Managed Security for AWS
AWS Cloud Security Services
Managed Security Services for AWS
Stratus10 strengthens your AWS security baseline, then monitors the environment, prioritizes findings, and implements the fixes you approve. Security improvements move forward before routine findings become a backlog.
You get experienced AWS security engineers who improve controls, remediation workflows, and ongoing coverage without requiring you to build every security role in-house.
Proactive security improvement
Baseline hardening, prioritized remediation, and ongoing coverage.
AWS security specialists
Certified engineers from an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner.
Findings turned into fixes
Hands-on and automated remediation with clear progress reporting.
Request an AWS Security Assessment
Tell us about your AWS environment and where your security coverage feels thin.
When Managed Security Makes Sense
Most teams don’t lack security tools. They lack the time and specialized expertise to act on what those tools report. Managed Security is a fit when:
- You run production workloads on AWS without dedicated cloud security staff.
- Findings are accumulating across accounts and tools faster than anyone can triage them.
- Developers and engineers are spending time on security alerts instead of product work.
- IAM roles, permissions, and access paths have grown faster than anyone has reviewed them.
- Customer security questionnaires, an upcoming audit, or a recent incident has exposed gaps in controls or ownership.
- Security improvements keep slipping behind other engineering priorities.
Stratus10 can supplement an internal security team or serve as the AWS security function for a company that doesn’t have one.
Start with a Free AWS Security Assessment
Before we propose ongoing coverage, we review your environment and show you where the real risk is. The assessment is provided at no cost.
What we evaluate
- AWS account structure and baseline security configuration
- Identity, permissions, SSO, and federated access
- Logging, threat detection, and alert routing
- Network exposure, workload vulnerabilities, and encryption
- Incident readiness and current security ownership
What you receive
- Findings ranked by severity and business impact
- Quick wins your team can act on immediately
- A remediation roadmap
- A recommended managed security scope and division of responsibilities
What’s Included in Managed Security
Security posture, compliance, and remediation
We continuously evaluate AWS configurations against agreed standards, including the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, AWS Well-Architected Framework, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIST. For SOC 2 and other compliance goals, Stratus10 can use Vanta to track requirements, organize evidence, and manage remediation across the AWS controls in scope. Findings are prioritized by exposure, workload criticality, and progress toward the selected framework.
Threat detection and response
Alerts are investigated in the context of the affected accounts, resources, and workloads. We confirm whether a threat is real, assign severity, notify your contacts, and coordinate the response through the escalation plan defined at onboarding.
Vulnerability management
We review vulnerability findings across EC2 instances, container images, Lambda functions, and other covered resources. Urgent issues are separated from routine maintenance, and accepted or deferred risks are tracked rather than forgotten.
Identity and access management
We review and tighten the controls governing who can reach what: IAM policies and roles, least-privilege access, MFA, AWS IAM Identity Center, federation, and unused or long-lived credentials.
Logging and security visibility
We configure and maintain centralized logging across accounts and Regions so account changes, access events, and network activity can be investigated when it matters. Retention is set to match your investigation and compliance requirements.
Hands-on remediation
Our engineers implement approved configuration fixes, access changes, guardrails, and repeatable remediation workflows. Kalos can automate remediation for supported recurring findings, with configurable rules, approvals, and execution records. Potentially disruptive changes follow your change-management process. Larger efforts, such as re-architecting a workload, are scoped separately.
Armor Anywhere
EC2 operating system and server-level security monitoring provided with Armor Anywhere.
AWS Security Services, Operated as One System
AWS security services deliver the most value when they’re configured across accounts, connected to each other, and backed by a clear response process. We select and configure the services each environment needs to create a robust security program. Tools may include:
AWS Security Hub
Centralized findings, exposure analysis, and risk prioritization
Amazon GuardDuty
Continuous threat detection across supported data sources
Amazon Inspector
Vulnerability and network-reachability findings for supported compute
Amazon Macie
Sensitive-data discovery and monitoring in Amazon S3
AWS Config
Configuration history and evaluation against desired controls
CloudTrail and CloudWatch
Audit activity, alerting, and investigation context
IAM Access Analyzer
Visibility into external and unused access
WAF, Shield, and Firewall Manager
Application and network protection where required
For AI workloads, Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker introduce new access paths and data flows. When they’re in scope, we extend the security baseline to cover model and knowledge-base access, data permissions, logging, and network boundaries.
Existing third-party tools, such as a SIEM, endpoint protection, or ticketing system, stay in place when they provide the right coverage.
How a Managed Security Engagement Works
Assess
The complimentary assessment establishes your current security posture, the highest-priority improvements, and the right starting scope.
Define the scope
We agree on the accounts and workloads covered, severity definitions, escalation contacts, which actions require your approval, and how responsibilities are divided between Stratus10, your team, and any other providers.
Establish the baseline
We configure or tune detection, logging, and posture management, confirm alerts reach the right people, and remediate the most urgent findings before ongoing operations begin.
Operate and improve
Monitoring, escalation, and approved remediation follow the response plan agreed for your selected service level. Recurring reviews cover new findings, completed work, open risks, and upcoming changes to your environment.
Kalos-Powered Security and Compliance Remediation
Kalos, Stratus10’s cloud management platform, gives our engineers and your team a shared view of security posture across every AWS account and Region. It tracks findings over time, maps configurations to common compliance frameworks, and supports automated remediation for eligible findings. Configurable rules and approvals help turn recurring issues into controlled corrective actions.
KAI, the Kalos AI assistant, explains findings and their potential impact. A Stratus10 engineer reviews that context against your architecture and business priorities before recommending or making any change.
One shared view of progress
- Multi-account and multi-region security posture
- Historical compliance scores and findings
- Framework-aligned controls and remediation
- Automated remediation with approvals
- AI-assisted context with human review
Selected AWS Security Results
A prioritized path to SOC 2 readiness
An in-depth assessment evaluated infrastructure, application delivery, IAM, and cloud architecture against the CIS Benchmark, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and SOC 2 requirements. Findings were risk-scored with detailed remediation steps, and the client then engaged Stratus10 to complete the work.
Secure governance across multiple AWS accounts
A new multi-account structure built on AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, and IAM Identity Center separated production, internal systems, security functions, and shared services. The result was stronger access control, centralized auditing, and support for the client’s PCI DSS requirements.
Centralized access and stronger identity controls
AWS IAM Identity Center, Okta, and Terraform replaced a fragmented access process with one automated model. Users went from managing several sets of credentials to a single identity with stronger MFA, and onboarding and offboarding became faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
Managed Security focuses on security controls, threats, vulnerabilities, access, and compliance evidence. Managed AWS Services covers broader day-to-day operations such as infrastructure monitoring, patching, backups, and routine changes. Many clients combine both.
High-severity events are investigated and escalated according to the response plan agreed during onboarding. That plan reflects the selected service level and defines notification targets, timing, and which containment actions Stratus10 can take immediately or with your approval.
No. The assessment identifies which tools to keep, integrate, or reconfigure. If you already work with an internal security team or an MSSP, Stratus10 can own AWS-specific security engineering and remediation while they handle areas such as endpoint protection, a corporate SIEM, or incident command. Handoffs are documented during onboarding.
Stratus10 helps move AWS technical controls toward your selected compliance framework. We track requirements, organize technical evidence, and complete remediation for covered controls, including work managed through Vanta when it is part of the engagement. Your organization and auditor retain responsibility for organization-wide policies and the formal certification decision.
Pricing is based on the size of your AWS environment, the workloads in scope, and the level of coverage you need. See our pricing page for an overview, or request an assessment for a defined scope.
Build a Clearer AWS Security Program
Tell us where visibility is limited, findings are piling up, or ownership is unclear. We’ll identify your highest-priority risks and recommend the right path forward, whether that’s a focused remediation project or ongoing managed security.
Request an AWS Security Assessment
Name, company email, and a short description of what needs attention are enough to begin.
The initial assessment is provided at no cost.