTSIDE YOUR ACCOUNT
Key sharing Key access can't be handed out. Your teams can share a key inside the account. Nobody can extend it to an outside account.

GUARDRAIL 04

  • Teams can give their own apps, and AWS services working for them, use of a key.
  • No one can extend that access to another account.
  • No one can issue access that lets the holder hand out more access.

Technical nameKMS key policy conditions on CreateGrant, backed by an SCP

EVERYDAY USERS GUARDRAILS ADMIN RIGHTS
Access control No one climbs to admin. Everyday users can't give themselves administrator rights or switch off the security controls.

GUARDRAIL 05

  • Nobody can rewrite their own permissions or borrow the deployment automation's identity.
  • Nobody can create a hidden login or long-lived key.
  • Audit logs and threat detection can't be switched off.

Technical nameSCPs plus deny statements in every team role

Assessments

AWS Cloud Security Assessments & Remediation

Anyone can run a scanner. Scanners grade each setting on its own, so a permission here and a trust policy there each look minor. Attackers chain them. We find the multi-step paths that lead to privilege escalation or compromise, explain what each one means for your business, and close them with infrastructure as code.

FINDING 1Developers can updatea function's codeLOWSTEP 1 FINDING 2That function runswith a broad roleLOWSTEP 2 FINDING 3The role can attachany permissionMEDIUMSTEP 3 THE RESULTAdministrator accessto the accountCRITICAL PATH WHAT A SCANNER REPORTS: THREE SEPARATE, MINOR FINDINGS WHAT AN ATTACKER SEES: ONE PATH TO ADMIN
Composite risk Three minor findings. One critical path. Scanners grade each setting on its own. We follow the chain the way an attacker would.

How an assessment works

  1. Discover

    We map your accounts, organization structure, identities, trust relationships, and exposed resources.

  2. Baseline

    We cover the fundamentals any scanner checks: the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and the Well-Architected security pillar.

  3. Where we differ

    Trace attack paths

    We connect findings the way an attacker would, exposing multi-step routes to administrator rights, your data, or your keys.

  4. Remediate

    Each path is ranked by business impact and broken at its most effective point, with infrastructure as code and least privilege.

  5. Verify

    We replay every path to prove it is closed.

What we review

Identity and access

IAM, IAM Identity Center, MFA, least privilege, and the escalation paths between roles.

Logging and detection

CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.

Data protection

KMS encryption and S3 public access settings.

Network exposure

Security groups and public endpoints.

Governance

AWS Organizations, service control policies, and guardrails.

Cost and abuse controls

Budgets, cost anomaly detection, and alarms.

What you receive

Clear documents for leadership and ready-to-deploy code for your engineers.

  • Executive summary
  • Prioritized findings report
  • Attack-path walkthroughs
  • Remediation plan
  • Infrastructure-as-code fixes
  • Verification results

Start with a conversation about your AWS accounts and your goals.

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Get in Touch

contact@andyswebservices.com