Review identity and privileged access
- Check privileged roles, MFA coverage and account access boundaries
- Review service identities, long-lived credentials and permission scope
- Inspect available access-review and emergency-access evidence
AWS and Microsoft Azure configuration and risk
Cloud Security Posture Reviews
Understand which cloud settings could expose your business and what to change first. Review agreed AWS accounts or Microsoft Azure subscriptions and receive an evidence-linked action plan for your cloud team.
- Cloud configuration findings with business impact
- Prioritised identity, exposure and data-protection actions
- Technical handover for your cloud or IT team
The question we help answer
Cloud settings change. Your security view should keep up.
A growing cloud environment can accumulate broad permissions, public access paths and unclear logging or recovery responsibilities. We review the agreed configuration and available operating evidence so your team can distinguish a dashboard warning from a practical business priority.
Inside the service
What the engagement covers
Check exposure and data protection
- Review agreed network rules, public endpoints and storage access settings
- Examine encryption, key or secret handling and relevant data boundaries
- Consider workload exposure and platform findings in the context of business importance
Examine detection and recovery evidence
- Review available audit logs, alert routing and responsibility for investigation
- Check backup coverage, protection settings and available restoration evidence
- Identify gaps in ownership, inventory and configuration-change oversight
Prioritise practical improvements
- Validate material configuration findings against the agreed scope and platform context
- Separate urgent exposure from longer-term design or operating improvements
- Hand over actions, owners and validation steps to your cloud team or provider
What you receive
A cloud action plan with evidence behind each finding
- Review boundary and inventory of the sampled cloud services
- Evidence-linked configuration findings and severity rationale
- Prioritised recommendations with suggested owners and platform context
- Management summary and technical walkthrough with your cloud team
What we need
Information and permissions agreed first.
- Agreed account/subscription, region and workload inventory
- Appropriate read-only access or witnessed exports
- Relevant AWS/Azure posture findings, logs and configuration records
- Cloud architecture, ownership and backup/recovery information where available
Fictional example — not client work
A storage warning needs business context
The situation
A fictional cloud account contains a storage resource with broader public access than the business intended.
The practical response
The review checks the permitted access, the resource owner and the type of data using agreed evidence, then recommends a narrower access configuration and validation step.
What this example shows
This example illustrates the review approach. It is not a client finding or a claim that every cloud resource has been examined.
A clear process
From the question to practical action.
- Agree the cloud boundary
Confirm accounts, subscriptions, workloads, permissions and criteria.
- Review configuration and evidence
Examine the selected identity, exposure, protection and operating controls.
- Validate priorities
Discuss material findings and their business context with your team.
- Hand over the plan
Explain the actions, ownership and checks needed to validate changes.
Keeping the scope clear
What is outside the engagement
- Penetration testing or exploit validation unless separately authorised
- Unapproved production changes, licence procurement or migration
- Continuous cloud monitoring, incident investigation or a guarantee of compliance
- A review of every cloud account or service unless it is explicitly included
Common questions
Before you start
How are price and timing agreed?
Before work begins, we agree the scope, deliverables, fee and delivery schedule in writing. Tell us about any deadline in your initial enquiry. Submitting the form does not confirm a booking or start paid work.
Do you cover AWS and Azure?
Yes. We can scope reviews of agreed AWS accounts and Microsoft Azure subscriptions. The actual services, access, evidence and technical fit are confirmed before the engagement.
Will you change our production configuration?
This review provides findings and an action plan. Any implementation requires a separate agreed scope, authorised access and change approval.
Do we need to buy a posture-management tool?
We begin with the agreed platform settings and evidence available to you. Any tool or licence dependency is explained before the work is agreed; no particular purchase is assumed.
Discuss a cloud posture review
Tell us whether you use AWS, Azure or both, roughly how many accounts or subscriptions are involved and what prompted the review. Please keep passwords, sensitive records and configuration exports out of the initial enquiry.
Discuss a cloud posture reviewRelevant guidance
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