# Secure infrastructure, built and run

Most teams can get a prototype working. Running it securely, reliably and cheaply inside a real company is the hard part, and infrastructure experience is scarce.

We build the infrastructure behind AI workflows, automation and internal tools, harden it from day one, and can keep running it for you.

## Typical starting points

-   An internal tool or AI prototype that needs to become a production service.
-   An AI workflow that needs isolation, permissions and audit trails before it touches real data.
-   Cloud environments that grew without a plan and nobody fully understands.
-   Automation that works until the one person who built it is on vacation.

## How it works

We build and prepare everything along the way. A person always makes the final call before anything moves on.

1.  ### Design
    
    Architecture and threat model, reviewed with your team before anything is built.
    
2.  ### Build as code
    
    Everything defined in Terraform, OpenTofu or Pulumi and deployed through CI.
    
3.  ### Harden
    
    Single sign-on, managed secrets, private networking and least privilege.
    
4.  Human checkpoint
    
    ### You approve go-live
    
    Nothing reaches production until your team signs off.
    
5.  ### Operate
    
    Monitoring, patching, upgrades and cost reviews, handed over or run by us.
    

## What we build and run

-   ### AI workflow infrastructure
    
    Sandboxed runtimes, model gateways and data boundaries for AI workflows and internal agents, with scoped permissions.
    
-   ### Cloud and edge
    
    AWS, Azure, GCP and Cloudflare environments defined as code with Terraform, OpenTofu or Pulumi.
    
-   ### Identity, secrets and networking
    
    Least-privilege access, managed secrets, private access and service-to-service authentication.
    
-   ### Observability
    
    Logging, monitoring, alerting and audit trails that answer who did what, when.
    
-   ### Operations
    
    Patching, upgrades, cost visibility and runbooks, so the system keeps working after launch.
    

## Build, harden, manage

1.  01
    
    ### Build
    
    Design and deploy the infrastructure in your accounts, with everything defined as code.
    
2.  02
    
    ### Harden
    
    Threat model it, lock it down, add monitoring and document it.
    
3.  03
    
    ### Manage
    
    Hand it over, or let us keep it patched, observed and aligned with your changing workflows.
    

## What you get

-   Production-grade infrastructure you own
-   Security designed in, not bolted on
-   Fewer moving parts to understand
-   An operator on call if you want one

## Often paired with

-   [Secure Software Factory](/services/secure-software-factory)
-   [Forward-Deployed Security Engineering](/services/forward-deployed-security-engineering)
-   [Vendor-Neutral Advisory](/services/security-advisory)

## Tell us what's stuck.

If we can materially improve the outcome, we'll come back with a concrete first step. On-site in Toronto or remote.

[Start a conversation](/contact)

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Source: https://shadesec.com/services/secure-infrastructure