Cloud security review

Understand the control gaps across your cloud environment.

Review architecture and configuration through the lenses of identity, exposure, workload security, data protection, monitoring, resilience and governance.

Architecture and configurationIdentity-first reviewEvidence-based findingsPractical improvement roadmap
Review domains

A complete view of cloud control effectiveness.

ID

Identity and privilege

Federation, MFA, privileged roles, service identities, access keys and permission boundaries.

NW

Network and exposure

Internet exposure, segmentation, private connectivity, security controls and administrative paths.

WL

Workload security

Virtual machines, containers, serverless workloads, images, patching and runtime protection.

DP

Data protection

Storage access, encryption, key management, backup, retention and sensitive-data handling.

LD

Logging and detection

Audit logging, security telemetry, retention, alerting and investigation readiness.

RR

Resilience and recovery

Availability design, backup integrity, recovery paths and operational dependencies.

CG

Configuration governance

Policy, landing zones, guardrails, infrastructure-as-code and drift management.

ES

External services

Third-party integrations, SaaS dependencies, secrets and cross-account or cross-tenant trust.

Cloud review method

Architecture and evidence before recommendations.

01

Context

Confirm business services, cloud model, accounts and critical data.

02

Discover

Review architecture, inventories, trust relationships and exposed services.

03

Assess

Evaluate control design and implemented configuration.

04

Validate

Confirm material gaps using read-only or separately approved methods.

05

Prioritise

Order improvements by business impact and realistic effort.

06

Roadmap

Provide accountable actions and validation criteria.

Guardian roadmap connection

Expert cloud review today, ongoing posture monitoring on the roadmap.

Cloud Security Review is available now as a Damocles professional service, covering architecture, identity, exposure, workloads, data protection, monitoring, resilience and governance.

Ongoing Guardian cloud posture monitoring, action tracking and trend reporting are planned for a later platform phase.

Review your cloud control environment

Discuss cloud providers, account structure, critical workloads and the assurance outcome required.

We will define the evidence access, scope, deliverables and remediation roadmap before work begins.