Identity and Access Management
Review users, roles, service identities, privilege assignment, authentication controls and access-key practices.
Testing & Assurance
Strengthen Security Across Your Cloud Environment
Cybersentinels Consulting assesses cloud environments for identity, configuration, network, logging, storage and data-protection weaknesses that may create unauthorized access or exposure.
Our cloud security assessments help organizations understand risk within the shared-responsibility model and prioritize improvements across in-scope cloud services and accounts.
Cloud Risk Often Begins with Configuration and Identity
Cloud platforms provide powerful security capabilities, but they also introduce complex identities, permissions, services and configuration choices. Excessive privileges, public storage, weak network boundaries or missing logging may expose resources even when the underlying platform is secure.
We evaluate the organization-controlled portions of the cloud environment using available configuration evidence, authorized access and relevant security checks. The assessment may focus on one account or subscription, a defined workload or a broader multi-account environment.
Coverage is tailored to the selected provider, services, architecture and access model. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or mixed environments may be assessed subject to agreed scope and capability requirements.
Cloud Security Areas We Assess
Depending on platform and scope, assessment may include:
Network Security
Assess virtual networks, routing, security groups, firewalls, public exposure and administrative access.
Storage and Data Protection
Review public access, permissions, encryption, key use, backup and sensitive-data exposure.
Logging and Monitoring
Evaluate security logging, audit trails, alerting, retention and visibility across relevant services.
Compute and Workload Configuration
Assess security-relevant configuration of virtual machines, containers, serverless services or managed workloads in scope.
Security Posture and Misconfiguration
Identify high-risk configuration weaknesses and gaps against relevant provider and organizational practices.
Secrets and Keys
Review observable handling of credentials, tokens, keys and secrets across relevant services.
Resilience and Recovery
Evaluate selected backup, recovery and availability controls where included.
Governance and Account Structure
Review ownership, account organization, guardrails, policies and control consistency across the environment.
Our Cloud Security Assessment Process
- 01
Architecture and Scope Review
Understand providers, accounts, subscriptions, projects, regions, workloads, services, data and business criticality.
- 02
Access and Evidence Planning
Agree on read-only access, exported configuration, documentation and security-tool evidence required for the assessment.
- 03
Configuration and Control Assessment
Review identities, permissions, network controls, storage, logging and relevant service configurations.
- 04
Exposure and Attack-Path Analysis
Identify public exposure, excessive privileges and combinations of weaknesses that may increase impact.
- 05
Risk Prioritization
Consider exploitability, data sensitivity, workload criticality, exposure and available compensating controls.
- 06
Reporting and Roadmap
Provide prioritized findings, corrective recommendations and a practical improvement roadmap.
- 07
Validation Support
Review remediation evidence or reassess selected configurations where included.
Typical Deliverables
- Executive summary
- Cloud security assessment report
- Provider, account and service scope
- Identity and configuration findings
- Public-exposure and privilege observations
- Affected resources and supporting evidence
- Risk prioritization and business context
- Configuration and governance recommendations
- Stakeholder walkthrough
- Remediation validation where included
Information Required for Scoping
Useful scoping information includes:
- Cloud provider or providers
- Number of accounts, subscriptions or projects
- Regions and primary services
- Workloads and data sensitivity
- Architecture and network diagrams
- Identity model and administrative structure
- Available read-only access or exported configuration
- Existing cloud security tools
- Required standards or customer expectations
When to Conduct a Cloud Security Assessment
- Before migrating critical workloads
- After rapid cloud expansion or architectural change
- When consolidating multiple accounts or subscriptions
- Before a compliance assessment or customer review
- After a cloud-related incident or exposure
- When introducing containers, serverless or new managed services
- As part of recurring cloud-governance and posture management
Why Cybersentinels for Cloud Security?
Cloud assessment coverage depends on the providers, accounts, services, regions, access and evidence included. Provider-managed controls and services outside the agreed scope are not independently tested.
- Assessment aligned with cloud architecture and shared responsibility
- Focus on identity, configuration and exposure
- Risk prioritization based on workload and data context
- Coverage across governance and technical controls
- Clear resource-level evidence
- Practical remediation and guardrail recommendations
- Ability to map findings to compliance requirements where relevant
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you require administrative access?
Not necessarily. Read-only access or exported configuration is generally preferred to reduce risk. Required permissions depend on the provider, services and assessment depth.
Can you assess multiple cloud providers?
Yes, subject to agreed scope and service coverage. Multi-cloud environments are usually scoped by account, subscription, project, workload and provider.
Is a cloud assessment the same as cloud penetration testing?
No. A cloud security assessment primarily evaluates configuration, identities, architecture and governance. Controlled exploitation or workload penetration testing must be specifically authorized and scoped.
Can findings be mapped to a compliance framework?
Where relevant and agreed, findings can be associated with applicable control areas. This does not replace a complete framework-specific readiness or certification assessment.
Gain Clearer Visibility into Cloud Security Risk
Share your cloud providers, account structure, key workloads and assessment objective. We will help define a practical and appropriately controlled review.