Comprehensive cloud security posture assessment

Business Challenges

As cloud adoption continues to expand rapidly across companies of all sizes, Boards, Business Leaders and CISOs are increasingly concerned about their organization's ability to withstand potential data losses from breaches or ransomware attacks. They are also focused on gaining a clear understanding of the company's current cloud security posture to ensure resilience against existing and emerging threats.

Overview

Our assessment is conducted by top-tier experts in regulated industries. We conduct review of existing processes using walkthrough sessions with your stakeholders, technical capability review using outputs of your existing tooling, review of cloud-native security tools, and our custom tooling augmented with AI-driven insight.

We will develop targeted actionable recommendations to address critical and high-risk findings, and a prioritized implementation roadmap.

We are using purpose-built Generative AI assistant to analyze severity of the findings and provide targeted recommendations.

Our approach

We use AWS Well-Architected framework extended by our custom assessment approach consisting of key capability expectations aligned to industry best practices and regulatory sources (NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, CSA CCM, CIS Benchmarks, etc) to gain visibility into key concern areas aligned to WAF's Security Pillar, including but not limited to focus areas outlined below:

Identity and access management

• Inadequate access controls and excessive permissions.
• Insider threats - the potential for malicious activity from privileged users.

Data Protection

• Insufficient protection of highly sensitive data.

Infrastructure protection

• Misconfigurations for cloud services that could be exploited by the attackers.

Application security

• API security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Detection

• Use of shadow or unapproved third-party cloud providers or applications.

Incident Response

• Insufficient operational resilience, lack of cloud-focused incident response plan.
• Lack of disaster recovery planning, insufficient or unprotected backups.

We also look at the Cost Optimization Pillar, as related to security costs:

• Excessive costs related to cloud security tools and usage.

Within Operational Excellence Pillar we review capabilities related to security:

• Lack of cloud security governance and undefined security operating model

We will use of AWS native security tools (AWS Config, IAM, IAM Access Analyzer, Macie, Amazon GuardDuty, Inspector, Detective, etc) in combination with 3rd-party CSPM tools (if needed) to gather mis-configurations and potential security issues or vulnerabilities.

We will provide

1. An executive summary for the Leadership.
2. Detailed technical recommendations for addressing the findings.
3. Prioritized roadmap for actioning our recommendations with estimated effort and complexity of implementation.

Value to You

Minimize cloud security risks by assessing vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and permissions to identify and implement targeted actionable recommendations that reduce cyber risk, enhance cloud resilience, meet regulatory compliance, and prepare for ransomware threats.