The cloud environment requires advanced security measures that provide “anytime, anywhere” protection. One common issue related to cloud security is misconfiguration, another is excessive network permissions, and there are more. A cloud security assessment is a necessary step in identifying such issues, as well as any other outdated aspects of the security model.

By taking a proactive approach, we can significantly improve your security posture, reduce the risk of security breaches, and ensure that you are able to effectively detect and respond to security incidents as they occur.

A cloud security assessment typically focuses on the following seven areas:

• Overall security posture: Conduct interviews and a documentation review to evaluate the security of enterprise cloud infrastructure
• Access control and management: Review identity and access management, including user accounts, roles, and key management
• Network security: Review segmentation and firewall policies against common misconfigurations
• Incident management: Review incident response policy related to cloud infrastructure, including roles and processes related to an incident
• Storage security: Assess posture of cloud storage including object-level storage, block-level storage, and related snapshots
• Platform services security: Review security configuration of advanced service offerings specific to each cloud service provider
• Workload security: Review security for workloads including virtualized servers, server-hosted containers, functions, and serverless containerized workloads

Specific benefits of a cloud security assessment include:

• Reduced risk from accidental misconfiguration: By adopting the tailored configuration changes recommended as part of the cloud security assessment, the organization can reduce its attack surface in the cloud environment.
• Reduced risk from missed notifications: The cloud security assessment team’s recommendations can improve an organization’s ability to detect and respond to compromise so that a minor issue does not become a full-blown breach.
• Improved resilience: The team performing the cloud security assessment will provide recommendations to help organizations recover from a breach faster.
• More efficient account management: Organizations with less-than-optimal identity architectures can reduce their time spent on account and privilege management while reducing the chances of inadvertent excessive privileges being granted.
• Detection of past compromise: While a cloud security assessment is not a comprehensive cloud compromise assessment, it can identify variances from the norm in the organization’s cloud configuration that could have been caused through compromise.

QMasters also offers range of Crowdstrike services including:

• Implementation and deployment
• Policy creation
• Customization and integration
• Support
• Ongoing maintenance & recommendations