Know what your cloud environment is exposing.
Misconfigured cloud environments are one of the leading causes of breaches and audit failures. Overly permissive IAM roles, publicly accessible storage, missing logging, and disabled encryption controls are common issues that are easy to miss and expensive to explain to auditors or customers.
Packet33 reviews your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment against established security benchmarks, delivers a prioritized findings report, and gives your team a clear remediation path — so you can fix what matters before an auditor or attacker finds it first.
Cloud misconfigurations are responsible for a significant share of breaches and compliance failures at SaaS and HealthTech companies. Unlike a vulnerability that requires an attacker to exploit it, a misconfigured S3 bucket or an IAM role with excessive permissions is already open — it is just a matter of who finds it first.
A cloud security assessment gives your team a prioritized, expert-reviewed view of what is misconfigured in your environment and what it would take to fix it.
- SOC 2 audit preparation requiring evidence of cloud control reviews
- HIPAA compliance validation for cloud-hosted patient data environments
- Enterprise security questionnaires asking about cloud security posture
- New AWS or Azure account setup after infrastructure changes
- Investor or board-driven security reviews
- Identifying gaps before a more comprehensive pentest engagement
Identity and access management
- Overly permissive IAM roles and policies
- Root account usage and MFA enforcement
- Inactive users and unused access keys
- Cross-account access and privilege escalation paths
- Service account permissions and scope
Storage and data exposure
- Publicly accessible S3 buckets or Azure blob containers
- Encryption at rest for storage and databases
- Bucket policy and ACL misconfigurations
- Versioning and object-level logging status
Network and perimeter configuration
- Security groups or NSGs exposing ports to 0.0.0.0/0
- Publicly accessible compute instances
- VPC and subnet configuration review
- Firewall and network ACL gaps
Logging and monitoring
- CloudTrail or Azure Monitor enablement and coverage
- Log retention policy review
- Alerting configuration for critical events
- GuardDuty or Microsoft Defender enablement
Encryption and secrets management
- Encryption in transit enforcement
- KMS or Key Vault key rotation status
- Hardcoded secrets or credentials in configurations
- Certificate expiry and TLS configuration
Compliance benchmark alignment
- CIS Benchmark controls for AWS, Azure, or GCP
- SOC 2 relevant configuration controls
- HIPAA cloud safeguards where applicable
- Summary of pass, fail, and manual review items
Scoping and access
We confirm the accounts in scope and walk you through granting read-only access. No write permissions are required.
Configuration review
We run a full configuration review of your environment and manually review the results to remove noise and false positives.
Reporting
A prioritized findings report with severity ratings, what each finding means, and specific remediation steps for your team.
Remediation support
We are available to answer questions as your team works through fixes. No additional charge for follow-up questions.
- Prioritized findings report
- Executive summary suitable for auditors and leadership
- Severity rating for each finding
- Explanation of business risk per finding
- Specific remediation steps per finding
- CIS Benchmark and SOC 2 control mapping
- Pass / fail / manual review summary
- Remediation follow-up support included
- SaaS companies preparing for SOC 2 Type I or II.
- HealthTech companies with patient data in AWS or Azure.
- Startups responding to enterprise security questionnaires.
- Teams that have never had their cloud environment reviewed.
- Companies that recently migrated to or expanded their cloud footprint.
- Organizations that want audit evidence without a full pentest.
Is this the same as a cloud penetration test? +
No. A cloud security assessment reviews your environment’s configuration against security benchmarks — it identifies what is misconfigured or exposed. A cloud penetration test goes further by attempting to exploit those misconfigurations to demonstrate real-world impact. This service is a configuration review, not a penetration test.
What access do you need to our cloud environment? +
Read-only access to your AWS, Azure, or GCP account is all that is required. We do not need write permissions. We will walk you through the exact IAM role or service principal to set up before the engagement begins, and access can be revoked as soon as the review is complete.
Which cloud platforms do you support? +
We support AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Can this be bundled with an external network penetration test? +
Yes. If you are purchasing an external network penetration test, the cloud security assessment is available as a discounted add-on. Contact us during scoping and we will include it in the quote.
Let’s review your cloud environment.
Book a short scoping call and we will confirm the accounts in scope, timeline, and pricing before any work begins.