Cloud Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your cloud environments.
What this assessment covers.
Cloud environments introduce a new category of security risks driven by configuration, identity, and access management. DERISK’s Cloud Security Assessment service evaluates your cloud infrastructure to identify security risks across infrastructure, IAM, configurations, and deployed services.
Our testing helps organisations detect misconfigurations, excessive permissions, insecure deployments, and other cloud security weaknesses. We assess AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments 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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Cloud Architecture Review
We review your cloud architecture — network segmentation, resource grouping, and data flows — to understand how your environment is structured and where risks may exist.
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Configuration Assessment
We evaluate cloud configurations against CIS benchmarks and best practices to identify misconfigurations such as public storage buckets, open security groups, and unencrypted data.
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Security Posture Validation
We validate that security controls — logging, monitoring, encryption, and network controls — are properly enabled and functioning as intended.
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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 cloud services.
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Real-time findings published to the DERISK PTaaS portal
Cloud 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 cloud-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 cloud security frameworks and best practices
- ✓Real-time visibility into cloud security posture through the DERISK PTaaS platform
- ✓Multi-cloud expertise across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- ✓IAM and privilege analysis to identify excessive permissions
Why Choose Our Service?
- ▸Multi-cloud expertise: Assess AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments using proven methodologies
- ▸Configuration-driven security: Identify risks caused by misconfigurations before they become breaches
- ▸Identity & access governance: Review IAM policies, privileged access, and permission models
- ▸Cloud-native recommendations: Receive remediation guidance aligned with modern cloud 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.
Cloud Security Assessment questions.
Which cloud providers do you assess?
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, individually or across a multi-cloud estate. Each has a dedicated DERISK service if you want provider-specific depth.
What access do you need?
A read-only audit role is enough for configuration review. Testing that proves exploitability — privilege escalation paths, lateral movement between accounts — is agreed separately and scoped to avoid production impact.
What are the most common cloud findings?
Over-permissive IAM roles and trust relationships, publicly reachable storage and databases, missing or unmonitored logging, unencrypted data at rest, and network paths that bypass intended segmentation.
Does this cover compliance frameworks?
Findings are tagged to the control they violate across ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and the UAE regional frameworks, so your compliance team gets evidence-ready mappings instead of raw vulnerabilities to interpret.
Often scoped together.
AWS Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your AWS cloud environment.
Azure Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your Azure cloud environment.
GCP Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your Google Cloud environment.
Configuration Review
Identify misconfigurations and harden your systems against attack.
Ready to secure your assets with Cloud 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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