Altius IT provides independent IT security audits for cloud providers, e-commerce platforms, aerospace suppliers, healthcare and biotech organizations, and gaming studios across Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Our auditors evaluate AWS and Azure environments, retail and payment systems, and CMMC-regulated defense supply chains to identify the security gaps that matter most to enterprise customers, federal procurement officers, and Washington regulators.
Seattle's technology economy presents a distinct security audit challenge: AWS and Azure environments operated at the source, e-commerce platforms processing peak holiday traffic for retailers like Amazon and Nordstrom, CMMC-regulated aerospace supply chains feeding Boeing in Everett, and healthcare networks at Fred Hutchinson, Seattle Children's, and UW Medicine handling protected health information. Our IT security audit is built to assess these modern environments, not just traditional on-premise networks, with particular focus on the SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CMMC, and Washington Privacy Act requirements that drive enterprise sales, federal contracting, and patient trust.
We audit server and container host configurations against CIS and NIST benchmarks. For Seattle's cloud-first organizations, this includes evaluating Kubernetes node security on AWS EKS and Azure AKS, container image hardening, serverless function configurations on Lambda and Azure Functions, and the security of ephemeral infrastructure that traditional audit approaches often miss entirely.
Our auditors evaluate your patch management lifecycle across both infrastructure and application layers. For e-commerce and cloud platforms deploying through automated pipelines, we assess whether dependency management, container base image updates, and runtime patching are integrated into your CI/CD workflow or treated as afterthoughts that accumulate technical debt and supply chain risk.
We assess encryption at rest and in transit, access control models, audit logging, and query-level security across your data tier. Seattle e-commerce and retail technology operators handling payment card data, customer profiles, and order histories must maintain database-level controls that satisfy PCI-DSS, the Washington Privacy Act, and the customer security questionnaires that follow every enterprise procurement cycle.
Our audit covers AWS, Azure, and GCP environments with deep focus on IAM policy complexity, cross-account access patterns, S3 and Azure Blob storage configurations, KMS and Key Vault secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code security. Because AWS and Microsoft Azure are headquartered in the region, Pacific Northwest customers expect strong cloud security, and Seattle organizations scaling on these platforms often accumulate overly permissive IAM roles, exposed storage buckets, and inconsistent guardrails across development, staging, and production environments.
We review your Microsoft 365 tenant security including Entra ID configuration, conditional access policies, MFA enforcement, Defender settings, DLP policies, SharePoint sharing controls, and audit log configuration. With Microsoft headquartered in Redmond, M365 is the default productivity stack across the Seattle area, and tenants often grow faster than the conditional access and DLP policies that should govern them, particularly in healthcare and aerospace organizations subject to HIPAA and CMMC.
We verify backup procedures, test restoration capabilities, and validate data recovery across cloud-native and SaaS environments. For healthcare networks and biotech research organizations across the Seattle area, we assess whether backup strategies can withstand ransomware targeting hospital systems and IP theft scenarios targeting aerospace and life-sciences R&D, including the SaaS-resident data in EHR add-ons, lab platforms, and collaboration tools.
Our audit evaluates MFA implementation, SSO federation, API key management, OAuth token handling, least privilege enforcement, and privileged access management. Seattle e-commerce and gaming companies face account takeover and credential stuffing pressure at scale, while telecom operators headquartered in Bellevue must defend against SIM-swap and carrier-portal abuse, all of which demand rigorous identity and authentication controls.
We review EDR deployment coverage, device management policies, and bring-your-own-device controls. Seattle area employers with distributed workforces spanning Downtown, South Lake Union, and the Eastside need endpoint strategies that account for engineers using personal machines, contractors on unmanaged devices, and the reality that production access and source code repositories sit just behind those endpoints.
We evaluate change management, incident response readiness, security awareness training, and vendor risk management processes. For Seattle organizations preparing for SOC 2 Type II reports, public company SOX attestation, customer security questionnaires, or federal FedRAMP and CMMC reviews, operational maturity is often the biggest gap between technical capability and the governance frameworks that enterprise and government buyers require. Learn more about our cybersecurity audit methodology.
Seattle organizations need auditors who understand AWS and Azure at the source, e-commerce and retail platforms, CMMC-regulated aerospace supply chains, and healthcare and biotech compliance. Altius IT combines deep technical expertise with certified audit methodology to help unlock enterprise revenue and federal contracts.
No vendor ties. Recommendations aligned solely with your risk tolerance and business goals.
Led by experts with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, CISA certification, and industry leadership experience.
Thorough 360-degree review covering your technology, people, and processes.
Every engagement includes follow-up support to ensure vulnerabilities are properly mitigated.
Seattle is the global hub for cloud computing and a major center for e-commerce, aerospace, healthcare and biotech, gaming, and wireless. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Amazon, Costco, Nordstrom, Boeing, T-Mobile, Starbucks, Expedia, and Zillow all anchor the regional economy alongside biotech leaders like Fred Hutchinson, Adaptive Biotechnologies, and Seagen. This concentration creates a paradox: organizations operating sophisticated digital infrastructure often neglect the security of their own environments during rapid scaling. Our cybersecurity audit helps Seattle organizations identify and close gaps in cloud configuration, supply chain controls, and data protection before they become the breach headlines that erode customer trust and federal contracts.
For Seattle organizations, security compliance is not just a regulatory checkbox: it is a revenue and mission enabler. Enterprise customers require SOC 2 Type II reports before signing SaaS contracts. Healthcare networks must satisfy HIPAA and Washington's My Health My Data Act. Aerospace suppliers serving Boeing and the Department of Defense must achieve CMMC and meet ITAR/DFARS obligations. Cloud providers selling to federal agencies pursue FedRAMP, while gaming studios serving minors must address COPPA. International cloud and e-commerce operators face GDPR for European users. Altius IT's compliance audit helps Pacific Northwest organizations achieve and maintain the certifications that open enterprise, international, and federal markets.
An independent IT security audit from Altius IT gives Seattle organizations the third-party validation that enterprise customers, federal procurement officers, and boards of directors demand. Our Auditor Opinion Letter provides documented proof that your security controls have been independently assessed by CISA-certified professionals, accelerating sales cycles, supporting public-company SOX programs, and satisfying customer security questionnaires from Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, and other Pacific Northwest enterprise buyers. Learn more about our credentials.
Altius IT serves organizations throughout the Seattle area and the broader Pacific Northwest including Downtown, Capitol Hill, Belltown, South Lake Union, Pioneer Square, and across the Eastside in Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Sammamish, and Mercer Island. We also support clients in Renton, Kent, Federal Way, Auburn, Burien, Tacoma in Pierce County, and Everett, Lynnwood, and Bothell in Snohomish County. Our IT security audits are conducted both remotely and on-site. We also perform network security audits for organizations with distributed teams and multi-office footprints across King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.