Cloud Security Assessment

Secure Your Cloud, Secure Your Business

Cloud environments introduce a fundamentally different security model compared to traditional infrastructure. Shared responsibility, dynamic resources, complex IAM policies, and the speed of deployment create security challenges that traditional tools and approaches cannot address effectively. XHack's Cloud Security Assessment service evaluates your cloud environment against security best practices and identifies misconfigurations, excessive permissions, data exposure risks, and architectural weaknesses.

Misconfigured cloud resources are one of the most common causes of data breaches today. A single overly permissive S3 bucket, an exposed database, or an overprivileged IAM role can expose your entire organization. Our assessments find these issues before attackers do.

Multi-Cloud Expertise

Our cloud security team has deep expertise across all major cloud platforms:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and the broader AWS ecosystem
• Microsoft Azure including Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure AD, AKS, Azure Functions, NSGs, Azure Sentinel, and Azure Policy
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, IAM, GKE, Cloud Functions, VPC, and Security Command Center

We also assess hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, evaluating how security controls span across environments and identifying gaps at the boundaries.

Assessment Areas

Identity and Access Management. IAM is the foundation of cloud security. We review IAM policies, roles, service accounts, federation configurations, and access patterns to identify overprivileged accounts, unused permissions, and policy misconfigurations that could enable unauthorized access or privilege escalation.

Network Security. We evaluate VPC configurations, security groups, network ACLs, load balancers, API gateways, and connectivity to on-premises networks. The review identifies exposed services, overly permissive rules, missing segmentation, and network paths that could enable lateral movement.

Data Protection. We assess how sensitive data is stored, encrypted, accessed, and shared across your cloud environment. This includes storage bucket permissions, database access controls, encryption at rest and in transit, key management practices, and data loss prevention controls.

Compute Security. We review the security configuration of compute resources including virtual machines, containers, serverless functions, and managed services. The assessment covers patching, hardening, runtime security, and the security of deployment pipelines that provision these resources.

Container and Kubernetes Security. For organizations running containerized workloads, we assess container image security, Kubernetes cluster configuration, pod security policies, network policies, secrets management, and the container supply chain from build to deployment.

Logging and Monitoring. Effective cloud security requires comprehensive visibility. We evaluate your logging configuration, monitoring coverage, alerting rules, and incident detection capabilities to ensure that security-relevant events are captured, analyzed, and actioned.

Compliance in the Cloud

Cloud compliance introduces unique challenges around data residency, shared responsibility, and control inheritance. Our assessments map your cloud configuration against relevant compliance requirements (PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR) and identify where your cloud environment meets, partially meets, or fails to meet regulatory obligations.

Infrastructure as Code Review

For organizations using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or other IaC tools, we review your infrastructure code for security misconfigurations before they reach production. This shifts cloud security left, catching issues during development rather than after deployment.

Actionable Remediation

Every finding includes specific remediation guidance with the exact configuration changes, CLI commands, or IaC modifications needed to resolve the issue. We prioritize findings based on risk and provide clear steps your team can execute immediately.

Confidentiality

Cloud security assessments require access to sensitive infrastructure configurations. All access is conducted through read-only roles with minimum necessary permissions. Assessment data is encrypted, access is restricted to the assigned team, and all data is securely deleted after the engagement.