Cloud and Infrastructure Security: closing the gaps your configuration leaves open
Cloud security is about protecting the part of the cloud you are responsible for, not the provider: how services are configured, who has access, your network and your data on AWS, Azure or GCP. The provider secures the cloud itself; the rest is on you. We find the misconfigurations and over-permissive access, harden them to CIS standards, and make sure your configuration doesn’t drift back open.
Executive summary: The cloud rarely fails through a clever attack — it fails through customer-side misconfiguration. Gartner estimated that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault, not the provider’s (source: „Predicts 2021: Cloud Security Drives Digital Business”; authors: Mitch Clem, Neil MacDonald, Pete Shoard; publication date: 19.11.2020). A public bucket, an open port, an over-privileged account: that’s how data leaks. You start with a configuration review – in ~2 weeks you get a prioritised list of critical misconfigurations, then we harden them and keep watch.
The Average Cost of a Data Breach is $4.44 Million Globally
Most companies discover the problem after the fact, because no one asked the question earlier: where are our vulnerabilities? We conduct independent audits and risk assessments that provide hard data instead of guesswork.
Challenges in Risk Management and Compliance
Companies do not incur the greatest costs due to lack of technology. They incur them due to lack of knowledge about where they are actually exposed.
You can’t see what’s exposed.
Your estate has spread across three clouds and several teams, with no single map of what’s open to the internet. Impact: a public resource or open port you only learn about from an incident.
Access was granted in a hurry.
Admin rights handed out just in case and never revoked, keys left in code. Impact: one compromised account means the whole environment.
Shadow IT and configuration drift.
Business teams spin up services outside IT’s view, and safe settings drift after every deploy. Impact: last quarter’s audit no longer reflects reality.
The shared responsibility model works against you.
You assume „the cloud is secure”, but the configuration is yours to own. Impact: the gap is on your side – and so is the liability.
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See how it works in practice
Client:
A MedTech sector company preparing for ISO 27001 certification.
Challenge:
The company needed to quickly identify and close gaps in information security management processes to meet the standard’s requirements and gain the trust of key clients.
Solution:
We conducted a comprehensive gap analysis against ISO 27001, followed by an internal audit with a prioritized corrective action plan.
Results:
Identification of 15 key non-conformities with a plan to eliminate them.
Reduction of preparation time for the certification audit by 3 months.
Successful completion of the external audit and obtaining ISO 27001 certification.
Your company can also go through the audit in an organized and stress-free manner.
Objective assessment and Concrete Plan
We provide an independent, external perspective on your organization’s security level. Not to show a list of problems, but to give you priorities and a plan you can implement immediately.
Technology and business risk assessment
We identify and analyze risks, create a risk register and action plan that becomes the foundation of your security strategy.
Internal audits and compliance audits
We conduct audits verifying compliance with ISO 27001 standards and DORA and NIS2 regulations, with full documentation ready for external audit.
Gap analysis
We compare your current security state with the requirements of the standard or regulation and provide a roadmap to close gaps, with priorities and estimated effort.
Technical cloud configuration audits
In-depth verification of AWS, Azure, and GCP environment configurations against CIS Benchmarks. Configuration errors in cloud environments are one of the most common and least visible causes of breaches.
Third-party risk assessment
We analyze the security level of your key suppliers. The supply chain is now one of the main attack vectors.
Your Path to Objective Knowledge About Risk
We conduct every audit so that the result is a concrete action plan, not just a report for the drawer.
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Planning and scope definition
Together we define the objectives, scope, and audit criteria. We know what we want to verify and why.
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Evidence gathering
Interviews with key personnel, documentation analysis, verification of technical configurations. We look at facts, not declarations.
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Analysis and conclusions
We identify strengths and non-conformities. Each non-conformity is described with business context, not just technical.
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Report and corrective action plan
We present a report with a prioritized action plan. You leave the meeting knowing what to do first.
Frequently Asked Questions
AWS, Azure and Google secure the cloud itself: the servers, physical network and hypervisor. Security in the cloud – how you configure services, who has access, your data and network exposure – is on you. That split is the shared responsibility model, and your side is where most real-world breaches begin.
An audit is a snapshot: a report listing gaps at one point in time. CSPM (cloud security posture management) watches your configuration continuously, catching drift and new misconfigurations the moment they appear. An audit tells you what to fix; CSPM keeps it fixed as your environment changes.
The usual suspects: publicly exposed storage (like open S3 buckets), open management ports, over-permissive access (admin rights granted just in case), missing encryption and disabled logging. These — not sophisticated attacks — are behind the majority of cloud data breaches.
Not when it’s done properly. We build security checks into the tools your team already uses and set guardrails instead of gates. Developers keep shipping and simply get a risk signal alongside their deploys. Good cloud security removes friction between engineering and the rest of the business, not adds it.
CIS Benchmarks are widely recognised, published secure-configuration standards for AWS, Azure, GCP and many systems. They give an objective, verifiable baseline instead of ‘in our opinion this is safer’. Hardening to CIS means concrete settings you can check and show to an auditor or a customer.
With a cloud configuration review. In about two weeks we scan your environment, map it to CIS Benchmarks and hand you a prioritised list of misconfigurations: what to fix today and what can wait. Then we harden it and, if you want, keep watching your posture continuously.
