Case Study: Critical Start achieves least privilege cloud security with CloudKnox Security

Tackling the #1 cloud security threat together: CRITICALSTART + CloudKnox

Critical Start, a fast-growing cybersecurity Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider headquartered in Plano, Texas, needed a better way to protect its own AWS environment from insider threats, privilege creep, and risky human and machine identities. The team wanted to continuously identify excessive permissions, monitor inactive identities and service accounts, and simplify audit preparation while scaling securely. To address these challenges, Critical Start turned to CloudKnox Security Inc and its CloudKnox Cloud Security Platform.

With CloudKnox Security Inc’s platform in place, Critical Start was able to enforce least privilege across AWS, remove inactive identities and unused permissions, right-size access for identities, roles, and resources, and continuously track risk with CloudKnox’s Privilege Creep Index. The solution also helped Critical Start demonstrate compliance to auditors in minutes rather than days. Within weeks, the company significantly reduced unnecessary access, improved visibility into who was doing what in AWS, and strengthened its overall insider-threat defense.

Critical Start

Randy Watkins

Chief Technology Officer