Cloud Security Review
Cloud Security Review & Configuration Assessment
Cloud Security Review Cloud Security Review & Configuration Assessment Our cloud security review assesses the configuration and security posture of your AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments against provider best practice and industry benchmarks, identifying misconfigurations and excessive permissions that expose your organisation to risk.
Overview
What is a cloud security review?
A cloud security review is a structured assessment of your cloud environment's configuration, identity and access management, storage, networking and logging — measured against the security best practices of your cloud provider and recognised benchmarks.
The goal is to surface misconfigurations, over-privileged accounts and insecure defaults before attackers do, giving you a prioritised roadmap to a hardened cloud posture.
What you'll receive
- ✓Scoping: agreed cloud accounts, subscriptions and projects across AWS, Azure or GCP
- ✓Testing: configuration review of IAM, storage, networking, logging and workload security
- ✓Executive report: a cloud posture summary for stakeholders and leadership
- ✓Technical report: misconfigurations rated by severity and mapped to the CIS Benchmarks
- ✓Remediation: prioritised guidance aligned to your provider’s best practices
- ✓Retest & debrief: a retest of fixes and a call to walk your team through the results
Why It Matters
The value of regular security reviews
Evaluate your controls
Regular security reviews enable organisations to comprehensively evaluate their security measures, including the effectiveness of controls, configurations, and policies.
Strengthen your posture
Identifying weaknesses allows organisations to strengthen their security posture and better protect their assets and data against evolving threats.
Meet compliance
Regular security assessments are essential for compliance with industry regulations and data protection laws, demonstrating your commitment to a secure environment.
High-Level Methodology
A structured, five-phase approach
Scoping & Access
We agree the accounts, subscriptions or projects and services in scope, and the objectives of the review. You provision read-only access so we can assess configuration safely, without making changes to your environment.
Automated Benchmarking
We assess your environment against recognised benchmarks such as the CIS Foundations Benchmarks and provider best practice, using trusted tooling to rapidly flag insecure defaults, disabled controls and drift.
Manual Service Review
Our consultants manually review each cloud service your environment actually consumes — storage, compute, networking, secrets and databases — assessing how each is configured, exposed and connected in the context of your real workloads.
Identity & Privilege Analysis
We examine identities, roles and permissions to map effective access, then trace the privilege-escalation and lateral-movement paths an attacker could chain across your cloud environment.
Reporting & Remediation
We deliver a clear report that prioritises findings by real-world risk, with cloud-specific, actionable remediation guidance, and support any follow-up validation once fixes are in place.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Which cloud providers do you assess?
We review the major providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform — as well as other cloud platforms on request.
How much does a cloud security review cost?
The cost depends on the number of cloud accounts or subscriptions in scope, the range of services deployed and the depth of review required. Contact us for a customised quote.
What information is required to scope a test?
To accurately scope a penetration test, we typically need information about your network range (IP addresses), domain names, key systems and applications, and any specific security concerns you have.
What is the difference between a vulnerability scan and a penetration test?
A vulnerability scan identifies potential weaknesses in your systems, whilst a penetration test attempts to actively exploit those weaknesses to determine their real-world impact. A penetration test goes beyond simply identifying vulnerabilities by demonstrating how they can be exploited and what data could be accessed.
What are the most common issues you find?
Recurring findings include publicly exposed storage, over-privileged identities, gaps in multi-factor authentication, secrets left in code or configuration, permissive firewall rules, and insufficient logging and monitoring.
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