Security
Enterprise-grade safeguards woven into every layer-from identity and network boundaries to data encryption, monitoring, and incident response.
Security
StationOps follows the same cloud-security blueprint used by Fortune-500 platform teams, but makes it turnkey for every customer. Below is an end-to-end view of the controls that come baked in from the moment you create an environment.
Zero-Key Identity & Access
| Control | How StationOps Implements It | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| No long-lived credentials | All users authenticate through AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO). Temporary credentials are issued per session; IAM users and access keys are blocked via Service Control Policies. | |
| Console-less operations | Developers interact through the StationOps UI & CLI; backend workflows assume fine-grained IAM roles. Nobody needs direct console access. | Least-privilege by default and simpler audit trails. |
| Keyless administration | Administrators access EC2 or on-host shells exclusively with AWS Systems Manager Session Manager-no SSH ports, keys, or bastions. Session logs stream to CloudWatch/S3 for forensics. |
Network Isolation & Boundary Protection
- Account-per-environment - Prod, staging, and every preview branch run in their own AWS accounts and dedicated VPCs, enforced by AWS Organizations.
- Immutable VPC Flow Logs - Flow Logs are enabled at VPC creation and shipped to a central log archive for threat hunting and breach investigation.
- Public / Private services - Each workload is tagged as public (fronted by ALB + WAF) or private (reachable only inside the VPC); security groups are generated automatically.
Data Protection & Secrets Management
- Parameter Store SecureStrings - All environment variables and connection strings are stored as encrypted
SecureStringparameters; each environment has its own KMS CMK. - Automated credential rotation - RDS master credentials rotate under AWS Secrets Manager; app-level users rotate on deploy.
- Encryption at rest & in transit - EBS, S3, RDS, and ElastiCache volumes are encrypted by default; TLS 1.2+ is enforced on every endpoint.
Continuous Compliance & Hardening
| Layer | Control |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure-as-Code | All StationOps stacks must pass CDK-NAG “high” and “critical” controls before deployment, ensuring alignment with AWS Well-Architected and CIS Benchmarks. |
| Threat detection | GuardDuty, IAM Access Analyzer, and Detective can be enabled globally with a single toggle; findings roll up to the security account. |
| Audit & retention | Organization-level CloudTrail and AWS Config aggregate logs from every account into a write-once S3 bucket for 7-year retention. |
Certified Expertise
StationOps is built and operated by engineers holding the AWS Certified Security – Specialty credential, validating deep knowledge of encryption, incident response, logging, and infrastructure hardening on AWS.
Why It Matters to You
Most agencies can spin up an AWS account, but very few design it securely from day one. With StationOps you get:
- Zero-trust access: no SSH keys, no static IAM users.
- Complete visibility: flow logs, CloudTrail, and Config enable full-stack forensics.
- Hands-off compliance: pre-hardened IaC and continuous policy checks keep every environment audit-ready.
- Developer freedom, security’s peace of mind: your teams ship faster while the platform enforces guard-rails automatically.
Security shouldn’t be a bolt-on. StationOps bakes it into the substrate of every environment you create, so your cloud footprint never becomes tomorrow’s incident headline.