Cloud Hardening & Security Reviews
Your cloud's defaults aren't secure.
CIS-benchmarked reviews of Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS — surface the misconfigurations attackers look for, with a prioritized roadmap to close them.
What we review
Where cloud breaches actually start
Most cloud incidents aren't exotic zero-days — they're misconfigurations: an exposed bucket, an over-privileged role, MFA that was never enforced. We review your environment against CIS Benchmarks and tell you exactly what to fix.
Microsoft 365 & Identity
MFA coverage, conditional access, legacy-auth lockdown, admin-role hygiene, and tenant sharing defaults — the controls most SMEs ship misconfigured out of the box.
Azure & AWS review
Storage exposure, IAM and privilege-escalation paths, network and security-group rules, logging, and key management — measured against CIS Benchmarks.
Prioritized roadmap
Every finding mapped to business risk with step-by-step remediation, so your team fixes the highest-impact gaps first — not a checklist for its own sake.
Why configuration matters
The cloud is secure. Your settings might not be.
Cloud providers secure the platform; securing what you put on it is your responsibility. That shared-responsibility gap is where most SME cloud breaches happen — and it's exactly what a hardening review closes.
How it works
Scope to remediation roadmap
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Step 01
Scope
We confirm which tenants, subscriptions, and accounts are in scope, plus read access, in a signed Rules of Engagement.
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Step 02
Review
CIS-benchmarked configuration review across identity, data, network, and logging controls.
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Step 03
Report
Findings ranked by business impact, with a clear before/after for each misconfiguration.
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Step 04
Re-review
Optional follow-up to confirm remediation closed the gaps and your posture actually improved.
Pricing
from $4,999
Scoped to your tenants and accounts. Multi-cloud and follow-up re-reviews quoted on request.
Cloud Hardening FAQ
Which cloud platforms do you cover? +
Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS as standard, benchmarked against CIS. Google Cloud (GCP) is available on request. Most SME engagements center on M365 and one IaaS provider.
What is a CIS Benchmark? +
The Center for Internet Security publishes consensus-based hardening standards for cloud platforms. Reviewing against CIS gives you an objective, recognized baseline rather than one person's opinion of "secure enough."
Is Cloud Hardening the same as a penetration test? +
No. Cloud Hardening is a configuration and identity review — we assess how your environment is set up. A pentest actively exploits weaknesses. They pair well: hardening closes the obvious doors, the pentest checks the locks.
Do you fix the issues or just report them? +
Every engagement delivers a prioritized remediation roadmap and guidance. Hands-on remediation support is available if your team wants help implementing the fixes.
Next step
Find your cloud's weak settings.
Tell us your platforms — we'll scope a CIS-benchmarked review.