CloudOps

Company : Aria Network

Aria Network, specializing in 3D modeling applications, needed environment separation and CIS Benchmark compliance. By deploying a secure, automated AWS environment with preventive & detective controls, Aria improved compliance adherence and reduced operational overhead.

Problem Statement / Definition

Needed Dev, Test, and Production environments with isolated permissions.
Customer’s investors demanded CIS Benchmark compliance.
Lack of visibility into non-compliant resources slowed down operations.

Proposed Solution & Architecture

Governance: Implemented Control Tower OUs for workload separation.
Preventive Controls: SCPs to enforce encryption, mandatory tags, and block risky services.
Detective Controls: AWS Config Conformance Pack for CIS v1.4.0.
Monitoring: Security Hub to aggregate compliance findings.
Automation: GitOps-based IaC (Terraform/CDK) for environment provisioning.
Cost Controls: Enforced tagging + AWS Budgets for developer sandbox accounts.

Outcomes of Project & Success Metrics

Achieved CIS compliance score of >95% on Security Hub.
Provisioning environments improved from 2 weeks to 2 hours.
Reduced compliance drift by 70% using automated Config rules + remediation.
Faster developer onboarding with self-service sandbox provisioning.

TCO Analysis

30% savings on infrastructure costs by enforcing tagging and shutting down idle sandboxes.
Reduced compliance-related rework, saving ~200 engineer hours annually.

Lessons Learned

CIS compliance required tuning controls to balance security and developer flexibility.
GitOps pipelines reduced drift but needed strong peer review process.
Cost visibility helped improve adoption of sandbox governance.

CloudOps

Company : Aria Network

Aria Network, specializing in 3D modeling applications, needed environment separation and CIS Benchmark compliance. By deploying a secure, automated AWS environment with preventive & detective controls, Aria improved compliance adherence and reduced operational overhead.

Problem Statement / Definition

Needed Dev, Test, and Production environments with isolated permissions.
Customer’s investors demanded CIS Benchmark compliance.
Lack of visibility into non-compliant resources slowed down operations.

Proposed Solution & Architecture

Governance: Implemented Control Tower OUs for workload separation.
Preventive Controls: SCPs to enforce encryption, mandatory tags, and block risky services.
Detective Controls: AWS Config Conformance Pack for CIS v1.4.0.
Monitoring: Security Hub to aggregate compliance findings.
Automation: GitOps-based IaC (Terraform/CDK) for environment provisioning.
Cost Controls: Enforced tagging + AWS Budgets for developer sandbox accounts.

Outcomes of Project & Success Metrics

Achieved CIS compliance score of >95% on Security Hub.
Provisioning environments improved from 2 weeks to 2 hours.
Reduced compliance drift by 70% using automated Config rules + remediation.
Faster developer onboarding with self-service sandbox provisioning.

TCO Analysis

30% savings on infrastructure costs by enforcing tagging and shutting down idle sandboxes.
Reduced compliance-related rework, saving ~200 engineer hours annually.

Lessons Learned

CIS compliance required tuning controls to balance security and developer flexibility.
GitOps pipelines reduced drift but needed strong peer review process.
Cost visibility helped improve adoption of sandbox governance.