Cloud environments are not secure by default.
Cloud security work covers the review, assessment, and hardening of your cloud infrastructure — typically AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. Most organisations migrate to the cloud and assume the provider's defaults are secure. They are not. Misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud data exposure, and most of it is avoidable.
Our cloud security work focuses on identifying those misconfigurations, reviewing your access control model, and giving you a clear picture of what is exposed and how to close it.
Talk to a Cybersecurity EngineerDoes this apply to your organisation?
Cloud security reviews are relevant to any organisation running workloads in a public cloud environment — not just enterprises.
Organisations that have migrated to AWS, Azure, or GCP and have not had an external security review of the environment
Businesses where cloud infrastructure has grown quickly and configuration has not kept up with the pace of change
Teams that have had a cloud-related incident (a storage bucket exposure, an over-privileged IAM role, an unexpected bill from resource abuse)
Organisations required to demonstrate cloud security controls to clients, auditors, or regulators
Development teams that have deployed workloads without a formal security review
Misconfiguration is the real risk.
Humans configure it, humans make mistakes
Default settings are often insecure. Resources accumulate access permissions over time. These are not edge cases — they are the baseline state of most cloud environments that have never been reviewed.
The specific failures that cause breaches
Storage buckets accidentally made public. IAM roles that are over-provisioned. Logging that is not switched on. These are not theoretical risks — they are the actual cause of most cloud data exposure incidents.
An external review finds the drift
A configuration that was secure at deployment often drifts over time as infrastructure grows. An external review finds what has moved from a secure baseline before it is exploited.
What the review covers.
We review and advise on the configuration areas most likely to contain exploitable risk. The exact scope is agreed at the start of each engagement.
Configuration review against the CIS Benchmarks for the relevant cloud provider (where applicable to scope)
IAM and access control review: who has access to what, and whether it follows least-privilege principles
Network configuration review: security groups, firewall rules, exposed services
Storage and data exposure review: publicly accessible resources, encryption at rest and in transit
Logging and monitoring posture: what is being recorded and whether it is sufficient to detect an incident
Findings documented with severity ratings and remediation steps
A structured, non-disruptive process.
We do not need write access or the ability to make changes. The review is read-only throughout.
Scoping
Agree which cloud accounts, regions, and services are in scope.
Read-only access provisioning
We work from a read-only role. No changes are made to your environment.
Configuration review
Automated and manual review against the agreed baseline.
Findings documentation
Severity-rated findings with remediation steps specific to your environment.
Report and debrief
We walk you through the findings and answer questions about remediation.
What you receive at the end of the engagement.
Everything is written to be actionable — not just a list of findings, but remediation steps your team can follow directly.
A findings report with severity ratings, affected resources, and specific remediation steps
An executive summary covering overall cloud security posture and priority actions
Remediation guidance your cloud or DevOps team can act on directly
A debrief session to walk through findings
Minimal ask. We have done this before.
We keep the access request to the minimum required for the review. We will specify exactly what permissions we need before provisioning starts.
Read-only access to the cloud account(s) in scope — we will specify the minimum required permissions
Clarity on which accounts, regions, and services are in scope
A point of contact with knowledge of the cloud environment
When did someone last look at your cloud configuration?
If the honest answer is never, that is worth a conversation.