Cloud Misconfiguration Assessment
Most cloud breaches aren't sophisticated — they're misconfiguration. Public S3 / blob containers, over-permissive IAM, exposed databases, unmanaged keys. Digital Defense runs a focused 2-3 week misconfiguration assessment across your cloud(s), produces a prioritised remediation plan and ships the highest-risk fixes with your team.
Who needs this
Cloud customers between formal audits needing a focused check
Pre-funding / pre-acquisition cloud security due diligence
Teams that just expanded to a new region or account
Post-incident reviews (after a near-miss or breach)
Customers wanting a quick CSPM-equivalent without full tool roll-out
Problems we solve
- 01
Public buckets / blob containers leaking PII or source code
- 02
IAM users with admin access and long-lived keys
- 03
Databases reachable from 0.0.0.0/0 without encryption-at-rest
- 04
Secrets in environment variables, AMIs, container images
- 05
Unmanaged service principals / workload identities with high privilege
- 06
Logging gaps — no CloudTrail / Activity Log / Audit Log
Our methodology
- 1
Account & scope
Inventory of accounts, regions, services in scope.
- 2
Automated scan
ScoutSuite / Prowler / CIS-CAT + Pacu (where in-scope) + manual triage.
- 3
Manual exploitation
Validate top findings (e.g., public bucket reachable, IAM privilege-escalation chain).
- 4
Prioritization
Severity x exploitability x business-impact ranking; top-10 list with owner + fix steps.
- 5
Co-remediate
Walk through fixes with your team for top-10 issues; verify closure.
What you receive
Cloud account inventory
Findings report with CVSS + business impact
Top-10 risk list with owner and fix steps
Co-remediation log (closure evidence per item)
30-day re-scan
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between this and a full CSPM deployment?
This is a point-in-time, 2-3 week engagement with a focused fix-the-top-10 outcome. CSPM is continuous. Most customers do this first, then decide on CSPM with our help.
Do you cover GCP?
Yes — AWS, Azure, GCP and (limited scope) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Will you remediate or just assess?
Both. We co-remediate the top-10 highest-risk findings with your team. Beyond that, we can scope a managed remediation engagement.
Is this enough for a regulator audit?
It's a strong starting point, but not a replacement for a CERT-In audit, ISO 27001 audit or full cloud security assessment. We can scope into either.
How fast can we start?
Typically 1-2 weeks from SOW to kick-off; engagement runs 2-3 weeks.
Related services
Ready to scope this engagement?
Talk to Digital Defense — India's CERT-In Empanelled cybersecurity team.
Book a consultation