Cloud security · Disaster recovery
Cloud security and disaster recovery services
Cloud security services close the gaps that let attacks and mistakes through: who can access what, how data is encrypted, what reaches your web applications, and what gets logged. Cloud disaster recovery (DR) brings systems back within a recovery time (RTO) and a recovery point (RPO) that you set.
HabileLabs builds both on AWS, and covers backup, recovery and access on Azure. At Wonder Finance, AWS WAF blocked over 12 million malicious requests in the first year.
- AWS WAF Service Delivery validation, audited by AWS
- AWS Partner, Advanced Tier Services
- Microsoft Solutions Partner for Azure Infrastructure
Client results
Security and recovery results, each quoted from its own case study
Housing finance · AWS WAF12M+malicious requests blocked by AWS WAF in the first yearWonder Finance →
NBFC · Active-active DR99.99%uptime from an active-active disaster recovery architecture across the AWS Mumbai and Hyderabad regionsAavas Financiers →
Healthcare · AWSUnder 30 minrecovery time objective, with a recovery point objective under 5 minutesEternal Hospital, Jaipur (EHCC) →
SaaS · Amazon RDS15 mindefined recovery time on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, with a 30-minute recovery point and 7-day backup retentioniSEEit →
Healthcare · AWS Managed Services90%less unauthorized access through encryption, IAM guardrails and AMS compliance checksDr. B. Lal Clinical Laboratory →
Manufacturing · Azure Blob Storage90%less manual effort in backup management, after backups moved to Azure Blob Storage tiersMarsons Energy →
What we cover
Five areas of cloud security and recovery
AWS WAF tuned to your applications, with the logs watched.
We deploy AWS WAF, write managed and custom rules against OWASP Top 10 attacks and bots, monitor WAF logs and alerts, and tune rules to reduce false positives. New rules can run in count mode first, so we see what they would block before they block anything.
- Managed and custom WAF rules
- Rate-based rules and bot control
- AWS Shield for network-layer DDoS
- Alerts through Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon SNS
Access kept to what each role needs.
Least-privilege access on AWS through IAM roles, guardrails and Service Control Policies, and on Azure through Entra ID roles. At Aavas Financiers, Amazon Cognito manages user authentication and AWS IAM enforces role-based access across all layers.
- AWS IAM least privilege
- Service Control Policies
- Amazon Cognito sign-in
- Entra ID roles on Azure
Featured result
90%less unauthorized access through encryption, IAM guardrails and AMS compliance checksAlso with
Data encrypted, with keys and an audit trail you control.
Encryption with AWS KMS, credentials in AWS Secrets Manager, databases in private subnets and an audit trail in AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config. At iSEEit, separate customer managed keys protect production and non-production. At Eternal Hospital, Jaipur (EHCC), patient records needed encryption, data residency in India and alignment with the DPDP Act, 2023.
- AWS KMS customer managed keys
- AWS Secrets Manager with rotation
- AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
- Private subnets and security groups
Backups that restore, and recovery built to your targets.
Automated backups, cross-region replication and failover, sized to each system's recovery time and recovery point objectives. On Azure, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery are set up, monitored and checked with test restores.
- AWS Backup
- AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Cross-region replication and failover
- Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery
Threats caught early, and security rules enforced as code.
Logging, threat detection and alerts across accounts, with security rules written into infrastructure templates so they are enforced automatically. At Wonder Finance, AWS Config rules enforce encrypted EBS and RDS, non-public S3 and restricted network ports, and Amazon GuardDuty watches for suspicious network traffic and API activity across accounts.
- Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Config rules in CloudFormation
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud on Azure
Disaster recovery options
Five ways to recover, sized to each system
The recovery strategies we design with on AWS, from the lowest running cost to the fastest recovery. Each system gets the one its recovery target needs, so you do not pay for active-active where a few hours of recovery is acceptable.
Backup and restore
Automated backups and snapshots, restored when something fails. The lowest running cost and the longest recovery.
iSEEit: daily snapshots and documented restore procedures for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
Pilot light
The core of the system, usually its data, stays replicated in a second Region; the rest is started when it is needed.
Warm standby
A scaled-down working copy runs in a second Region, ready to scale up and take traffic after a failover.
Active-active
Two Regions serve traffic at the same time, so losing one does not stop the service.
Aavas Financiers: active-active across the AWS Mumbai and Hyderabad regions, for continuous availability and zero data loss.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Servers replicate continuously, and recovery instances launch when you need them.
EHCC: cross-Region replication and point-in-time recovery, with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and AWS Backup.
On Azure, we set up Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, monitor them and check them with test restores. Further reading: Downtime is Business Failure: Assessing DR Architecture for True BFSI Resilience.
Case in focus
How AWS WAF protects Wonder Finance's loan applications
Wonder Home Finance (Wonder Finance) is a housing finance company in Rajasthan whose platform processes thousands of loan applications a month and has to meet RBI cybersecurity guidelines. In the first year, AWS WAF blocked over 12 million malicious requests with 99.95% threat detection accuracy, and fraudulent loan applications fell by 85%.
Financial services rule sets
AWS WAF rules against loan application fraud patterns and customer data extraction attempts.
AWS Managed Rules, tuned
Core Rule Set, Known Bad Inputs, Linux Operating System and SQL Database protection, customized to reduce false positives for financial services traffic.
Rate limiting for peak seasons
Rate limiting to prevent application-layer DDoS attacks during peak loan application periods and festival seasons.
APIs covered too
Protection extended to the REST APIs used by mobile apps, partner integrations and credit bureau connections.
Filtering at the edge
Amazon CloudFront with AWS WAF filters traffic at the edge while keeping loan processing fast.
Automated response
AWS Lambda-based responses block detected threats immediately and adapt WAF rules as attack patterns change.
The case study also reports regulatory audits passed with zero security-related findings. Read the Wonder Finance case study.
Ways to start
Three ways to start, each with its own terms
Pick the review that matches the risk you are worried about. The cloud infrastructure assessment is the one offered free.
AWS security and DR review
For AWS accounts. The security assessment checks them against the AWS Well-Architected security pillar: misconfigurations, open access, unencrypted data and missing logs, ranked by risk.
Best for: Banks, NBFCs, hospitals and SaaS teams on AWS
- Gaps ranked by risk
- A recovery plan around your RTO and RPO
- A recovery drill before you rely on it
AWS WAF review
For teams whose websites and APIs face SQL injection, cross-site scripting and bot traffic. We deploy AWS WAF, tune its rules to your applications and watch the logs.
Best for: Finance, retail and SaaS web applications
- Managed and custom rules against OWASP Top 10
- New rules tried in count mode first
- Logs and alerts monitored
Cloud infrastructure assessment
For estates on AWS, Microsoft Azure or private cloud. Tell us what you run today and where it runs, and we review it against performance, availability, security and cost.
Best for: Teams running more than one cloud
- Offered free
- AWS, Azure and private cloud
- Performance, availability, security and cost
How an AWS security and DR engagement runs
Assess
Your AWS accounts reviewed against the Well-Architected security pillar, with gaps ranked by risk.
Design
Controls and a recovery strategy sized to the recovery time and recovery point each system needs.
Implement
Gaps closed in identity, encryption, network protection and monitoring; backups and replication set up.
Test
We run a recovery drill, fix what it exposes and hand over runbooks, or keep running and improving it for you.
Partner status
The credentials behind our security work
AWS awards each Service Delivery validation through an independent audit of delivered customer work. Two of our nine apply directly here: AWS WAF, and AWS CloudFormation, which we use to enforce security rules as code, as at Wonder Finance. On Azure, HabileLabs is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Infrastructure.
AWS Partner, Advanced Tier Services- AWS WAF Delivery
- AWS CloudFormation Delivery
Microsoft Solutions Partner, Infrastructure (Azure)
All nine validations, and what each covers: AWS competencies and validations.
- AWS service delivery validations
- 9
- AWS customer launches
- 200+
- Microsoft Azure partner designations
- 3
Keep exploring
More on securing and running your cloud
AWS security and disaster recovery
The AWS service in full: security assessment, identity, encryption, AWS WAF, backup and DR, drills and compliance.
AWS security and DRAWS WAF managed services
AWS WAF deployed and tuned to your applications, with its logs watched and false positives cut.
AWS WAFManaged Azure services
Monitoring, patching, backups, security and application support for your Azure environment.
Managed Azure servicesCybersecurity companies
Software engineering for security vendors: product features, websites, cloud and mobile capabilities.
Cybersecurity industryManaged cloud services
Monitoring, incident response, patching, backups, security and cost control for AWS and Azure.
Managed cloud servicesCloud cost optimization
Rightsizing, Savings Plans and storage tiering on AWS and Azure, with published client results.
Cloud cost optimization
Security and DR FAQs
Cloud security and disaster recovery, answered
What it covers, how recovery is sized and tested, which credentials apply, and how to start.
Cloud security services protect the systems and data you run in the cloud: identity and access management, encryption, web application protection, logging and threat detection, and the reviews that find gaps before attackers do. On AWS, HabileLabs closes gaps in identity, encryption, network protection and monitoring; on Azure, security and access management are part of our managed Azure services.
Disaster recovery is how systems come back after a failure, from a deleted database to a whole Region going down. The recovery time objective (RTO) is how long recovery may take, and the recovery point objective (RPO) is how much recent data you can afford to lose. At Eternal Hospital, Jaipur (EHCC), the recovery time objective is under 30 minutes, with a recovery point objective under 5 minutes.
It depends on each system's recovery target. On AWS we design with backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby or active-active, or AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. We size the strategy to each system's recovery target, so you do not pay for active-active where a few hours of recovery is acceptable.
Yes. We run a recovery drill, fix what it exposes and hand over runbooks, or keep running and improving it for you. On Azure, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery are checked with test restores.
Yes, as part of a wider security program. WAF rules and logs show how your web applications are protected. Wonder Finance's AWS WAF setup meets RBI cybersecurity guidelines, has blocked over 12 million malicious requests, and fraudulent loan applications are down 85%.
Rules are tuned to reduce false positives, and new rules can run in count mode first, so we see what they would block before they block anything.
Yes, as part of managed Azure services: Microsoft Defender for Cloud findings are reviewed and fixed, Entra ID access is kept to what each role needs, and Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery are set up, monitored and checked with test restores. Support hours and response times are agreed for each contract. Our published Azure result is Marsons Energy, with 90% less manual effort in backup management after its backups moved to Azure Blob Storage.
No. HabileLabs is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with two AWS Competencies, AI Services and Small and Medium Business Services, and nine Service Delivery validations. The one that applies most directly to security is the AWS WAF Service Delivery validation, which AWS awarded after auditing delivered customer work.
Ask for an AWS security and DR review, or a WAF review for your web applications. If you run Azure or private cloud as well, the free cloud infrastructure assessment reviews what you run against performance, availability, security and cost.
Next step
Will your cloud hold up in an incident?
Start with an AWS security and DR review: gaps ranked by risk, and a recovery plan built around the RTO and RPO you set. Running Azure or private cloud as well? The free cloud infrastructure assessment covers them too.
- Gaps ranked by risk
- Recovery drilled before you rely on it
- AWS WAF validation, audited by AWS