What Is a Cloud Security Assessment?
A cloud security assessment is a test and analysis of an organization's cloud infrastructure to ensure that it is secure against a number of security risks and attacks. The goal of the assessment is to:
- Identify the organization's cloud infrastructure weaknesses and potential access points.
- Analyze the network for evidence of exploitation.
- Outline approaches to prevent future attacks.
The following seven areas are routinely examined during a cloud security assessment:
- Overall security posture: Assess the security of enterprise cloud infrastructure through interviews, and documentation analysis.
- Access control and management: Examine user accounts, roles, and key management, as well as identification and access control.
- Network security: Check for typical misconfigurations in segmentation and firewall policies.
- Incident management: Review the cloud infrastructure incident response policy, including responsibilities and processes connected to an occurrence.
- Storage Security: Examine the state of cloud storage, including object-level, block-level, and associated snapshots.
- Platform services security: Inspect the security setup of each cloud service provider's advanced service offerings.
- Workload security: Evaluate the security of workloads such as virtualized servers, server-hosted containers, functions, and serverless containerized workloads.
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Why Do You Need a Cloud Security Assessment?
When compared to traditional on-premise servers, cloud computing provides significant operational efficiencies. However, new hazards arise as a result of innovation and reliance on the cloud. The fast adoption of cloud-based workloads frequently outpaces an organization's security services capabilities, creating a severe blind spot for technology directors.
Organizations typically manage multiple cloud accounts or subscriptions that do not all receive the same level of security oversight, resulting in instances where less "essential" workloads are left vulnerable. Even in cloud systems that were previously thought unimportant, the impact of a breach can be quite severe.
The Benefits of a Cloud Security Assessment
A cloud security assessment provides enterprises with the assurance that their network and assets are correctly configured, secure, and not under threat. The study will uncover points of access or other weaknesses within the architecture while evaluating the organization's network history, as well as specific recommendations to assist in enhancing defenses and improving capabilities in the future.
The following are some of the advantages of a cloud security assessment:
- Reduced risk from accidental misconfiguration: The organization can limit its attack surface in the cloud environment by implementing the targeted configuration adjustments recommended as part of the cloud security assessment.
- Reduced risk from missed notifications: The advice of the cloud security assessment team can help an organization enhance its ability to recognize and respond to compromise, preventing a minor problem from becoming a full-blown breach.
- Improved resilience: The cloud security assessment team will make recommendations to assist firms in recovering from a breach more quickly.
- More efficient account management: Organizations with less-than-optimal identity systems can save time managing accounts and privileges while lowering the risk of inadvertently granting excessive rights.
- Detection of past compromise: While a cloud security assessment is not a full-fledged cloud compromise investigation, it can detect deviations from the usual in the organization's cloud configuration that could have been triggered by a breach.
How is a Cloud Security Assessment performed?
There are three essential components to a cloud security assessment:
- Documentation review & interviews: Assists the assessment team in understanding the client's environment's business purpose, intended architecture, and planned adjustments.
- Automated and manual testing: The assessment team uses specialized tools to gather information about the environment, discover misconfigurations and gaps compared to optimal architecture, and assess potential attack chains.
- Recommendations generation: For each finding, the assessment team develops suggestions and provides them to the client's security team.
- Presentation: The assessment team meets with internal stakeholders from the client to discuss findings and provide answers to queries concerning both individual technical and high-level recommendations.
Additional cloud security services could include the following:
- Incident Response for Cloud: In the event that your cloud environment is breached, you'll need to respond quickly and do forensic analysis.
- Compromise Assessment for Cloud: Determine whether or not your cloud environment has been hacked (past or current).
- Red Team/Blue Team Exercise for Cloud: To evaluate your cyber defenses, simulate a targeted attack on your cloud environment.
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- Reduce your cloud attack surface.
- Prevent possible exploits due to your cloud misconfigurations.
- Take control of threats to your cloud environment.
- Get visibility of all your cloud security risks and vulnerabilities.
- Optimize your cloud security monitoring, visibility, detection, and response capability.
- Prioritize the right cloud security investments.
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