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Cloud Security Assessment Services in Pakistan
AWS, Azure, and GCP configuration and identity hardening reviews.
What it is
Cloud breaches are rarely exotic. They are a public storage bucket, an over-permissive role, a key that never rotated, or a metadata service reachable from a web application. We review your AWS, Azure or Google Cloud configuration against how it is actually attacked, then test the findings rather than just listing them.
Types of Cloud Security Assessment we deliver
AWS security assessment
IAM policies and roles, S3 exposure, security groups, KMS usage, CloudTrail coverage and the accounts that exist outside your main organisation.
Azure and Entra ID assessment
Conditional access, privileged role assignment, storage exposure, and the identity configuration that decides everything else.
Google Cloud assessment
Project and folder IAM inheritance, service account key sprawl, public buckets and logging coverage.
Kubernetes and container security
RBAC, pod security, secrets handling, image provenance and whether a compromised container stays a compromised container.
Cloud migration review
An assessment before you move, because the configuration mistakes made during migration are the ones that stay for years.
How we do it
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Configuration baseline
Automated review against CIS Benchmarks for your platform, as a starting inventory rather than the conclusion.
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Identity and access analysis
Roles, policies and trust relationships examined for privilege escalation paths — the cloud equivalent of Active Directory attack paths.
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Storage and data exposure
Buckets, blobs, snapshots, disk images and databases checked for public or over-broad access.
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Network and boundary review
Security groups, peering, private endpoints and what is genuinely reachable from the internet.
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Workload and metadata testing
Container and serverless configuration, and whether an application flaw reaches instance metadata and its credentials.
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Logging and detection gaps
Whether CloudTrail, Defender or Cloud Audit Logs would actually record the attack we just modelled.
What's included
- AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
- IAM privilege escalation path analysis
- Public exposure sweep across storage and compute
- Container and serverless configuration review
- Detection coverage gaps identified
- Findings validated, not just flagged
Who needs it
- Teams who migrated fast and hardened later
- Multi-account or multi-subscription estates that have sprawled
- Businesses needing cloud evidence for SOC 2 or ISO 27001
Deliverables
- CIS Benchmark scored results with exceptions explained
- IAM escalation paths with the specific policies at fault
- Public exposure inventory
- Infrastructure-as-code fixes where you use it
What Cloud Security Assessment costs
Priced per cloud account or subscription, and by the services in use.
The figure depends on scope, so we quote one fixed price in writing before any work begins. These are the things that move it:
- How many accounts or subscriptions — Organisations commonly have more than they think — production, staging, a forgotten experiment, and one a departed contractor opened. The forgotten ones are frequently where the finding is.
- How many of the provider's services you use — Storage, compute and a database is a bounded review. Adding serverless, containers, managed queues and a data lake widens it in a way the account count does not show.
- The complexity of your identity model — IAM review is the bulk of the work. Hundreds of roles with inherited and conditional policies take real time to evaluate against what people actually need.
- Whether infrastructure-as-code is in scope — Reviewing Terraform or CloudFormation finds the misconfiguration before it deploys, and is a different exercise from reviewing what is running now.
- Single cloud or several — AWS, Azure and GCP have different defaults and different failure modes. Multi-cloud is multiple reviews with one combined report.
Read-only audit credentials on day one. Without them a large part of the engagement is spent getting visibility you could have granted in ten minutes.
Where we deliver Cloud Security Assessment
Cloud assessments are delivered entirely remotely, which makes location irrelevant to delivery — we work with clients across Pakistan and in US, UK and Gulf time zones. What does matter locally is data residency, and we scope that explicitly where SBP or client contracts require data to stay in-country.
Compliance relevance
Frequently asked questions
A read-only audit role — SecurityAudit on AWS, Reader plus Security Reader on Azure. Anything beyond read-only is requested separately and only for a specific test you approve.
For configuration review, no. AWS, Azure and Google all permit most penetration testing of your own resources without prior approval now, but a few service categories still require notice and we will tell you if yours is one.
Yes, and cross-cloud identity federation is worth assessing on its own — it is a common and poorly understood escalation path.
Both, split by the shared responsibility model. AWS, Azure and Google secure the infrastructure; you are responsible for identity, configuration, data and access. Essentially every cloud breach happens on the customer side of that line, which is the side we assess.
For configuration assessment, no. The major providers permit customer-initiated testing of your own resources under their published policies, and the specific exceptions are things we check during scoping rather than assume.
Identity and access management first, because it decides everything else; then storage exposure, network configuration, encryption, logging and monitoring coverage, and secrets handling. We assess against the provider's own baselines and against how your teams actually use the environment, which is usually the gap.
Yes, and the connection between the two is where we pay most attention. Hybrid environments fail at the join: a domain-joined cloud VM, a synced identity with more privilege than intended, a VPN that makes the cloud account effectively part of the internal network.
Yes. Both expect evidence that cloud configuration is assessed and controls are operating. Our report is structured so the findings and the retest evidence can be handed to an auditor directly.
Priced per cloud account or subscription, and by the services in use. Beyond that the figure depends on scope — mainly how many accounts or subscriptions, how many of the provider's services you use and the complexity of your identity model. We quote one fixed price in writing before any work begins, so the number does not move once the engagement starts. Read-only audit credentials on day one. Without them a large part of the engagement is spent getting visibility you could have granted in ten minutes.
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