Cloud Security and Configuration Assessments
Safeguarding Your Cloud Infrastructures, Simplifying Compliance
Keeping your cloud infrastructure secure and compliant is paramount. Here at Oppos Cyber Security, we specialize in cloud security assessment that meets the unique demands of your hybrid or whole cloud environment. Our team is ready to partner with you, ensuring that your infrastructure is configured to the latest security best practices, identifying potential risks, and instilling confidence that your assets are secure.
We work with companies that have hybrid or whole cloud infrastructure to ensure their environment is configured to the latest and security best practices. Cloud infrastructure has a unique set of challenges related to security and compliance. Conducting a professional assessment to identify and mitigate risks to your company’s assets will provide you, and your clients, assurance those assets are secure.
Not yet in the cloud but thinking about making the move? No problem, we’ll assess your requirements and provide guidance on how to implement your infrastructure to meet the latest best practices. Post-implementation, we’ll work with you to assess and confirm that our recommendations were correctly implemented.
What is Cloud Security Assessment?
A cloud security assessment identifies potential security vulnerabilities and risks in an organization’s cloud infrastructure. It includes a thorough evaluation of the security controls and measures in place, both those provided by the cloud service provider and those implemented by the organization. A cloud security risk assessment also helps organizations understand their cloud environment’s overall security posture and identify areas needing improvement.
Oppos consultants use various tools and techniques to conduct a cloud security assessment, including penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and security audits. The assessment process also involves reviewing the organization’s security policies and procedures, including access controls, network security, and data protection measures.
Organizations should conduct regular cloud security assessments to stay ahead of evolving security threats. With the increasing use of cloud computing, security risks and threats are also increasing, and businesses need to stay vigilant and keep their overall security posture up-to-date. With cloud security assessment, organizations can ensure that their cloud infrastructure is secure and that sensitive data is protected.
The Top 7 Advanced Cloud Security Challenges
Understanding the top cloud security challenges becomes paramount as your organization navigates the digital landscape. Your cloud environment requires advanced security measures and sensitive data protection, amid an ever-evolving array of cyber threats.
Increased Attack Surface
As more business operations transition into the cloud, the attack surface expands, attracting hackers. They exploit weak cloud configurations and lax access management to disrupt workloads, critical security controls, and data.
Limited Visibility and Tracking
Providers often control the infrastructure layer, leaving you without full visibility into your cloud environment. The situation complicates the ability to quantify cloud assets or visualize your organization’s network history effectively.
Dynamic Workloads
With assets provisioned and decommissioned at unprecedented speed, traditional security tools struggle to enforce protection policies. It emphasizes the need for more efficient account management in these dynamic environments.
Automation and DevSecOps
Organizations adopting automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methods must ensure the embedding of appropriate security controls early in development. Post-deployment security changes can undermine your organization’s security services capabilities.
Privilege and Key Management
Frequently, cloud user roles grant extensive, unnecessary permissions. Misconfigured keys and privileges at the application level can expose sessions to significant security risks, highlighting the importance of meticulous access management.
Complex Environments
As many organizations favor hybrid and multi-cloud environments, consistent security management across various public and private cloud providers, including on-premise deployments, becomes challenging.
Compliance and Governance
While a cloud service provider aligns with many accreditation programs, your organization is responsible for ensuring compliance with workload and data processes. Given limited visibility into the cloud environment and its constant changes, this task becomes complicated.
Understanding these challenges helps prepare your organization to confront future attacks, prevent security breaches, and navigate the shared responsibility model in a cloud-based infrastructure. A comprehensive cloud security assessment from Oppos ensures you manage these challenges and maintain robust cloud security.
Benefits of Cloud Security Assessment
- Cloud-based solutions can present risks, and a security assessment helps identify if these risks are appropriate for specific use cases.
- A Cloud Security Assessment is a proactive measure to avoid data breaches and minimize damage in case of a breach.
- Key part of cloud compliance requirements with most CSPs adhering to ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, and NIST SP 800-53 security standards
- Improves overall cloud security posture.
- Uncovers security vulnerabilities and provides remediation.
- Identifies configuration and vulnerability issues in cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Provides a more secure environment for cloud services, applications, and data.
- Helps achieve compliance with industry standards, regulations, and guidelines.
At Oppos, We Provide Comprehensive Security Configuration Review
Oppos is a leading provider of cloud security assessments, helping organizations to enhance their security controls and reduce the risk of data loss. With the increasing trend toward cloud computing, it is essential to have a comprehensive cloud security risk assessment to ensure the security of your organization and clients.
Oppos provides visibility into the security and risk management of the major cloud environments like those below, although we are not constrained by provider:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Our comprehensive cloud security configuration review helps to reduce security risks in cloud computing and maintain a competitive edge. We help businesses and organizations identify potential security vulnerabilities, improve their data security, and achieve compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Migrating resources to the cloud system has the potential to lower costs, improve availability and enhance security, but it can also be complex, and the cost of a mistake can be substantial. Common configuration issues, such as insecure data storage, internet-accessible databases, excessive API keys, and lack of two-factor authentication, can put an organization’s data at risk. With Oppos cloud security assessment, you can have peace of mind knowing that your cloud-based environment is secure.
Our Cloud Security Assessment Methodology
Oppos Inc’s methodology for conducting a cloud security assessment is designed to comprehensively evaluate an organization’s cloud infrastructure. Our cloud security assessment checklist consists of the following three phases:
- Discovery: Our team begins by reviewing service-level agreements and security certification evidence. This helps us understand the organization’s current security concerns and identify any potential areas of concern.
- Vulnerability Scanning: In this phase, we use advanced tools and techniques to identify vulnerabilities in configuration settings and physical and logical security weaknesses associated with the target environment. Our vulnerability scanning is conducted externally from the host environment to expose any weaknesses an internet-based attacker could exploit. This process does not cause any damage to the systems under test.
- Vulnerability Analysis: In this final phase, our specialists determine the severity level of each identified threat based on factors such as the possible impact of threat realization, the age of the vulnerability, the availability of exploits, and the availability of patching solutions. This information helps us to provide recommendations for improving the security controls of the organization’s cloud environment.
At Oppos Cyber Security, we deliver tailored solutions. Our methodology for cloud security assessment methodology provides more advanced security measures, integrating a keen understanding of your cloud provider’s environment and block-level storage features and advanced service offerings specific to your needs.
We aim to effectively shield your critical information from untrusted third parties, guard server-hosted containers, and improve privilege management, reinforcing your cyber-defense. By also identifying and addressing outdated aspects of your system, we ensure the robustness of your security, now and in the future. This comprehensive approach to security assessment reaffirms Oppos’ commitment to safeguarding your digital enterprise. Trust Oppos to lead you securely into the evolving realm of cloud technology.
“A large Telco client of ours required Moveable Online undergo a PCI-DSS gap assessment. After asking around within our circle or business associates, we were introduced to Oppos. They were able to aid us with the gap assessment, make recommendations to secure our environment and help prepare the documentation our client required. The process was quick, informative and we will engage Oppos for future compliance related activities, primarily our efforts with achieving PCI-DSS compliance.”
“They weaved in a layer of security that we had only dreamed of in the past – a next generation rewall — which they built, congured and deployed at the perimeter of our network. When called upon, even with the great distance between us, they provide onsite or remote support as required and always meet the mark. Since the time of our initial project, we have called upon Oppos several times for various IT and Security related projects which they have delivered on every time.”
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Cloud Security Assessment FAQs
A cloud security risk assessment evaluates risks and identifies vulnerabilities/threats in a company’s cloud environment. It begins with analyzing the system architecture and security policies and procedures, followed by testing to validate security measures and identify areas of exposure. The process results in a report with findings and recommendations for mitigating risks.
A cloud security assessment includes risk analysis, security policy evaluation, vulnerability scans, and a report of findings. The assessment also includes identifying misconfigurations that may cause data leakage or security risks and evaluating access control to ensure proper user access to sensitive information.
Before a cloud security assessment, review security policies and procedures, including access control and authentication methods. Assess the data stored on the cloud and its protection. Clarify staff roles and responsibilities. Evaluate existing security measures like firewalls and IDS and identify gaps or concerns.
Yes, several different types of cloud security assessments can be used to evaluate the security posture of a company’s cloud environment. These include penetration testing, which is used to identify potential system vulnerabilities, and network security assessments, which are used to evaluate the effectiveness of existing security measures.
During a cloud security assessment, Oppos security management experts are on the lookout for typical flaws such as misconfigurations, unnecessary services running in the background, unapplied critical security patches and code errors present within server applications.
