The Cloud Security Problem in 2026

The majority of significant cloud breaches in 2026 share a common thread: they were not caused by zero-day vulnerabilities. They were caused by misconfigurations, over-permissive IAM policies, and publicly exposed storage buckets. Cloud providers secure the infrastructure. Your team is responsible for securing everything you deploy on top of it.

Our cloud security assessments cover the full stack — identity, network, data, and workload security — across the three major cloud providers.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) Analysis

IAM is the most critical attack surface in cloud environments. We analyze:

✓ Over-permissive roles (wildcard actions, wildcard resources)
✓ Unused credentials and access keys older than 90 days
✓ Accounts without MFA enforcement
✓ Service accounts with excessive permissions
✓ Cross-account trust policies
✓ Privilege escalation paths (SetPolicy, PassRole, CreateAccessKey chains)
✓ External identity federation misconfigurations

A single misconfigured IAM role with iam:PassRole and lambda:CreateFunction permissions can give an attacker administrator access to your entire AWS organization. We find these paths before attackers do.

Network Security Configuration

✓ Security groups with 0.0.0.0/0 ingress on sensitive ports
✓ VPC flow log gaps (blind spots)
✓ Publicly accessible RDS instances
✓ Unrestricted S3 bucket ACLs and policies
✓ CloudFront distribution misconfigurations
✓ API Gateway authentication gaps
✓ Internal services exposed via misconfigured load balancers

Data Security

We assess your data protection posture across:

  • S3 bucket versioning, encryption, and public access settings
  • RDS/DynamoDB encryption at rest and in transit
  • Secrets management (Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, Key Vault)
  • CloudTrail and audit logging completeness
  • Data residency compliance (PIPEDA, HIPAA, PHIPA requirements)

Workload Security

Container and serverless security is increasingly important:

✓ ECR/ACR/GCR image vulnerability scanning
✓ EKS/AKS/GKE RBAC configuration review
✓ Pod security policies and admission controls
✓ Lambda/Azure Functions/Cloud Functions permission scoping
✓ Container runtime security (privileged containers, host mounts)
✓ Supply chain security (base image provenance, dependency scanning)

Deliverables

Every cloud assessment delivers:

  • Priority-ranked findings with blast radius analysis
  • Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep remediation code snippets (not just descriptions)
  • Architecture diagram annotating attack paths discovered
  • Compliance gap mapping (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PIPEDA)
  • 30-day remediation support

Schedule a cloud security assessment for your environment.