Cloud Security Assurance

Cloud Security Assurance

Protecting Your Cloud Environment With Comprehensive Security Solutions

Cloud Security Assessments

We evaluate your cloud architectures, configurations, and security policies to identify vulnerabilities and gaps in compliance with industry standards such as ISO/IEC 27017 and NIST SP 800-53.

Our core Cloud Security Assessment process begins with a thorough planning phase, where we understand your business objectives and align our testing strategies accordingly. Typically, we then proceed with:

  • Scope Definition: Clearly define what the assessment aims to achieve. Specify which cloud environments, services, and assets will be included in the assessment.
  • Data Collection: List all assets within the cloud environment, including virtual machines, storage solutions, databases, and applications. Collect and review configurations of cloud services and resources to ensure they meet best practice standards.
  • Threat Modeling: Identify potential threats specific to the cloud environment, including unauthorized access, data breaches, and insecure interfaces.
  • Vulnerability Identification: Use automated tools to scan for vulnerabilities within the cloud infrastructure and applications.
  • Analysis and Evaluation: Analyze the data collected to evaluate the risks associated with identified vulnerabilities and threats. Assess compliance with relevant regulations and standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and industry-specific frameworks.
  • Report and Recommendations: Create a detailed report that documents findings, including identified vulnerabilities, the impact of potential threats, and areas of non-compliance. Provide prioritized recommendations based on the risk levels, suggesting remedial actions for identified security gaps.

Core Analysis Strategies

☁️ Cloud Asset Discovery

The foundation of cloud security begins with comprehensive asset inventory and visibility. This critical process involves identifying all cloud resources, including compute instances, storage buckets, databases, serverless functions, and network configurations across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. We map out your entire cloud footprint to understand potential attack vectors and shadow IT risks.

🔐 Identity and Access Management Review

IAM assessment is crucial for cloud security, examining user permissions, roles, service accounts, and authentication mechanisms. This analysis identifies overly permissive policies, dormant accounts, privilege escalation paths, and misconfigurations that could lead to unauthorized access. We evaluate implementation of least privilege principles, multi-factor authentication, and identity federation to ensure proper access controls are in place across your cloud environment.

🛡️ Configuration Security Analysis

Cloud misconfigurations remain one of the leading causes of security breaches. Our detailed configuration review examines security groups, network ACLs, encryption settings, public exposure, logging configurations, and compliance with security baselines. We identify insecure defaults, publicly accessible resources, unencrypted data stores, and other configuration weaknesses that could compromise your cloud infrastructure.

🔄 Infrastructure as Code Security

Modern cloud deployments rely heavily on Infrastructure as Code practices. Our IaC security assessment reviews Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and other provisioning code to identify security issues before they're deployed. We analyze pipeline security, secret management, and evaluate your CI/CD processes to ensure security is built into your deployment automation from the start.

📈 Continuous Monitoring and Threat Detection

Cloud security requires continuous vigilance. We evaluate your logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities across cloud-native services like CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud Logging. Our assessment examines your ability to detect anomalous behavior, unauthorized access attempts, and potential security incidents. We provide recommendations for enhancing visibility, improving threat detection rules, and establishing effective incident response procedures tailored to your cloud environment.