Pillar 1

The Security Pillar

Protect workloads against threats, misconfigurations, and unauthorized access — across identity, network, data, and runtime.

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Defense in depth Policy-as-code Zero trust

OVERVIEW

Security as a continuous practice

The Security pillar turns cloud security from a checklist into an architecture discipline — with controls that are observable, enforceable, and traceable.

Defense in depth

Layer controls across identity, network, compute, storage, and application so no single failure exposes the whole workload.

Misconfiguration protection

Most breaches start with misconfiguration. WAF-SEC controls catch public storage, open ports, weak IAM, and missing encryption before production.

Policy-as-code

Express security requirements as versioned, testable code so every change is reviewed in CI/CD, not in an emergency.

CAPABILITIES

What the Security pillar covers

From zero-trust identity to encrypted data and compliant audit trails.

Identity & access

Least-privilege IAM, MFA enforcement, role separation, and just-in-time access for humans and machines.

Data protection

Encryption at rest and in transit, key management, classification, and retention policies that match regulatory scope.

Network & runtime

Segmentation, private endpoints, egress controls, container hardening, and vulnerability management.

Compliance evidence

Traceable evidence for GDPR, BSI C5, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and NIS2 — generated automatically by WAFPass.

MATURITY

Three levels of security maturity

Progress from basic hygiene to proactive, threat-informed security engineering.

Level 1

Baseline

Encryption, patching, MFA, logging, and least-privilege access are in place for all production workloads.

Level 2

Standardize

Security policies are encoded, tested in CI/CD, and reviewed automatically before every deployment.

Level 3

Optimize

Threat modeling, continuous detection, automated response, and red-team validation are part of normal engineering.

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Build secure cloud workloads

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GDPR BSI C5 ISO 27001 SOC 2 NIS2