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Cloud Security
Assessment

Configuration, identity and exposure assessment across AWS, Azure and GCP — to find the misconfigurations, over-permissive roles and public exposure that turn a cloud account into an attacker’s entry point.

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Service Overview

Cloud Security Assessment examines how your cloud environment is configured, who can do what within it, and what is exposed to the internet. In the cloud, most incidents are not exploits — they are misconfigurations and over-permissive identities.

We review your account and resource configuration against recognised benchmarks, analyse IAM to find privilege-escalation and lateral-movement paths, and test what an external attacker can reach. Where authorised, we validate how far a low-privilege foothold could actually get.

Every finding is tied to the specific resource, policy or identity responsible and a concrete remediation, so your team can close the exposure and harden the environment with confidence — not just receive a generic posture score.

// One Role Away From Everything

How a single identity becomes full account access

In the cloud, an over-permissive role or an exposed key can be the whole attack. We trace privilege-escalation and lateral-movement paths through IAM to show how a minor foothold reaches your most sensitive data and infrastructure.

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Benefits

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AWS, Azure & GCP

We assess each provider with platform-specific knowledge of its identity model, services and the misconfigurations that matter most.

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Identity-centric analysis

We map IAM relationships to find privilege escalation and lateral movement — the paths that turn small mistakes into full compromise.

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Exposure & attack-path testing

Beyond config review, we test what is actually reachable externally and validate how far a foothold could realistically get.

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Benchmark-aligned, actionable output

Findings map to CIS Benchmarks and provider best practices, with per-resource remediation your team can apply directly.

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Why Choose HackersForce

A combined configuration, identity and exposure review across your cloud environment — to find where misconfiguration, excessive permission or public access create real risk.

▸ How we approach testing

We review how the environment is configured and how identities relate to one another, then test what is externally reachable and how a limited foothold could escalate toward sensitive resources.

✓ Identity and access management — roles, policies and trust relationships
✓ Privilege-escalation and lateral-movement paths through IAM
✓ Public exposure of storage, databases and compute (buckets, snapshots)
✓ Network configuration — security groups, NACLs, peering and ingress
✓ Secrets and key management (exposed keys, weak rotation, KMS use)
✓ Logging, monitoring and detection coverage (CloudTrail, audit logs)
✓ Encryption at rest and in transit across services
✓ Serverless and container configuration (Lambda, functions, Kubernetes)
✓ Misconfigured managed services and default settings
✓ Account and organisation structure and guardrails (SCPs, policies)
✓ External attack surface reachable from the internet
✓ Configuration against CIS Benchmarks and provider best practice

Engagements follow a repeatable, standards-aligned process so coverage is consistent and every finding is traceable from discovery to remediation.

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Scoping & Access

We agree providers, accounts, read-only access and constraints in writing before assessment begins.

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Configuration Review

We assess account and resource configuration against CIS Benchmarks and provider best practice.

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IAM & Privilege Analysis

We map identities and permissions to find escalation and lateral-movement paths through the environment.

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Exposure & Attack-Path Testing

We test what is externally reachable and, where authorised, validate how far a foothold could get.

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Reporting & Free Retest

You get an executive summary and technical report, then we retest your fixes at no extra cost.

A sample of the issue classes we routinely uncover across cloud environments — every report ties each one to the responsible resource and a remediation path.

⚠ Over-permissive IAM roles & policies
⚠ Privilege-escalation paths through identity
⚠ Publicly exposed storage & snapshots
⚠ Exposed keys, secrets & credentials
⚠ Overly open security groups & ingress
⚠ Missing or weak encryption
⚠ Insufficient logging & monitoring
⚠ Insecure serverless & container config
⚠ Misconfigured managed services
⚠ Weak account guardrails & segmentation
⚠ Default settings left unhardened
⚠ Public exposure of internal services
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FAQs

AWS, Azure and GCP. We can assess a single provider or a multi-cloud environment, applying provider-specific knowledge to each.
For configuration and IAM review we ask for scoped read-only access. For external exposure testing we can work from the outside. Any active validation is agreed in advance.
Both posture review and manual analysis. Automated tooling helps with coverage, but the value is in tracing IAM privilege paths and validating real attack paths, which tools alone cannot reason about.
Yes. Findings map to CIS Benchmarks and provider best practices so results are recognised, comparable and easy to act on.
Configuration and IAM review is non-intrusive. Any active exposure or escalation testing is conservative, authorised in advance and scheduled to avoid disruption.
An executive summary and a detailed technical report with per-resource findings, IAM attack-path analysis, benchmark mapping and prioritised remediation — plus a free retest after fixes.

Ready to harden your cloud?

Tell us your providers and accounts. We’ll define scope across config, identity and exposure and give you a fixed quote with no surprises.

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