Cloud Security Assessments & Hardening
Secure AWS, Azure, and GCP with guardrails that scale. We baseline posture, fix risky defaults, and align identity, network, data, and workload controls to least-privilege, zero trust, and compliance requirements.
What we assess
We baseline your cloud posture and harden risky defaults. The engagement covers accounts/subscriptions/projects, identities and roles, network perimeters, storage and data protection, secrets and pipelines, build/deploy, and logging/monitoring.
Outcomes
- Least-privilege IAM and safer defaults
- Guardrails (SCP/Policies/Blueprints) to prevent drift
- Detective controls & alerting for high-impact events
Platforms
- AWS Organizations & accounts
- Azure AD/Entra ID & subscriptions
- Google Cloud projects & folders
High-value use cases
Landing zone setup
Guardrails across identity, network, logging, and budgets for new accounts/projects.
Least-privilege IAM
Reduce overbroad roles and long-lived keys; enforce MFA, SSO, and break-glass flows.
Data protection
Encryption, key management, public access prevention, and lifecycle policies.
Security pillars
Identity
Principals, roles, policies, SSO/MFA, cross-account trust; secret hygiene.
Network
VPCs/VNETs, segmentation, egress controls, private service endpoints, WAF.
Data
Encryption at rest/in transit, KMS/KeyVault/KMS (GCP), public access blockers.
Workloads
Kubernetes/containers, serverless, images, supply chain, CI/CD gating.
Controls mapping (examples)
| Domain | Control | Sample checks |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | Least privilege | No wildcard actions; role scoping; short-lived creds |
| Network | Private access | No public DBs; egress restricted; WAF on internet fronts |
| Data | Encryption & policy | CMKs used; rotation; public access blocked |
| Workloads | Supply chain | Image signing; SBOMs; CI secrets scanning |
Methodology
1) Discovery
Inventory accounts/projects, identities, networks, storage, pipelines, clusters.
2) Posture review
Analyze configs vs. benchmarks; threat model likely attack paths.
3) Hardening & detections
Remediation plan, guardrails-as-code, and alerting for high-risk events.
4) Validation
Validate changes, tune rules, and measure reduction in attack paths.
5) Reporting & handover
Executive readout, technical report, tracker, and next-steps roadmap.
Deliverables
- Executive summary for leadership
- Technical report with prioritized issues
- Guardrails-as-code templates (where applicable)
- Alerting rules and dashboards (samples)
- Remediation tracker (CSV/Jira)
Sample finding format
- Title & severity
- Affected resource
- Evidence & steps
- Impact & likelihood
- Recommended remediation
- References
Typical Timeline
| Phase | Duration | Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 1–3 days | Access setup, inventory, data collection |
| Posture review | 5–10 days | Benchmarking and risk analysis |
| Hardening | 3–7 days | Guardrails, alerts, validations |
| Reporting | 2–4 days | Readout & tracker handover |
Pricing / Engagement Model
Essentials
- 1 cloud account/project
- Baseline posture review
- Report + tracker
Growth
- 2–3 accounts/projects
- Hardening plan + guardrails-as-code
- Alerting rules
Continuous
- Quarterly posture reviews
- Change advisory & detection tuning
- Exec readouts
FAQs
Will this affect production workloads?
We use read-only posture checks and staged validations; hardening is applied through change control.
Do you implement the fixes?
We can pair with your team to implement guardrails, policies, and alerting, or provide ready-to-use templates.
Which benchmarks do you use?
We reference CIS benchmarks and provider best practices, tailored to your risk tolerance and architecture.
Can this support ISO 27001?
Yes—our outputs map to Annex A controls and provide evidence for audits.
Ready to secure your cloud?
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