Cloud Security

Cloud security is about what goes wrong once your cloud is running: wrong settings, overly broad permissions and open integrations that scanners do not see.

We test AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and show what to fix first.

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Example finding from a pentest reportSEC-026
High risk

A test account in the cloud has rights to all production data

Impact
Whoever takes over that account can read and delete customer data.
Fix first
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Cloud Security Services

Configuration Review

Assessment of cloud service configurations against CIS benchmarks and industry best practices. We identify misconfigurations that increase exposure and translate findings into concrete remediation steps.

IAM Security

Review of identity and access management, including privilege analysis and policy evaluation. We help reduce excessive permissions and improve access control without breaking operations.

Infrastructure Testing

Penetration testing of cloud infrastructure, containers, and serverless functions. We assess how attackers could abuse configurations, services, and trust relationships in practice.

Repeat Cloud Testing

Periodic retests of your cloud configuration after changes, so new misconfigurations surface before they are exploited.

The shared responsibility model

Every major cloud provider operates on a shared responsibility model. Understanding exactly where the provider's security ends and yours begins is the first step to knowing what actually needs to be tested.

What your cloud provider secures

The physical data centers, hardware, virtualization layer, and core networking infrastructure are the provider's responsibility. AWS, Azure, and GCP invest heavily in securing these layers. You can assume they are secure.

What remains your responsibility

Your configuration choices, identity and access settings, encryption of your data, network policies, application code, and everything deployed inside your cloud account is yours to secure. Most cloud breaches originate here.

Where the gaps appear

The boundary between provider and customer responsibility is frequently misunderstood. Default settings that are adequate for generic workloads are often insufficient for specific data and compliance requirements. That gap is where attackers operate.

Where we find the most critical exposures

The most critical cloud exposures we find consistently trace back to six root cause categories. Knowing these helps you prioritize what gets tested first.

Overprivileged IAM

Service accounts and user roles with far more access than they need. A compromised developer key or service principal with broad permissions can expose your entire cloud environment with a single stolen credential.

Exposed storage

Publicly accessible object storage buckets with weak access controls are among the most common root causes of cloud data breaches. Often left open after testing and never closed.

Unsecured APIs

APIs without proper authentication, rate limiting, or input validation expose backend services to abuse, data extraction, and in some cases full account takeover through chained privilege escalation.

Forgotten test environments

Development and staging accounts that inherit production-level secrets but receive less security attention and fewer controls. A frequently overlooked lateral movement path into production environments.

Logging and monitoring gaps

Cloud environments without comprehensive logging make it impossible to detect lateral movement, privilege escalation, or data exfiltration in progress. Attackers rely on this to operate undetected.

Cross-account trust issues

Overly permissive trust relationships between cloud accounts or cross-account roles allow attackers who compromise one environment to pivot into others. Often set up for convenience and never reviewed.

What You Get

Cloud security posture assessment report
Configuration hardening recommendations
IAM policy optimization guidance
Compliance mapping (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
Remediation prioritization roadmap
Architecture security review
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Frequently asked questions

The shared responsibility model defines the division of security responsibilities between a cloud provider and its customers. The provider secures the underlying infrastructure, hardware, and physical facilities. The customer is responsible for everything they configure and deploy on top of that: access management, data encryption, network settings, application security, and compliance configurations.

A standard penetration test focuses on finding and exploiting individual vulnerabilities in defined systems. A cloud security assessment goes broader: we review configuration posture, IAM policies, logging coverage, inter-service trust relationships, and architecture decisions across your entire cloud environment. Both can be combined for comprehensive coverage.

Yes, in several ways. NIS2 Article 21(1) requires appropriate technical measures for organizations handling critical infrastructure data. If you host critical systems or personal data in the cloud, the same security requirements apply regardless of the hosting location. Many essential and important entities process NIS2-regulated workloads in AWS, Azure, or GCP, which means cloud misconfiguration directly creates NIS2 compliance gaps.

Yes. We work across AWS, Azure, GCP, and combinations thereof, including environments with on-premises integrations. Multi-cloud assessments include cross-cloud trust relationships and identity federation configurations, which are often where the most critical misconfigurations appear.

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