---
title: Cloud Security
description: Misconfiguration and identity risk detection across AWS, GCP, and Azure — continuous cloud security posture management mapped to real exploit paths.
keywords:
  - cloud security
  - cloud security posture management
  - CSPM
  - AWS security
  - cloud misconfiguration
---

# 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](/features/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-us) about scoping a continuous cloud security assessment across your AWS, GCP, or Azure environment.