At AllCloud, security is at the core of everything we do. We are proud to announce that we have relaunched our status as an AWS Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Competency Partner, achieving two of the newest designations for both the Infrastructure Security and Workload Security categories.
This designation from AWS recognizes that AllCloud has once again met AWS’s rigorous requirements for delivering comprehensive, turn-key security outcomes as a fully managed service. This includes foundational capabilities like providing 24×7 threat detection and response. AWS introduced this standard of quality to help customers of all sizes achieve end-to-end security, compliance, and risk management in their cloud environments, leveraging both AWS native services and validated third-party tools.
Executive Summary: Three Key Takeaways
If you’re a CISO scanning this post, here is the essence of our commitment to solving your cloud security challenge:
- Credential Validation: AllCloud has successfully relaunched its status as an AWS Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Competency Partner, achieving specialized designations for both Infrastructure Security and Workload Security.
- Core Philosophy: We champion a “prevention-first approach”—meaning we embed security guardrails at the source to block unauthorized actions, rather than relying solely on expensive, reactive detection.
- Strategic Benefit: You gain access to 24/7 managed security, proven AWS expertise (validated by our AI-Security specialization), and the ability to close the critical cybersecurity skills gap without hindering innovation speed.
Why is Cloud Security the Cornerstone of Digital Innovation?
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, security is not an afterthought; it’s the essential foundation for successful digital transformation. As Gartner predicts, “By 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.” This, coupled with the significant cybersecurity skills shortage highlighted by Forrester – where “cloud security expertise is the most sought after and hardest skillset to find” – underscores the undeniable criticality of robust security1.
Since first achieving this designation as one of the initial partners in 2017, AllCloud has empowered organizations globally to innovate securely on AWS. We champion a “prevention-first approach” to cloud security. This philosophy ensures that secure innovation is enabled across all operations while maintaining strong protection against evolving threats, building a solid foundation for future growth.
What Challenges Does Prevention-First Security Solve?
A proactive, prevention-first strategy is vital for addressing modern cloud risks:
- Security is “job zero”: It’s the critical foundation for successful cloud adoption. For sensitive workloads—particularly those in government, defense, or highly regulated industries—even a single breach can have catastrophic consequences1.
- Top business priority: Protecting cloud organizations is essential; neglecting it carries substantial costs. A detection-only approach introduces unnecessary risk by allowing potential threats to materialize before action is taken1.
- Growing complexity: Large-scale and hybrid environments increase risk as they expand. Organizations need comprehensive security frameworks that can scale with their cloud adoption.
- Evolving landscape: The cloud landscape for tools and operating models is constantly changing. Military-grade standards must be combined with developer agility to ensure sensitive workloads are protected without compromising innovation speed1.
- Skills gap: The rapid pace of innovation creates a skills gap, leaving many without the necessary cloud security expertise and modern tooling.
Beyond Detection: How Do We Embed Security into Development Workflows?
Traditional security approaches that rely solely on detection mechanisms are insufficient for mission-critical applications and sensitive data. Modern organizations require:
- Enhanced Visibility: Comprehensive asset management and configuration tracking for a clear security posture.
- Data Protection: Prescriptive data perimeter implementations and military-grade encryption.
- Compliance Assurance: Adherence to stringent regulatory requirements while maintaining operational efficiency.
- AI-Driven Response: Automated threat detection and response, often leveraging pre-provisioned incident response environments.
- Productivity Tools: AI-driven productivity tools that accelerate development while enforcing security best practices automatically.
Enabling Agility: Guardrails-Aware Development on AWS
The key to successful cloud security lies in embedding preventive controls directly into the development workflow. This ensures secure innovation is enabled across the organization via guardrails-aware development environments that include:
- Intelligent Helper Functions: Communicate environment guardrails to developers, eliminating the learning curve for security limitations.
- Automated Metadata Services: Ensure Infrastructure-as-Code deployments dynamically adapt to environment-specific configurations while maintaining consistency.
- Self-Service Capabilities: Eliminate coordination bottlenecks between builders and security teams.
- Comprehensive Deployment Tracking: Enables rapid vulnerability response and incident management.
Proven Excellence: Why AllCloud is Your Security-First AWS Partner
Recognized as an AWS Global Security Partner of the Year 2024 (Finalist) with an AWS Security Competency, including an AI-Security specialization, we are proud to celebrate our continued status as an AWS Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Competency Partner.
Our approach is built on over 15 years of innovation:
- Transit VPC Pioneer: We pioneered solutions like Transit VPC before Transit Gateway existed.
- Ingress VPC Development: We developed Ingress VPC solutions before CloudFront origins.
- NGLZ to LZA: We developed Next Generation Landing Zone (NGLZ) before Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
Through deep collaboration with AWS teams—including the AWS Identity Services team who defined the critical Data Perimeter framework—we deliver comprehensive security solutions that save organizations years of work in building strong, compliant boundaries around their AWS environments.
Ready to Transform Your Security Posture?
Ready to make security the cornerstone of your digital transformation? Don’t let the complexities of cloud security hold you back. Our prevention-first approach ensures that unauthorized actions are blocked at the source, reducing reliance on reactive measures while enabling developers to maintain their agility through pre-built constructs that enforce security policies without slowing down application deployment cycles.
Contact AllCloud today to discuss your specific needs and discover how our security-first approach can empower your business. Let’s begin your journey towards secure innovation together.