Why Drift exists
Cloud security incidents rarely begin with a single catastrophic failure. They develop gradually, through the accumulation of small changes that individually seem harmless.
A permission expanded to unblock a deployment. A storage bucket created for a quick test. A service account that outlived the project it was built for. Each decision made sense at the time. None was flagged as a critical risk.
Over months and years, these changes compound. The gap between intended security posture and actual state widens. What was once a well-understood environment becomes a canvas of interconnected systems where risk is difficult to see and even harder to prioritise.
Drift was created to address this specific problem. Not by adding more alerts, but by providing clarity about which drift actually matters.
Our perspective
Most organisations don't have a detection problem. Modern security tools generate thousands of findings. The challenge is understanding which of those findings represent genuine business risk and which are theoretical concerns that will never be exploited.
This is a prioritisation problem, not a tooling problem. Solving it requires understanding how configurations, identities, and data exposure combine to create actual attack paths. It requires context that generic severity scores cannot provide.
Drift exists to provide that context. We help teams see their environment clearly, focus on the issues that matter, and address them in ways that align with how cloud teams actually work.
How we operate
Cloud-native
We work exclusively with AWS, Azure, and GCP. This isn't a limitation; it's a deliberate focus. Cloud environments have specific characteristics that traditional security approaches struggle to address. We've built our practice around those characteristics.
Advisory-first
We begin every engagement by understanding your environment and your concerns. Our role is to provide clarity and guidance, not to deploy tooling or create ongoing dependencies. The goal is to help you make better decisions, not to replace your decision-making.
Outcome-oriented
Success is measured by reduced exposure and improved security posture, not by the volume of findings surfaced or reports delivered. We focus on what changes as a result of our work.
Built for environments that keep changing
Cloud security isn't a destination. Environments evolve continuously, and security posture drifts along with them. Drift is designed for organisations that understand this reality and want to address it systematically rather than periodically.