About

Executive security insight, met with engineering rigor

Cloud Health Sec brings together two things enterprise buyers rarely get from one team: principal-level security leadership from JDR Security Solutions, and the engineering discipline of Kief Studio — the firm that builds the assessment platform and, unlike most vendors, stays to fix what it finds.

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Why this exists

Most vendors hand you a laundry list. Then they leave.

Johnathan Keith spent his career running cloud security inside some of the largest organizations in the world, and kept seeing the same gap: the tools tell you what is wrong, produce a long list of findings, and stop there. For enterprises in regulated sectors, a list is not the answer — someone still has to fix it, correctly, without breaking production.

Closing that gap takes two kinds of expertise, in equal measure. Johnathan Keith brings the stature and operating experience of enterprise security leadership. Kief Studio brings the software modeling, engineering, reliability, and scalability to build the assessment and run it at enterprise grade — and to remediate what it reveals. Together they release the Cloud Security Health Check: the finding, the priority, and the fix, from one team.

Kief Studio

The engineering behind every check

Kief Studio LLC models, builds, and operates the assessment platform, the engagement systems, and this site — and remediates what the assessment finds. This is enterprise software engineering: read-only, evidence-grade, and reproducible across every account, built to the reliability and scalability standard the largest cloud estates demand. A finding you cannot act on is just a longer to-do list; the engineering here is what closes it.

Has served 300+ businesses

An established engineering firm with a track record at scale
Enterprise software engineering

Builds and operates production platforms — not brochure sites
The assessment platform

Architected, built, and owned by Kief Studio, end to end
Multi-cloud, high-availability architecture

Engineered across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Data-sovereignty engineering

Built for regulated regimes — OSFI B-13, Quebec Law 25, PIPEDA
Build and remediate

The same engineers who find the exposure can close it
Independently recognized

Security tooling cited in the official Arch Linux documentation

Arch Wiki · AUR ks-aur-scanner

JDR Security Solutions

The insight behind every finding

JDR Security Solutions was founded in 2013. Johnathan Keith has led cloud security at a scale most organizations only aspire to — across global media, top-tier consulting, the federal government, and enterprise technology. That experience is the insight layer of this program: it shapes what each assessment looks for, how findings are ranked, and how they land in front of a board. It is one half of the partnership; Kief Studio's engineering is the other, in equal measure.

Paramount (ViacomCBS)

CISO & Managing Director of Cloud Security
McKinsey

Partner & Managing Director of Cloud Security
CDC

Sr. Director of Security Architecture
UKG

VP Identity & Access Management
Guidepoint

VP Cloud Security
JDR Security Solutions

CEO & Co-Founder
MSIS · CASP · CEH

Graduate degree and advanced security certifications

How we’re organized

Two disciplines, one program

The division of labor is exactly what you would expect. Kief Studio is the engineering firm, so Kief Studio builds, owns, and operates the software, the platform, and this site — that is the business it is in. JDR Security Solutions is the security practice, so its leadership sets the insight that drives what an assessment finds and how it is delivered.

To you it is one team and one program. Behind it, each partner owns what it does best — an independent security firm and the studio that engineers the work.

Method

How engagements run

Read-only, no production risk

We assess with read-only access. No agents to install, no changes to your workloads, nothing that can take production down.

Findings tied to real risk

Every finding is ranked by the exposure it actually creates — not a raw scanner dump you have to triage yourself.

Mapped to your frameworks

Results are mapped to the compliance frameworks your industry answers to, plus the privacy law of your region — evidence you can hand auditors and cyber insurers.

American team, named specialists

You work with named cloud-security specialists on an American team — not an offshore mystery vendor and not a self-serve scanner.

A health check finds and prioritizes real exposure. It is not a certification or a promise you will never be breached — closing the findings is what changes your risk.