The Lacework-Powered Cloud Security Assessment (CSA) gives Somerford Associates access to a dedicated Lacework tenant for a two-week period to assist customers in accelerating cloud account audits.

With this environment, Lacework and Somerford Associates can help you:

Accelerate compliance audits into your cloud infrastructure for several common frameworks Onboard cloud configuration and activity data from AWS in minutes to provide improved visibility Understand and prioritise risk to quickly plan and remediate with partner-led services

A complimentary in-depth assessment to understand infrastructure and data-related assets as well as their correlations which may be at risk using a contextual asset infrastructure discovery process.

As a free and automated assessment, Somerford will deliver a report detailing the specific security risks across your public cloud compute, storage, and account resources.

The CSA will provide an understanding of current infrastructure configuration and data exposure risks through increased visibility and observability of cloud assets. Mapping both policies and data assets. Somerford helps our customers understand and get complete visibility of the existing state of their security framework and policies and where they can optimise and improve their security risk and posture.

The main benefits result in total compliance risk reporting and navigation of risk-exposed assets, policy remediation and restoration of configuration control in AWS increasing stronger cloud security posture management.

The CSA provides the following achievable value and benefits:

• Mitigate risk through visual component views to understand vulnerable infrastructure components and assets
• Understand if cyber assets are misconfigured and need remediation
• Selection or procurement of an ongoing cloud risk and security posture platform
• Create or modify incremental scheduling for regular automated scans and reporting with the selected security platform
• Assist in obtaining full governance and control over all inventoried cloud data and infrastructure service asset
• Assist with data compliance
• By providing a thorough configuration audit, Somerford helps customers achieve security compliance by providing guided actions for resolving potential data leaks and misconfigurations