Case Study: Fortifire strengthens AWS least privilege and HITRUST compliance with CloudKnox Security

Fortifire Selects CloudKnox’s Cloud Security Platform forAWS to Support Their Healthcare Clients

Fortifire, a certified information security advisor serving more than 300 Silicon Valley companies, needed a better way to protect a healthcare client’s AWS environment from insider threats while supporting strict HITRUST compliance requirements. The client was struggling with over-privileged identities, permission drift, and the need to continuously track who had access to sensitive PHI data and what they were actually using. To address this, Fortifire selected CloudKnox Security Inc’s Cloud Security Platform for AWS alongside its IAM consulting services.

CloudKnox Security Inc helped the healthcare client rapidly implement least-privilege policies across users, groups, roles, and resources, removing inactive identities, pruning excessive permissions, and tightening access to critical AWS assets like S3 buckets. The platform also enabled continuous risk benchmarking with CloudKnox’s Privilege Creep Index and helped the client demonstrate HITRUST access-management compliance in minutes. According to the case study, the solution delivered broad visibility and immediate remediation capabilities within weeks, strengthening the client’s security posture and supporting better board-level risk reporting.

Fortifire

Shaq Khan

Chief Executive Officer