Cloud Security Posture Analysis

What the engagement covers

Configuration review across identity, network exposure, and data access controls.

• Identity and permissions

  Roles, policies, and trust relationships, assessed for excessive privilege, unused access, and the paths that lead from a low-privilege identity to administrative control.

• Network exposure

  Publicly reachable services, network boundaries, and peering, assessed to establish what is accessible from outside the environment and what it reaches inside it.

• Data access and storage

  Object stores, databases, and backups, assessed for public exposure, the scope of access granted, and encryption at rest and in transit.

• Key and secret management

  Key services, secret stores, and the way applications retrieve credentials at runtime, assessed for scope, rotation, and recoverability.

• Logging and detection coverage

  Audit logging, retention, and alerting configuration, assessed for whether the events needed to investigate an incident are captured and kept long enough to use.

What you receive

Written so findings can be assigned directly to the teams that will act on them.

• Posture findings report

  Every misconfiguration and exposed entry point with its severity, the affected resources, and the specific change required to close it.

• Benchmark and control mapping

  Each finding mapped to the provider benchmark control it fails and to the equivalent requirement in the framework you report against, so one assessment serves both engineering and compliance.

• Prioritised hardening plan

  The changes in the order they should be made, scoped to your existing cloud architecture rather than to a reference design.

Frequently asked questions

Which cloud platforms do you assess?

The analysis covers infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service environments, and is scoped to the accounts, subscriptions, or projects you nominate, including estates spread across more than one provider. The platforms in scope are confirmed at scoping and recorded in the statement of work.

Is a cloud posture analysis the same as a cloud penetration test?

No. A posture analysis reviews configuration from an authenticated, read-only position to establish how the environment is built and where it is exposed. A penetration test attacks the environment from an unauthenticated or low-privilege position to prove what can actually be reached and exploited. The two answer different questions and are often scoped together.

Does the review change anything in our environment?

No. The review is read-only: we read configuration and metadata from the accounts in scope and modify nothing. Access is scoped to the minimum required to collect that configuration, and can be revoked as soon as collection is complete.