Eldad Stainbook

🚀 Driving cloud infrastructure optimization and security innovation at scale. I specialize in architecting cost-effective cloud solutions that enhance security posture while reducing operational overhead.

My focus: Optimizing cloud spend through advanced automation, implementing robust security frameworks, and building scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code. Led initiatives that achieved 40% cost reduction while strengthening security controls.

Key achievement: Architected and implemented a FedRAMP-compliant Cloud SaaS platform, reducing operational costs by 35% and deployment time by 60% through automated security controls.
Expertise areas:

• Cloud Cost Optimization
• Security Architecture
• Compliance Automation
• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud-Native Solutions

CISSP Certified | Cloud Security Expert

Director of DevOps

Director of DevOps, also manageing DevSecOps Team and SRE Team

💰 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐒𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 – 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!

Picking the wrong SAST tool is like buying a Ferrari to do the school run: expensive, noisy, and half your team still hates it.  
UK firms are burning £180k+ per year on SAST licences that deliver <12% finding fix rates (real 2025 data). Don’t be that statistic.

Here are the 3 money-saving checks before you sign another enterprise contract:

📊 𝟏. 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 (𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝)?
- 68% of “enterprise” SAST tools scan Go, Rust, or TypeScript at <40% coverage or take 4+ hours per pipeline.  
- Winners in 2025: Semgrep (blazing fast, open rules), CodeQL (deep GitHub integration), or SonarQube Cloud (if you love dashboards).

🔧 𝟐. 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 = 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬  
- Every 100 false positives = 8–12 wasted dev hours per week. That’s £75k/year for a 20-person team.  
- Look for tools with AI triage or custom rule tuning that drop noise below 15% from day one.

📉 𝟑. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞  
- Must fail the PR in <5 mins inside GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps – no separate portal nobody visits.  
- Bonus points: SARIF output + auto-ticketing so devs fix issues before stand-up.

💡 The cheapest SAST tool is the one your developers actually use and trust.  
In 2025 the winners aren’t paying six figures for 400-page PDF reports – they’re shipping secure code faster and cheaper.

❓ What’s your current SAST setup costing you in money AND sanity?  
Drop your tool name (or horror story) below – let’s talk about what actually works in real UK teams!

We’re here to help you choose wisely 👋  
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#SAST #AppSec #DevSecOps #CloudSecurity #Cybersecurity #UKTech

Cloud Strategy & Architecture ✶ CloudOps ✶ DevOps ✶ DevSecOps ✶ TechOps ✶ Site Reliability ✶ Security & Compliance ✶ Leadership ✶ Mindfulness

Successfully launched numerous technological solutions while working within the budget and beating deadlines to enable time to market delivery of the products in accordance with the companies' business strategies.
Customer focused dedicated, works well under pressure while providing creative ideas and fast response time.

ISC2 - Certified Information Systems Security Professional -  CISSP certified

Cloud Evangelist | Infrastructure & Security Leader | Driving Cloud Cost Reduction, Enhancing Cloud Security & Accelerating CI/CD Delivery | Neighbourhood Cat Feeder and Dog Lover 🐕🐈

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 – 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 🚨

£1.7 million.  
That’s the average amount UK enterprises wasted on idle cloud resources in 2024 alone (Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report).  
Yes – real money, burning 24/7 on VMs, databases, and EBS volumes nobody is using.

𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭:
❌ Dev/test environments running 24×7  
❌ “Forgotten” snapshots older than your junior devs  
❌ Oversized RDS instances at 3% CPU forever  
❌ Unattached EBS volumes quietly billing £6k/month  

𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 one weekend audit:
✅ £147k/month saved (real UK fintech, Q3 2025)  
✅ 43% lower carbon footprint (yes, ESG loves this)  
✅ Zero production impact  
✅ Security teams happier – less attack surface

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐔𝐊 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬:
1. 67% of idle spend comes from non-production (Flexera)  
2. 1 in 4 EBS volumes are unattached orphans  
3. 38% of EC2 instances run <5% CPU for 90+ days  
4. Storage (S3 + EBS) is now the #1 silent killer – not compute

𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞-𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝟒𝟖-𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐭:
🛡️ Cloud Custodian – auto-tag & terminate idle resources  
🔍 AWS Cost Explorer + TAG policies (the combo that hurts wallets less)  
🚨 Vanta / CloudQuery – find unattached volumes in 5 mins  
⚡ Steampipe + PowerShell – one-liner idle reports

𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐩: Run the audit on a Friday afternoon.  
By Monday you’ll have a £50k-£200k “found money” slide for the CFO – and instant hero status.

Still think your cloud bill is “just the cost of doing business”?  
Drop your biggest idle horror story below – or DM me, I’ll send you the exact scripts that saved the £147k last quarter.

#CloudCosts #FinOps #CloudWaste #CloudSecurity #UKTech

🔥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐕𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐒𝐏𝐌 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐖𝐚𝐲 🚨

Your scanner just vomited 8,000 findings.  
Only ~5% will ever get exploited.  
Fixing everything = developer burnout + zero risk reduction.

ASPM ends the madness by scoring what actually matters: reachability + exploitability + business impact.

Here’s the playbook top teams use right now:

1️⃣ 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡  
   SAST + SCA + IaC + Cloud + Runtime → single risk graph (Cycode, Apiiro, Wiz Code).

2️⃣ 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐕𝐒𝐒-𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠  
   Real score = Is it reachable? In prod? Actively exploited? Tied to revenue?  
   → 70-90% noise gone instantly.

3️⃣ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨-𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞 & 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨-𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞  
   AI dismisses/epss-scores/epss-prioritizes, low-risk auto-closes, high-risk auto-tickets with fix PRs (Phoenix Security, Ox Security).

4️⃣ 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬  
   MTTR for critical risk < 7 days.  
   % of vulns reachable in prod < 10%.  
   That’s it. Those two KPIs win boardrooms.

💡 Quick start today:  
Pick one ASPM (30-day trial), feed it last week’s scans, watch 85% of alerts vanish.

Pro tip: The team that shows risk in dollars, not findings, gets budget and love.

Who’s already running risk-based prioritization?  
What’s your biggest “I wish my tool did this” pain?  
Drop it below — let’s talk real stacks 👇

🚨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 – 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 ⚡

It’s November 2025. The ICO just issued another £4m GDPR fine to a UK firm that “thought” their cloud was compliant.  
Meanwhile the smart ones passed their NIS2 audit in 72 hours – zero findings.

Here’s the exact 5-step playbook the winners used to go from zero to audit-proof:

𝟏. “𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭”  
Reality → 83% of UK cloud fines in 2025 were for misconfigs (ICO data).  
Start with CIS + ISO 27001 landing zone templates (AWS Control Tower / Azure Landing Zones). Deploy once, sleep forever.

𝟐. “𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫”  
Reality → Untagged resources = instant audit failure.  
Enforce mandatory tags (CostCentre, DataClassification, Owner) via IAM + Config Rules. Bonus: saves 15-20% on the bill too.

𝟑. “𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥”  
Reality → Auditors now want machine-readable proof, not PDFs.  
CloudTrail → S3 → Athena + Macie + Security Hub = one-click “give me GDPR Article 32 report” button. Real UK bank passed 400 controls in 4 hours.

𝟒. “𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 – 𝐊𝐌𝐒 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞”  
Reality → Default encryption = good. Enforced CMEK with strict key policies + rotation = audit gold.  
One rogue dev can’t export keys to his laptop anymore.

𝟓. “𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 > 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜”  
Reality → Prowler / CloudQuery / Prisma Cloud running hourly → drift detected in 11 minutes, fixed before the auditor books flights.

The real risk in 2025?  
Still treating compliance as a once-a-year box-ticking exercise while your cloud grows 300% YoY.

💡 Building your first compliant landing zone this quarter?  
Drop your biggest worry below (NCSC Cyber Essentials Plus? GDPR? ISO?) – let’s roast the problem together.

#CloudCompliance #CloudSecurity #GDPR #NIS2 #UKTech #Cybersecurity

🔍 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲: 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 – 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐱 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 🚀

November 2025. UK firms are spending an average £1.9m/year on observability tools that still can’t answer “why is checkout slow?” in under 30 minutes (Flexera 2025).  
Meanwhile the smart ones cut that bill by 62% and dropped MTTR from hours to minutes.

Here’s the move that’s quietly winning right now:

𝟏. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟒 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝟖𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠  
Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk → all charging you per GB for the same traces.  
OpenTelemetry (OTel) = one open standard, zero vendor lock-in.

𝟐. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞  
Auto-instrument your Java, .NET, Python, Go, Node services in minutes.  
K8s? OTel Operator does it cluster-wide. No more “we missed that microservice” excuses.

𝟑. 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 – 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮  
OTLP → Grafana Alloy → Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, or yes, even Datadog if you still love them.  
Switch backends in a day, not a 12-month contract renegotiation.

𝟒. 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 + 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞  
OTel traces + eBPF metrics + Falco events → single correlated view.  
Detect credential exfil AND the latency spike it caused in the same dashboard.

𝟓. 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞  
Sample 5-10% in prod, 100% in staging. Keep only what matters.  
Real UK retailer: £840k saved in Year 1, zero visibility lost.

𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤:
- Deploy the OTel Collector as a sidecar in one cluster  
- Replace one proprietary agent with the open-source one  
- Route traces + metrics to Grafana Cloud free tier (yes, it’s actually free)

𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐩: The teams who own their telemetry data in 2025 own their destiny.  
The ones still paying £2.30 per GB ingested are writing their own P45.

Still fighting three different agents on the same node?  
Drop your worst observability bill horror story below – or tell me you’ve already gone full OTel and flex on us 👇

#OpenTelemetry #CloudObservability #OTel #DevOps #CloudNative #UKTech

🔍 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐃 𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 & 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 🚨

Let’s be real: in 2025, if you’re still manually triaging cloud alerts at 2 a.m., you’re not just tired — you’re losing the war.  
The average breach dwell time in cloud environments is now under 4 hours. That’s how fast attackers move. Your response has to be faster — and automated.

Here are the 5 tools actually crushing automated threat detection & response right now (no fluff, real-world winners):

𝟏. 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐲 + 𝐀𝐈-𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐛  
Now with GenAI that auto-remediates low-risk findings and cuts noise by ~70%. If you’re all-in on AWS and not using this combo yet — why?

𝟐. 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 + 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞  
Live response + Logic Apps = kill compromised containers in seconds. Bonus: built-in attack path analysis that actually predicts the next move.

𝟑. 𝐖𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡 + 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧  
Agentless, multi-cloud, and now auto-fixes toxic combos (public S3 + over-privileged IAM) before you even see the alert. The “fix it now” button is addictive.

𝟒. 𝐎𝐫𝐜𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲  
Side-scanning + AI prioritization = you stop chasing shadows. Their “Attack Path 2.0” shows exactly how a misconfig becomes a breach — and auto-blocks it.

𝟓. 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 (𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱)  
Full CNAPP with XDR that auto-correlates cloud + endpoint + network. The automated response playbooks (SOAR built-in) save entire weekends.

💡 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲:
- Turn on auto-remediation for low/medium-risk findings (start small, trust but verify)
- Connect your CNAPP to a SOAR platform (Torq, Tines, or built-in)
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