With the rapid adoption of cloud, organizations are using cloud infrastructure to store sensitive corporate data as well as PII data of their clients/workforce, attracting the cyber criminals towards their cloud infrastructure. This introduces new security concerns such as implementing and maintaining security rules and policies across companies’ multi/hybrid cloud and protecting the sensitive data from attackers.

Cloud security assessment becomes very vital to ensure that the enterprise’s security posture is equipped to respond to any threat or attack. Cloud security assessment aids by identifying misconfiguration errors, auditing regulatory compliance requirements and security policies across cloud environment.

HCLTech leverages its technical prowess & vast solution partner network, provides strategies to strengthen the security of the client’s cloud environment, delivering high-quality assessment and audit services and provide expert solutions on mitigating any risk or threat discovered.

As part of HCLTech’s CSaaS (Cloud Security as a Service), we offer Cloud Security & Compliance Assessment Services to help our customers migrate their application and infra landscape to cloud in a secure manner. We perform Cloud Security Assessments in various areas viz. Infra & Cloud security, IAM (Identity & Access Management), Data Security, Application Security, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) and Security of Things, which enables the businesses to form a better cloud computing strategy & manage their risks effectively.

HCLTech offers a pragmatic approach for cloud security assessment services which are carried out systematically in four steps as described below:

a) Strategize - HCLTech’s Cybersecurity Consultants will consult with the client’s CISO/CIO to establish the assessment context and requirements, understand their business objectives, define challenges, and identify the key stakeholders.

b) Analyze - After strategizing, our consultants will assess the current state of client’s cloud security policies and controls and analyze the global regulatory compliance requirements that need to be maintained. The current controls matrix will be mapped with the CSA & NIST defined baselines.

c) Aggregate -The next step after assessing the cloud environment is to define a cloud governance model, which will identify the key capabilities to manage and operate the cloud environment on AWS. We will also define KPI(s) to measure the effectiveness of cloud governance model. The complete RnR & distribution of duties amongst AWS, client & Service Integrator partner will be defined in this phase.

d) Document - Finally, the client’s requirements and baselines for the full stream AWS cloud landing zones are documented. We provide the Gap Analysis reports and recommendations to improve their cloud security posture along with compliance recommendations.

**Service Features- **

• End-to-end cloud assessment ranging across Application, Network, Data, Infrastructure, Identity & Access Management, Security of Things and Compliance

• Manual as well as tool-based approach are utilized to carry out the assessments.

• Roadmaps are developed for the various security controls that need to be deployed to improve enterprise security posture of cloud apps & infra.

• Services are curated according to the size and complexity of enterprise application environment and accordingly, the timelines are defined.

• The Enterprise’s cloud risk against the major industry regulations are measured.

• Detailed recommendations to strengthen the defense architecture & improved resilience to rapidly recover from security breaches.

Service Benefits-

• Clients get a comprehensive view of their entire cloud security posture pre-migration.

• Provisions security measures/ solution controls on AWS against all the identified risks and vulnerabilities

• Reduces the security risk with third party integrations.

• Ensures compliance to organization’s security policies and processes as well as the regulatory standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR etc.

• Enables the organizations to avoid the data breach and minimize the damage in case any security breach occurs.

Service Delivery HCLTech has developed an in-house application to make the response service automated for our clients. For the Compliance assessment, we gather Data Intelligence via discovery & visibility of data spread across the client's AWS cloud, on-premises, and legacy systems. This enables the enterprises to discover, classify and label hundreds of sensitive data elements in multi-cloud and self-managed structured and unstructured data systems, even at petabyte scale. We also collect, organize, enrich, and build a data catalog to address privacy, security and governance solutions. It provides the clients with benefits like enhanced data governance, detailed visibility of existing data, identification of personal data touchpoints, as well as meeting the compliance requirements.