Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes Hardening
The cloud and cluster misconfigurations that become breaches, found and closed before they do.
Most cloud breaches are not exotic. They are an over-permissive role, a public bucket, a token that should have expired, a container running as root with the host socket mounted. Attackers chain the boring mistakes into full compromise. I hunt those chains the way they do.
Kubernetes multiplies the blast radius of every small error. I review the cluster the way an attacker who just landed one pod would — what can I reach, what can I become, how far does one foothold travel. Then I hand you the configuration that ends the chain early.
- IAM and identity-plane review across AWS, GCP, and Azure for privilege-escalation paths
- Kubernetes RBAC, admission control, network policy, and secrets-handling audit
- Container image and supply-chain review, from base image to runtime posture
- Control-plane, etcd, and node-level exposure assessment
- Network segmentation, service mesh, and east-west traffic analysis
- Infrastructure-as-code review (Terraform, Helm, manifests) for drift and defaults
- Attack-path mapping from a single compromised workload to crown-jewel data
- Runtime detection and policy guardrails (OPA/Gatekeeper, Falco) tuning
I work from your real environment and real IaC, not a questionnaire. Findings come with the exact attack path, the blast radius, and the specific configuration change — reviewed against production stability so nothing I recommend breaks your deploys.
Every engagement runs under a signed NDA and, where testing is involved, a Safe Harbor agreement. Legal and ethical, start to finish.
- A prioritized attack-path report ranked by reachability to sensitive assets
- Hardened reference configurations and policy-as-code you can merge directly
- A guardrail blueprint that prevents the same class of misconfiguration from returning
Which platforms do you cover?+
AWS, GCP, and Azure, plus self-managed and managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, and bare clusters). Multi-cloud estates are reviewed as one connected attack surface.
Do you just run a scanner?+
Scanners are a starting point, not the work. The value is manual attack-path analysis — chaining findings a tool reports in isolation into the compromise they actually enable.
Hire me for Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes Hardening.
Signed NDA and Safe Harbor on every engagement. Projects from five figures to nine. Discreet, relentless, done right.
I only do legal, ethical hacking — under a Safe Harbor contract and NDA.