Find the cloud risks that are easy to miss
Cloud environments can change rapidly. A permission granted for a short project, a public storage setting, an old access key or an overly broad role may remain long after the original need has disappeared. SteelCortex reviews these conditions in the context of the data and workloads they can affect.
Review areas
- Identity roles, privileged access and excessive permissions.
- Public or broadly shared storage and data services.
- Internet-facing workloads, management interfaces and APIs.
- Network rules, segmentation and remote access.
- Secrets, credentials and long-lived keys where in scope.
- Logging, monitoring and evidence needed to investigate suspicious activity.
- Configuration drift from expected security baselines.
Risk is more than configuration
A cloud finding becomes more important when it exposes sensitive data, enables privileged access or creates a path to critical services. SteelCortex therefore combines configuration evidence with asset importance and business context rather than treating every deviation equally.
Deliverables
The review can produce a prioritised cloud-risk summary, evidence for key findings, identity and access observations, immediate hardening actions and a longer-term improvement plan. Where appropriate, findings can be mapped to internal control requirements to support governance discussions.
Suitable for
Organisations can use a cloud exposure review during migration, after rapid cloud growth, following an incident, before a major audit or when internal teams need an independent view of permissions and external exposure.