What is a Cloud Configuration Review?

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A cloud configuration review measures your cloud infrastructure security against industry standards, such as CIS benchmarks, identifying immediate risks and areas for improvement.

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SECFORCE conducts in-depth analysis of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), giving you a prioritised understanding of cloud-related risk exposures and misconfigurations.

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Cloud attacks are among the top two cyber threats organisations feel least prepared to address. Our Cloud Configuration Review service builds your resilience against cloud attacks, significantly reducing breach risk.

Outcomes of Cloud Configuration Reviews

Sensitive Data Protection

Sensitive Data Protection

Launch or grow with confidence. Test whether jailbreak/root detection, certificate pinning, obfuscation, and anti-tampering controls are properly implemented and resistant to bypass.

Reduced Risk of System Compromise

Reduced Risk of System Compromise

Minimise unauthorised access risk by identifying misconfigurations across your cloud environment

Improved Business Continuity and Incident Recovery Outcomes

Improved Business Continuity and Incident Recovery Outcomes

Understand where and how to put in place appropriate logging information and accountability measures to support incident response activities.

Clear Cloud Risk Management

Clear Cloud Risk Management

See whether the systems in your organisation operate within your internal risk appetite and understand how to develop a holistic approach to security assurance throughout your organisation.

Who can benefit from a Cloud Configuration Review?

Any organisation that relies on cloud-hosted systems to power workloads or host data will benefit from a configuration review.

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A cloud configuration review is an essential step to take whenever there has been a significant change in an organisation’s cloud infrastructure or when a cloud environment has never been tested before.

Cloud Configuration Review Scenarios

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Identifying S3 buckets with overly permissive access settings or IAM roles that grant broader permissions than required.

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Assuring that core systems operating on Virtual Machines are securely configured to support regulatory scrutiny and reduce service disruption risk.

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Proving independent validation that the cloud platform configuration was robust enough to protect sensitive financial data and maintain customer trust.

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Assessing a critical host deployed in a cloud environment where an external penetration test is not possible.

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Migrating services that were previously delivered on-premise or through a different cloud provider to a new cloud platform.

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The SECFORCE way

SECFORCE’s expertise in understanding how attackers target infrastructure gives us a unique advantage when assessing cloud environments and prioritising remediation.

Our team has extensive experience performing non-disruptive cloud configuration reviews across all major cloud providers and has developed open-source tools in the cloud security space.

Whatever the outcome of your cloud configuration review, we don’t leave you wondering “what’s next”. All SECFORCE reviews end with clear recommendations for fast, secure fixes tailored to your business context.

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