Cybersecurity / Cloud Security

Cloud Security Posture Assessment

Our Microsoft 365 assessment has been the only platform review we sold, which left everything else in your estate unexamined. This covers AWS, Azure and Google Workspace to the same depth: identity, configuration, exposure, logging, and a hardening plan ordered by what an attacker would reach first.

AWS, Azure and Google Workspace covered Identity, configuration, exposure and logging reviewed Hardening plan ordered by exploitability, not by tool severity
Overview

Cloud Security Posture Assessment

What it is

A configuration and identity review of your cloud environments, producing a prioritised hardening plan. Read-only throughout, with no changes made to your environment and no agents installed.

Why organisations need it

Cloud breaches are overwhelmingly configuration and identity failures rather than platform vulnerabilities: an over-permissioned role, a storage bucket exposed during a migration, a service account with no expiry, logging that was never enabled. These are invisible from inside the console unless someone goes looking, and the shared responsibility model means the provider will not find them for you.

Key features

What the engagement covers

Scoped by platform and account count. Most organisations have more cloud footprint than they expect once shadow subscriptions and legacy accounts are enumerated.

Identity and access review

Users, roles, groups, service accounts and federation. Over-permissioned identities, unused credentials, standing privileged access, absent or weak multifactor enforcement, and the privilege escalation paths that follow from how roles are actually chained.

Configuration and hardening review

Platform configuration against the provider's own benchmarks and CIS guidance: compute, storage, networking, database, container and serverless services. Findings are verified rather than reported straight from a scanner.

Data exposure assessment

Publicly reachable storage, databases and endpoints. Encryption at rest and in transit. Where personal data resides across regions, and what that means under PDPA cross-border transfer expectations.

Logging, monitoring and detection

Whether the logs you would need after an incident exist, are retained long enough, and reach somewhere anyone looks. Detection coverage against common cloud attack techniques, and the gaps between what is collected and what is alerted on.

Network and perimeter review

Security groups, firewall rules, network segmentation, exposed management interfaces and connectivity between cloud and on-premises. The rules that were opened temporarily and never closed.

Hardening plan and remediation support

Findings ranked by exploitability and blast radius rather than by scanner severity, with concrete remediation steps, effort estimates and owners. Support implementing the fixes where your team wants it.

Business value

What the business gets out of it

You see the whole estate, including what you forgot

Enumeration routinely surfaces subscriptions, accounts and workloads nobody was tracking, which is where the worst findings tend to live.

Findings are ranked by what an attacker reaches first

A scanner produces hundreds of medium findings. This produces a short ordered list based on identity paths and actual exposure, which is what a small team can act on.

Your shared responsibility line becomes explicit

Most organisations cannot state precisely where the provider's responsibility ends and theirs begins for each service they use. The report does.

It supports certification and regulatory work

The evidence produced feeds directly into ISO 27001, SOC 2, BNM RMiT and Cyber Security Act obligations rather than being a separate exercise.

Nothing is touched

The assessment is read-only. No agents, no changes, no production risk, and no requirement to grant standing write access to a third party.

The team learns what to look for

Findings are walked through with your engineers so the same misconfiguration does not reappear next quarter, and the Cloud Security and DevSecOps courses are available where deeper capability is needed.

How it works

How the engagement runs

01

Scoping and enumeration

Identifying every account, subscription and tenant in scope, including the ones outside central IT's inventory.

02

Read-only access provisioning

Granting time-bound read-only access, scoped precisely, with the access model documented and revoked at the end of the engagement.

03

Automated and manual review

Benchmark and configuration analysis, followed by manual review of identity relationships and privilege paths, which tooling consistently misses.

04

Exposure and privilege path validation

Verifying which findings are genuinely reachable and what an attacker could chain together, so the ranking reflects reality.

05

Reporting and walkthrough

Findings presented to your engineers and to management separately, because the two audiences need different levels of detail.

06

Remediation support and re-test

Optional support closing findings, followed by a re-test of the items that mattered so closure is evidenced.

Deliverables

What you receive

Cloud estate inventory

Every account, subscription and tenant found, with ownership and purpose where determinable.

Findings report

Prioritised findings with evidence, exploitability rationale and concrete remediation steps for each.

Identity and privilege path analysis

Over-permissioned identities and the escalation paths available from them, illustrated rather than listed.

Data exposure register

Publicly reachable resources, encryption status and where personal data resides across regions.

Logging and detection gap analysis

What is collected, what is retained, what is alerted on, and what would be missing after an incident.

Hardening roadmap

Sequenced remediation with effort estimates and owners, plus an executive summary for management.

Who it is for

Who this is built for

Industries

Technology and SaaSFinancial servicesE-commerce and retailHealthcareManufacturingLogisticsProfessional servicesGovernment suppliers

Company sizes

Startups on cloud-native stacksSMEsMid-marketLarge enterpriseMulti-cloud estates

Departments

IT and securityEngineering and DevOpsRisk and complianceExecutive leadership
Why Orbix

Why organisations choose Orbix

A governance approach, not a tool sale

We do not resell products, so nothing here is shaped by a vendor margin. The recommendation is whatever your risk and your budget actually justify, including telling you that you do not need the engagement yet.

Recommendations you can actually implement

Findings come with a sequence, an owner and a realistic effort estimate, sized to the team you have rather than the team a framework assumes. A report that cannot be acted on is an expense, not a control.

Consultants who have sat on your side of the table

Our people have carried the obligation internally, not only audited it. That shows up in what we consider proportionate, and in how much documentation we think you genuinely need.

Built for the Malaysian operating context

Work is grounded in Malaysian law and regulator expectation, from the PDPA and the Cyber Security Act 2024 to Bursa, BNM and SC requirements, rather than translated from a European or American template.

HRD Corp expertise where it applies

Where an engagement includes training, the training component is structured to be HRD Corp SBL-Khas claimable, which changes what the programme costs you in practice.

Questions

Questions we get asked

Which platforms do you cover?

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, plus Google Workspace. Microsoft 365 is covered by its own dedicated assessment, and organisations running both usually scope them together.

Do you need write access to our environment?

No. The assessment is read-only throughout, using time-bound access scoped to what the review requires. The access model is documented and revoked at the end of the engagement.

Is this the same as a penetration test?

No. A penetration test attacks what is reachable from outside. This reviews configuration and identity from inside, which finds a different and largely non-overlapping set of problems. Organisations serious about cloud security generally need both.

How is this different from the CSPM tool we already have?

A tool produces findings continuously and indiscriminately. This validates which findings are genuinely exploitable, analyses the identity and privilege relationships tools handle poorly, and returns a short ordered list a team can actually work through. Where you already run a tool, we work from its output rather than duplicating it.

How long does it take?

For a single platform with a handful of accounts, typically one to two weeks. Larger or multi-cloud estates take longer, driven mostly by the enumeration phase and by how quickly read-only access can be arranged.

Will this help with ISO 27001 or the Cyber Security Act?

Yes. The evidence produced maps to ISO 27001 Annex A technological controls, to SOC 2 criteria, and to the risk assessment expectations under BNM RMiT and the Cyber Security Act 2024. We can present findings mapped to whichever framework you are working against.

Can you fix what you find?

Optionally. Many clients remediate internally using the report and bring us back for a re-test. Where your team lacks capacity or specific expertise, we can support the remediation directly.

Get started

Find out what is actually exposed

Tell us which platforms you run, roughly how many accounts or subscriptions, and whether this is driven by a certification, a customer question or a board concern. We will come back with scope, timeline and a fixed quotation.