Is your cloud setup as secure as you think it is?
Cloud gives you speed. Spin up a service, add a user, scale a workload, all in minutes. That speed is also how gaps creep in. Every account, identity, storage bucket, VM, database, API, and container needs to be set up right. Get one setting wrong and you’ve created exposure nobody meant to have.
A Cloud Security Posture Review is how we catch that early. We go through your environment looking for misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and exposed resources, then tell you what actually matters and what to fix first.
Want a clearer picture of your cloud security? Talk to Sunvak Boreal about a review.
What it is
It’s a structured look at your cloud environment: identity and access, configuration, network security, storage, data protection, logging, monitoring, encryption, privileged access, policies, public exposure, backup and recovery.
Which of those we look at depends on your platform, your architecture, and what you want out of it. The point is simple: know where you actually stand, and know what to do next.
Why it’s worth doing
Cloud environments rarely sit still. New users, services, and permissions get added constantly, and without regular checks it’s easy to lose track of what your environment actually looks like now.
A review shows you the reality: misconfigured resources, permissions that have crept too wide, things exposed to the public that shouldn’t be, storage that’s more open than intended, missing encryption, gaps in your logs. Then we help you prioritise, so your team spends its time on what matters, not everything at once.
What we look at
Identity and access. This is where most cloud risk starts. We look for accounts and services with more access than they need, and help you move toward giving everyone only what they actually use.
Privileged access. Admin accounts can touch a lot. We check for permissions that have gone further than they should and tighten them up.
Networks. We check your security groups, firewall rules, routing, and segmentation, and whether your network actually enforces the boundaries you think it does.
Storage. A lot of sensitive data lives here. We check for public access nobody intended and permissions that are looser than they should be.
Configuration. Misconfiguration causes more cloud incidents than almost anything else. We go through your settings and flag what’s off.
Encryption. We look at how your data is protected at rest and in transit, and how your keys are managed.
Logging and monitoring. If something goes wrong, can you actually see it happen? We check for blind spots.
Public exposure. Anything reachable from the open internet that shouldn’t be, we find it.
Policies. Where it’s part of the scope, we compare what your policies say against what your environment is actually doing.
How it works
1. Scope and planning. We talk to you first: what platform, what architecture, what you’re worried about. Then we agree exactly what’s in scope.
2. Discovery. We map your environment: identities, networks, storage, workloads, controls, monitoring.
3. Assessment. We check what we find against good practice and the criteria we’ve agreed on.
4. Risk analysis. Not every finding is equally serious. We weigh exposure, sensitivity, impact, and how easily it could be exploited.
5. Reporting. You get a clear write-up: what we found, where, why it matters, and what to do.
6. Support. Your teams get practical steps to actually fix things.
7. Follow-up. Once you’ve made the changes, we can check back and confirm they landed.
What we’re looking for
Excessive permissions. Exposed privileged accounts. Public resources that shouldn’t be. Misconfigured storage. Weak security groups. Insecure network setups. Missing encryption. Weak key management. Gaps in logging and monitoring. Weak backups. Old, unused accounts. Weak identity controls. Missing policies.
Which of these apply depends on your platform and scope.
Whatever platform you’re on
AWS environments tend to sprawl across a lot of accounts, services, and resources. We look for the gaps across whatever you define.
Azure connects applications, identities, VMs, storage, and databases, and we check the controls across that.
Google Cloud has its own mix of applications, data services, and networks, and we go looking there too.
Running more than one? A multi-cloud review gives you one view across all of them, instead of separate blind spots per platform.
Not the same as penetration testing
A posture review checks your configuration and controls. Penetration testing goes further and actually tries to exploit things. Different jobs. Many organisations do both.
Not quite the same as a “security assessment” either
Some providers use these terms loosely. A posture review usually means configuration and controls. A broader security assessment might also cover architecture, compliance, and application security. Worth pinning down before you start.
Why Sunvak Boreal
We’re not going to hand you fifty pages of settings to feel bad about. We’ll tell you what matters, in plain language, with a clear next step. Cloud security connects to application, API, network, and identity security, and we cover those too, so you’re not getting a narrow slice of the picture.
When to do this
Before a major cloud launch. After migrating workloads. After a big architecture change. When you add new services, change access, or start handling sensitive data in the cloud. After an incident. As part of regular security work. Before a compliance review. When you’re going multi-cloud. When your environment has simply grown a lot since the last look.
Who this is for
If you’re running AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or a mix, and you’ve got cloud-hosted applications, databases, storage, VMs, containers, or serverless workloads carrying anything sensitive, this is for you.
Get a clearer view of your cloud security
Your cloud environment keeps changing. Make sure your security keeps up with it. Talk to Sunvak Boreal about a Cloud Security Posture Review and find out where your setup could be stronger.
FAQs
What is a Cloud Security Posture Review?
A structured check of your cloud environment for configuration weaknesses, access issues, exposed resources, and other gaps.
What does it cover?
Depending on scope: identity and access, network security, storage, encryption, logging, monitoring, public exposure, privileged access, configuration, and policies.
Which platforms can you review?
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or multi-cloud, tailored to what you run.
Why do misconfigurations matter so much?
One wrong setting can expose data or systems nobody meant to expose. Catching it early is the whole point.
Is this the same as penetration testing?
No. This checks configuration and controls. Penetration testing tries to actually exploit things.
How often should we do this?
Depends on your risk, how fast your environment changes, and your compliance needs. Definitely after any major cloud change.
Can you cover multi-cloud?
Yes, across whatever platforms you use.
What happens after?
We document and prioritise everything, your team works through it, and we can check back to confirm the important fixes landed.