Cloud Security Assessments
Bring clarity to the shared responsibility model. We evaluate your cloud identity architecture, network boundaries, storage controls, and workload configurations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
What We Examine
Cloud platforms provide resilient infrastructure, but securing the configurations, identities, policies, and data deployed within them remains the customer’s responsibility. A single overly permissive IAM role, unauthenticated storage bucket, or exposed Kubernetes management plane can bypass traditional perimeter defenses.
Elegant Infosec conducts comprehensive Cloud Security Assessments that combine CIS Benchmark compliance auditing with architectural attack-path analysis. We examine how identities, network security groups, encryption keys, serverless workloads, and CI/CD pipelines interact across your cloud accounts and subscriptions.
Why Organizations Engage Us
Identity and entitlement sprawl
Human users, service principals, and CI/CD roles accumulate wildcard permissions and cross-account trust relationships that enable privilege escalation.
Misconfigured storage and public exposure
Object storage buckets, database snapshots, or elastic search clusters can be inadvertently exposed through policy inheritance errors.
Multi-cloud and container complexity
Rapid adoption of AWS, Azure, GCP, and managed Kubernetes introduces inconsistent logging, network policy gaps, and secrets management risks.
Shared responsibility blind spots
Teams often assume cloud provider defaults include comprehensive audit logging, threat detection, or backup immutability when they require explicit configuration.
Technical Boundaries & Control Layers
Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Root/Global Administrator account protections, MFA enforcement, and break-glass controls
- IAM roles, service accounts, managed policies, and privilege escalation pathways
- SSO federation, conditional access policies, and cross-account trust relationships
Cloud Networking & Perimeter Controls
- VPC / VNet architecture, subnet isolation, peering, and transit gateway routing
- Security Groups, Network ACLs, Azure NSGs, and cloud WAF/load balancer configurations
- Public IP exposure inventory and ingress/egress traffic controls
Data Protection, Storage & Cryptography
- Object storage (S3, Azure Blob, GCS) public access blocks and bucket policies
- Managed database (RDS, Azure SQL, Cloud SQL) encryption, snapshots, and network access
- Key Management Service (KMS / Key Vault) rotation, access policies, and secrets handling
Logging, Monitoring & Workload Security
- CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs, VPC Flow Logs, and log integrity/retention
- Container registry security, EKS/AKS/GKE cluster hardening, and runtime controls
- CI/CD deployment pipeline permissions and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) hygiene
Examination Protocol
Understand account hierarchy and workload topology
Review cloud organization structures, landing zones, subscription hierarchies, and data residency requirements.
Evaluate cloud state against CIS Foundations Benchmarks
Using read-only auditor roles, inspect IAM, networking, storage, compute, and logging configurations across in-scope accounts.
Identify chained identity and network exposures
Analyze how an attacker compromising an application workload or developer token could pivot across roles, secrets, and data stores.
Deliver policy fixes and architectural recommendations
Provide specific IAM policy diffs, network security group adjustments, and landing-zone governance guardrails.
Evidence & Reporting Outputs
Executive Cloud Security Posture Report
Strategic assessment of cloud security maturity, systemic identity or architecture risks, and prioritized remediation themes.
Technical Cloud Configuration & CIS Benchmark Report
Detailed resource-level findings across IAM, compute, storage, database, networking, and logging with exact remediation commands/policies.
IAM & Attack-Path Remediation Guide
Practical recommendations for enforcing least privilege, hardening service accounts, and implementing preventative organization guardrails.
Referenced Security Frameworks
Industry-standard consensus baselines for secure cloud account and service configuration.
Cloud Security Alliance control framework mapping for cloud governance and technical assurance.
Code of practice for information security controls based on ISO/IEC 27002 for cloud services and cloud access control guidance.
Common Procurement Questions
How is access granted to our cloud environment for the assessment?
We never request administrative or write privileges. Your team provisions a dedicated, read-only auditor role (such as AWS’s built-in `SecurityAudit` / `ViewOnlyAccess` policy or Azure `Reader` / `Security Reader`) that can be revoked immediately upon completion.
Does a Cloud Security Assessment impact running production workloads?
No. Cloud configuration and IAM assessments query control-plane metadata and policy APIs on a read-only basis, having zero impact on workload performance or availability.
Can you review our Terraform or CloudFormation templates as well?
Yes. Where organizations manage infrastructure as code (IaC), we can pair live cloud tenancy reviews with static inspection of Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep templates so remediations persist across deployments.
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WHAT ARE YOU MISSING?
Tell us what you need assessed. We’ll help define the scope and next steps.