AWS Cloud Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your AWS cloud environment.
What this assessment covers.
AWS environments introduce a new category of security risks driven by configuration, identity, and access management. DERISK’s AWS Cloud Security Assessment service evaluates your AWS infrastructure to identify security risks across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and deployed services.
Our testing helps organisations detect misconfigurations, excessive permissions, insecure deployments, and other AWS-specific security weaknesses. We assess IAM policies, S3 buckets, security groups, EC2 instances, and key management using proven methodologies aligned with recognised cloud security frameworks.
How we test.
A structured, expert-led methodology from initial reconnaissance through to real-time reporting and remediation guidance.
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AWS Architecture Review
We review your AWS architecture — VPCs, subnets, resource groupings, and data flows — to understand how your environment is structured and where risks may exist.
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Configuration Assessment
We evaluate AWS configurations against CIS benchmarks and best practices to identify misconfigurations such as public S3 buckets, open security groups, and unencrypted data.
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Security Posture Validation
We validate that security controls — CloudTrail logging, monitoring, encryption, and network controls — are properly enabled and functioning as intended across AWS services.
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Risk Analysis across IAM and deployed services
We analyse IAM policies, roles, and permissions to identify excessive privileges, unused credentials, and paths to privilege escalation across your AWS services.
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Real-time findings published to the DERISK PTaaS portal
AWS security risks are published live to the PTaaS portal with configuration details and remediation steps for immediate action.
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Reporting & Remediation guidance
You receive a detailed report with configuration analysis, risk-rated findings, and AWS-specific remediation guidance aligned with recognised frameworks.
Why teams choose us.
Expert-led, manually validated, and delivered through the DERISK PTaaS platform for continuous visibility and rapid remediation.
Outstanding Features
- ✓Assessment aligned with recognised AWS security frameworks and best practices
- ✓Real-time visibility into AWS security posture through the DERISK PTaaS platform
- ✓Deep IAM and privilege analysis across AWS roles and policies
- ✓Coverage across EC2, S3, VPC, KMS, and other core AWS services
Why Choose Our Service?
- ▸AWS expertise: Assess AWS environments using proven methodologies and CIS benchmarks
- ▸Configuration-driven security: Identify risks caused by misconfigurations before they become breaches
- ▸Identity & access governance: Review IAM policies, privileged access, and permission models
- ▸AWS-native recommendations: Receive remediation guidance aligned with modern AWS architectures and security best practices
Frameworks & standards.
Testing is aligned with industry-recognised frameworks and standards to ensure comprehensive, repeatable coverage.
What you receive.
Everything you need to understand, prioritise, and remediate findings — delivered through the platform with ongoing validation.
AWS Security Assessment questions.
What does an AWS assessment cover?
IAM users, roles, policies and cross-account trust relationships; S3 and other storage exposure; VPC design and security group rules; KMS and secrets handling; CloudTrail, Config and GuardDuty coverage; and workload-level configuration against CIS Benchmarks.
What access do you need?
The AWS SecurityAudit and ViewOnlyAccess managed policies are typically sufficient for configuration review. Exploitability testing is scoped and agreed separately.
Does AWS need to approve the testing?
AWS permits customer penetration testing of most services without prior approval under its customer support policy, with specific exceptions. We confirm the current policy during scoping and stay within it.
What are the most common AWS findings?
Over-permissive IAM policies and wildcard actions, role trust relationships that allow unintended assumption, publicly readable S3 buckets, unencrypted data at rest, and CloudTrail either disabled in some regions or not monitored.
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Ready to secure your assets with AWS Security Assessment?
Get in touch with DERISK to schedule an assessment or learn more about how our expert-led testing can strengthen your security posture.
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