Cloud Configuration Assessments
Identify and Remediate Cloud Security Misconfigurations
Cloud configuration assessments evaluate cloud infrastructure configurations for security misconfigurations, compliance violations, and best practice deviations. Cloud misconfigurations are leading cause of data breaches with organizations exposing sensitive data through improperly configured storage buckets, databases, and services. Assessments cover AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud platforms evaluating identity and access management, network security, data protection, logging and monitoring, and compliance configurations. Assessments identify vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them, ensure compliance with security standards, optimize cloud costs, and improve security posture. At Glocert International, we provide comprehensive cloud configuration assessments identifying misconfigurations, prioritizing risks, providing remediation guidance, and validating fixes ensuring cloud environments secure and compliant.
What is Cloud Configuration Assessment?
Cloud configuration assessment is systematic evaluation of cloud infrastructure configurations identifying security misconfigurations, compliance violations, and deviations from security best practices. Assessment reviews cloud resources, services, and configurations across multiple cloud platforms ensuring proper security controls implemented.
Assessment Scope
Cloud configuration assessments cover:
- Identity and Access Management: User permissions, roles, policies, multi-factor authentication, privileged access
- Network Security: Security groups, network ACLs, VPC configurations, firewall rules, load balancers
- Data Protection: Encryption at rest and in transit, key management, data classification, backup configurations
- Storage Security: S3 buckets, blob storage, database configurations, access controls, public exposure
- Compute Security: Instance configurations, container security, serverless security, patch management
- Logging and Monitoring: CloudTrail, CloudWatch, security monitoring, alerting, incident detection
- Compliance: CIS benchmarks, security frameworks, regulatory requirements, industry standards
Cloud Platforms Supported
Assessments available for major cloud platforms:
- AWS (Amazon Web Services): EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudTrail, and other AWS services
- Microsoft Azure: Virtual machines, storage accounts, SQL databases, Azure AD, NSGs, Key Vault, and other Azure services
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, and other GCP services
- Multi-Cloud: Assessments across multiple cloud platforms in hybrid or multi-cloud environments
Common Misconfigurations
Assessments identify common misconfigurations including publicly accessible storage buckets, overly permissive IAM policies, unencrypted data storage, exposed databases, misconfigured security groups, disabled logging, default credentials, and missing security patches. These misconfigurations create security vulnerabilities enabling unauthorized access, data breaches, and compliance violations.
Why Cloud Configuration Assessments Matter
1. Prevent Data Breaches
Cloud misconfigurations are leading cause of data breaches with organizations exposing sensitive data through improperly configured resources. Assessments identify misconfigurations before attackers exploit them preventing data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage. Common misconfigurations include publicly accessible storage buckets, exposed databases, and overly permissive access controls. Regular assessments ensure configurations remain secure as cloud environments evolve.
2. Ensure Compliance
Cloud configuration assessments ensure compliance with security standards including CIS benchmarks, NIST frameworks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and industry-specific requirements. Assessments evaluate configurations against compliance requirements identifying violations and gaps. Compliance validation critical for organizations subject to regulatory requirements and industry standards. Regular assessments demonstrate ongoing compliance to auditors and regulators.
3. Reduce Security Risks
Assessments identify security risks enabling proactive remediation before incidents occur. Risk-based prioritization ensures critical vulnerabilities addressed first. Assessments evaluate security posture across cloud environments identifying areas requiring improvement. Continuous assessment ensures security maintained as configurations change and new services deployed.
4. Optimize Cloud Costs
Assessments identify unused resources, oversized instances, and inefficient configurations enabling cost optimization. Security and cost optimization go hand-in-hand with properly configured resources more secure and cost-effective. Assessments identify opportunities for rightsizing, reserved instances, and resource consolidation reducing cloud costs while improving security.
5. Improve Security Posture
Assessments provide comprehensive view of cloud security posture identifying strengths and weaknesses. Remediation guidance enables organizations improve security configurations systematically. Regular assessments ensure security posture improves over time. Benchmarking against industry standards enables organizations measure security maturity and progress.
Our Cloud Configuration Assessment Services
Glocert International provides comprehensive cloud configuration assessment services.
Comprehensive Configuration Assessment
Full assessment of cloud infrastructure configurations across all services and resources. Evaluation includes identity and access management, network security, data protection, storage security, compute security, logging and monitoring, and compliance. Automated scanning combined with manual review ensures comprehensive coverage. Delivers detailed findings with risk ratings and remediation guidance.
AWS Security Assessment
Specialized assessment for AWS environments evaluating EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and other AWS services. Assessment against AWS security best practices, CIS AWS benchmarks, and compliance requirements. Identifies S3 bucket misconfigurations, IAM policy issues, VPC security gaps, and other AWS-specific vulnerabilities.
Azure Security Assessment
Specialized assessment for Azure environments evaluating virtual machines, storage accounts, SQL databases, Azure AD, NSGs, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and other Azure services. Assessment against Azure security best practices, CIS Azure benchmarks, and compliance requirements. Identifies storage account misconfigurations, NSG rule issues, Azure AD security gaps, and other Azure-specific vulnerabilities.
GCP Security Assessment
Specialized assessment for GCP environments evaluating Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and other GCP services. Assessment against GCP security best practices, CIS GCP benchmarks, and compliance requirements. Identifies Cloud Storage bucket misconfigurations, IAM policy issues, VPC security gaps, and other GCP-specific vulnerabilities.
Compliance Assessment
Assessment against compliance frameworks including CIS benchmarks, NIST frameworks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and industry-specific requirements. Evaluation identifies compliance violations and gaps. Provides compliance report demonstrating adherence to requirements. Supports audit preparation and regulatory compliance.
Remediation Support
Support for remediating identified misconfigurations including prioritization by risk, remediation guidance and step-by-step instructions, configuration changes and implementation, validation testing, and follow-up assessments. Ensures misconfigurations addressed effectively and security improved.
Continuous Monitoring
Ongoing monitoring programs detecting configuration changes and new misconfigurations including automated scanning, change detection, alerting on misconfigurations, regular assessment reports, and integration with cloud security tools. Continuous monitoring ensures security maintained as cloud environments evolve.
Key Assessment Areas
Cloud configuration assessments evaluate following areas:
Identity and Access Management
User permissions, roles, policies, multi-factor authentication, privileged access, service accounts, key rotation, and access reviews. Identifies overly permissive policies, unused accounts, and access control gaps.
Network Security
Security groups, network ACLs, VPC configurations, firewall rules, load balancers, VPN configurations, and network segmentation. Identifies open ports, exposed services, and network security gaps.
Data Protection
Encryption at rest and in transit, key management, data classification, backup configurations, and data retention. Identifies unencrypted data, weak encryption, and data protection gaps.
Storage Security
S3 buckets, blob storage, database configurations, access controls, public exposure, versioning, and lifecycle policies. Identifies publicly accessible storage, exposed databases, and storage security gaps.
Logging and Monitoring
CloudTrail, CloudWatch, security monitoring, alerting, incident detection, log retention, and audit trails. Identifies disabled logging, missing alerts, and monitoring gaps.
Compliance
CIS benchmarks, security frameworks, regulatory requirements, industry standards, and compliance controls. Identifies compliance violations and gaps requiring remediation.
Benefits of Cloud Configuration Assessments:
Breach Prevention
Identifies misconfigurations before attackers exploit them preventing data breaches.
Compliance Assurance
Ensures compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements.
Risk Reduction
Identifies and prioritizes security risks enabling proactive remediation.
Cost Optimization
Identifies unused resources and inefficient configurations reducing cloud costs.
Cloud Configuration Assessment Pricing
Our cloud configuration assessment pricing is transparent and based on cloud platform, environment size, and assessment scope.
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Contact Us for PricingWhat's Included:
- Comprehensive configuration assessment
- AWS, Azure, or GCP security assessment
- Compliance assessment
- Detailed findings report
- Risk prioritization
- Remediation guidance
- Remediation support
- Continuous monitoring (optional)
Note: Pricing varies based on cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP), number of accounts/subscriptions, resources assessed, assessment scope (comprehensive vs focused), compliance frameworks, and continuous monitoring requirements. Contact us for detailed quote.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Find answers to common questions about cloud configuration assessments:
Cloud configuration assessment is systematic evaluation of cloud infrastructure configurations identifying security misconfigurations, compliance violations, and deviations from security best practices. Assessment reviews cloud resources, services, and configurations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud platforms. Evaluates identity and access management, network security, data protection, storage security, compute security, logging and monitoring, and compliance. Identifies vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them, ensures compliance with security standards, optimizes cloud costs, and improves security posture. Common misconfigurations include publicly accessible storage buckets, overly permissive IAM policies, unencrypted data storage, exposed databases, and misconfigured security groups.
Cloud misconfigurations are leading cause of data breaches with organizations exposing sensitive data through improperly configured resources. Assessments identify misconfigurations before attackers exploit them preventing data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage. Assessments ensure compliance with security standards including CIS benchmarks, NIST frameworks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and industry-specific requirements. Assessments identify security risks enabling proactive remediation, optimize cloud costs by identifying unused resources, and improve security posture through comprehensive evaluation and remediation guidance. Regular assessments ensure configurations remain secure as cloud environments evolve.
Assessments available for major cloud platforms: AWS (Amazon Web Services) - EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and other AWS services. Azure (Microsoft Azure) - Virtual machines, storage accounts, SQL databases, Azure AD, NSGs, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and other Azure services. GCP (Google Cloud Platform) - Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and other GCP services. Multi-Cloud - Assessments across multiple cloud platforms in hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Assessments tailored to each platform's specific services, configurations, and security best practices.
Assessments identify common misconfigurations: Publicly accessible storage buckets (S3, blob storage) exposing sensitive data, Overly permissive IAM policies allowing unauthorized access, Unencrypted data storage creating data breach risks, Exposed databases accessible from internet, Misconfigured security groups opening unnecessary ports, Disabled logging preventing security monitoring, Default credentials creating authentication vulnerabilities, Missing security patches exposing systems to known vulnerabilities, Unrestricted network access allowing unauthorized connections, Inadequate backup configurations risking data loss. These misconfigurations create security vulnerabilities enabling unauthorized access, data breaches, and compliance violations.
Cloud configurations should be assessed regularly: Initial assessment when establishing cloud environment, After major changes (new services, architecture changes, migrations), Quarterly assessments for ongoing evaluation, Continuous monitoring for real-time detection, Before compliance audits, After security incidents, When onboarding new cloud services. Frequency depends on environment complexity, change rate, compliance requirements, and risk tolerance. Organizations with dynamic cloud environments benefit from continuous monitoring detecting configuration changes and new misconfigurations immediately. Regular assessments ensure security maintained as cloud environments evolve.
Glocert provides: Comprehensive configuration assessment evaluating all cloud services and resources, AWS, Azure, and GCP security assessments tailored to each platform, Compliance assessment against CIS benchmarks, NIST frameworks, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and other requirements, Detailed findings report with risk ratings and remediation guidance, Remediation support including prioritization, guidance, implementation, and validation, Continuous monitoring detecting configuration changes and new misconfigurations, Integration with cloud security tools and platforms. Expertise in cloud security, AWS, Azure, GCP platforms, security best practices, compliance frameworks, and cloud misconfiguration detection. Experience helping organizations identify and remediate cloud security issues. Proven track record of successful assessments and security improvements.
Why Choose Glocert for Cloud Configuration Assessments?
Cloud Security Expertise
Glocert specializes in cloud configuration assessments with deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, cloud security best practices and frameworks, CIS benchmarks and compliance requirements, cloud misconfiguration detection, and cloud security tools and automation. We understand cloud security challenges helping organizations identify and remediate misconfigurations effectively.
Proven Assessment Experience
We've successfully conducted cloud configuration assessments for organizations across industries including enterprises, cloud-native companies, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions. Experience demonstrates ability to deliver comprehensive assessments identifying security issues and providing actionable remediation guidance.
Related Services
Organizations requiring cloud configuration assessments often need complementary services. Glocert also provides ISO 27001 certification, penetration testing and security assessments, compliance consulting, and security training. We coordinate multiple engagements providing integrated cloud security governance addressing configuration security alongside other requirements.
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