Cloud Security Hardening

A regulated SaaS company required CIS benchmark validation across a multi-account AWS organization. We identified IAM privilege gaps and public-exposure drift that would have failed an upcoming SOC 2 audit.

Engagement scope: AWS multi-account organization, 11 accounts

11Accounts reviewed

23CIS controls failed

100%Exposure reduction

Engagement Objectives

Validate CIS AWS Foundations benchmark posture
Review IAM boundaries and cross-account trust
Inventory unintended public exposure

Approach

We began with a scoping workshop to align on in-scope assets, rules of engagement, and success criteria. Over the following weeks, our consultants applied a manual-first methodology aligned to Cloud Security Assessment, validating every finding before reporting and coordinating closely with the client's engineering team.

Outcome

We produced an account-by-account hardening roadmap and worked with the platform team to remediate the top exposures. The organization passed its SOC 2 Type II audit the following quarter.

What We Delivered

Executive summary for leadership

Technical report with reproducible PoCs

CVSSv3.1 scored findings

Remediation walkthrough with engineers

Attack-path visualization

Free retest to confirm closure