AWS Security Assessment Services
A comprehensive review of your AWS environment to find misconfigurations, excessive access, and compliance gaps before they become incidents.
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An AWS security assessment is a structured review of your cloud environment against known-good security baselines, not a vague "health check." We scan every connected account and region for misconfigurations, IAM policies broader than they need to be, unencrypted storage, exposed network paths, and logging or detection gaps, then rank what we find by real exploitability, not just a generic severity label. The output is a concrete, prioritized list your team can act on, not a 100-page PDF nobody reads.
Assessments differ from a Well-Architected Review in scope: a Well-Architected Review looks across all six pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, sustainability), a security assessment goes deep on one, identity, network, data protection, logging, and incident readiness, with the depth a pillar review alone doesn't have time for. We compare your environment against the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, and whichever compliance frameworks are relevant to your business, so findings map directly to something you already need to satisfy, not an arbitrary internal scoring system.
Every assessment is read-only. We never make changes to your live environment during the review itself, findings and a remediation roadmap come first, implementation is a separate, explicitly scoped phase you control.
What We Offer
Explore the full range of capabilities within our AWS Security Assessment practice.
Identity & Access Review
Every IAM user, role, and policy audited for excessive permissions, missing MFA, and privilege escalation paths, mapped against least-privilege principles.
Network Exposure Audit
Security groups, NACLs, and any resource reachable from the public internet reviewed for exposure that shouldn't exist, including management ports and forgotten test resources.
Data Protection Review
Storage and database services checked for encryption at rest and in transit, public access settings, and backup coverage across S3, RDS, EBS, and DynamoDB.
Logging & Detection Gap Analysis
Confirms CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Config, and Security Hub are actually enabled, correctly scoped across every region, and not just present in one.
Compliance Framework Mapping
Findings mapped against CIS AWS Foundations and, where relevant, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or GDPR, so the assessment doubles as audit preparation.
Prioritized Remediation Roadmap
Every finding ranked by real risk, with a clear sequence for what to fix first and what can reasonably wait, not a flat list sorted alphabetically by service name.
Our Approach
A proven methodology that delivers consistent, measurable results.
Scope & Access
We agree the scope, which accounts, regions, and services are in play, and get read-only access, no changes are made to your environment during this phase.
Automated & Manual Review
Automated scanning across every connected account surfaces the full landscape of findings, then manual review filters out false positives and adds context automated tools miss.
Risk Prioritization
Findings are ranked by real exploitability and business impact, not a flat severity label, so your team knows what to fix first.
Findings Report & Walkthrough
A clear, prioritized report delivered and walked through live with your team, plain language, concrete remediation steps, not jargon.
Remediation Support (Optional)
If you want hands-on help closing the findings, that's a separate, explicitly scoped phase, the assessment itself never assumes you need us for the fix.
AWS Services We Use
Every service listed below is AWS-native: purpose-built tools, not generic wrappers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our AWS Security Assessment services.
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