Cloud Sentry
The trade-off was never real.

You can build your product and protect it at the same time.

Cloud Sentry is the IT and security team you would hire if you had the headcount for one. We run your Microsoft 365 or your AWS, we get you through SOC 2 or HIPAA, and we answer the security questionnaire that is holding up your deal. One team, one bill, and every account still in your name.

Or run a hygiene check on your own

The Cloud Sentry platform dashboard: a ring of service areas showing which are quiet, which are waiting, and which are in motion, above counters for open requests, items waiting on you, policies to sign, and open risks
  • You know the price before we start
  • You know the date it will be done
  • We run five platforms and only five
  • Every account stays in your name

What you actually get

A consultant hands you a list. We hand you a date.

You get a date, not a to-do list

Most assessments end with fifteen things to fix and an invoice. Ours ends with a calendar.

The long version
A consultant tells you what is wrong and stops there. We tell you what is wrong, the date it will be fixed by, and what fixing it costs. In writing, before you decide anything.

We are still there when the auditor shows up

Consultants leave when the report lands. We are on your side of the table, handing over the evidence.

The long version
A consultant leaves when the report is delivered. We are still here when the auditor arrives, on your side of the table, handing over the evidence.

The price is agreed before anyone starts work

Hourly billing quietly rewards a job that keeps growing. Ours does not work that way.

The long version
Ours is one number, agreed up front, and the assessment fee comes off the bill in full if you carry on with us.

What working with us looks like

From the first call to the ongoing run, stage by stage.

Four stages, and your column stays almost empty on purpose. The whole reason to hire us is that this stops being your problem.

  1. Day one

    We connect to what you already run

    What we do

    Read-only access to your existing accounts. Most of the tooling you need is already in there, switched off.

    What it asks of you

    Twenty minutes and a few approvals.

  2. Week two

    You see every gap, in commercial order

    What we do

    Everything we found, ranked by what is blocking your next deal rather than by control number.

    What it asks of you

    Read the list. Tell us which deal matters most.

  3. Month three

    The first finish date lands

    What we do

    Three plans, at three, six or twelve months, each priced before you decide. One of them is yours to run for free.

    What it asks of you

    Pick one. Nothing is signed that you have not seen priced.

  4. Ongoing

    We run it, and you keep the keys

    What we do

    The work happens in your accounts, not ours. Evidence stays current, and we sit with you in the audit.

    What it asks of you

    Approve things in a click. Call a named person when you want one.

Your time goes down as your coverage goes up.

The two cross by week two, and coverage stays ahead from then on.

Day oneWeek twoMonth threeOngoingWhat you are covered forYour time on this

Shapes, not measurements. The stages above say what happens at each point.

Every engagement comes with a success plan.

  • Progress highlighted along the way
  • Clear responsibility with defined tasks
  • Clear end date visibility

Why we picked five

We run five platforms, and we know all five completely.

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
AWS
AWS
Google Workspace
Google Workspace
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
1Password
1Password

Knowing five things completely is why we can give you a date instead of a long look around first.

Why only five

Most providers will run whatever you already have. That is how they end up operating estates nobody can secure or scale, at margins thin enough to force corners on yours. We went the other way: five platforms, each one known end to end, by people who work on them every day.



Where to start

You choose how much of the team you take on.

Most people want a handyman long before they want a general contractor. Start with one thing, and climb a rung when it is worth it.

  • Start here

    A hygiene check on one platform

    We look at what you already own, tell you what is switched off, and write it down. You can start this today without speaking to anyone.

    Depth of support: 1 of 3

    Run a hygiene check
  • Or here

    One project, with a price and a date

    SOC 2 from nothing, a HIPAA gap closed, a clean move off your last provider. One outcome, agreed before it starts.

    Depth of support: 2 of 3

    See the plans
  • Or all of it

    The whole function, run by us

    IT, security and compliance together, with a named person you can call and one bill at the end of the month.

    Depth of support: 3 of 3

    See the partnership

On the top rung, most of a SOC 2 stops being your job.

Of the 51 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, we operate 16 outright and share 22 with you. Thirteen stay yours, because they are decisions only your leadership can make.

See it control by control
  • We operate
  • Shared with you
  • Stays yours

Counted from the SOC 2 control matrix. Ownership is how we operate, not an auditor's opinion.


One engagement, in numbers

White Star Software

Software / TechOps + SecOps

As White Star Software’s product moved deeper into financial services and healthcare, enterprise buyers began applying production-vendor expectations, and a 200-question audit took eight months to close. Cloud Sentry took over the TechOps and SecOps layer; two enterprise security cycles have since run on a repeatable response framework instead.

8 months → weeks

Enterprise security audit turnaround

“Cloud Sentry didn’t feel like a vendor from day one. They felt like a part of our company.”

Jonathan Csakany, COO, White Star Software

You already own most of it

A 100-person company spends about this on tools alone.

$48,000

A year, before anyone is paid to operate any of it. Most of what you actually need is already sitting in your Microsoft, Google, and AWS accounts, bought and switched off. We start by turning that on rather than selling you more, and then we operate it.


The people who do it

A real person owns your request, from the moment you raise it.

Not a queue that swallows things, and not an account manager relaying messages to somebody else. One operator picks your item up and carries it to done. This is your view of that: what is quiet, what is moving, and what is waiting on you.

One person, start to finish, and you can see who.

The Cloud Sentry portal's request queue: a count of open requests and those awaiting the customer's reply, above individual requests each showing its type, the date it was opened, and its position on a Received, In progress, Review, Done track
The dashboard every client signs in to.

The people you would be calling

The people who run your program.

  • Juston Eubanks, Junior Cloud Operations Specialist

    Juston Eubanks

    Junior Cloud Operations Specialist

  • Jason Bowen, Cloud Operations Specialist

    Jason Bowen

    Cloud Operations Specialist

  • Ken Hanson, Founder & CEO

    Ken Hanson

    Founder & CEO

  • John May, Fractional CIO & Advisor

    John May

    Fractional CIO & Advisor

  • Emil Diaz, Fractional CTO

    Emil Diaz

    Fractional CTO

SLA met · 2mevidence filed · 6maccess reviewed · 11mstarter provisioned · 24mpatch window closed · 38mbackup verified · 52mquestionnaire returned · 1hqueue at zero · just nowretainer unchanged · this quarter

Meet the team you would be hiring.

Thirty minutes with the people who would actually run this, not a salesperson who hands you over afterwards. Bring your current tool bill if you like and we will go through it together.

Published structure, a written annual escalator cap, and an entry rung you can start today. Read the whole page before anyone calls you.

For the operated partnership: the full function, scoped in a conversation about what you run today and what it costs you.

  • Thirty minutes
  • No pressure
  • You talk to the people who would do the work