Cloud Security Assessment

Identify misconfigurations before attackers do. Comprehensive security assessment of your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments against CIS Benchmarks, IAM best practices, and major compliance frameworks.

AWS · Azure · GCP
Multi-Cloud Coverage
CIS Benchmarks
Industry Standard Baseline
SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · PCI
Compliance Frameworks
Control Plane + Data Plane
Full Stack Review
Assessment Scope

Configuration · Identity · Compliance

Three interconnected domains covering the entire cloud security posture from infrastructure to data compliance.

CONFIGURATION & POSTURE

Cloud Misconfiguration Review

Systematic review of your cloud environment against CIS Benchmarks. We identify exposed storage, permissive security groups, disabled logging, and unencrypted data.

  • CIS Benchmark audit (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • S3/Blob storage public exposure check
  • Network Security Group & firewall rules
  • KMS key management and encryption review
IDENTITY & ACCESS

IAM & Privilege Review

Comprehensive review of IAM policies, role assignments, service accounts, and MFA enforcement to identify over-privilege, unused credentials, and dangerous policy combinations.

  • AWS IAM / Azure RBAC / GCP IAM policy review
  • Privilege escalation path identification
  • MFA enforcement and conditional access gaps
  • Unused key and credential cleanup
COMPLIANCE MAPPING

Regulatory Compliance Assessment

Mapping cloud security findings to major compliance frameworks. We produce audit-ready evidence packages and compliance gap reports.

  • SOC 2 Type II cloud control mapping
  • ISO 27001 Annex A cloud control evidence
  • PCI-DSS cloud environment scoping
  • HIPAA security rule cloud validation
The Cloud Risk Reality

Misconfiguration Is the Leading Cause of Cloud Breaches

Cloud providers secure the infrastructure. You secure everything built on top of it. The shared responsibility model means your IAM policies, storage configurations, and network rules are entirely your responsibility — and attackers know exactly where to look.

Our cloud security assessment closes the gap between what your environment should look like and what it actually looks like — before that gap becomes a breach.

82% of data breaches involve cloud-hosted assets (IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024) — misconfiguration is the leading root cause.
Public cloud storage exposure incidents increased 48% in 2023 — S3 and Blob misconfiguration remains the most common initial access vector.
Over 70% of cloud security failures are due to customer-side misconfiguration, not cloud provider vulnerabilities.

Public Exposure Risk

Identifying all assets publicly accessible without a clear business justification.

Permission Creep

Eliminating accumulated over-permissions that make every account a high-value target.

Encryption Gaps

Ensuring data at rest and in transit is protected across all storage and transit paths.

Blind-Spot Coverage

Reviewing rarely-audited services like Lambda, CloudFront, and Managed Databases.

Our Process

5-Phase Cloud Security Assessment

From asset discovery and CIS benchmark scanning through manual IAM review to compliance-mapped reporting and IaC remediation.

01

Discovery & Asset Inventory

We enumerate all cloud accounts, regions, and services to build a complete picture of your cloud footprint. Unmanaged accounts, shadow IT workloads, and orphaned resources are identified.

02

Configuration Baseline Assessment

Automated scanning with Prowler, ScoutSuite, and Steampipe against CIS Benchmarks for all cloud platforms. Manual verification follows to eliminate false positives.

03

IAM & Access Control Deep Dive

Manual review of IAM policies, cross-account trust relationships, service account permissions, and privilege escalation paths beyond what automated tools detect.

04

Logging, Monitoring & Detection Review

Verification that CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Cloud Audit Logs, and alerting pipelines are correctly configured, retained, and capturing the right security events.

05

Risk-Rated Report & Remediation Roadmap

Deliverable includes a prioritized finding register, compliance gap report with framework mappings, and remediation guidance with IaC-ready code snippets.

Coverage

End-to-End Cloud Security Coverage

From public-facing storage and network perimeter through identity and key management to compliance evidence generation.

Storage Security

S3 buckets, Azure Blob containers, and GCP Cloud Storage access control — ensuring no data is publicly exposed or accessible without authentication.

Network Perimeter

Security group rules, NACLs, VPC peering configurations, and firewall policies reviewed for overly permissive rules that expose services to the internet.

Identity & IAM

In-depth review of all IAM user, role, and policy configurations to eliminate unused permissions, detect privilege escalation, and enforce least privilege.

Logging & Visibility

Validation that audit logging is enabled for all control-plane events across all services and regions — CloudTrail, Azure Activity Log, and GCP Audit Logs.

Encryption & Key Management

Reviewing KMS key policies, customer-managed key (CMK) usage, encryption-at-rest and in-transit configurations, and secrets management practices.

Compliance Reporting

Generating compliance evidence mapped to CIS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS frameworks for audit-readiness and regulatory submissions.

Why Adayptus

Beyond Automated Scanning

Automated tools find known misconfigs. Our security engineers find the ones that require understanding context, architecture, and attacker methodology.

Multi-Cloud Expertise

Deep expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP — not a single-cloud tool adapted to multi-cloud. We assess each environment against its own native security best practices.

Hybrid + Manual Approach

Automated scanning catches known misconfigs. Our manual review layer catches the edge cases automated tools miss — complex IAM policy interactions, cross-account trust chains.

IaC Remediation Snippets

Findings include Terraform and CloudFormation snippets to fix issues directly in your infrastructure code — not just text descriptions of what needs to change.

Compliance-Ready Output

Reports are structured to serve as audit evidence directly. We understand what auditors look for and format deliverables accordingly.

Tools & Frameworks We Use

Prowler
ScoutSuite
Steampipe
Checkov
CloudSploit
AWS Security Hub
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
GCP Security Command Center
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about cloud security assessments

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Know Your Cloud Security Posture

Misconfiguration is the #1 cause of cloud breaches. A cloud security assessment gives you a clear, prioritized picture of your exposure and a roadmap to fix it.

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