Cloud Asset Mapping
Identify accounts, services, workloads, storage, networks, and privileged paths across the target environment.
Cloud & Platform Security
Cloud Security Testing
We assess cloud platforms, containers, identity boundaries, and hybrid environments for access control weaknesses, encryption gaps, exposed management paths, and configuration flaws that reduce resilience and compliance maturity.
Overview
Identity Is the New Perimeter
Cloud compromise rarely starts with an exploit. It starts with an over-permissive role, a forgotten access key, or a public storage bucket, and then moves laterally through trust relationships that were never intended to chain together.
Our assessment combines configuration review with active privilege escalation testing. We do not just report that a role is over-permissive; we demonstrate the path from that role to the data or control plane it should never have reached.
Coverage spans the full estate: identity and access management, compute and container workloads, network exposure and segmentation, data protection, logging, and the CI/CD pipelines that deploy it all.
Key activities
- Cloud asset and account inventory across regions
- IAM role, policy, and trust relationship analysis
- Privilege escalation path mapping and validation
- Public exposure review: storage, databases, and endpoints
- Kubernetes RBAC, admission control, and pod security review
- Container image and registry security assessment
- Network segmentation, security group, and egress testing
- Secrets management and key rotation review
- Encryption at rest and in transit verification
- Logging, monitoring, and detection coverage review
- CIS Benchmark and provider baseline gap analysis
- Infrastructure-as-code and pipeline security review
Assessment Methodology
Cloud Security Testing Stages
From cloud asset discovery to validated remediation pathways.
Identity & Access Review
Assess IAM design, role assumptions, key handling, and management plane exposure.
Platform Hardening Review
Inspect compute, containers, serverless functions, storage, and orchestration controls for weakness.
Network & Data Path Validation
Test segmentation, egress control, encryption posture, and exposed services across hybrid boundaries.
Risk-Rated Reporting
Provide business-aware reporting tied to exploitability, exposure, and operational priority.
Verification Testing
Retest after remediation to confirm hardening, access control, and security baseline improvements.
Deliverables
What You Receive
Every engagement closes with a documented, defensible evidence set that serves engineering, leadership, and audit at the same time.
Technical Findings Report
Every finding with reproduction steps, evidence, affected components, risk rating, and specific remediation guidance.
PDF reportExecutive Summary
Risk posture, business impact, and thematic root causes written for leadership and board reporting.
PDF / slidesRemediation Tracker
A structured issue list with severity, owner, and status columns that maps directly into your ticketing system.
XLSX / CSVRetest Certificate
Formal confirmation of which findings were verified as remediated, suitable for customers and auditors.
PDF attestationAttack Path Narrative
Chained walkthroughs showing how individual weaknesses combine into a realistic compromise scenario.
Report sectionDebrief Session
A live walkthrough with your engineering and security teams covering findings, priorities, and fix strategy.
Live sessionReporting Process
Risk Rating Model
Findings are rated on demonstrated exploitability and business impact, not scanner severity. Critical findings are escalated during testing rather than held for the report.
CriticalConfirmed exploitation with direct impact on data, safety, or availability. Reported within 24 hours of validation.
HighExploitable weakness with meaningful business impact or a reliable path to privilege escalation.
MediumRequires specific conditions or chaining, but materially weakens the security posture.
LowLimited impact in isolation. Tracked for hardening and defence-in-depth improvement.
InformationalObservations, hygiene items, and architectural recommendations with no direct exploitability.
Client Benefits
Outcomes You Can Measure
Cloud assessments should reduce blast radius and shorten audit cycles at the same time.
Benchmark Alignment
Gap analysis against the provider CIS Benchmark with a prioritised path to a defensible baseline.
Privilege Chains Proven
Escalation routes are demonstrated end to end, not inferred from policy documents.
Fixes at the Source
Remediation is written against Terraform, CloudFormation, or Helm so fixes survive the next deployment.
Technology Coverage
Technologies We Test
Coverage spans the major providers, orchestration platforms, and the tooling that provisions them.
Providers
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Oracle Cloud
- DigitalOcean
- Hybrid / on-prem
Orchestration
- Kubernetes
- EKS / AKS / GKE
- OpenShift
- ECS / Fargate
- Docker
- Nomad
Identity
- AWS IAM
- Entra ID
- Google Cloud IAM
- Okta
- Keycloak
- OIDC federation
- Workload identity
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Pulumi
- Helm
- Ansible
- ArgoCD
- GitHub Actions
Data Services
- S3 / Blob / GCS
- RDS / Aurora
- DynamoDB
- Cosmos DB
- BigQuery
- KMS / Key Vault
Detection
- CloudTrail
- GuardDuty
- Azure Defender
- Security Command Center
- SIEM pipelines
- Falco
Standards Alignment
Compliance Mapping
Cloud findings are mapped to the control frameworks that govern regulated workloads and customer security questionnaires.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Annex A evidence across access control, cryptography, operations security, network security, and supplier relationships.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
Cloud posture reported against Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, and Respond outcomes.
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
Control evidence for AC, AU, CM, RA, SC, and SI families in cloud-hosted systems.
MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud
Attack paths tagged with cloud matrix techniques to validate detection and response coverage.
IEC 62443-3-3
For industrial cloud backends, testing supports zone and conduit separation and system security requirements.
OWASP API Security Top 10
Cloud-hosted APIs and management endpoints are tested against the API Top 10.
| Standard | Where it applies | How this engagement supports it |
|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001 | ISMS scope covering cloud services | Annex A control evidence plus retest attestation for the audit file. |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | Executive risk reporting | Posture mapped to CSF functions with prioritised improvement actions. |
| NIST SP 800-53 | Regulated and federal workloads | Assessment evidence for AC, AU, CM, RA, SC, and SI control families. |
| CIS Benchmarks | Provider hardening baseline | Per-control gap list with IaC remediation snippets. |
| MITRE ATT&CK Cloud | Detection validation | Technique-tagged findings for SOC rule tuning and purple team exercises. |
| IEC 62443-3-3 | Industrial cloud backends | Evidence for system security requirements at the enterprise-to-plant boundary. |
Industry Expertise
Industries Served
We work with regulated and safety-critical manufacturers where a security failure carries operational, contractual, and certification consequences.
Automotive OEMs & Tier-1ECUs, telematics, and connected vehicle platforms
Industrial AutomationPLCs, SCADA, and plant-floor networks
IoT ManufacturersConnected products, gateways, and companion apps
Medical DevicesConnected diagnostics, monitoring, and hospital systems
Cloud & SaaSMulti-tenant platforms and customer-facing services
Enterprise Security TeamsInternal validation, assurance, and audit support
Engagement Workflow
How We Work With You
A predictable delivery model with defined checkpoints, so your teams know exactly what happens and when.
Scoping & Rules of Engagement
We agree targets, depth, timing windows, safety constraints, and escalation contacts before any testing begins.
Threat Modelling
Trust boundaries, attacker goals, and abuse cases are mapped so testing effort follows real business risk.
Execution & Validation
Manual, tool-assisted, and AI-accelerated testing with every finding reproduced and evidenced.
Reporting & Risk Rating
Technical detail for engineers, prioritised risk narrative for leadership, delivered in one report set.
Remediation Support
Direct access to the testing engineers while your teams design and implement fixes.
Verification Retest
A free retest of remediated findings confirms the fix holds and closes the engagement.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Practical answers to what procurement, engineering, and security teams ask before an engagement starts.
Do you need production credentials?
We use a read-only audit role for configuration review and a separate scoped role for active testing. Both are created by your team, time-limited, and revoked at engagement close.
Will testing disrupt running workloads?
Configuration review is entirely passive. Active testing is agreed in advance, rate-limited, and excluded from any workload you designate as sensitive.
Do you test production systems?
Yes, where the environment and rules of engagement allow it. We agree timing windows, rate limits, and safety constraints up front, and we maintain a live escalation channel for the duration of the engagement. Where production testing is unacceptable, we test staging and validate configuration parity separately.
How long does a typical engagement take?
Most assessments run between one and three weeks of active testing, depending on scope size and depth. Scoping takes two to three working days, and the report is delivered within five working days of testing completion.
Is the retest really included?
Yes. One verification retest of remediated findings is included in the engagement fee, provided it is requested within 90 days of report delivery.
Who performs the testing?
Senior security engineers only. We do not staff engagements with junior analysts running scanner output, and the engineer who tested your environment is the engineer you speak to during remediation.
Ready to review your cloud security posture?
Let us assess identity, workload, and configuration risk before it becomes attacker-controlled exposure.