Cloud Configuration Security Audit
Identify cloud misconfigurations and turn technical findings into clear priorities for your business.
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Understand your cloud security posture
Cloud Configuration Security Auditing provides a structured, comprehensive evaluation of your cloud environment to identify misconfigurations, insecure defaults and architectural weaknesses that may expose critical assets to risk.
We assess cloud infrastructure against vendor security baselines, industry best practice and cloud provider recommended controls. The findings can support alignment with relevant frameworks and requirements, including ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Benchmarks and NIS2.
Assessment approach
The engagement is designed as a read-only, non-intrusive audit to minimise operational risk and avoid disruption to production systems. No configuration changes are made to the environment. The audit is typically conducted against production infrastructure, giving an accurate view of the controls protecting your live systems.
Where beneficial, safe and agreed within the assessment scope, controlled proof-of-concept validation can demonstrate the real-world impact of critical misconfigurations. This may include checking whether unintentionally exposed secrets could enable further access, or confirming privilege escalation paths through misconfigured identity and access management (IAM) roles or overly permissive policies.
This controlled validation provides evidence of practical business risk without changing production workloads.
What the audit covers
The assessment scope is agreed around your infrastructure and priorities and can include:
- IAM roles, policies and access control configurations
- Network architecture and segmentation
- Security group and network access control list (ACL) rules
- Cloud storage access controls and data exposure risks
- Logging, monitoring and alerting configurations
- Backup and redundancy settings
- Resource deletion protection
- Alignment with applicable compliance frameworks
What you receive
Each audit concludes with a professionally written report containing:
- Prioritised findings with severity classifications
- Clear technical explanations, with evidence where relevant
- A business impact summary
- Actionable remediation steps for cloud engineering teams
- An executive summary for management stakeholders
The report provides a validated, repeatable view of your cloud security posture and a roadmap for strengthening controls.
Supported platforms
The service covers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Other cloud providers or hybrid environments can be considered on request, depending on your infrastructure.
Example findings in AWS
Common issues that an AWS configuration audit may identify include:
- CloudTrail not configured or not centralised
- AWS Config not enabled
- Root account lacking hardware multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Network ACLs permitting unrestricted ingress and egress
- Security groups exposing SSH (port 22) to the public internet
- Lack of deletion protection on critical resources
- Subnets missing VPC Flow Logs
- Weak or insufficient IAM password policy
- Short or missing backup retention policies
- Single Availability Zone (Single-AZ) Amazon RDS instances without redundancy
Discuss your cloud audit
Tell us which cloud platforms you use, the environment you want assessed and the decisions the audit needs to support. We will agree the scope, assessment permissions and reporting arrangements with you.
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