Cloud security assessment targets cloud platforms and business systems deployed on them. It evaluates identity and access management, service configuration, data protection and workload security to confirm the actual security posture of cloud assets, identify configuration flaws and privilege risks, and deliver actionable remediation advice.

Why Cloud Security Assessment

In a cloud environment security responsibility is shared between the service provider and the tenant, and failures in account permissions, service configuration and data encryption fall on the user side. Misconfiguration is the leading source of cloud security incidents and is difficult to find through manual inspection alone. Conducting cloud security assessment before launch and periodically during operation is the standard way to confirm the security baseline within your area of responsibility and to meet MLPS compliance and customer security review requirements.

Assessment Scope

• Cloud account systems and identity and access management (account security, permission assignment, multi-factor authentication)
• Compute and container workloads (host baseline, image security, container orchestration configuration)
• Network and access control (security groups, ACLs, public exposure, remote operations channels)
• Storage and data security (object storage permissions, database configuration, encryption and backup policy)
• Log audit and monitoring alerting configuration
• Security of cloud-hosted web applications and APIs

Service Process

1. Scope review — confirm cloud accounts, resource inventory, business architecture and assessment boundary.

2. Baseline review — check item by item against the cloud security configuration baseline and related requirements such as MLPS.

3. Configuration verification — combine inspection tools with manual review to verify actual configurations and permission assignments.

4. Risk verification — validate high-risk findings under controlled conditions to confirm exploitability and impact.

5. Reporting and remediation — deliver the assessment report and remediation priorities, and review the remediation results.

Deliverables

• Cloud security assessment report — risk list, risk ratings and evidence records
• Remediation advice — configuration and permission fixes ranked by priority
• Review conclusion — verification after remediation to confirm that risk is closed out

Why Choose Star River Quality

• Accredited qualifications — CMA and CNAS accredited, with a traceable assessment process and results
• Rigorous methodology — assessment performed against cloud security configuration baselines and MLPS requirements
• One-stop coordination — can be combined with penetration testing and source code security audit to cover both cloud and business layers
• Full-lifecycle support — supports both pre-launch assessment and periodic in-operation assessment

If your cloud platform or cloud-hosted business systems need pre-launch security assessment, periodic baseline review or remediation support, contact us for an assessment plan and recommendations.