Most cloud breaches start with a misconfiguration or an over-privileged identity, not a zero-day exploit. Cloud security and cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) give you continuous visibility of posture, workloads, identities, and code-to-cloud risks. WC1 helps Singapore and Philippine organisations secure AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud estates, working alongside the platform teams who build them.
The problem: why cloud security and CNAPP matters
Cloud estates change daily. Teams create accounts, storage buckets, serverless functions, and roles faster than security can review them. Public storage, exposed management ports, unencrypted databases, and wildcard permissions appear and persist.
Security teams that bring on-premises tools and processes to the cloud struggle to keep up, while developers see security findings as noise disconnected from their pipelines.
Who this service is for
Organisations running production workloads in public cloud, those mid-migration, and regulated entities that need to evidence cloud controls to MAS, BSP, or government customers.
What WC1 delivers
Every engagement is scoped to your environment and risk. These are the building blocks we combine for cloud security and CNAPP:
- Cloud security assessment: Review of accounts, subscriptions, and projects against CIS benchmarks and your policies, with prioritised findings.
- Posture management (CSPM): Deployment and tuning of continuous posture monitoring with auto-remediation for safe, well-understood issues.
- Workload protection (CWPP): Protection for virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless workloads, including runtime detection and vulnerability scanning.
- Cloud identity and entitlements (CIEM): Discovery of excessive permissions and unused roles, and right-sizing toward least privilege.
- Secure landing zones: Guardrails, logging, network segmentation, and account structures built in from the start using infrastructure as code.
- Code-to-cloud security: Infrastructure-as-code scanning and pipeline checks so misconfigurations are caught before deployment.
How the engagement runs
1. Assess
Connect read-only to cloud accounts, inventory resources, and baseline posture and identity risk.
2. Prioritise
Rank issues by exposure and data sensitivity and agree remediation owners with platform teams.
3. Protect
Deploy CNAPP capabilities, guardrails, and workload protection, starting with production.
4. Shift left
Integrate IaC scanning and policy checks into CI/CD pipelines.
5. Operate
Set alert routing, metrics, and review cadences, and hand over runbooks.
Commercial shape follows the work: a fixed-scope assessment or implementation when the problem is well bounded, or a retainer when you need ongoing operation, tuning, and reporting. Coverage hours, response times, and responsibilities are written into the statement of work so there are no surprises.
Deliverables you can expect
- Cloud security assessment report with prioritised findings
- CSPM and CWPP configuration and alert routing
- Least-privilege recommendations and role clean-up plan
- Landing zone guardrails as code
- IaC scanning in CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud security runbooks and dashboards
Platforms and tools we integrate
We work with Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud and Cortex Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Fortinet FortiCNAPP, Wiz, and native services such as AWS Security Hub and GuardDuty, Azure Policy, and Google Security Command Center, plus Terraform and policy-as-code tools.
WC1 is vendor-neutral: we integrate the platforms you already own before recommending anything new. Naming a product here describes technology we work with; it does not imply a partnership, reseller agreement, or vendor certification.
Singapore: regulatory and market relevance
The MAS TRM Guidelines and MAS Advisory on Addressing the Technology and Cyber Security Risks Associated with Public Cloud Adoption set clear expectations for cloud governance, shared responsibility, identity, encryption, and logging. IM8 and GovTech’s Government on Commercial Cloud (GCC) policies apply to public-sector workloads. Our assessments map findings to these expectations so they are ready for audit.
Philippines: regulatory and market relevance
The Philippine government’s Cloud First Policy, issued by DICT, encourages agencies to adopt cloud with appropriate security controls. BSP Circular 1140 and BSP guidance on outsourcing cover cloud usage by banks. The Data Privacy Act requires appropriate security for personal data wherever it is hosted, including overseas cloud regions.
How this fits the rest of your security programme
Cloud Security and CNAPP rarely stands alone. It works best alongside Identity Security and Access Management, Application and API Security, Continuous Threat Exposure Management, Zero Trust and SASE. It also connects to our Cloud & Infrastructure, DevOps in Singapore services. See the full catalogue on our Cybersecurity services page.
Related reading: IM8 and MAS TRM questions for cloud vendors; Multi-account AWS landing zone checklist.
Frequently asked questions
What is CNAPP?
A cloud-native application protection platform combines posture management, workload protection, identity entitlement management, and code scanning in one platform, so cloud risks can be seen in context.
Do native cloud tools suffice?
For single-cloud estates with strong platform teams, native tools can cover a lot. Multi-cloud estates and regulated environments usually benefit from a unified CNAPP view.
Will you change our production environment?
Only with agreement. Assessments are read-only. Remediation is delivered through your change process or infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
How does this relate to your cloud infrastructure services?
Our Cloud and Infrastructure pillar builds and runs platforms; this service secures them. The two work together for landing zones and migrations.
Can you help with Kubernetes security?
Yes, including cluster hardening, admission policies, runtime protection, and image scanning.
Next step
Tell us which clouds you run and how many accounts or subscriptions you have. We will propose a read-only assessment as a first step. Contact WC1 for a no-obligation conversation; we will tell you honestly if we are not the right fit.