Secure your Amazon Redshift surface
Publicly accessible clusters, unencrypted snapshots, and grants that outlive their purpose. We don’t connect to Amazon Redshift to collect evidence for its own sake — we connect to secure it, and the compliance artefacts follow from that work.
Book a Demo[01] What This Surface Exposes
Where Amazon Redshift goes wrong
Redshift goes wrong at the snapshot: clusters get encrypted and reviewed while their snapshots quietly do not.
- Clusters marked publicly accessible with permissive security groups
- Encryption disabled on clusters or snapshots holding regulated data
- Snapshots shared with other AWS accounts without review
- Superuser access granted to analytics tooling
- Audit logging disabled, removing query visibility
[02] What We Secure
What we watch, catch and fix on Amazon Redshift
On Redshift we verify encryption on the cluster and on every snapshot, since snapshots are consistently the part that gets missed.
- Public accessibility checked as a first-order exposure
- Encryption verified on cluster and every snapshot, since snapshots are frequently missed
- Cross-account snapshot sharing inventoried as data transfer
- Privilege reduced for tooling accounts
- Audit logging enforced as a detective control
[03] Where It Lands
Where Amazon Redshift lands in your registers
Every datastore becomes an asset register entry carrying its data classification, encryption state, and retention position. Access reviews cover database roles and grants alongside application access. The risk register maps each store to the specific exposure it represents — a production replica in a development environment is a named risk against a named asset, with an owner and a date.
[04] How We Engage
On Amazon Redshift specifically
On Amazon Redshift, we disable public accessibility and revoke unreviewed snapshot shares under agreed authority. Encryption migration requires a cluster rebuild, so we scope and project-manage it.
Platform licence
Everything you need to find and fix it yourself, with no ceiling on the depth of the answer.
- Every connected tool monitored for misconfiguration and drift, with findings mapped to the assets and risks they affect
- Remediation guidance that tells you what is wrong and exactly how to fix it — however deep or awkward the issue is. We are engineers running a security company, so the answer is the real one, not a link to vendor documentation
- Assets, access reviews, and risk register populated from the tools themselves rather than from spreadsheets
- Unlimited integrations and unlimited users, with anything missing built within two weeks
Managed service
Every tool you connect through Konfirmity comes under our care, with our team doing the work.
- Continuous misconfiguration and drift monitoring across every connected tool, watched by our analysts rather than by a dashboard waiting for you
- Incident response led by us, with containment coordinated with your team
- Remediation performed directly wherever you have granted us the authority to act — and where we cannot act, we project-manage the fix to completion rather than handing you a ticket
- Decision support on the tools themselves: where something is failing you on capability or costing more than it returns, we will tell you, and help you replace it
[05] Amazon Redshift FAQs
Is Redshift covered by the AWS integration?
Yes, Redshift is covered by the AWS integration through the same cross-account role. We assess public accessibility, encryption on clusters and snapshots, cross-account snapshot sharing and audit logging configuration.
Why do snapshots get overlooked?
Because attention goes to the running cluster. Snapshots persist independently, can be shared to other AWS accounts, and are frequently unencrypted even where the cluster is not — which makes them a full copy of your warehouse sitting outside the controls you think apply.
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