Scope & inventory
We enumerate the accounts, subscriptions and projects in scope and build a picture of your cloud estate and its exposure.
//: 01 BRIEFING
Why it matters
The cloud gives you speed and takes back nothing in return - except the assumption that defaults are safe. They rarely are. Vantixia audits your AWS, Azure and GCP configuration against CIS Benchmarks and provider best practice, surfacing the public storage, over-permissive identities, exposed services and missing logging that turn a minor mistake into a headline breach.
This is a configuration and posture review, not a live attack simulation - though every finding is framed by how an attacker would use it. You receive severity-prioritised findings mapped to the shared-responsibility model, concrete remediation steps, and guidance on the guardrails that stop the same misconfiguration coming back.
SYS://ENGAGEMENT/SNAPSHOT
- Covers AWS, Azure and GCP
- Mapped to CIS Benchmarks and well-architected guidance
- IAM, storage, network, logging and encryption review
- Severity-prioritised, zero false positives
- Guardrail & policy-as-code recommendations to prevent recurrence
- Manual-led, comprehensive testing - AI-augmented testing optional, per your need
//: 02 TESTING APPROACH
How we run this assessment
Benchmark review
Configuration is assessed against CIS Benchmarks and provider security guidance across identity, storage, network, logging and encryption.
Identity deep-dive
We hunt the over-permissive roles, wildcard policies and unused privileges that quietly grant far more access than intended.
Exposure analysis
Public storage, open management ports and internet-facing services are identified and rated by real-world risk.
Prioritised findings
Everything is ranked by severity and mapped to the shared-responsibility model so you fix what matters first.
Remediation & guardrails
Concrete fixes plus policy-as-code and guardrail recommendations so the same misconfiguration cannot silently return.
//: 03 AUDIT SCOPE
What we review
A benchmark-driven pass across your cloud estate, mapped to CIS foundations and each provider's well-architected security guidance.
- Identity & access - over-permissive IAM, unused privileges, missing MFA, risky trust policies
- Storage - public buckets and blobs, unencrypted data, weak access policies
- Network - exposed management ports, permissive security groups, unnecessary public endpoints
- Logging & monitoring - missing audit trails, disabled logging, no alerting on critical events
- Encryption - keys, secrets management and data-at-rest / in-transit protection
- Benchmark compliance - findings mapped to CIS Benchmarks and the shared-responsibility model
//: 04 WHAT TO EXPECT
Every engagement ships with
Team of master experts
Operators certified in CEH, CPENT | LPT, eWPTX, eCPPT, eMAPT and CRTP, applying current industry best practice to every test.
In-depth analytics & report
Clear explanations, impact assessment and prioritised recommendations - not just a list of CVEs.
Security certificate
A certificate on completion that shows stakeholders your proactive commitment to security.
Free retest
After you remediate, we retest at no cost to confirm every finding is properly closed.
//: OPEN UPLINK
Not sure what your cloud is exposing?
Neither are most teams until they look. Let us audit your AWS, Azure or GCP configuration and hand you a prioritised fix list.