Secure your DigitalOcean surface
Droplet exposure, database clusters open to the internet, and personal access tokens with full account scope. We don’t connect to DigitalOcean 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 DigitalOcean goes wrong
DigitalOcean goes wrong at the network edge: droplets carry public IPs by default and cloud firewalls are opt-in rather than assumed.
- Droplets with public IPs and cloud firewalls either absent or permitting all sources
- Managed database clusters with trusted sources set to allow all
- Personal access tokens issued with read-write scope and shared into CI
- Spaces buckets set to public listing
- Snapshots and backups retained indefinitely with no classification
[02] What We Secure
What we watch, catch and fix on DigitalOcean
On DigitalOcean we measure firewall coverage per droplet and check managed database trusted sources, which is where exposure most often starts.
- Firewall coverage measured per droplet rather than assumed from the account default
- Database exposure checked against the actual trusted-source list, which is where this most often goes wrong
- Token inventory with scope and age, since DigitalOcean tokens are account-wide by design
- Public Spaces detection tied to the data classification of what is stored there
- Team membership and SSH key sprawl reviewed against your joiner-mover-leaver process
[03] Where It Lands
Where DigitalOcean lands in your registers
Every cloud resource we discover becomes an entry in your asset register with an owner, a criticality rating, and its data classification. Access reviews cover the IAM principals attached to it, and the risk register carries the mapping between the asset and the risks it actually carries — so a public bucket is a named risk against a named asset, not a line item in a scan report.
[04] How We Engage
On DigitalOcean specifically
On DigitalOcean, we tighten cloud firewalls, restrict database trusted sources, and rotate over-scoped tokens directly. Network redesign and migration off public droplet IPs we scope and project-manage.
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] DigitalOcean FAQs
What DigitalOcean access does Konfirmity need?
Konfirmity needs digitalOcean personal access tokens are account-wide by design, with no read-only scoping for some resources. We use the narrowest token the API allows, document exactly what it can reach, and treat the token itself as a tracked credential with a rotation schedule.
Do you cover managed databases and Spaces?
Yes. Managed database clusters and Spaces buckets are where regulated data usually sits, so both are inventoried as assets with classification. We check database trusted sources and Spaces listing permissions specifically, because permissive defaults there expose data directly to the internet.
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