Cloud Security Management
Misconfigurations are 90% of cloud breaches. We find yours.
Comprehensive review of cloud environments: configuration validation, identity and access control analysis, and continuous monitoring.
Ensures secure cloud operations aligned with compliance and industry best practices across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We combine automated baseline checks with manual review of IAM paths, network topology, and secret management.
- Benchmark compliance report (CIS)
- IAM path analysis
- Network & data-store review
- Continuous monitoring plan
- Exploit-chain demonstrations
- Attack-path visibility across accounts and services
- Closed privilege escalation and data exposure paths
- Continuous drift detection wired into your SOC
- Evidence package for SOC 2 / ISO cloud controls
How the engagement runs. Phase by phase.
Inventory & scoping
Accounts, subscriptions, projects, regions, service footprint.
Automated baseline scan
Multi-tool CIS/NIST benchmark scan; deduplicate and rank.
Manual IAM & network review
Role graph, trust relationships, VPC topology, data-store exposure.
Exploit-chain validation
Proof-of-concept privilege escalation and lateral movement.
Remediation + hardening
Prioritized fix list, IaC snippets, Terraform PRs for critical items.
Continuous monitoring setup
Config/Defender/SCC enabled, drift detection wired to SIEM.
What we actually use. No secrets.
Every tool earns its place. We publish our stack so your team can audit, review, and integrate with what we bring.
- PR ProwlerMulti-cloud CIS/ISO/NIST benchmark scanning
- SC ScoutSuiteMulti-cloud security posture audit with visual reporting
- CL CloudSploit / Aqua TrivyContainer image + IaC scanning
- PA PacuAWS exploitation framework for validated attack paths
- AWAWS Access AnalyzerIAM role exposure and cross-account trust review
- AZ Azure PurpleKnight / ROADtoolsEntra ID / AD attack-path analysis
- CH Checkov / TerrascanPre-deploy policy enforcement for Terraform / CloudFormation
- CU Custom IAM graph enginePrivilege-escalation path detection across services
- WI Wiz / Orca (if deployed)Agentless inventory + graph correlation integration
How we do the work. Not just what.
IAM path graphing
We map every role, group, policy, trust, and resource condition. Find the 3-hop path from read-only IAM user to admin.
Blast-radius modeling
For each critical finding, we show exactly what an attacker reaches if they land on it, not a generic severity label.
Secret sprawl audit
Scan Lambda env vars, EC2 user-data, ECS task defs, GitHub Actions, CodeBuild for hardcoded credentials.
Privilege-escalation validation
We don't just report iam:PassRole. We chain it into an actual admin session and show the flow.
Network exposure review
Security groups, NACLs, VPC peering, PrivateLink, and S3 bucket ACLs cross-referenced against your public IP allowlist.
Compliance mapping
Findings mapped to CIS Benchmarks v3, ISO 27017/18, PCI DSS cloud addendum, SOC 2 CC6.
Real problems. Real fixes.
Anonymized incidents from actual engagements: what broke, why it mattered, and how we fixed it.
Client had 80 AWS accounts and no SSO: IAM sprawl with 1,400 users, 380 roles.
Privilege-escalation paths were invisible; admin credentials were on 4 developer laptops.
Ran custom IAM graph analysis in 48 hours. Found 17 paths from low-priv user to root. Migrated to IAM Identity Center with org-level SCPs; shrank admin blast radius 92%.
S3 bucket policy looked safe, but cross-account replication exposed 2TB of customer data.
Bucket was CIS-compliant per scanner, but the replication destination was public.
Followed the data, not just the control. Found replication to a DR account with public access block disabled. Closed the destination first, then hardened the source to deny replication to non-org accounts.
Azure Entra ID Conditional Access policies blocked legitimate admin work during the engagement.
Standard assessment tools couldn't authenticate.
Coordinated named-admin test accounts with Privileged Identity Management, scoped JIT elevation, and documented the Conditional Access model itself, which turned out to be the strongest finding of the engagement.
Cloud posture data flow
Inventory → analysis → prioritized remediation.
Targets, not promises.
Do you need admin access?
Can you fix the findings?
Multi-cloud or single?
Is this compatible with our existing CNAPP (Wiz, Orca, Prisma)?
Scope a cloud security management engagement.
30-minute scoping call. You'll talk to an operator, not a BDR.