Integrating Cloud Security with early-stage enterprise architecture is crucial due to its dynamic nature aligning with business objectives. The increasing deployment of cloud services raises security concerns.
Our comprehensive cloud auditing and hardening services pave the way for adopting and managing secure cloud services.
How it Works
Methodology
Ensuring proper focus
Collaborating with clients to prioritize key cloud services based on environmental exposure and business objectives.
Ensuring a clear grasp of services
Collaborating with clients to comprehend how the solution and cloud services are configured and tailored to align with business objectives from a design perspective.
Scaling our service
We assist clients in rapidly securing their cloud workflows, utilizing our delivery frameworks with integrated team development.
Challenges
With significant workloads migrating to diverse cloud platforms, the threat landscape undergoes constant change for organizations. Consequently, organizations must cultivate new capabilities to handle cyber risk during their transition to the cloud.
Based on our experience, here are some major challenges encountered by organizations in cloud security management:
The Uncharted and Unexamined
Unidentified assets in the environment, along with absent ownership information in the inventory, contribute to cloud governance challenges and associated cyber risks, such as data breaches.
Improper Configuration and Insufficient Change Contro
Facilitating business innovation involves safeguarding critical assets against both known and emerging threats throughout the entire cloud environment, a critical imperative.
Absence of Cloud Security Architecture and Strategy
Attaining proactive threat insight and detection capabilities for both known and unknown adversarial activity is essential in cloud services. The absence of a secure cloud strategy and architecture constrains this capability
Governance and Resilience in the Cloud
Crucial and challenging, cross-functional coordination and management are essential for addressing the security program requirements of the cloud.
The typical vulnerabilities we addressed previously
With more than 400 cloud security engagements, our team has identified flaws based on design, configuration, and implementation, including but not limited to:
- S3 Bucket Misconfigurations
- Misconfigured/default Security Groups
- Missing security patches
- Improper Logging
- Misconfigured Kubernetes engines, Google Storage, databases
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Supported Cloud Providers
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Providers
What do you get?
Cloud Security Assessment on Demand
Our on-demand cloud security assessment follows an audit-style approach. To conduct this assessment, the client needs to provision a read-only access account in the respective cloud platform. Using this account, we perform a comprehensive assessment of the provisioned services and provide guidance based on our findings.
Continuous Cloud Auditing
Gathering audit evidence and indicators for more frequent risk data analysis. This aids in detecting anomalies, outliers, and other inconsistencies, allowing for proactive resolution.
Periodic Cloud Security Monitoring
Our emphasis is on establishing a feedback mechanism for management to verify that Cloud platform services and related security controls are functioning according to design, and transactions are processing correctly
WSA Cloud Audit Security Services
It extends beyond being a centralized repository for cloud audit findings. It encompasses all the capabilities necessary for managing cloud security services using Strobes.
Deliverables
Technical Report
- Our technical report includes an analysis of evaluated cloud services
- Review of configurations and identification of security configurations vulnerable to
- exploits (sample selected through a mutually agreed confirmation process)
- Details on exploiting inherent weaknesses in the design and implementation of cloud security controls
- Proof of concepts for exploits
- Risk rating for each identified area of improvement
- Impact on the business
- Mitigation controls to address the threats
Executive Management Report
- This report is directed towards leadership and includes:
- High-level details regarding the risk and impact of findings
- Business Impact Analysis of identified issues
- Maturity level assessment (relative to similar industries)
- Roadmap for cloud security management
Technical Report
- Our technical report includes an analysis of evaluated cloud services
- Review of configurations and identification of security configurations vulnerable to
- exploits (sample selected through a mutually agreed confirmation process)
- Details on exploiting inherent weaknesses in the design and implementation of cloud security controls
- Proof of concepts for exploits
- Risk rating for each identified area of improvement
- Impact on the business
- Mitigation controls to address the threats
