Security Hardening & Compliance
Implemented comprehensive security measures and achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance for a healthcare SaaS platform, establishing a robust security posture with automated compliance monitoring.
🏥 The Challenge: Healthcare Compliance at Scale
A healthcare SaaS platform handling PHI (Protected Health Information) needed to achieve SOC 2 Type II certification while maintaining rapid development velocity — all without a dedicated security team.
Demonstrate controls over 6+ month audit period
Safeguards for protected health information
Never trust, always verify access requests
Real-time visibility into security posture
🛡️ Security Framework Implemented
I designed a comprehensive security framework covering the five SOC 2 trust service criteria:
Protection against unauthorized access through encryption, firewalls, and access controls
System uptime commitments with redundancy, monitoring, and incident response
Complete, accurate, timely, and authorized system processing
Data classified as confidential protected as committed or agreed
PHI collected, used, retained, and disclosed in conformity with HIPAA
⚙️ Technical Controls Deployed
- Centralized secrets storage
- Automated credential rotation
- Dynamic database credentials
- Encryption as a service
- PKI certificate management
- CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark
- Automated finding aggregation
- GuardDuty threat detection
- Inspector vulnerability scans
- Compliance score tracking
- CIS-hardened AMI baselines
- Immutable infrastructure
- Automated patch management
- Drift detection and remediation
- Compliance-as-code
- Static code analysis (SonarQube)
- Dynamic testing (OWASP ZAP)
- Dependency vulnerability scan
- Container image scanning
- Security gates in CI/CD
🤖 Compliance Automation
To maintain continuous compliance without manual overhead, I implemented automated controls that self-monitor and self-remediate:
🔐 Vault Secrets Architecture
🏆 Compliance Achievements
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