Cloud &
Data Assessments
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Your Cheat Code To The Cloud
We're all about making your life easier (and more secure). The cloud seems to be about the exact opposite. Do you feel like the cloud providers are just making it up as they go? Try this, go find a support article for any cloud provider from 6 months ago and let us know if the menus look the same or if the settings are still in the same place. Go ahead, we'll wait.
So there in lies the problem. You need a team of experts that stays up-to-date on not just the cloud technologies, but also the security functions, controls, and logs that go with them. Don't worry, that's what we're here for. Have a look at a our no-nonsense approach to cloud and data security assessments.
Cloud Security Assessments
Assessing your Microsoft Azure environment is essential to ensure the security, compliance, and efficiency of your cloud operations. It allows you to identify and address vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and gaps in your security posture before they can be exploited.
Regular assessments help you align with industry standards and regulatory requirements, protecting sensitive data and reducing legal and financial risks. By evaluating your environment, you can optimize resource usage, eliminate unnecessary costs, and improve operational efficiency. It also enhances your ability to respond to incidents effectively, ensuring business continuity and building trust with stakeholders.
Ultimately, an Azure security assessment safeguards your infrastructure, data, and reputation while enabling secure growth and innovation in the cloud.
Microsoft 365 is a critical part of many organizations that enables the business to operate. Ensuring the security, compliance, and efficiency of your organization’s productivity tools and data is of paramount importance. Regular evaluations help identify vulnerabilities, such as misconfigured policies, excessive permissions, or unprotected data, that could lead to breaches or unauthorized access.
By assessing your environment, you can align with regulatory standards and safeguard sensitive information shared and stored across services like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams. It also ensures proper use of advanced security features, such as MFA, Conditional Access, and data loss prevention policies, to minimize risks. Furthermore, assessments can enhance user productivity by optimizing configurations and ensuring a seamless yet secure experience.
Maintaining a secure and well-managed Microsoft 365 environment protects your organization’s reputation, data, and operations while enabling collaboration and innovation.
By evaluating your AWS infrastructure, you can ensure alignment with best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework and compliance with industry standards and regulations. This process enables the secure use of services like EC2, S3, and RDS by implementing encryption, IAM policies, and network protections such as Security Groups and VPC configurations. It also enhances incident readiness by validating monitoring, logging, and automated response mechanisms through tools like CloudWatch, GuardDuty, and AWS Config.
Assessing your AWS environment supports proactive risk mitigation, cost optimization, and the secure scalability of your cloud operations while protecting your organization’s assets and reputation.
GCP assessments ensure alignment with best practices, such as the Google Cloud Architecture Framework, and compliance with industry standards and regulations. This process validates the proper implementation of IAM roles, VPC configurations, and encryption for services like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery. It also strengthens your security posture by optimizing monitoring and logging through tools like Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Security Command Center.
Properly securing GCP enable proactive risk mitigation, cost management, and the secure scalability of your environment, helping to safeguard your data, maintain operational continuity, and build trust with stakeholders.
Cloud Assessment Methodology
SEVN-X will meet with project sponsors and key stakeholders to understand current and desired security state, goals, and priorities.
Not all services are secure by default, prompting a need to review default and configured service settings for misconfigurations—the biggest weakness facing organizations in the cloud.
SEVN-X reviews current architecture, cloud integrations, and third-party services to create comprehensive documentation.
Review of audit and logging in cloud infrastructures ensures proper security monitoring, alerting, and audit capabilities are accounted for in your security blueprint.
In the end
It's all about the report.
We're big on content, short on fluff.
Executive Summary
More art than science, conveying the results of a very technical work to non-technical people is a skillset unto itself. We believe we've cracked the code on making this content accessible and understandable to the highest levels of management in an organization.
Strategic recommendations to support and enable executives in making decisions, packaged for executive delivery.
Assessment Results
Findings—categorized, prioritized, and ranked by criticality and estimated remediation effort.
Each finding receives a detailed breakdown including a description of the risk, detailing the threat it poses to the organization, where that issue was observed and how to remediate it. When applicable, screen captures and steps to reproduce the issue are documented.
Appendices
Cyber Kill Chains provide step-by-step walkthroughs, illustrating the severity and impact of various risks and how an attacker may leverage them.
Detailed summaries, processes, and results for engagement campaigns (i.e., recon, wireless, physical testing), which include images, statistics, tools, and techniques used.
In short, we provide all the steps necessary to show our work.
“We've had a great relationship with SEVN-X over the years. They are knowledgeable, super easy to work with and always do a great job in understanding our goals of an engagement so that the outcomes produced provide the right value.”
IT Security & Compliance Director, Investment Trust
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