Cloud Security
Multi-cloud security review and hardening
AWS, Azure, and GCP reviewed for misconfigurations, IAM risk, and attack paths.
We review your AWS, Azure, and GCP estates against CIS benchmarks and real cloud tradecraft — IAM privilege paths, network exposure, storage, logging, and Kubernetes. Findings are ranked by attack-path impact, with IaC fix snippets and guardrail policies where useful.
- Madhapur, Ayyappa Society, Hyderabad
- Manual finding validation
- Free critical/high retest
- View sample reports
- OSCP
- CEH
- CISSP
- CISA
What Cloud Sec covers
Cloud security assessment is a deep review of your cloud estate against CIS benchmarks, vendor well-architected frameworks and real attacker tradecraft. We examine IAM posture, network architecture, data protection, logging/monitoring and workload configuration — then show exactly how findings chain into breach scenarios, from a public S3 bucket to full account takeover. The output is not a checklist; it is an attack-path map with a hardening plan.
When teams engage us
The vast majority of cloud security failures stem from customer-side misconfigurations, not platform flaws — and the shared responsibility model leaves the hardest parts to you, with consoles that make dangerous defaults easy. Our review gives you a prioritized hardening plan validated against how attackers actually operate in cloud environments, plus guardrails (policy-as-code) that keep it secure as your teams and workloads scale.
Attacker-perspective review
We chain misconfigurations the way real cloud threat actors do, not just CIS checklist deltas.
Policy-as-code guardrails
Terraform/Sentinel policies that prevent the worst findings from ever re-occurring.
DevSecOps enablement
Security gates in your pipeline that add minutes, not days, to deployments.
Cost anomalies flagged
We surface exposed compute, unused endpoints and crypto-mining tied to security issues.
Fix attack paths, not checklist deltas alone.
Most cloud incidents start with customer-side misconfiguration. We map IAM, network, storage, and logging gaps into concrete privilege-escalation and data-exposure paths — then hand your platform team prioritized fixes and optional Terraform snippets.
Identity first, then network, data, and logging.
Five phases · 5–8 working days · each phase ends with named outputs you can hold us to.
CIS Benchmarks · CSA CCM · AWS Well-Architected · NIST SP 800-210
Scope & read-only access
We map accounts, subscriptions and projects, agree the boundary, and take role-based read-only access — production included, because that is where real risk lives. No agents, no changes, full session logging.
- Asset & account inventory
- Signed scoping document
- Read-only access audit trail
Identity & access review
The heart of cloud risk: roles, policies, trust relationships, federation and service accounts. We analyze privilege escalation paths — where wildcard permissions and unused roles become account takeover.
- IAM privilege analysis
- Escalation-path graph
- Credential hygiene report
Infrastructure & workload config audit
Network exposure, compute configuration, containers and Kubernetes — benchmarked against CIS and hardened against how attacks actually arrive.
- Benchmark compliance report
- Network exposure map
- Workload risk findings
Data, network & logging review
Encryption at rest and in transit, public storage, key management — then whether logging and alerting would even catch misuse. Backup and recovery resilience assessed on paper, not by disrupting production.
- Data-protection findings
- Logging coverage assessment
- Detection gap list
Report & hardening roadmap
Findings ranked by attack-path impact — not benchmark severity alone — with Terraform/IaC remediation snippets your team can merge, plus guardrail policies that keep the worst from recurring.
- Prioritized findings report
- IaC remediation snippets
- Guardrail policy set
What we test and harden
Flaw classes and disciplines we prioritize on every cloud sec engagement.
IAM & identity
Roles, policies and trust relationships analyzed for privilege escalation — the root of nearly every serious cloud compromise.
Network exposure
Security groups, public IPs, private endpoints and segmentation reviewed for what is actually reachable from the internet.
Storage & encryption
Public buckets, unencrypted volumes, weak KMS usage and snapshot sharing — where data leaks hide in plain sight.
Logging & detection
CloudTrail, Azure Activity and GCP audit coverage reviewed: would you know if someone used your estate against you?
Secrets management
Hardcoded credentials in repos and pipelines, over-shared parameter store entries and long-lived access keys.
Containers & Kubernetes
Cluster configuration, admission control, image hygiene and runtime settings checked against CIS and NSA hardening guidance.
Backup & recovery
Backups that exclude crown jewels, lack isolation — or can be deleted by the same attacker — and were never restore-tested.
Cost of misconfiguration
Exposed compute, orphaned endpoints and crypto-mining discovered as security findings — because they usually are.
Tools we use on this work
What you receive
Named artifacts you can open, share with auditors, and hand to engineering — not vague promises.
Executive risk summary
Attack-path narratives that explain exposure in business terms, for leadership and the board.
Configuration findings report
Every finding mapped to CIS/CSA controls with severity, evidence and step-by-step fix guidance.
Privilege escalation analysis
Identity attack paths graphed and explained — who can become admin, and through which chain.
IaC remediation pack
Terraform and policy snippets ready to merge, so fixes land as pull requests instead of tickets.
Guardrail policy set
Preventive policies that block the highest-risk misconfigurations from recurring as your teams scale.
Remediation support window
Your platform team gets direct access to the reviewing engineers for follow-up questions after delivery.
What we typically confirm
Flaw classes we most often validate on this engagement type — so scope conversations stay realistic.
IAM roles and users with wildcard permissions enabling silent privilege escalation
Public storage buckets or snapshots exposing sensitive data
Security groups open to the internet on administrative ports
Cloud audit logging disabled, partially enabled or lacking tamper protection
Long-lived access keys shared across services and never rotated
Kubernetes clusters without admission control or network policies
Backups without isolation — recoverable only if the attacker allows it
Former-employee and third-party accounts left active with standing privileges
What we need from you
A short checklist so kickoff is not delayed. Most items take under an hour — and everything shared is covered by NDA from the first call.
Read-only security-audit access to each cloud account in scope
A complete account/subscription/project list with owning teams
Network topology context — what each environment is for and what matters most
Access to IaC repositories (Terraform, CloudFormation) for remediation snippets
A named contact in the platform or DevOps team for follow-up questions
Known exceptions documented — resources deliberately exposed for business reasons
Cloud Sec FAQ
Ideally read-only security audit access to production — it's where real risk lives. We accept role-based read access with session logging, or we can run against Infrastructure-as-Code plus a staging mirror if policy forbids production access, with some attack-path validation traded off.
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Learn morePlanning a VAPT, red team, or cloud review?
Talk to a Cynarks engineer in Hyderabad. We map in-scope apps and networks, propose a realistic test window, and outline deliverables — so you know exactly what the engagement covers before you commit.
Madhapur · +91 73373 81478 · security@cynarks.com