Finding security blindspots for Taia Translations
Assessed the security posture of Taia’s AWS environment and outlined actionable next steps to address identified risks. While several issues were uncovered, a significant portion stemmed from networking-related misconfigurations.
About the company
Taia is a modern translation platform that combines the power of AI with expert linguists to help companies localize content faster, more affordably, and at scale. With a strong focus on technology and user experience, Taia is transforming how global businesses approach translation and localization.
The challenge
As Taia's platform and customer base rapidly expanded, so did the complexity of their cloud infrastructure. Running entirely on AWS — spanning EC2 instances, containers, and integrations with external services—the team started to feel that their security posture wasn't keeping pace with their growth.
Some applications were being exposed directly to the internet, security groups were overly permissive, and networking configurations lacked the structure needed to support a secure, scalable operation. It became clear that a more deliberate and robust approach to cloud security was needed.
Solution
We carried out a full security assessment of Taia's AWS account and uncovered over 1,000 issues. These ranged from internet exposure and misconfigured security groups to IAM policy gaps, EC2 misconfigurations, and an overreliance on public IPs. These types of vulnerabilities are quite common among startups, where the early priority is speed and product-market fit—not security.
As companies begin to scale, these gaps typically come to light and need to be addressed. Our work gave Taia a clear, prioritized roadmap to improve their cloud security and reduce risk.
Results
We wrapped up the project by presenting our findings to Taia's leadership team, walking them through the identified vulnerabilities and the broader security implications. Beyond just listing issues, we provided clear guidance on prioritization—highlighting which fixes would deliver the most impact with the least effort.
We also outlined high-level steps to address large groups of issues efficiently, enabling Taia to significantly strengthen their cloud security posture without slowing down their momentum.
Our customers are already growing their businesses in the cloud.
Now it's time for you.
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