Cloud Security Posture Review

Overview

Cloud environments accumulate risk quietly. IAM policies grow permissive under deadline pressure. S3 buckets get public access enabled for a quick fix and never locked down again. Secrets end up in environment variables. Logging gets left at defaults that miss the events that matter.

Opcode’s Cloud Security Posture Review gives you a clear, current picture of where your environment stands, without waiting for an incident to find out.

This isn’t an architecture engagement. It’s a point-in-time assessment of what you’ve already built, delivered in two weeks with a findings report your team can act on immediately.

What’s included

IAM analysis: Review of roles, policies, users, and service accounts against least-privilege principles. Identifies overpermissive policies, unused credentials, and privilege escalation paths.
Public exposure review: Identification of storage buckets, databases, compute resources, and APIs with unintended public access or overly permissive network rules.
Encryption coverage: Assessment of encryption at rest and in transit across storage, databases, and data flows. Identifies gaps and misconfigurations.
Secrets management review: Review of how secrets, API keys, and credentials are stored and accessed. Flags hardcoded secrets, insecure storage patterns, and missing rotation.
Logging and monitoring gaps: Assessment of what’s being logged, what’s missing, and whether the right events are captured for detection and forensic purposes.
Findings report: Prioritised findings with risk ratings, evidence, and concrete remediation steps. No 100-page documents; a report your team will actually use.

Supported platforms

AWS, Azure, or GCP. One platform per engagement. Tooling-assisted using native APIs and open-source assessment tools (Prowler for AWS, Steampipe, and provider-native security tooling).

How it works

Scoping call: Confirm the platform, environment scope (production, staging, specific accounts), and any known areas of concern.
Access setup: Read-only access provisioned via a dedicated IAM role or service principal. No write access required or used.
Assessment: Tooling-assisted data collection followed by manual review and analysis. Typically three to five working days of active assessment.
Findings report: Prioritised report delivered with findings grouped by severity. Each finding includes evidence, risk explanation, and remediation guidance.
Debrief: Optional walkthrough of findings with your technical team to answer questions and discuss remediation sequencing.

Who this is for

Engineering teams that have built in the cloud and want an independent senior review before a compliance audit or investor due diligence
Organisations that have grown their cloud environment quickly and want to know where the risk has accumulated
Security teams that need an external baseline against which to measure internal remediation efforts
Companies that have received a security questionnaire from a customer and need to understand their actual posture before responding