Security and search, from someone who ran the systems.
CloudScale Consulting is a cyber security and AI / SEO practice led by Andrew Baker. Every recommendation here has survived contact with production, because the systems it describes are ones he operated.
There are two ways to buy that competence, and neither is the junior partner of the other: an engagement, or five WordPress plugins that ship the same competence as software.
- 26M+clients
- Largest system operated
- 20years
- Engineering leadership
- Capitec Bank
- Group CIO
- Amazon Web Services
- Director of Engineering, EC2
- ABSA Group
- Chief Technology Officer, 12 countries
- Barclays Capital
- Algorithmic trading infrastructure
Roles held, not clients advised.
Two ways to buy
Specialist engagements for platforms where failure is expensive. Scoped against what actually breaks, not a capability deck.
- Cyber Security & Zero TrustCore
Zero Trust network access, AI powered penetration testing, threat modelling, incident response, 2FA and passkey enforcement, brute force protection, and continuous threat monitoring: from WordPress hardening to banking grade security architecture.
- SEO, AEO & AI SearchCore
Technical SEO audits, crawl and indexation fixes, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and AI generated titles, meta descriptions and ALT text at scale. Structured so ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity cite you, not just rank you.
The same specialisms packaged as software, running in production on this practice’s own sites. Both paid plugins run automated agentic audits: security from Cyber & Devtools, search from SEO AI Optimizer. They return findings you can act on, not a score. GPL-2.0 and free forever with your own API key; a paid licence adds managed updates and support direct from the developer.
- Cyber & Devtools$10/mo
Automated agentic security audit with actionable findings
- SEO AI Optimizer$10/mo
Automated agentic SEO and AEO audit with actionable findings
- Backup & RestoreFree
Free forever. Managed cloud storage from $5/mo
- Database CleanupFree
Free forever
- Site AnalyticsFree
Free forever
Everything else is built on the same engineering depth.
- AI IntegrationClaude · Gemini
- AWS & Cloud ArchitectureEC2 · RDS · Lambda · VPC
- Platform RearchitectingTerraform · IaC
- Database ArchitectureMariaDB · Postgres · Aurora
- Networking & InfrastructureBGP · SD-WAN · ZTNA · DNS
- Enterprise Content ManagementTaxonomy · Workflow
- Web DevelopmentNext.js · React
- WordPress DevelopmentThemes · Plugins
- Ecommerce DevelopmentWooCommerce · Headless
Every claim here is checkable without asking us.
- Easy English Lessons
How is your site reacting to its attacks?
Most sites cannot answer that, because nothing is watching. The map below is live output from Cyber & Devtools on a production site: real blocked traffic, resolved to country and split into failed logins, blocked probes and API attacks.
Every ring on it is something that was stopped, not merely logged. A request firewall inspects traffic against its rule set, repeat offenders are auto-blocked once they cross a threshold, and whole countries can be refused at the door. Reporting tells you what happened. This decides what happens next.
Lock it down. Then get it found.
Plugins from $5/month for a site you run yourself, or a consulting engagement for a platform you cannot afford to get wrong.
- 1Run the security auditCyber & Devtools
- 2Run the SEO and AEO auditSEO AI Optimizer
- 3Escalate what it findsBook an engagement