Cloud Configuration Review
Review and hardening of cloud infrastructure configuration
Our Cloud Configuration Review measures a cloud account against recognized baselines — the CIS Foundations Benchmarks for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and each provider's well-architected security guidance. It is a review of posture rather than an intrusion test: we look for the misconfigurations that quietly widen the attack surface — over-permissive IAM, public storage, databases reachable from the internet, management ports open to the world, missing logging, and unencrypted data — and read every setting under the shared-responsibility model, so what we report is yours to fix. Each finding carries its risk, the evidence behind it, and a concrete remediation step.
What's Included
IAM review: over-broad policies and roles, unused credentials, key rotation, and MFA on privileged and root accounts
Least-privilege analysis and paths to privilege escalation across identities
Public exposure: storage buckets and blobs, disk snapshots, and databases reachable from the internet
Network configuration: security groups and NSGs, open management ports (SSH, RDP), default networks, and peering
Logging and monitoring: the audit trail (CloudTrail, Activity Log, Cloud Audit Logs), flow logs, and alerting on security events
Encryption at rest and in transit, and key management and rotation (KMS, Key Vault)
Secrets handling: secret stores versus hardcoded credentials, and exposure in instance metadata or user data
Data protection: backups, versioning, and public snapshots
Service-specific hardening for serverless, managed databases, and container services
Organization guardrails and drift: service control policies, Azure Policy, and organization policies
How It Works
- Executive summary with a risk overview for decision-makers
- Detailed report mapped to the CIS Foundations Benchmark for each provider
- IAM findings with over-privileged identities and escalation paths
- Public-exposure inventory: storage, databases, and network
- Logging, monitoring, and encryption gaps
- Risk rating and business impact for every finding
- Prioritized remediation roadmap with organization guardrails
- Re-checking after remediation
Why HafezSecure
Frequently Asked Questions
It measures a cloud account against recognized baselines for misconfigurations and security gaps — over-permissive IAM, public storage, open networks, missing logging, and unencrypted data — mapped to the CIS Foundations Benchmark for the provider, with each finding backed by evidence and a fix.
A configuration review. A penetration test attacks a system to see what breaks; a configuration review reads the account's settings against a standard to find the weaknesses before anyone attacks. They complement each other: the review tells you where you are exposed, and a test confirms what is actually reachable.
The CIS Foundations Benchmarks for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, together with each provider's well-architected security guidance. The same method applies to a single provider or a multi-cloud estate.
A read-only security-audit role in each account, subscription, or project in scope — the standard audit role each provider offers is enough. We change nothing; we only read the configuration. We agree the scope and anything to exclude before we begin.
Least privilege means each identity has only the permissions its job needs. Over-permission matters because a broad role turns any leaked key or compromised workload into a larger breach — a credential that can read every bucket or assume other roles lets an attacker move far beyond the first foothold.
Yes. Public buckets and blobs, internet-facing databases and disk snapshots, and management ports such as SSH and RDP open to the world are among the most common paths to a breach, so they are a core part of the review.
Yes. We check that the audit trail is on and protected, that flow logs and alerts cover security-relevant events, and that data is encrypted at rest and in transit with keys that are managed and rotated. Without these, a breach is both easier and harder to detect.
Each finding is rated by the real risk in your account — what it exposes, how reachable it is, and what an attacker gains — rather than by a fixed label. A public database with customer data outranks an internal setting that only a trusted identity can reach.
Yes — after you remediate, we re-check the reported findings and update their status. Duration depends on the number of accounts and services; a typical review runs about one to three weeks, and we give a firm estimate after scoping.
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