1. The Challenge

The organisation — a UK manufacturer operating multiple production facilities, warehouses, and supply-chain systems — relied on a mix of cloud services and on-premise infrastructure to support daily operations.

As cloud adoption expanded, the business encountered growing risks, including:

• inconsistent configuration across cloud workloads
• legacy identity and access controls
• unmanaged public access or exposed services
• limited visibility into cloud activity and risk
• gaps between IT-managed systems and on-site operational environments

Operational uptime was critical, and the business needed a clear understanding of where vulnerabilities existed and how to reduce the risk of disruption.

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2. Our Approach

Peritus performed a targeted Cloud Security and Configuration Review, designed to uncover vulnerabilities and strengthen hybrid operational resilience.

Our work included:

• Assessing identity, access, and privilege pathways across cloud services
• Reviewing configuration hygiene for VMs, storage, networking, and workloads
• Identifying exposed services, excessive permissions, and insecure defaults
• Mapping cloud risks to supply-chain and production dependencies
• Providing a prioritised remediation plan with actionable technical steps
• Advising on guardrails, monitoring, and ongoing governance improvements

This gave the organisation a clear path to reducing cloud risk without disrupting manufacturing operations.

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3. The Outcome

The project delivered immediate improvements in visibility and security posture:

• 40% reduction in critical and high-severity misconfigurations
• Stronger identity and access controls across cloud resources
• Removal of exposed or high-risk cloud services
• Improved alignment between cloud and on-premise operational controls
• Increased confidence in the resilience of hybrid production environments
• A clear roadmap for maintaining secure cloud adoption as the business grows

Peritus helped the manufacturer strengthen operational continuity while reducing cloud risk.

“Peritus uncovered risks we weren’t aware of and gave us practical, prioritised steps to improve. Our cloud environment is now far more secure and resilient.”    

— Head of IT, UK Manufacturing Business