Automated Compliance And Cloud Security

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Overview

As part of a greenfield Google Cloud adoption, a major financial institution partnered with Mesoform to ensure security, compliance, and observability were built in from the start.

Rather than retrofitting controls later, the client wanted automated compliance enforcement and centralised security monitoring (SIEM) embedded into their cloud platform from day one.

Mesoform delivered a system that works reliably at scale, reduces risk, and frees teams to focus on innovation. 


The Challenge

The core factors:


The Challenge

The core factors:

Persistent Compliance Gaps

Manual processes and inconsistent practices meant some resources repeatedly violated policies, risking security and regulatory penalties.

Fragmented Visibility

Logs and audit trails were scattered across multiple systems, making real-time monitoring and threat detection nearly impossible.

Operational Strain

Security teams were overloaded, and engineering resources were tied up with repetitive, manual enforcement tasks.



The client’s objective was clear: implement automated enforcement and centralised monitoring as foundational capabilities, ensuring the platform met security and regulatory expectations from the outset.


The Solution

Mesoform designed and implemented a cloud-native, event-driven architecture that solved both problems:

Python microservices running on AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions automatically remediated violations — like shutting down outdated instances — the moment they were detected.

Python microservices running on AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions automatically remediated violations — like shutting down outdated instances — the moment they were detected.

We didn’t just deliver tools — we orchestrated them to work seamlessly, giving the client something they could trust and rely on day after day.

The Results

Mesoform’s solution delivered measurable impact:

Zero-Touch Compliance

High-risk cloud policy violations were automatically detected and remediated, eliminating the need for manual enforcement.

Performance and Scalability

The event-driven architecture handled tens of thousands of events per minute, supporting the client’s large-scale cloud environment without degradation.

Operational Transparency

Every enforcement action and log processing event was auditable, giving the security team confidence in both compliance and reporting.

Near Real-Time Monitoring

Logs from VMs, cloud audit events, and identity systems reached the SIEM in seconds instead of hours, improving incident detection and response times dramatically.

Reduced SIEM Load

Pre-processing logs with Logstash offloaded CPU-intensive transformations from the SIEM, improving overall SIEM performance and reliability.

Rapid Iteration and Deployment

CI/CD pipelines allowed new policies and enforcement microservices to be tested and deployed within minutes, enabling agile response to emerging risks.

The client gained continuous compliance, full visibility, and measurable operational efficiency, all delivered in a secure, scalable, and auditable architecture — a solution that works reliably in production without constant oversight.

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Conclusion

Mesoform combined automated compliance enforcement with centralised SIEM monitoring to deliver secure, auditable, and scalable cloud operations from the outset.

By solving complex security challenges at scale, we reduced risk, cut operational overhead, and enabled near real-time visibility.

With Mesoform, cloud security and compliance just work — efficiently, reliably, and at scale.

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