Secure369 Solutions · Practitioner-Led

Cloud Security Assessment & Hardening

We find the misconfigurations, privilege escalation paths, and blast radius gaps your scanner does not see.

Cloud security is not about having a CSPM tool — it is about having practitioners who understand what the alerts mean, which ones matter, and how to fix the architecture rather than acknowledge the finding. Secure369 cloud security assessments combine automated scanning with practitioner-led analysis: IAM design review, blast radius mapping, network architecture analysis, and a prioritised remediation plan your engineering team can actually execute.

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No account managers Practitioners lead every engagement India & United States Visakhapatnam · Hyderabad
The Problem

Why this matters now

Every AWS, Azure, or GCP account accumulates misconfiguration debt. IAM roles grow beyond their intended scope. S3 buckets get public access policies added "just for testing." Security groups open to 0.0.0.0/0 because it was easier. CSPM tools find hundreds of findings with no guidance on which ones a real attacker would exploit. The result: security teams buried in alerts, engineers ignoring the security backlog, and real risk unaddressed.

Who this is for

Built for teams at this stage

What Secure369 examines

Every area we cover

✓IAM design — role sprawl, privilege escalation paths, cross-account trust, unused credentials
✓Network architecture — security groups, NACLs, VPC peering, public exposure
✓Storage security — S3, Azure Blob, GCS — public access, encryption, versioning
✓Compute security — EC2, Lambda, containers — public exposure, patch status, runtime security
✓Logging and monitoring — CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Azure Monitor — coverage gaps
✓Secrets management — hardcoded credentials, KMS usage, Parameter Store hygiene
✓Infrastructure-as-Code — Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep — security misconfigurations in templates
✓Third-party integrations — OAuth scopes, cross-account access, supply chain risk
✓Kubernetes / EKS / AKS / GKE — RBAC, pod security, cluster configuration
✓Data protection — encryption at rest and in transit, data classification, DLP gaps
Deliverables

What you receive

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Executive Risk Summary
Top 10 risks ranked by exploitability and business impact — written for your CTO and board, not your AWS account.
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Technical Findings Report
Every finding with: affected resource, attack scenario, exploitability rating, and step-by-step remediation — not just "fix the misconfiguration."
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Architecture Recommendations
Not just finding fixes — recommendations for how the architecture should be structured to reduce ongoing risk, including IAM design patterns and network segmentation.
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Prioritised Remediation Roadmap
Findings grouped into: fix this week, fix this sprint, fix this quarter. Effort estimates included so your engineering team can plan.
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IaC Security Baseline
Security controls embedded into your Terraform or CloudFormation templates — so new infrastructure deploys securely by default.
Indicative timeline

How the engagement runs

01
Scoping & Access Setup
Day 1–2
Read-only IAM role creation, scope agreement, environment documentation review.
02
Automated & Manual Assessment
Week 1–2
CSPM scanning, IAM analysis, network architecture review, manual configuration review of high-risk services.
03
Attack Path Analysis
Week 2
Practitioner-led analysis: what would an attacker actually do with the misconfigurations found? Blast radius mapping.
04
Report & Debrief
Week 3
Draft report delivered. Debrief call with engineering team to walk through every finding and answer remediation questions.
05
Remediation Support
Weeks 4–6
Optional: Secure369 practitioners work alongside your team to implement the architectural changes. IaC baseline delivered.
Practitioner credentials

Who delivers this work

Every Secure369 engagement is led by a practitioner who has held the role, passed the audit, and operated the control — not a consultant reading from a framework document. Our team carries credentials built in the field, not only in a classroom.

AWS Certified Security Specialty practitioners
Microsoft Azure Security Engineer experience
GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer
CSPM platform experience: AWS Security Hub, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Orca
IaC security tooling: Checkov, tfsec, Semgrep, custom policy authoring
Cloud security delivery across fintech, healthtech, and logistics
Anonymised results

What clients have achieved

All examples are anonymised and presented with client permission. Specific figures are withheld where requested.

IAM privilege escalation path to full account compromise — found before the attacker
AWS environment assessment for a Series B SaaS. A combination of three low-severity IAM findings allowed privilege escalation to administrator in four steps. Fixed in 48 hours.
32 publicly accessible S3 buckets containing customer PII — remediated
Mid-market company cloud assessment. Legacy bucket policies created during rapid growth phase. Full inventory, risk assessment, and remediation plan delivered. All buckets secured within one sprint.
Cloud security evidence accepted for SOC 2 Type II on first submission
The cloud security assessment findings, remediation evidence, and IaC baseline were used as SOC 2 control evidence. Auditor accepted without additional questions.
Frequently asked questions

Common questions

No. We work with a read-only IAM role that gives us visibility into configuration without the ability to make changes. We document the exact permissions required before the engagement begins, and you can revoke access at any time.
A CSPM tool gives you a list of misconfigurations. A practitioner-led assessment tells you which misconfigurations can be chained into a real attack, what the blast radius would be, and how to fix the architecture so the same misconfigurations do not reappear. We treat findings as attack paths, not checklists.
AWS, Azure, and GCP natively. Multi-cloud environments are our standard — most of our clients run across at least two providers. We are also experienced with cloud-native Kubernetes environments (EKS, AKS, GKE).
2–3 weeks from access setup to report delivery for a mid-size environment (single cloud, 2–5 accounts). Larger multi-account, multi-cloud environments take 3–5 weeks. We agree a timeline before starting.
Yes. We offer a remediation support option where Secure369 practitioners work alongside your engineering team to implement the changes — including IaC baseline delivery. This is included in the engagement or available as a follow-on.
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