CLOUD SECURITY ASSESSMENT

Every major cloud provider operates on the same contract: the shared responsibility model. The provider secures the cloud: the physical data centres, the hypervisors, the underlying network. You secure what you put in it: your identities, your configurations, your data, your workloads. Most cloud breaches are misconfigurations on the customer's side of that line: a storage bucket left public, an over-privileged role, a security group open to the world. A cloud security assessment checks your side of that line, across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Why does misconfiguration dominate? Because the cloud makes everything a setting. In a traditional data centre, exposing a database to the Internet takes deliberate work: cables, firewall changes, someone noticing. In the cloud it takes one flag on one resource, set once by someone under deadline pressure, and it stays that way silently until someone finds it. The defaults are not always the safe choice. Meanwhile the number of services, options, and interactions grows every year, so the surface a team has to reason about grows faster than any team's ability to review it by hand. An assessment is a systematic, structured look at the configuration decisions that have accumulated across your environment, made by different people at different times, measured against what the provider itself says a secure setup looks like.

A configuration review is also a different exercise from a penetration test. A pentest asks "can we get in?" It proves exploitability from an attacker's vantage point, and its answer is only as broad as the paths the tester found. A configuration review asks "is this set up correctly?" It works from the inside with visibility into the environment, so it catches the weak settings an attacker hasn't found yet as well as the ones already reachable. The review gives breadth across the whole environment, targeted testing gives proof of impact where it counts, and our assessment combines both.

What we assess

The common misconfiguration classes recur across every provider, even though the service names differ. Our review covers:

The exact checklist is not fixed. The scope adapts to your environment and constraints: we start from the services you actually run and agree the checklist with you. An environment built on managed containers raises different questions than one built on virtual machines and serverless functions.

How we work

1. 1

   Scope the environment

   We map your cloud footprint with you: which provider(s), which accounts or subscriptions, which services are in play, and what matters most to the business.

   The checklist for the engagement is agreed here, before any review begins.

2. 2

   Access and configuration review

   With read-level visibility into the environment, we review the configuration systematically against the agreed checklist, benchmarked against the CIS Benchmarks for your provider and the provider's own security best-practice guidance.

   Covers IAM, network, storage, logging, encryption, and API controls.

3. 3

   Targeted testing

   Where a finding suggests real exposure (a reachable service, a permissive policy, an exposed store), we validate it.

   The report distinguishes between a deviation on paper and a weakness an attacker could actually use.

4. 4

   Reporting

   Findings are written up with severity, evidence, and remediation guidance tied to your environment, plus an executive summary for management.

5. 5

   Retest

   After your team applies the fixes, we re-verify each finding.

   The report is updated to reflect what has been closed.

What you get

Every report contains, at minimum:

Team credentials

Related services

A cloud assessment covers the configuration layer; the workloads running on top of it deserve their own scrutiny. When your servers and applications run in the cloud, the assessment pairs naturally with our infrastructure and web application penetration tests: the assessment secures the platform your workloads sit on, and the pentests attack the workloads themselves.