There is an uncomfortable asymmetry in cloud security. The companies most likely to be attacked are the least likely to have the tools to detect it.
Small and mid-sized businesses are increasingly the primary target of cyberattacks. These are the startups scaling their cloud accounts, the SaaS companies managing production environments, the growing teams running Kubernetes clusters without a dedicated security engineer. They know security matters. They cannot afford the tools that address it.
Enterprise cloud security platforms start at $50,000 per year. Some exceed $500,000 for large deployments. These are built for organizations with dedicated security teams and six-figure budgets. They are irrelevant to a 30-person startup trying to close its first enterprise deal.
The Gap in the Market
The current options for teams without enterprise budgets:
Free and open-source tools. Useful but limited. They produce raw findings without correlation, do not trace attack paths, and require significant expertise to interpret. They check boxes. They do not prioritize.
Compliance automation platforms ($10,000-$15,000/year). These handle the process side -- policies, training records, vendor questionnaires, evidence collection. They do not perform deep technical scanning. They tell you whether your documentation is in order, not whether your infrastructure is actually secure.
Enterprise security platforms ($50,000+/year). These provide the full picture -- scanning, correlation, attack paths, AI analysis, compliance -- but at a price that excludes 90% of the market.
There is no product that delivers enterprise-depth security analysis at a price a growing team can justify. That is what we built VikingCloud to be.
What VikingCloud Provides
VikingCloud is a complete cloud security platform that scans AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes through a single interface. Every customer gets every feature:
Multi-cloud asset inventory. Every resource across all connected accounts, continuously discovered and normalized into a single view.
Security checks. Pass/fail results per resource across all providers. Factual, deterministic, no guesswork.
Vulnerability scanning. CVE detection for VMs, containers, and Kubernetes workloads. Every CVE enriched with exploit probability scoring so you know which vulnerabilities are actually being weaponized.
AI-curated Issues. Viking agents analyze findings, vulnerabilities, IAM bindings, and attack paths together -- then produce a prioritized list of actual security problems with remediation commands. Not hundreds of raw alerts. A focused set of actionable Issues.
Compliance posture. Major compliance frameworks assessed against your real infrastructure. Evidence-backed, control-by-control, with remediation steps.
Attack path analysis. VikingCloud traces how an attacker could chain together misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and IAM permissions to reach your critical assets. Visualized as interactive graphs with MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
Viking Analyst. Ask questions about your security posture in natural language. The AI assistant has context on your entire environment and can answer questions that would otherwise require correlating data across multiple pages.
What We Do Not Do
VikingCloud is focused. We do what we do well and are honest about what we do not:
- No runtime agents. VikingCloud is entirely agentless. We read cloud APIs. We do not install software on your servers.
- No code scanning. We focus on deployed infrastructure, not source code repositories.
- No auto-remediation. Viking agents generate fix commands. A human runs them. Trust must be earned, not assumed.
Built in Japan
VikingCloud is built by VikingStrike, headquartered in Tokyo. All data is processed and stored in Japan. This is an infrastructure decision that enables data residency compliance for the Asia-Pacific market.
What to check today, with or without us
You do not need a six-figure platform to find your worst problem this afternoon. Open the console for one cloud account and try to list every internet-facing resource, every over-privileged service account, and every unpatched VM, across all regions. Time it. The gap between how long that takes and how often you actually do it is the exposure you have been living with, because the tools that close it were priced for someone else.
Security is least affordable for exactly the teams most likely to be attacked. That asymmetry is the whole problem.
Get enterprise-depth scanning at a price a growing team can justify with a 14-day free trial, or book a demo if you would rather we walk your team through it.