Cloud Security Assessment
AWS, Azure, GCP
Review of the account structure, identity model, network exposure, logging, and data stores across your cloud environment. The output is an ordered list of the paths that end at something you care about.
03 Service
Cloud & Infrastructure.
Review of identity paths, privilege boundaries, and exposure to determine how far an intrusion could propagate.
01 Overview
Where a credential can travel.
One compromised credential is worth very little in some environments and a great deal in others. What decides it is where the identity graph lets an attacker go once they are inside it.
Cloud incidents are rarely a platform failure. They are an access key in a repository, a role that can be assumed more widely than intended, a service account nobody has reviewed since it was created. The provider secures the infrastructure; the configuration on top of it is yours, and that is where the paths are.
02 Engagements
Where the paths are.
Identity is worth doing first. It tends to determine how much the others matter, and it is where the chains that end in tenant administrator accumulate.
Active Directory and Entra ID Security
The identity layer, on-premises and cloud
Most organizations still run a hybrid identity estate, and most serious intrusions pass through it. We map the delegation, trusts, group nesting, service accounts, and sync configuration to find the chains that end in domain or tenant administrator.
Container and Kubernetes Security
Clusters, workloads, registries
Cluster configuration, RBAC, admission control, network policy, image provenance, and what a compromised pod can reach. Container security is often assumed to be handled by the platform; usually the platform provides the controls and nobody has turned them on.
Segmentation and Lateral Movement Review
Blast radius
Given one compromised host or one leaked credential, how far does it travel? We trace the routes outward, because segmentation only matters at the point it fails. This is where flat networks and over-broad security groups become visible.
Configuration and Hardening Baselines
Making it stick
Turning findings into defined baselines for your platforms, written so they can be enforced by policy. Where you use infrastructure as code, the baseline belongs in the code, and we work at that level.
03 Process
How an engagement runs.
Configuration-led, so it is quieter than a penetration test and needs less from your production systems.
- 01
Access
A read-only role in each account or subscription, scoped and time-limited. We do not need write access, credentials to production data, or an agent installed.
- 02
Enumeration
Automated collection of configuration and identity relationships across the environment. This part is tooling.
- 03
Path analysis
Manual work over the collected graph, looking for chains. A public bucket is a finding; a public bucket holding a key that assumes a role that can read the database is the finding that matters.
- 04
Validation
Where it is safe and in scope, we confirm a path is actually traversable, which removes most false positives. Cloud permission evaluation is complicated enough that a path which looks open on paper is sometimes blocked in practice.
- 05
Reporting
Findings ordered by what they lead to, with the identity chain drawn out.
- 06
Remediation and re-test
We work with your cloud administrators through the fixes, then verify. Where a fix belongs in Terraform, we say so, because a change made by hand in the console will be gone by the next deployment.
04 Deliverable
What you receive.
- Findings ordered by what they lead to
- Attack paths drawn out, from entry point to the asset at the end of them
- Identity and privilege map for the scope as assessed
- Remediation written for the appropriate layer, including infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Hardening baselines you can enforce by policy
- Debrief with your platform and identity teams
- Re-test once the priority items are closed
05 Questions
Common questions.
We already run a CSPM tool. What does this add?
Posture tooling reports which settings deviate from a benchmark. It cannot tell you which of those deviations an attacker could use.
How much access do you need?
A read-only role, time-limited, scoped to the accounts in scope. No write permissions, no access to production data, nothing installed. You can revoke it the moment the engagement ends, and we ask you to.
Will anything change or break?
Enumeration is read-only. Nothing intrusive happens without explicit written agreement.
Our infrastructure is managed by a provider. Does that matter?
It changes who does the fixing. We can report to you and let you drive it, or work directly with your provider if you would rather.
Do you assess on-premises infrastructure too?
Yes. Modern infrastructure is hybrid, and treating the cloud in isolation misses the paths that cross between. Active Directory in particular is usually the bridge.
06 Contact
Tell us what you need.
TowerVector will assist you in taking your security strategy to the next level. Please feel free to contact us:
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