Cloud Security Audit Service
Securexocean's cloud security audit delivers an independent, evidence-based assessment of your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment covering infrastructure configuration, identity controls, data security, and compliance posture.
SERVICE INTRODUCTION
A cloud security audit is a structured review of your cloud environment's security configurations, access controls, and compliance posture. It examines how infrastructure is configured, how access to resources is governed, how data is protected, and where controls fall short of security best practices and regulatory requirements.
Misconfigurations in workloads, identity configurations, network controls, and application layers are the leading cause of cloud-related breaches — and most go undetected until exploitation. Securexocean combines automated configuration analysis with manual expert review, providing a complete picture of your security posture across compute, storage, identity, networking, and logging domains with findings mapped to applicable compliance frameworks.
THREAT LANDSCAPE
Publicly accessible storage buckets, overpermissioned IAM roles, disabled logging, unrestricted security group rules, and unencrypted data stores are consistently the most exploited cloud security failures. These are configuration errors that automated attackers scan for continuously.
Cloud environments also accumulate identity sprawl rapidly. Service accounts, developer credentials, third-party integrations, and unused access keys each represent potential entry points if not actively governed. Resource provisioning speed further creates environments where development teams spin up infrastructure that is never formally inventoried or reviewed — unmonitored attack surface that perimeter controls do not cover.
What a Cloud Security Audit Identifies
IAM misconfigurations including overpermissioned roles, unused credentials, and absent MFA enforcement
Publicly exposed storage, databases, and compute resources accessible without authentication
Unencrypted data at rest and in transit across storage services and inter-service communication
Inadequate logging, monitoring, and alerting configurations reducing incident detection capability
Security group and firewall rule misconfigurations permitting unnecessary access
Missing or misconfigured data backup and disaster recovery controls
Third-party and service account access without defined scope or rotation policies
Non-compliance with CIS Controls, NIST CSF, and provider-specific security frameworks
Scoping information collected covering in-scope cloud accounts, regions, services, and workloads. Read-only access provisioned. All active resources, services, and integrations identified including shadow IT assets. Complete attack surface inventory produced as the assessment baseline.
Detailed security configuration review across all in-scope cloud services evaluated against CIS Benchmarks, provider best practices, and applicable compliance frameworks. IAM policies, network architecture, encryption configurations, logging settings, and storage access controls manually reviewed and validated. Automated scanning used for coverage breadth with all findings confirmed by certified practitioners.
Findings documented with technical evidence, risk ratings, business impact context, and step-by-step remediation guidance. Executive summary provided alongside technical report. Remediation walkthrough conducted with engineering and security teams. Retesting included with a closure report confirming resolution status.
Audit Toolset
Our team uses cloud provider native assessment tools, cloud security posture management platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, IAM analysis and privilege assessment utilities, secrets scanning tools, configuration benchmark assessment platforms, and network security configuration review tools. All findings are manually reviewed before inclusion in the report.
Executive summary covering overall cloud security risk posture for CISO and leadership
Technical findings report with risk-rated findings, configuration evidence, and remediation guidance
CIS Benchmark and compliance framework mapping against ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or GDPR
IAM review report detailing access policy findings and overpermissioned roles
Attack surface inventory covering all identified cloud resources including untracked workloads
Post-remediation retest report formatted for audit evidence submission
Regulatory Alignment
Control A.5.23 addresses information security for use of cloud services. A cloud security audit produces technical evidence demonstrating conformance during certification and surveillance audits.
Security and Availability criteria require documented evidence of logical access controls, monitoring, and incident response. Cloud audit findings and remediation records serve directly as SOC 2 audit evidence.
Article 32 requires appropriate technical measures to ensure security appropriate to processing risk. Documented cloud security reviews with evidenced remediation demonstrate required technical diligence.
equirements 1, 2, 7, and 10 address network controls, system hardening, access restriction, and logging across cloud environments in cardholder data scope.
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