1. Start with a living atlas of data surfaces
Hardened databases begin with precise visibility. BreachModal discovery jobs inventory cloud-native services, customer-managed instances and legacy appliances in hours—not quarters. We tag each surface with business criticality, data classification and blast radius indicators so governance, legal and incident response can prioritise actions together.
- Connect CSP APIs (AWS Config, Azure Resource Graph, GCP Asset Inventory) and SaaS providers to synchronise metadata nightly.
- Automate service identification in BreachModal graph views so new data stores inherit baseline policies immediately.
- Surface ownership gaps by mapping data products to accountable squads and executive sponsors.
2. Anchor controls in the BreachModal protection pillars
Our platform bakes every hardening sprint into four mutually reinforcing pillars. Each pillar blends automation with human review, ensuring controls land consistently across clouds while preserving context for auditors.
Identity trust
Centralise authentication through just-in-time roles, service identities and workload identities. BreachModal blueprints enforce conditional MFA, key rotation and lifecycle policies for human and non-human actors.
Data guardrails
Automate encryption, tokenisation and masking. Baseline configurations in Terraform or Pulumi modules, then validate through BreachModal configuration drift monitors.
Network micro-perimeters
Collapse flat networks with software-defined perimeters and private service endpoints. BreachModal traffic analytics highlight over-permissive rules and shadow ingress paths.
Resilience & recovery
Embed immutable backups, chaos testing and purple-team drills. Response playbooks rehearse failover in concert with legal and communications stakeholders.
3. Enforce posture programmatically
With the pillars defined, BreachModal orchestrates daily guardrails so teams focus on higher-order engineering. We encode desired state in reusable policy packs that span identity, network, secret management and backup tooling.
- Shift-left by integrating policy-as-code scanners into CI/CD, blocking risky schema changes before they reach production.
- Use continuous controls monitoring dashboards to trace remediation progress across AWS, Azure, GCP and private clouds.
- Instrument database activity streams (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, Chronicle) with BreachModal detections for privilege escalation, data exfil and ransomware tradecraft.
4. Operationalise breach readiness
Hardened estates still face determined adversaries. BreachModal unites incident command, compliance and legal so responses are rehearsed, documented and fast.
Scenario testing
Run cross-cloud data breach simulations that stress-test containment steps, regulatory notifications and customer messaging.
Decision intelligence
Our narrative briefings translate telemetry into legal-ready storylines, aligning CISOs, DPOs and boards on the next move.
Embed these rituals quarterly so you understand precisely how to contain credential theft, rogue administrators or data corruption—even when they traverse providers.
5. Measure impact and iterate
BreachModal analytics correlate control health with risk reduction and regulatory outcomes. Leadership teams see which squads drive the most improvement, and where executive sponsorship is required.
- Track mean-time-to-hardening for new services alongside coverage metrics for encryption, segmentation and backup verification.
- Overlay findings from penetration tests and red-teaming onto the same dashboards to validate effectiveness.
- Publish quarterly retrospectives that celebrate wins, remediate gaps and align budgets to the next set of safeguards.