Cloud Security

Cloud misconfigurations, not zero-day exploits, are behind the overwhelming majority of cloud breaches — a public storage bucket, an overly permissive IAM role, a security group left open "just for testing" and never closed. None of these require a sophisticated attacker. They require someone to notice before an attacker does.

The Shared Responsibility Gap

Cloud providers secure the infrastructure; you're responsible for how you configure it. That gap — identity permissions, network exposure, storage access, logging — is where almost every cloud incident actually originates, and it's exactly the layer that traditional network pentesting doesn't cover.

What We Test

Identity and access misconfiguration — overly permissive IAM roles and policies, unused privileged accounts, and privilege escalation paths between services.
Storage exposure — public or misconfigured S3 buckets, blob storage, and database instances reachable outside their intended trust boundary.
Network security posture — security groups, firewall rules, and VPC configurations reviewed for unintended public exposure.
Secrets and key management — credentials stored in environment variables, config files, or logs instead of a proper secrets manager.
Multi-cloud coverage — consistent posture assessment across AWS, GCP, and Azure, since most organizations of any size run more than one.

Continuous, Not a Point-in-Time Audit

Cloud environments change constantly — a new S3 bucket here, a temporary IAM role there, a security group opened for a deploy and never closed. A cloud security review from last quarter tells you nothing about the misconfiguration introduced yesterday. Alastor InfoSec continuously re-scans your cloud accounts, so drift from your intended posture is caught in the same monitoring cycle as everything else in your dashboard.

Cloud Security findings feed directly into Attack Surface Management, since a cloud misconfiguration is often exactly how a new, previously unknown asset enters your external attack surface in the first place.

Who Needs This

Any organization running production workloads in the cloud — which today is nearly everyone — needs continuous configuration monitoring, not an annual cloud audit. This is particularly important for businesses handling regulated data, where India's DPDP Act (DPDPA) and frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 explicitly expect documented access controls and encryption practices across your cloud footprint.

Talk to our team about scoping a continuous cloud security assessment across your AWS, GCP, or Azure environment.