Cloud Security Posture Analysis
A structured assessment of your AWS or Azure environment's security stance — identifying exposure, compliance gaps, and a clear remediation roadmap before attackers find them first.
Why a Security Posture Analysis?
Cloud environments are inherently dynamic — resources spin up, IAM policies accumulate, and network boundaries shift as teams move fast. Without a structured assessment, security technical debt accrues silently: overly permissive IAM roles, publicly exposed storage buckets, unencrypted datastores, and unmonitored egress paths are consistently the starting points for real-world breaches.
As a Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate and AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional with hands-on experience securing FedRAMP-adjacent, HIPAA-compliant, and multi-tenant SaaS environments, I assess your environment from an attacker's perspective — not just a checklist.
Assessment Areas
- Identity & Access Management: Role proliferation, privilege escalation paths, cross-account trust, service account hygiene, and least-privilege enforcement across AWS IAM / Azure RBAC + Entra ID.
- Network Security: VPC/VNet design review, Security Group and NSG hygiene, public endpoint exposure, Private Link / Private Endpoint adoption, and egress filtering.
- Data Protection: Encryption at rest and in transit, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager / Azure Key Vault), and S3 / Blob storage public-access auditing.
- Threat Detection & Monitoring: CloudTrail / Defender for Cloud coverage gaps, GuardDuty / Microsoft Defender alert configuration, and SIEM integration readiness.
- Compliance Mapping: Gap analysis against relevant frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001) with control coverage evidence where applicable.
- Patch & Vulnerability Management: OS and container image patching cadence, CVE exposure in running workloads, and ECR / ACR image scanning status.
- Incident Response Readiness: IR runbook review, log retention adequacy, backup integrity, and recovery time objective (RTO) validation.
Deliverables
All findings with CVSS-style severity ratings, affected resources, and evidence.
Quick-win vs. strategic fixes, effort vs. impact matrix, and sprint-ready tickets.
Control coverage mapped against your target framework(s) with pass/fail/partial status.
Two-tier presentation — board-level risk summary and deep-dive for the engineering team.
Related Case Studies
Real engagements where security posture and compliance were central to the architecture.
Know Your Security Posture Before Someone Else Does
A week of structured analysis can surface years of accumulated risk. Let's start the conversation.