Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud

Cloud Security

Comprehensive security assessments for Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform environments, evaluating identity and access controls, network boundaries, and deployed workloads.

IAM, workloads, and network boundariesSingle-cloud and multi-cloud coverage

Secure Your Cloud Infrastructure Across All Major Platforms

Assess Identity and Access Controls
Evaluate IAM policies, role assignments, and conditional access configurations across Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, and Google Cloud IAM to identify privilege escalation risks.
Identify Misconfigurations
Review storage buckets, managed databases, container clusters, and serverless functions for exposed services, overly permissive access, and security posture gaps.
Test Network Boundaries
Validate network segmentation, VPC configurations, and hybrid cloud connections to ensure proper isolation between tenants, subscriptions, and on-premises environments.

Engagement options

Choose between broad cloud review and active exploitation

Both options cover cloud identity, services, and architecture. The difference is how aggressively we validate exploitable paths.

Cloud Security Audit

Comprehensive assessment of your cloud environment covering identity and access controls for in-scope systems, network boundaries, exposed services, and deployed workloads including compute instances, containers, serverless functions, storage buckets, and managed databases. Identifies potential weaknesses that could allow unauthorized access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, or sensitive data exposure across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.

Cloud Penetration Test

Comprehensive assessment of your cloud environment involving active exploitation attempts to validate security controls. Tests identity and access management across Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, and Google Cloud IAM, network boundaries, exposed services, and deployed workloads including VMs, container clusters, serverless functions, storage buckets, and managed databases. Identifies exploitable weaknesses that could allow unauthorized access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, or sensitive data exposure.

Benefits

Assessment benefits

Built for teams that need visibility across identity, platform services, and hybrid-cloud exposure without reducing everything to a checklist.

Covers Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform with provider-specific expertise.
Evaluates identity and access management including Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, and Google Cloud IAM.
Assesses compute resources including VMs, instances, container clusters, and serverless functions.
Reviews storage and database configurations including storage buckets and managed databases.
Validates network segmentation and hybrid cloud connections across multi-tenant environments.
Identifies misconfigurations and security gaps that could lead to data exposure or unauthorized access.

What gets reviewed

Cloud security from the identity layer outward

Cloud security assessments evaluate your organization's cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. We assess identity and access management including Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, and Google Cloud IAM, along with conditional access policies, role assignments, and service account configurations.

Our assessments cover compute resources including VMs, EC2 instances, and Compute Engine instances, container clusters such as AKS, EKS, and GKE, serverless functions including Azure Functions, Lambda, and Cloud Functions, storage buckets like S3, Azure Storage, and Cloud Storage, and managed databases including RDS, Azure SQL Database, Cloud SQL, and others.

We also evaluate network boundaries, VPC configurations, cross-account access, hybrid cloud connections, and multi-tenant isolation across subscriptions, tenants, and projects. Whether you operate in a single cloud or across multiple providers, our assessments identify misconfigurations and security gaps that could lead to unauthorized access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, or sensitive data exposure.

Who usually engages us

Security and cloud platform leaders who want to understand how identity, access, and misconfigurations in their cloud environment could actually be abused.

We typically work with organizations running AWS, Azure, or GCP that need a clear picture of IAM risk, exposed keys and secrets, and how service configurations could be chained together to gain access to sensitive data or take control of cloud resources.

Questions we get often

If an attacker gains access to a single account or key, how far could they move across our cloud environment?
Are our IAM roles, permissions, and trust relationships exposing us to privilege escalation or cross-account compromise?
How do you assess cloud risk safely in production without impacting live workloads?

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Ready to Secure Your Cloud Environment?

Let Vilkas assess your cloud infrastructure and identify security gaps across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.

Scope Your Assessment

Cloud Security — FAQ

Answers about cloud providers, assessment scope, access requirements, and deliverables.

Which cloud providers do you assess?▾

We assess Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. This includes Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD, renamed in July 2023), Google Workspace and Google Cloud Platform, and AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and EKS.

What does a cloud security assessment cover?▾

Assessments evaluate identity and access management including IAM policies, role assignments, and conditional access configurations. We review compute resources including VMs, instances, container clusters, and serverless functions, storage buckets and managed databases, network boundaries and VPC configurations, and hybrid or cross-cloud connections. We also assess multi-tenant isolation across subscriptions, tenants, and projects.

What is the difference between a cloud security audit and a cloud penetration test?▾

A cloud security audit focuses on configuration review and identifying misconfigurations, overly permissive access, and security posture gaps without active exploitation. A cloud penetration test involves active exploitation attempts to validate security controls and identify exploitable weaknesses that could lead to unauthorized access, privilege escalation, or data exposure.

Do you assess hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments?▾

Yes. We assess hybrid cloud connections between on-premises and cloud environments, cross-cloud integrations between different cloud providers, and multi-cloud deployments. We evaluate how these connections are secured and identify potential risks in cloud-to-cloud or on-premises to cloud integrations.

What access is required for a cloud security assessment?▾

Access requirements depend on the assessment type and scope. For audits, read-only access to IAM, resource configurations, and security settings is typically sufficient. For penetration tests, we may need additional permissions to test access controls and validate security configurations. We work with you during scoping to determine the appropriate access level.

How long does a cloud security assessment take?▾

Timelines vary based on the number of subscriptions, tenants, or accounts in scope, the complexity of the environment, and the assessment type. Typical audits range from 1-2 weeks, while penetration tests may take 2-4 weeks depending on scope and complexity. We provide detailed timelines during scoping.

What deliverables do we receive?▾

You receive an executive summary, detailed findings with evidence and remediation guidance, prioritized recommendations based on risk, and a live debrief. For penetration tests, we also include proof-of-concept demonstrations of exploitable vulnerabilities. Post-remediation validation is included to verify fixes.