Cloud configuration review
Assessment of your AWS environment with focus on IAM, networking, storage, logging, and exposed services.
- AWS
- IAM
- Networking
Your AWS environment reviewed for the misconfigurations attackers actually exploit — identity, networking, storage, logging, and exposed services — with findings mapped to what your auditors and enterprise customers ask for (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, NIS2).
AWS only — we do not currently offer Azure or GCP reviews.
Most cloud incidents trace back to configuration: overly permissive IAM policies, unrestricted security groups, public storage, missing logs, or weak segmentation between environments. A ShadowCore cloud security audit reviews how your AWS environment is actually configured — across identity, network, data, workloads, and monitoring — and identifies the misconfigurations attackers would chain to reach sensitive systems.
The audit combines automated posture data with manual analysis of architecture, privilege relationships, and exposure paths. Findings are prioritized by exploitability and business impact rather than raw scanner severity, with concrete remediation steps mapped to AWS best practices, CIS Benchmarks, and the control frameworks you report against.
For application-layer testing of cloud-exposed services, see Penetration Testing. To operationalize detection coverage after fixes ship, see SOC as a Service.
Assessment of your AWS environment with focus on IAM, networking, storage, logging, and exposed services.
Misconfigurations are prioritized by business impact, exploitability, and exposure level — not by raw scanner severity.
Clear recommendations mapped to CIS Benchmarks, NIST, and cloud-provider best practices, with owners and effort estimates.
Executive summary, technical findings report, remediation roadmap, and an optional retest after fixes. Typical engagement: 5–10 working days.
Configuration review and attack-path analysis for cloud environments.
Analysis of users, roles, policies, service accounts, and privilege escalation paths across your AWS environment.
Review of security groups, firewall rules, routing, load balancers, VPNs, and publicly exposed services.
Validation of bucket permissions, encryption, backups, retention, and sensitive data exposure risks.
Assessment of audit logs, alerting coverage, SIEM integration, and incident investigation readiness.
Review of container registries, Kubernetes posture, runtime permissions, secrets, and workload isolation.
Findings mapped to practical control frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, NIST, ISO 27001, and NIS2.
A focused review process that turns cloud posture gaps into prioritized fixes.
Confirm AWS accounts, regions, and control objectives.
Gather configuration exports, posture data, logs, and architecture context.
Identify misconfigurations, excessive privileges, and exposed attack paths.
Rank findings by exploitability, business impact, and remediation effort.
Deliver fixes, hardening guidance, and validation steps for your team.
Validate exploitability of cloud-exposed services and confirm fixes hold against attack scenarios.
Operationalize the logging and detection improvements identified in the audit.
Map cloud findings into ISMS controls and Statement of Applicability evidence.
Chained several individually-minor GraphQL exposures into a single High-severity finding, then found the client's own code trusted their internet-exposed development environment as a data source — a bridge from a lower-security environment straight into production.
Found a critical CORS misconfiguration that let arbitrary origins pull sensitive user data from the API — the client shipped a fix before the engagement even closed — then kept digging and surfaced a long-lived auth token and a residual trust-boundary gap the quick fix had missed.