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Cloud Security Review

A structured cloud security assessment of your configuration, identity model, and exposed surfaces against vendor and industry best practice, producing a prioritized list of misconfigurations and risks.

What We Review

Coverage areas applied through manual validation and tool-assisted analysis.

  • Identity and access management (roles, policies, key usage)
  • Account-, subscription-, and project-level configuration
  • Network exposure (security groups, firewalls, public endpoints)
  • Storage object exposure and encryption posture
  • Logging, monitoring, and alerting coverage
  • Secrets and key management practices
  • Workload and container configuration
  • Edge, CDN, and DNS configuration

Methodology

Reviews reference vendor benchmarks and the CIS Foundations for the target platform, combined with tenant-specific analysis of how the environment is actually used.

Supported Environments

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Cloudflare
  • Others by request

Deliverables

What you receive at the close of the engagement.

  • Executive summary
  • Findings with severity and impact
  • Configuration evidence
  • Remediation guidance per finding
  • Optional retest summary

Who This Service Is For

Organizations and product teams that most commonly engage us for this assessment.

  • AWS environments
  • Azure tenants
  • Google Cloud projects
  • Kubernetes clusters
  • Cloudflare estates
  • Hybrid cloud
  • SaaS platforms hosted on cloud
  • Regulated cloud workloads

When Organizations Typically Need This Assessment

Common moments in a product or compliance lifecycle where this assessment adds the most value.

  • Before SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness
  • Before a customer or enterprise security review
  • After significant cloud migration or re-architecture
  • Before deploying regulated or sensitive workloads
  • Following a suspected cloud-related incident
  • As part of periodic cloud security assurance
  • Before granting new third-party or partner access
  • Prior to opening new public endpoints

Engagement Timeline

A typical engagement moves through the following phases. Exact durations vary with scope and complexity.

  1. Scope Definition

    Accounts, subscriptions, projects, and workloads in scope are agreed.

  2. Authorization

    Read-only audit access and Rules of Engagement are agreed and provisioned.

  3. Information Gathering

    We inventory identities, network exposure, storage, and workloads.

  4. Manual Assessment

    Configuration and identity review against CIS Foundations and tenant-specific usage.

  5. Validation

    Findings are validated against live configuration and business context.

  6. Reporting

    Executive summary and technical findings with configuration evidence.

  7. Debrief

    Walkthrough with cloud engineering and security stakeholders.

  8. Optional Retesting

    Confirmation that reported issues have been resolved.

Example Finding

Illustrative only. Not a real client engagement. Provided to convey the level of detail included in reports.

HIGHIllustrative example

Over-Permissioned CI/CD Role with Cross-Account Trust

Business Impact
A CI/CD role held broad administrative permissions and trusted an external account, allowing anyone who compromised the pipeline or the peer account to assume administrative access across production.
Recommendation
Scope the role to the minimum permissions required by the pipeline, tighten the trust policy with an external ID and source restrictions, and add monitoring for privileged role assumption.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to the questions clients most often ask before engaging us for this assessment.

What is a cloud security assessment?

A structured review of your cloud configuration, identity model, and exposed surfaces against vendor benchmarks and industry best practice, producing a prioritized list of misconfigurations and risks.

Which cloud providers do you support?

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare are supported directly. Kubernetes and hybrid environments are supported on request.

How long does a cloud security review take?

Most engagements take one to three weeks depending on the number of accounts, subscriptions, or projects and the complexity of the identity model.

What methodology do you follow?

Reviews reference vendor benchmarks and the CIS Foundations for the target platform, combined with tenant-specific analysis of how the environment is actually used.

What access do you require?

Read-only audit access at the account, subscription, or project level is typically sufficient. Exact permissions are agreed during scoping and constrained to the minimum required.

Do you make changes to our environment?

No. Reviews are read-only unless you explicitly authorize configuration changes as part of a follow-on remediation engagement.

Do you provide remediation guidance?

Yes. Each finding includes configuration-level remediation guidance and, where relevant, references to vendor documentation and Infrastructure-as-Code patterns.

Can you retest after we remediate?

Yes. An optional retest summary confirms reported issues have been resolved.