Cloud security assessment for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Gjethe reviews your AWS, Azure or Google Cloud setup for the misconfigurations that cause most cloud incidents: over-broad permissions, exposed storage, open networking, weak logging and unmanaged secrets. You get a prioritised, plain-language report and, if you want it, help applying the fixes.
- Free first consultation
- Written quote for your project
- Flexible payment milestones
At a glance
- Platforms
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Reviews
- Identity, network, storage, logging
- Benchmark
- CIS Benchmarks and provider guidance
- Output
- Prioritised report and fix plan
Definition
What is cloud security assessment?
A cloud security assessment is a review of a cloud environment's configuration, identity and permissions, networking and logging to find misconfigurations and reduce the risk of data exposure or compromise.
Most cloud incidents are not clever break-ins; they are configuration mistakes. A storage bucket left public, a role that can do far more than its job needs, a database reachable from the internet, logging switched off so no one notices. The cloud gives you powerful controls, but the defaults and the sheer number of settings make mistakes easy, and a setting that was fine last year can become a problem as your environment grows around it. A cloud security assessment reviews your environment against well-established good practice and tells you, in order of risk, what to change and why it matters.
Who is it for?
Teams that grew into the cloud
Settings added over time are rarely reviewed as a whole; drift accumulates quietly.
Products with customer data in the cloud
Storage, databases and backups must not be reachable by the wrong people.
Startups after a fast build
Speed-first setups often leave permissions and networking wide open.
Companies facing an audit or review
A clear assessment shows where you stand before someone else checks.
What's included, and what you keep
What's included
- Agreed read-only access to the environment
- Identity and access management review
- Permission and role review for least privilege
- Storage and database exposure checks
- Network and firewall configuration review
- Encryption at rest and in transit review
- Secrets and key management review
- Logging, monitoring and alerting review
- Backup and recovery configuration review
- Benchmarking against CIS and provider guidance
- Prioritised report with fixes
- Guidance call on the findings
What you receive
Handed over at the end. Yours to keep.
- Cloud security assessment report
- Findings ranked by risk
- Fix guidance for each finding
- Benchmark summary against good practice
- Guidance call
What we review in your cloud
- Who can access what, and whether permissions are far broader than needed
- Storage buckets, databases and backups reachable from the internet
- Networking and firewall rules that expose services
- Encryption of data at rest and in transit
- Where secrets and keys live and how they are rotated
- Whether logging and alerting would catch a problem
- Multi-factor authentication on privileged accounts
- Backups that exist, are protected and can be restored
Why least privilege is the heart of cloud security
In the cloud, identities and their permissions are the real perimeter. When a role or key can do far more than its job requires, any mistake or compromise involving it becomes far more serious. Most of the worst cloud incidents trace back to one over-privileged identity that an attacker, or an accident, was able to use.
We review who and what can do each sensitive action, flag permissions that are broader than needed and recommend tighter, role-based access. Combined with proper logging, so unusual activity is visible, and protected backups, so a mistake is recoverable, this removes a large share of real cloud risk without slowing your team down.
Why the defaults are not enough
Cloud providers give you powerful, flexible controls, but the defaults are chosen to help you get started, not to keep you safe in production. A new storage bucket, database or role tends to favour convenience, and every team then layers its own settings on top, often under time pressure. Months later, nobody holds the whole picture, and the gaps that result are not dramatic break-ins; they are quiet oversights that happen to be reachable from the internet.
An assessment replaces assumptions with a clear, current view. We gather the configuration across identity, networking, storage, encryption, secrets and logging, then compare it against the CIS Benchmarks and the provider's own guidance. The point is not to produce a checklist for its own sake, but to find the handful of settings that genuinely expose you and put them at the top of the list.
We write the report for the people who have to act on it. Each finding names the resource, explains the risk in plain language and gives the specific change for your platform, whether that is tightening a role, closing a network rule, turning on logging or protecting a backup. If you would rather not make the changes yourself, our team can apply them and set up monitoring so the environment does not drift back.
How cloud security assessment works, step by step
Every step has a clear output you can review. Timing is agreed in your quote.
- 1
Scope
Accounts, subscriptions or projects and read-only access agreed in writing.
- 2
Collect
Configuration gathered across identity, network, storage and logging.
- 3
Review
Settings compared against CIS Benchmarks and provider guidance.
- 4
Verify
Findings confirmed in context, not taken from raw output.
- 5
Report
Issues ranked by risk, with clear fixes for your platform.
- 6
Support
A call to walk through the plan, and optional help applying it.
Tools, and what shapes your quote
Pricing is based on your project and agreed in your quote. These are the things that move it.
| Factor | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Number of accounts and services | A single project is quicker to review than many accounts and services. |
| Platforms in scope | Reviewing more than one cloud provider adds to the work. |
| Environment complexity | Many roles, networks and services take longer to review thoroughly. |
| Depth of review | A focused review differs from a full benchmark across the estate. |
| Fix support | Applying the fixes, rather than only reporting them, adds effort. |
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| AWS | configuration review, IAM analysis |
| Azure | configuration review, role analysis |
| Google Cloud | configuration review, IAM analysis |
| Benchmarks | CIS Benchmarks, provider security guidance |
Common mistakes to avoid
What we see go wrong most often, and how a good project avoids it.
Over-broad permissions
Roles and keys that can do far more than their job turn small mistakes into big incidents.
Public storage by accident
A bucket or database left open to the internet is a leading cause of data exposure.
Logging switched off
Without logs and alerts, a problem can run for months before anyone notices.
Unprotected backups
Backups that can be deleted or reached by the same compromised account are not a safety net.
Frequently asked questions
Which cloud providers do you cover?
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Tell us what you run and we will confirm the scope before starting.
Do you need admin access?
Usually read-only access is enough to review configuration. We agree the least access needed and you can revoke it at any time.
Will the assessment change anything?
No. The review itself is read-only. We recommend changes and, if you want, help you apply them afterwards.
How is this different from a penetration test?
This reviews configuration from the inside against good practice. A penetration test attacks from the outside. They complement each other.
Do you follow a recognised benchmark?
Yes. We review against the CIS Benchmarks and each provider's own security guidance, and explain findings in plain language.
Can you help us fix the findings?
Yes. Our team can apply the changes or work alongside yours, and we can set up ongoing monitoring.
Does this help with compliance?
It supports the technical review many frameworks expect, though formal certification comes from accredited bodies.
Do you sign an NDA?
Yes. The report and your configuration are confidential and shared only with the people you name.
Can you keep the environment secure over time?
Yes. Beyond the one-off review, we can set up guardrails and monitoring that flag risky changes as they happen, and repeat the assessment on a schedule so the environment does not slowly drift back into the same problems.
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- What happens next
- 1You tell us what you need
- 2We aim to reply within 24 hours with questions
- 3You get a written quote for your project