Security Testing
Expert, CIS Benchmark-based review of your AWS, Azure and GCP configuration — IAM, storage, network and logging — before a misconfiguration becomes a headline.
The cloud providers secure the cloud; securing what you build in it is on you — and the vast majority of cloud breaches trace back to customer misconfiguration, not provider failure. A cloud security assessment gives you an expert, evidence-based view of how your AWS, Azure and GCP environments are really configured, measured against CIS Benchmarks and provider best practice.
Our consultants focus on the four areas where cloud environments most often go wrong. Identity and access management: over-privileged roles, unused credentials, missing MFA, weak federation. Storage exposure: buckets, blobs and snapshots readable by the wrong people — or the whole internet. Network security: permissive security groups, flat virtual networks, forgotten public endpoints. Logging and monitoring: whether the audit trail you would need after an incident actually exists.
Automated tooling can list deviations; it cannot tell you which ones matter in your architecture. Our consultants review the findings in context, prioritising by impact and likelihood, and distinguishing the misconfiguration that exposes customer data from the one that is technically non-compliant but harmless in your design. The result is a plan you can act on, not a spreadsheet you have to interpret.
The review is delivered through Sentry: scoped via questionnaire and call, evidence gathered through read-only access, findings raised as they are identified, and a prioritised report with remediation guidance followed by a debrief. Nothing changes in your environment, and findings stay in Sentry for tracking and comparison with future reviews.
One distinction worth making: this is a point-in-time expert review, and cloud environments change daily. For continuous, automated monitoring of your cloud estate between reviews, our Sentry CVM continuous vulnerability management service picks up where the assessment leaves off — the review establishes that the foundations are right, CVM tells you quickly when something drifts.
All three major platforms reviewed against their CIS Benchmarks by consultants who work in them daily.
IAM, storage exposure, network security and logging — where cloud breaches actually start.
Findings ranked by real impact in your architecture, not benchmark line numbers.
Auditor-level access only; nothing in your environment is changed during the review.
CIS-aligned findings support ISO 27001, PCI DSS and Cyber Essentials Plus requirements.
A short questionnaire and scoping call confirm the platforms, tenants or devices in scope and the standards that matter to you. You receive a clear Statement of Work and your project is created in Sentry.
We arrange read-only access or configuration exports, along with architecture diagrams and relevant policies. Nothing is changed in your environment.
A consultant assesses your configuration against CIS Benchmarks and vendor best practice, prioritising findings by impact and likelihood. Findings are raised in Sentry as they are identified, not weeks later.
You receive a prioritised report with clear remediation guidance and a debrief session with your consultant. Findings stay in Sentry so you can track fixes and compare future reviews.
Straight answers to what prospective clients ask us most.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform, individually or together for multi-cloud estates. Each is assessed against its own CIS Benchmarks and the provider's own best-practice guidance.
Read-only, auditor-level roles — the platforms all provide suitable built-in roles for exactly this purpose. We never require write access, and we walk you through the setup during scoping.
This assessment is a deep, expert, point-in-time review that judges findings in the context of your architecture. Continuous scanning — delivered by our Sentry CVM service — provides automated ongoing coverage between reviews. They answer different questions and work best together.
No. The review works from read-only access and configuration data, so there is no testing traffic, no changes and no operational risk to your workloads.
Typically one to two weeks depending on the number of platforms, accounts and subscriptions in scope. We confirm the effort during scoping so you know exactly what to expect.
Get a fixed-scope quote, usually the same working day.
