Strengthening KamelPay’s AWS Infrastructure for Security, Compliance, and Resilience
Customer: KamelPay
Short Description: Digico Solutions partnered with KamelPay to modernize their AWS environment, enhancing security, compliance, and resilience while ensuring zero disruption to customer-facing services.
Overview
KamelPay, a leading payroll and digital payments provider in the GCC, processes sensitive financial and personal data. As the company expanded, it faced growing security risks, fragmented controls, and increasing regulatory pressure. To mitigate these risks and build a compliant, resilient foundation, KamelPay engaged Digico Solutions to design and implement a security-focused AWS modernization.
The Challenge
KamelPay’s existing environment presented multiple challenges: fragmented security controls, scattered access policies, inconsistent encryption and secrets management, limited resilience with high RTO/RPO exposure, and complex compliance requirements across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. These gaps increased the risk of misconfigurations, audit delays, and potential service disruption while handling sensitive financial and KYC data.
The Solution
- Centralized Security Governance: Hardened AWS Landing Zone with guardrails, IAM least-privilege policies, private networking, MFA enforcement, and structured role-based access.
- Encryption & Secrets Hardening: Decrypt → Migrate → Re-encrypt workflow for sensitive data, with uniform KMS key rotation, encrypted storage, migration to AWS Secrets Manager, and enforced TLS for all communications.
- High Availability & Secure Failover Architecture: SQL Server cluster redesigned with Always-On Availability Groups, synchronous replication, controlled job execution, and automated job synchronization to ensure data integrity.
- Continuous Monitoring & Automated Security Controls: Integration of Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and Config, with automated patching and compliance checks to maintain ongoing security and audit readiness.
The Results
- Stronger Data Protection through enhanced encryption, centralized secrets, and hardened communications.
- Regulatory-Ready Security Posture with structured governance, continuous logging, and compliance monitoring for fintech audits.
- Reduced Operational Risk via automated job synchronization, managed failover, and enforced least-privilege access.
- Resilient & High-Availability Architecture ensuring low RTO/RPO and secure operations.
- Security Hardening with Zero Service Disruption, protecting operational continuity while elevating backend resilience.
- A Secure Foundation for Expansion, enabling new products, regional growth, and future audits with confidence.
The Outcome
With Digico Solutions’ intervention, KamelPay now has a unified, secure, and compliant AWS environment. The improvements reduce operational risk, strengthen data protection, and ensure high availability while positioning the company for regional expansion and future fintech compliance requirements.
