For cloud security teams
who own security across AWS, Azure, and GCP estates

A cloud security platform built around the workspace as a record

Cloud security teams sit between application security, vulnerability management, and platform engineering. The work spans the configuration of the cloud accounts, the runtime behaviour of the applications hosted on them, the code that produced those applications, the perimeter of the cloud-hosted services, the credential vault that authenticated scanners need, the scheduling cadence that keeps the picture current, and the audit trail that GRC and risk committees eventually ask for. Most teams run this programme across a SAST tool, an SCA tool, a DAST scanner, an external scanner, a credential manager, a ticketing tool, a shared drive, and a spreadsheet, and pay the cost in glue code, reconciliation hours, and tooling bills that nobody can map back to outcomes.

SecPortal gives in-house cloud security teams one workspace for findings consolidation, authenticated DAST against cloud-hosted apps, SAST and SCA against the application code that backs them, external scanning across the verified perimeter, scheduled runs with diff-aware regression detection, encrypted credential storage, role-based access, and an append-only activity log. The platform is the record. The scanner output, the credential vault, the schedules, and the access model all read from the same source rather than from a fleet of consoles. Whether the team is one engineer carrying cloud security inside a Series B SaaS company or a dedicated cloud security function inside a regulated enterprise, SecPortal is the workspace the cloud security programme runs against.

Capabilities cloud security teams use day to day

How cloud security teams operate the programme inside SecPortal

Cloud security programmes that hold up between releases operate on a small set of disciplines. SecPortal supports each one rather than a single phase of it.

From verified domain to closed finding, on one record

The cloud security loop is verify the hostname, connect the source, store the credentials, schedule the run, triage the output, and report against the same record. SecPortal runs a single workflow that the cloud security engineer, the application security analyst, the vulnerability management owner, and the security leader can all work against without re-keying state into another tool.

1. 1Verify the cloud-hosted hostnames the workspace is authorised to scan. Domain verification through DNS TXT, HTML meta tag, or .well-known file is the precondition that gates every external, authenticated, and continuous scan that follows. The verified domain list is workspace-scoped, so adding a new cloud account does not unlock scan traffic against the rest of the estate.
2. 2Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket through OAuth at the workspace level. Schedule Semgrep-based SAST and dependency auditing through SCA on the application repositories that back the cloud workload, and route findings into the same engagement record as authenticated DAST and external scans.
3. 3Add the credentials authenticated DAST needs (cookie, bearer token, basic auth, form login) to the encrypted credential vault. Credentials are scoped to a verified domain, gated through the manage_credentials permission, and every credential lifecycle event lands on the activity log so rotation is a tracked operation rather than a hand-off.
4. 4Set scan schedules on the engagement record. Continuous monitoring runs daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedules for external, authenticated, and code scans, and the scan diff endpoint surfaces new, fixed, and unchanged findings between runs so regression detection on a moving cloud surface is part of the platform rather than a manual export.
5. 5Triage scanner output on the engagement record. Validate the detection, deduplicate against the existing backlog, recalibrate the CVSS 3.1 vector for environmental and temporal context, attach OWASP and framework mapping where it applies, assign each finding to a named owner, and apply a severity-driven SLA window. Bulk import covers Nessus, Burp Suite, and custom CSV when the team needs to bring vendor exports onto the same backlog.
6. 6Generate the deliverable from the live record. Executive summaries, technical writeups, and remediation roadmaps regenerate from the same engagement data, so the leadership view, the engineering team queue, and the audit trail all read from one source rather than from a copy-paste deck that drifts between cycles.

What the platform does and does not cover for cloud security work

Setting expectations correctly is the difference between a platform the cloud security team adopts and a platform that gets quietly retired six months later. SecPortal is a cloud-hosted-application security and findings platform, not a cloud configuration scanner.

• SecPortal does run authenticated DAST against the cloud-hosted web apps and APIs the team has authorised through verified domains, with cookie, bearer, basic auth, and form login session modes and encrypted credential storage with AES-256-GCM.
• SecPortal does run SAST and SCA on the application repositories the cloud workload is built from through GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth, with Semgrep-based static analysis and dependency auditing.
• SecPortal does run external scanning across 16 modules on the verified cloud-hosted hostnames covering TLS posture, HTTP security headers, technology fingerprinting, DNS misconfiguration, exposed services, sensitive paths, and subdomain enumeration.
• SecPortal does not act as a CSPM for AWS Config, Azure Policy, or GCP Security Command Center. Cloud configuration and IAM findings can be brought into the same engagement record through CSV import or manual logging, so the team can run one consolidated backlog, but SecPortal does not read the cloud control plane directly through provider APIs.
• SecPortal does not act as a CNAPP for runtime workload protection or Kubernetes admission control. The platform consolidates findings produced by other detection sources alongside the SAST, SCA, DAST, and external scanning results that SecPortal generates directly.
• SecPortal does not claim Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, SIEM, or SOAR integrations, asset inventory or CMDB synchronisation, single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, or audit certifications for the platform itself. Findings export to CSV when the team needs the backlog in another system.

Where the cloud security programme connects to the rest of the workspace

Most cloud security teams adopt the platform in three phases: bring scanner output and the consolidated finding backlog into one workspace so SAST, SCA, authenticated DAST, and external scans stop living in five tools, layer in encrypted credentials and continuous monitoring so authenticated scans actually run on a cadence with a credential rotation story, then consolidate role-based access, multi-factor authentication, and the activity log so the cloud security programme meets the audit posture the rest of the organisation operates against. The relevant feature, workflow, and research pages explain each phase in detail.

• The authenticated DAST coverage and the credential model sit on the authenticated scanning feature page, the credential vault and rotation story on the encrypted credential storage feature page, and the verification gate on the domain verification feature page.
• The code-side SAST and SCA workflow sits on the code scanning feature page, the perimeter scanning across 16 modules on the external scanning feature page, and the scheduled-run and diff-aware regression detection on the continuous monitoring feature page.
• The findings repository, CVSS calibration, and the audit trail are covered on the findings management feature page, the multi-framework compliance posture on the compliance tracking feature page, and the append-only activity record on the activity log feature page.
• The cloud-specific assessment workflow lives on the cloud security assessment use case, the scanner triage discipline on the scanner result triage use case, and the bulk import flow for vendor exports on the bulk finding import use case.
• The cadence and baseline guidance for scheduled cloud scans sits on the scan scheduling and baseline cadence guide, and the scope and target selection guide on the scan scoping and target selection guide.
• Framework cadence floors and audit-evidence cadence are covered on the ISO 27001 framework page, the SOC 2 framework page, and the PCI DSS framework page, with the deeper analysis of how throughput and evidence currency behave on the vulnerability remediation throughput research and the audit evidence half-life research.

For cloud security teams evaluating against bundled enterprise platforms

Cloud security teams evaluating consolidation tend to compare SecPortal against bundled enterprise vulnerability platforms with a cloud module bolted on, against scanner-led platforms with a remediation tab, against open source findings hubs paired with separate scanners, and against issue trackers used as a vulnerability tool. The detailed side-by-side comparisons cover the operational footprint and the evidence model on each model.

• The SecPortal vs Wiz comparison covers a delivery workspace that runs scoped engagements, manual finding entry, AI report generation, and branded delivery on one tenant versus a CNAPP that maps the cloud-native security graph across connected AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI accounts.
• The SecPortal vs Tenable.io comparison covers a workspace-scoped engagement record versus a scanner-led platform with a remediation view bolted on top.
• The SecPortal vs Qualys comparison covers the same scanner-led model from a different vendor, where authenticated scanning, continuous monitoring, and the audit trail sit in different consoles.
• The SecPortal vs Snyk comparison covers the move from a code-side SAST and SCA platform to a workspace where the same code findings sit alongside DAST and external scan output on the same engagement record.
• The SecPortal vs Detectify comparison covers the cloud-hosted DAST surface from the angle of a continuous external surface scanner, with credential model and finding lifecycle compared side by side.
• The SecPortal vs DefectDojo comparison covers the move from a self-hosted findings hub to a managed delivery platform with authenticated scanning, encrypted credential storage, AI reporting, and a branded portal view.

SecPortal is built for cloud security teams that want one platform for the full verify-connect-store-schedule-triage-report loop: live findings, SAST and SCA from the Git provider, authenticated DAST against the cloud-hosted application surface, external scanning across the verified perimeter, scheduled runs with diff-aware regression detection, role-based access, multi-factor authentication, and an append-only activity log. Application security gets a clearer signal on the cloud-hosted services it owns, vulnerability management gets a clean backlog with cloud findings labelled consistently, GRC gets reproducible evidence mapped to ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and NIST, and the cloud security team gets back the hours that used to disappear into glue code, credential rotation, and console hopping.

If your function sits closer to platform engineering and the security tooling stack as a product than to cloud security as an operating discipline, the sister page SecPortal for security engineering teams covers scanner orchestration, scheduling, encrypted credentials, and access policy as the platform layer underneath the cloud programme.

If your function is closer to pipeline security and CI scanning than to cloud-application security, the SecPortal for DevSecOps teams page covers SAST and SCA from the Git provider, authenticated DAST on a schedule, and the operating model that makes security testing continuous rather than release-blocking.

If your function is closer to engineering-side application security review on the services that run in the cloud rather than to cloud security as a horizontal discipline, the SecPortal for application security teams page covers SAST, SCA, authenticated DAST, secure code review, and the AppSec prioritisation queue that sits next to the cloud security programme.

If the cloud security work is delivered by an external consultancy on behalf of the customer rather than run in-house, the sister page SecPortal for cloud security consultancies covers the multi-customer variant of the same workflow with a branded client portal per cloud customer.

If the cloud security team reports up to a security leader who needs the leadership view on the same record the operators run on, the SecPortal for CISOs and security leaders page covers the program-level reporting workflow that sits on top of the cloud security record without rebuilding a deck every quarter.