Cloud Security
Assessment

Cloud environments almost never get breached because the provider failed. They get breached because of settings: a storage bucket opened for a one-time migration and never closed, a security group left wide open on a database port because it was meant to be temporary, an IAM role with a wildcard action that lets a build runner assume its way into production, audit logging enabled in one region and quietly off in four others. Nobody publishes a CVE for any of that. It accumulates a little at a time, every sprint, and no single team owns the cleanup.

This engagement is a white-box configuration review rather than an attack simulation, and that difference is the point. With read-only access — SecurityAudit and ViewOnlyAccess in AWS, the reader equivalents in Azure and GCP, never write permissions — we read the account instead of guessing at it from outside, which is the only practical way to follow IAM trust relationships and permission chains to the privilege escalation paths they create. From there we work through storage exposure and encryption at rest, VPC segmentation and security group rules, compute and serverless hardening, instance metadata, secrets and key rotation, and whether your logging would actually let you reconstruct an incident after the fact. If what you need is an attacker's view from the internet, that is external penetration testing instead.

Findings are mapped to the CIS Benchmark for your provider and to the frameworks you report against — SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST CSF — so your compliance team and your engineers can work from the same document, and every finding is retested free within 30 days. We work with organizations across the Charlotte, NC area and nationwide.