Cloud Security Assessment Services for AWS, Azure & GCP

A cloud security assessment reviews how your AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environment is configured — checking for misconfigurations, overly broad access permissions, and exposed storage that are behind most real-world cloud data breaches. Most cloud breaches don’t happen because of a flaw in the cloud provider’s infrastructure; they happen because of how the customer configured it. PS INFOSEC reviews your environment against provider-specific security benchmarks and manually verifies the access controls automated tools often report incorrectly.

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What Is a Cloud Security Assessment?

Cloud platforms operate on a shared responsibility model: the provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) secures the underlying infrastructure, but you’re responsible for how you configure identity, access, storage, and networking within it. A cloud security assessment reviews your side of that responsibility — checking for the misconfigurations, over-permissioned accounts, and exposed resources that are consistently the root cause of publicized cloud breaches.

This is distinct from a general network penetration test: cloud environments have their own configuration surface (IAM policies, storage bucket permissions, security groups, serverless function permissions) that requires cloud-specific expertise to review properly.

What We Assess

AWS Security Assessment

IAM policies, S3 bucket permissions, security groups, and service configurations against CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark

Microsoft Azure Security Assessment

Azure AD, resource permissions, network security groups, and storage configuration against CIS Azure Benchmark

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Security Assessment

IAM, storage, and network configuration against CIS GCP Benchmark

Identity & Access Management (IAM) Review

Checking for overly broad permissions, unused privileged accounts, and missing MFA enforcement

Cloud Storage Security Assessment

Checking for publicly exposed buckets, blobs, or storage accounts — one of the most common causes of cloud data leaks

Cloud Compliance Review

Mapping your cloud configuration against relevant compliance frameworks

Our Assessment Process

Why Configuration Review Matters More Than You’d Expect

The majority of significant cloud breaches reported publicly trace back to a configuration issue — a storage bucket left public, an IAM role with far more permissions than it needed, or a security group open to the entire internet — not a flaw in AWS, Azure, or GCP’s own infrastructure. These are exactly the kinds of issues a generic vulnerability scanner isn’t built to find, because they’re not a software vulnerability; they’re a configuration decision.

Reviewing IAM policies and storage permissions manually, against the specific benchmark for each provider, is where a cloud security assessment earns its value over a general infrastructure scan.

What You Get: Deliverables

Configuration Findings Report

Every misconfiguration documented against the relevant CIS Benchmark control

Remediation Guidance

Specific configuration changes needed, mapped to your cloud provider's console/CLI

IAM Risk Summary

Overly broad or unused permissions, ranked by risk

Storage Exposure Report

Any publicly accessible storage resources identified

Free Retest

Confirmation that configuration fixes are correctly applied

Industries We Serve

We’ve delivered engagements across a range of sectors, including:

Banking & Financial Services
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Information Technology & SaaS
Manufacturing
Government & Public Sector
Retail & E-Commerce
Education
Telecommunications
Logistics & Transportation
Professional Services

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a cloud security assessment different from penetration testing?

Yes — a cloud security assessment focuses on configuration and access-control review against provider security benchmarks. Cloud penetration testing actively attempts to exploit misconfigurations, and typically requires prior authorization from your cloud provider under their rules of engagement — we'll clarify what applies during scoping.

Which cloud providers do you assess?

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — each reviewed against its own provider-specific CIS Benchmark rather than a generic checklist.

What is the shared responsibility model?

Cloud providers secure the underlying infrastructure (physical data centers, network backbone, hypervisor). You're responsible for how you configure identity, access, storage, and networking within that infrastructure — which is exactly what a cloud security assessment reviews.

Do you need admin access to our cloud environment?

Typically read-only access is sufficient for a configuration and IAM review — the specific access level required is confirmed during scoping based on what's being assessed.

How often should we run a cloud security assessment?

Given how frequently cloud environments change — new services, new IAM roles, new storage resources — an annual assessment plus a review after any major infrastructure change is a reasonable baseline for most organizations.