Cloud Security Assessment
Evaluating and Improving Cloud Cyber Defense
Since 2003 in cybersecurity and since 2012 in cloud services, ScienceSoft helps enterprises and SaaS providers ensure full protection of their cloud environments.
Cloud security assessment entails full-scale analysis of cloud assets and processes: it reveals potential security threats and vulnerabilities that can compromise cloud cyber defense. The assessment is followed by a tailored remediation plan aimed to close the revealed security gaps and implement comprehensive cloud security controls.
Know Your Cloud Security Responsibilities
When it comes to cloud, security responsibilities are usually shared between the customer and the cloud provider. The rules of who is in charge of what will depend on the chosen service model: with more flexibility for the customer comes greater security and compliance responsibility. SaaS is the easiest to manage since the cloud vendor is largely in charge of your security, but with PaaS and especially IaaS, you will be in charge of your own cyber defense.
When assessing your individual case, we define the cloud environment components within your responsibility to evaluate and improve their security as well as help achieve compliance with relevant security standards.
Make Sure All Cloud Security Controls Are in Place
ScienceSoft’s cloud security experts are ready to analyze your entire cloud environment, identify potential vulnerabilities, and fully remediate the detected security gaps, if needed. Combining preventive and detective security controls, we help you keep your data, applications, and infrastructure in the cloud effectively protected.
Identity and access management
We prevent unauthorized access to cloud resources; insider threats of exceeding one's role permissions and accessing the data not meant for disclosure.
We check:
- Authentication mechanisms: how you identify the users of your cloud resources.
- Authorization mechanisms: which rights and permissions each user can obtain.
Remediation measures we can take:
- Create a strict password policy.
- Enforce multi-factor authentication.
- Introduce role-based access control.
- Set up single sign-on (SSO).
- Launch conditional access, granting specific access rights to users that meet specified criteria, e.g., a user group, IP address, geolocation.
- Establish privileged access management.
Logging and threat detection
We prevent failure to notice malicious activities compromising your cloud security; inability to reconstruct a security event to understand how a breach occurred and which vulnerabilities need to be fixed.
We check:
- Security alerts.
- Log ingestion.
- Log querying.
- Log archiving.
Remediation measures we can take:
- Set up the tracking of user activity and API usage.
- Launch or configure a threat detection service: e.g., Amazon GuardDuty, Event Threat Detection (Google Cloud), Microsoft Defender for Identity, SIEM solutions.
- Centralize log monitoring and security alerts.
Data protection
We prevent data exposure due to unprotected data transfer mechanisms or insufficient encryption.
We check:
- Server-side data encryption.
- Client-side data encryption.
Remediation measures we can take:
- Establish the secure encryption of data in transit and at rest.
- Set up and configure encryption key management services.
Network security
We prevent DoS attacks, malware spreading, network intrusion.
We check network-level protection.
Remediation measures we can take:
- Designing secure network architecture.
- Setting up network security tools: DLP, IDS/IPS, firewalls, etc.
- Creating and applying cloud network firewall rules and policies.
All-around cloud security configuration
We prevent misconfigurations of security services that may lead to insufficient cloud protection; failure to notice undesired changes in cloud security configurations, introduced by your employees or intruders who have gained access to the security settings.
We check the inventory of all your cloud resources to analyze and improve their security.
Remediation measures we can take: setting up an auditing tool (e.g., AWS Config, Azure App Configuration) to monitor and evaluate cloud configurations and record any changes in them.
Secure Your Cloud Apps Inside Out
We check your cloud app from different angles to find any loopholes that potential attackers may use. Application security assessment typically includes:
SAST — automated source code review
We analyze the code of your cloud app to reveal the existing vulnerabilities that hackers can find and exploit at any moment.
DAST — application penetration testing
We test out potential scenarios of real-world hacker attacks and estimate their consequences for your cloud app.
Security patching
We apply the missing security updates to protect your apps from known vulnerabilities.
AWS, Azure, GCP Security Comparison
Cloud service providers offer ever-evolving portfolios of security services to cover their customers’ compliance and security needs: identity and access management, web and email security, monitoring and threat detection, data loss prevention, compliance management, and more. Major cloud providers share documented guidance on their best security practices: AWS Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar, Azure Security Benchmark, and Google Cloud Security Foundations Guide.
ScienceSoft’s consultants are ready to navigate you through the advantages and challenges of each cloud provider to help you leverage the best security opportunities available.
AWS
- Mature documentation on security and compliance services.
- Relatively secure default settings (e.g., restricted access to network by default).
- Enhanced security due to isolated accounts. If attacker hacks one AWS account within your system, they won’t be able to access other accounts.
- Granular IAM.
- Highly customizable security groups.
- Complicated and decentralized security management at enterprise level because of account isolation.
Azure
- Unified management of authorization and permissions.
- Built-in privileged access management (PAM) functionality.
- Centralized log monitoring.
- Less secure default configurations compared to AWS (e.g., open ports in a newly created virtual network).
- Poor documentation making security services difficult to understand and efficiently configure.
Google Cloud Platform
- The security of default configurations is acceptable (on par with AWS).
- Easy configuration of security services.
- Fewer advanced security features compared to AWS and Azure.
- It is harder to find experienced GCP security specialists as the service is not as widely adopted as AWS or Azure yet.
Why Choose ScienceSoft for Your Cloud Security Assessment
- Since 2003 in IT security, a solid portfolio of cybersecurity projects.
- Since 2012 in cloud services, vast experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner, dedicated Azure consulting services.
- AWS Select Tier Services Partner, dedicated AWS consulting services.
- ISO 9001-certified mature quality management to guarantee smooth cooperation and value-driving results.
- 100% security of our customers' data ensured by ISO 27001-certified security management system.
- Recognized as Top Penetration Testing Company by Clutch.
- For the second straight year, ScienceSoft USA Corporation is listed among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies by the Financial Times.
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Our Customers Say
ScienceSoft’s cybersecurity experts helped us build a plan for two penetration tests: (1) review of our corporate networks and (2) review of our cloud AWS services. In their review of our AWS services (Identity and Access Management (IAM), VPC Service Controls, AWS Config, CloudTrail, etc.) they checked the security of cloud environment configurations and our corporate data stored in the cloud and the effectiveness of our security practices in AWS. After that, we received another report with clear recommendations on how to enhance the cybersecurity of our AWS environment.
Joel B. Cohen, President, USPlate Glass Insurance Company
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Cloud Application Code Review and Pentesting for an Award-Winning IT Company
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Quick investigation
We analyze:
- Cloud services and apps used by the client.
- The data stored in the cloud.
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Creating security assessment checklist
According to the client's needs, we check security controls in place, including:
- Identity and access management.
- Data encryption.
- Security monitoring.
- Security updates.
- Network security.
- Data backup and recovery.
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Compliance evaluation
ScienceSoft’s compliance consultants assess:
- Compliance-related policies and procedures.
- The employees' compliance awareness.
- Cloud architecture compliance.
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Cloud penetration testing (on demand)
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Reporting on detected security flaws
ScienceSoft is ready to deliver:
- Cloud security risk assessment report.
- Penetration testing report.
- Compliance assessment report.
- A detailed roadmap for remediating the detected security and compliance gaps.
- A list of recommended cloud security services and configurations, and more.
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Full remediation of the discovered security vulnerabilities (on demand)
Make Sure Your Cloud Security Is Not an Afterthought
While cloud computing makes digital infrastructures more agile and less costly, it also brings the new security challenges that cannot be overlooked.
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