Cloud Security Services
Moving to the cloud does not move your security responsibility with it. Amazon, Microsoft and Google secure the infrastructure. Everything you build on top of it stays yours.
That boundary is called the shared responsibility model, and misunderstanding it is behind most cloud breaches. The provider is almost never at fault. A storage bucket left public, an access key committed to a repository, a service account with far more permission than it needs, logging switched off in a region nobody remembers creating. None of these are provider failures. All of them are common.
We assess what you have actually deployed, tell you where the exposure is, and either fix it with you or monitor it continuously so it does not drift back.
The problem with cloud environments
Cloud infrastructure changes constantly. A developer spins up a resource to test something on a Tuesday and it is still running eighteen months later, unpatched, unmonitored and unowned. Permissions accumulate because removing them risks breaking something. Configuration drifts quietly away from whatever was agreed at the start.
An annual review cannot keep pace with an environment that changes daily. This is why cloud security splits into two separate things you need. A thorough assessment that establishes where you stand right now, and continuous monitoring that catches problems in the days after they appear rather than the months.
Cloud security assessment
A structured review of your environment against the Center for Internet Security benchmarks and the provider's own security guidance, covering the areas where real damage originates.
Identity and access
Usually the richest source of findings. Over permissive roles, unused credentials that were never revoked, service accounts with administrative rights, missing multi factor authentication on privileged users, and privilege escalation paths that let a low level identity become an administrator through a chain of individually reasonable permissions.
Data exposure
Storage buckets and blob containers, database accessibility, encryption at rest and in transit, snapshot and backup permissions, and public sharing links that were created for one file and never expired.
Network configuration
Security groups and network security rules, exposed management interfaces, unnecessary internet facing services, and segmentation between environments that were supposed to be separated.
Logging and detection
CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs, audit logging in Google Cloud and whether any of it is retained, protected from deletion, or reviewed by anyone. An environment with no logs cannot be investigated after an incident, which is precisely when you need it.
Workload configuration
Compute instances, serverless functions, container services, secrets handling and patch state.
You receive a prioritised findings report, a remediation plan ordered by real exposure rather than tool severity, and a walkthrough call with whoever owns the environment.
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace assessment
Most organisations sit almost entirely inside Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, and most have never had either configured properly beyond the initial setup.
We review multi factor authentication coverage and enforcement, conditional access policy, administrative role assignment, legacy authentication protocols that bypass modern controls, mailbox forwarding rules including the ones attackers create quietly, external sharing settings, guest account sprawl, data loss prevention and audit log retention.
This is the fastest assessment we run and consistently one of the most valuable, because business email compromise begins here far more often than it begins with a sophisticated intrusion.
Continuous cloud security posture management
Assessment tells you where you stand today. Posture management keeps it that way.
We deploy monitoring across your cloud accounts, tune it so alerts mean something rather than producing noise nobody reads, and report to you monthly on what changed, what was introduced, and what needs attention. New misconfigurations get flagged as they appear.
For organisations working towards or maintaining a compliance certification, we map cloud configuration directly to the controls your auditor will examine. Continuous evidence rather than a scramble three weeks before the audit. This runs alongside our compliance services and is the point where the two pillars stop being separate purchases.
Individual services
Container and Kubernetes security
Containers introduce their own set of problems that traditional infrastructure review does not cover. We look at base image vulnerabilities and image provenance, registry access controls, role based access control inside the cluster, network policy between workloads, secrets management, privileged container usage and runtime configuration against the CIS Kubernetes benchmark.
If you are running Kubernetes without a defined network policy, every workload in the cluster can currently talk to every other workload. That is the default, and it is rarely what anyone intends.
Cloud migration security review
The cheapest time to fix a cloud security problem is before it exists. If you are planning a migration, we review the target architecture, identity model, network design and data handling approach before workloads move, then verify the result afterwards.
Retrofitting security into a live environment costs considerably more and usually involves downtime that nobody budgeted for.
Who this is for
Software companies whose entire product runs on cloud infrastructure and whose customers are starting to ask how it is secured. Organisations that migrated quickly, often under time pressure, and have never gone back to review what was built. Businesses facing SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA requirements where cloud configuration forms a large part of the evidence. Companies where cloud spend and cloud complexity have both grown faster than anyone planned.
Frequently asked questions
Do you need access to our cloud environment?
Yes, read only access is sufficient for assessment work. We use a dedicated role with permissions scoped to what the review requires, and access is revoked when the engagement ends. Nothing we do requires the ability to change your configuration unless you engage us for remediation.
How is this different from a cloud penetration test?
An assessment reviews configuration against known good practice and finds issues comprehensively. A penetration test attempts to exploit what is there and demonstrates real attack paths. Assessment gives you breadth. Testing gives you proof. Most organisations benefit from assessment first, since a test will otherwise spend its budget confirming misconfigurations a review would have found in a day. See Cloud Penetration Testing.
How long does an assessment take?
A Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace review typically completes within a few days. A full AWS or Azure environment assessment usually runs one to three weeks depending on account count and complexity.
Can you fix what you find?
Yes, either as a remediation project or through ongoing support. Some clients prefer their own engineering team to make the changes with our guidance, which is often the better outcome because the knowledge stays in house.
Will monitoring create alert fatigue?
Only if it is deployed and left untuned, which is the usual failure. Tuning is the majority of the work in the first month. You should be receiving alerts you act on, not a daily digest that gets filtered into a folder.
Do you work with multi cloud environments?
Yes. Many organisations run AWS and Azure together, or use Google Cloud for specific workloads. Multi cloud tends to increase identity complexity considerably, which is exactly where assessment pays for itself.
Find out what is exposed in your cloud environment
A short call is enough for us to tell you what an assessment would cover and what it would cost. We can usually identify a few likely issues before we start, based on nothing more than how the environment was built.