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Cloud Configuration Review

Your Cloud Provider Secures the Infrastructure. Configuration Is Your Responsibility.

Cloud configuration security review for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments in India. CIS Benchmark assessment, IAM audit, storage permissions, encryption, and compliance mapping.

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What Is Cloud Configuration Review?

Cloud Configuration Review is a focused assessment of how your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment is configured — specifically examining whether your settings follow security best practices defined by CIS Cloud Benchmarks and cloud provider security guides.

This is different from a full Cloud Security Assessment. While a full assessment examines architecture, data flows, and application-level security, a configuration review focuses specifically on the settings and policies that govern your cloud resources — IAM policies, storage access controls, network security groups, encryption settings, logging configuration, and service-specific hardening.

The distinction matters because cloud misconfigurations are the single most common cause of cloud data breaches globally. AWS, Azure, and GCP provide secure infrastructure — but how you configure that infrastructure is entirely your responsibility. A single misconfigured S3 bucket policy or an overly permissive IAM role can expose your entire environment.

Why Your Business Needs This

We assess cloud configurations for Indian businesses every month, and the findings are consistently alarming. In our last 20 cloud configuration reviews for Indian companies, we found public-facing storage in 65% of environments, overprivileged IAM roles in 80%, disabled or incomplete logging in 55%, unencrypted data at rest in 45%, and root account usage without MFA in 35%.

These are not exotic vulnerabilities. They are configuration settings that someone either forgot to enable, intentionally disabled for convenience during development, or simply did not know about. Each one has been the root cause of real data breaches affecting Indian companies.

For startups preparing for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, a cloud configuration review is often the fastest path to identifying and closing compliance gaps in your cloud environment.

What You Get

check_circle Complete CIS Cloud Benchmark assessment for AWS, Azure, or GCP
check_circle IAM policy analysis identifying overprivileged users, roles, and service accounts
check_circle Storage security audit — S3 buckets, Azure Blob, GCS permissions
check_circle Encryption assessment for data at rest and in transit across all services
check_circle Network security group and firewall rule review
check_circle Compliance mapping to SOC 2, ISO 27001, RBI, and CERT-In requirements

Our Approach

Environment Discovery (Day 1): We inventory all cloud services in use, identify all accounts and subscriptions, and establish the scope of the review.

CIS Benchmark Assessment (Day 2-5): Automated and manual assessment of every configuration setting against the applicable CIS Cloud Benchmark — covering identity management, logging, networking, storage, compute, and database services.

Deep Dive Analysis (Day 5-8): Manual analysis of complex IAM policies, cross-account access, service-linked roles, resource policies, and custom configurations that automated tools miss.

Reporting and Remediation (Day 8-10): Prioritised findings with specific remediation commands — AWS CLI, Azure CLI, or gcloud commands, plus Terraform/CloudFormation templates where applicable.

Real Results for Indian Businesses

A Series B fintech startup in Bengaluru had 47 CIS Benchmark failures across their AWS environment. The most critical: their RDS instances were publicly accessible with default security groups, and CloudTrail was disabled in 3 out of 4 regions. Remediation took 5 days using our provided CLI commands.

An e-commerce company in Delhi discovered 12 S3 buckets with public read access — including one containing order data with customer addresses and phone numbers for 2.4 lakh customers. The bucket had been public since the company's initial AWS setup 3 years earlier.

A healthcare SaaS platform in Pune needed SOC 2 Type II certification. Our cloud configuration review identified 34 gaps — primarily around encryption, logging, and access controls. All were remediated within 2 weeks, and the company passed their SOC 2 audit on the first attempt.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which cloud providers do you support?expand_more
We review AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). For multi-cloud environments, we assess each provider against its respective CIS Benchmark and provide a unified report.
Do you need admin access to our cloud account?expand_more
We require read-only access — typically through a dedicated IAM role with SecurityAudit or Reader permissions. We never create, modify, or delete any resources in your environment.
How is this different from a full Cloud Security Assessment?expand_more
A configuration review focuses on settings and policies — CIS Benchmark compliance, IAM, storage, encryption, logging. A full Cloud Security Assessment also examines architecture design, data flows, application security, network segmentation, and incident response capabilities. We recommend the full assessment for mature environments and the configuration review as a first step or annual check.
Can you provide Terraform/CloudFormation remediation templates?expand_more
Yes. For every finding, we provide specific remediation steps including CLI commands and Infrastructure-as-Code templates that your DevOps team can deploy directly.

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