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Cloud Security Assessment

Assess the security of authorized cloud environments across identity, configuration, network controls, workloads and data.

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Cloud environments are assembled quickly and changed constantly. A role is widened to unblock a deployment, a storage bucket is opened for a migration, a service is stood up for a proof of concept and never removed. Individually these are reasonable decisions; together they become the environment's actual security posture.

A cloud assessment establishes what that posture is. Not what the architecture diagram says, but what the configuration currently permits — which identities can reach which resources, what is exposed beyond its intended audience, and where a single misconfiguration would matter.

// WHY IT MATTERS

Configuration drifts faster than documentation

Cloud permissions are easy to widen and difficult to narrow. Broadening a policy unblocks a deployment immediately; narrowing it risks breaking something nobody can fully test. So permissions accumulate, and the effective access in an environment quietly diverges from what anyone intended.

The same applies to network controls, storage settings and service exposure. None of it is negligence — it is the natural result of a system that many people change under time pressure. Assessment measures the gap between the architecture as designed and the environment as configured.

// ARCHITECTURE

The layers this assessment covers.

AWS
cloud environment
AZURE
cloud environment
GCP
cloud environment
SECURITY
CONTROL
PLANE
IDENTITYNETWORKWORKLOADDATA

Depending on environment and engagement scope. We do not claim automatic support for every service of every provider.

Where cloud risk concentrates

Each layer is a boundary. Cloud attack paths tend to run through permissions rather than through the network.

  1. IDENTITYIdentity & accessRoles, policies and trust relationships
  2. NETWORKNetwork controlsSecurity groups, routing, segmentation
  3. WORKLOADSCompute & servicesInstances, functions, managed services
  4. STORAGEStorageObject and block storage, and who can read it
  5. DATADataThe records the layers above ultimately protect

Conceptual view. Assessment scope is tailored to the cloud environment and engagement.

// WHAT WE ASSESS

What we assess

Assessment scope is tailored to the cloud environment and engagement. We do not claim uniform depth across every service of every provider.

// METHODOLOGY

How a cloud assessment runs

  1. 01AUTHORIZEConfirm scope and satisfy the cloud provider's testing requirements.
  2. 02INVENTORYEstablish which accounts, services and identities are in scope.
  3. 03IDENTITYAnalyse permissions, trust relationships and effective access.
  4. 04CONFIGReview service configuration, exposure and network controls.
  5. 05PATHTrace realistic access and escalation paths within scope.
  6. 06REPORTFindings, affected resources and remediation guidance.
// WHEN THIS APPLIES

When Should a Cloud Environment Be Assessed?

01SITUATIONMigration to cloudEstablishing the security boundaries of a new environment before it carries production load.
02SITUATIONMulti-account estateSeparation between accounts has grown organically and needs review.
03SITUATIONPost-incident reviewEstablishing what an identity or service could actually have reached.
04SITUATIONPeriodic validationConfiguration drifts even when nothing is deliberately changed.
// WHAT YOU RECEIVE

Findings your team can act on.

Which of these apply depends on engagement scope.

SECURITY FINDINGS

Weaknesses identified across the environment in scope, with the reasoning behind each.

CONFIGURATION OBSERVATIONS

Settings that widen exposure or weaken a boundary, described precisely enough to locate.

RISK CONTEXT

What a finding means in your environment rather than against a generic scoring table.

TECHNICAL EVIDENCE

Supporting detail so findings can be verified rather than taken on trust.

REMEDIATION GUIDANCE

Practical direction on addressing each finding, including where the change belongs.

PRIORITIZED RECOMMENDATIONS

An order of work, so limited engineering time goes to what matters most.

RETEST / VALIDATION

Verification that addressed findings no longer reproduce, within the agreed retest scope.

// RELATED SERVICES

Adjacent parts of the infrastructure.

Active Directory SecurityAssess identity architecture, privileged access and configuration controls across authorized Active Directory environments.VIEW SERVICE →Container & Kubernetes SecurityAssess modern containerized environments across images, workloads, orchestration, access controls and cluster configuration.VIEW SERVICE →Firewall & Configuration ReviewReview security-relevant configurations to identify unnecessary exposure, weak access controls and configuration risks.VIEW SERVICE →Cloud & Infrastructure OverviewHow cloud, identity, workloads and configuration connect.VIEW OVERVIEW →
// FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions we get asked before an engagement.

Request a Cloud Security Assessment

Tell us how your accounts are structured and where the sensitive workloads sit. We will scope around the identities that reach them.

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