Cloud Configuration Review
Cloud risk usually starts with something that looks reasonable in isolation. Canary Trap reviews your cloud configuration, identity controls, data exposure, and attacker-relevant paths so your team knows which gaps actually matter.
What we test, review, and assess.
We assess the cloud identities, configurations, data paths, and controls that determine what an attacker could access or abuse.
Outcome of this engagement
Cloud Configuration Review helps your team asses whether your cloud environment is configured to resist real attacker techniques, not just satisfy a benchmark.
- IAM roles, policies, service principals, and privileged access
- PIM, break-glass accounts, federation, SSO, and conditional access
- Permission paths to sensitive systems, data, or administrative control
- Network segmentation, exposed services, and public access paths
- Storage, databases, key vaults, secrets, and encryption configuration
- Cross-account, cross-subscription, or cloud-connected exposure
- Logging, alerting, and SIEM coverage
- Cloud workload protection and posture management
- Backup, recovery, resilience, and operational control gaps
Cloud findings your team can act on.
A cloud review is only valuable if it helps your team prioritize the gaps that create real exposure.
Canary Trap reports are written to support remediation, leadership visibility, compliance conversations, and operational improvement.
Cloud confidence should come from tested controls, not clean dashboards.
Cloud dashboards can make posture look measurable. They do not always show how identity, configuration, data, and network paths combine under real attacker pressure.
This engagement gives your team a defensible view of how your cloud environment is configured, which controls hold, where exposure exists, and what should be prioritized next.
A transparent process from scope to retesting.
Every Cloud Configuration Review is scoped to your provider, environment, access model, objectives, and testing requirements.
We confirm cloud provider, accounts, subscriptions, projects, access model, testing objectives, rules of engagement, timing, contacts, and communication process.
Our testers review cloud configuration, identity controls, data exposure, network paths, logging, and attacker-relevant control gaps using manual review, tooling, and relevant intelligence.
We document findings with evidence, severity, business context, attack-path detail where applicable, and practical remediation guidance.
Your team addresses the findings with clear direction from the report and findings review.
We retest remediated findings within the defined window to validate that the risk has been addressed.
Cloud review led by people who think like attackers.
Cloud configuration is often assessed like a benchmark exercise. That is useful, but incomplete.
Canary Trap brings senior offensive security expertise, structured methodology, and practical reporting to help your team understand which cloud control gaps create realistic security risk.
Senior-led testing
Testing is led by experienced offensive security professionals, not handed off to junior scanner operators.
Attacker-aligned analysis
We focus on the cloud configurations attackers actually target, including identity, access, secrets, exposed services, storage, and privilege paths.
Control validation
Benchmarks can show what is misaligned. Canary Trap helps identify which gaps create practical exposure and what they could mean for the environment.
Practical reporting
Findings include the technical detail needed for remediation and the business context needed for leadership, compliance, and operational decisions.
Project management
Every engagement includes clear communication, defined expectations, and project management throughout the testing lifecycle.
Retesting and validation
Retesting helps confirm that remediated findings have actually been addressed, not just marked complete.
Trust signals
Canary Trap is SOC 2 Type II certified, maintains an NPS above 95, and specializes in offensive security testing.
Cloud risk rarely stays confined to cloud.
Cloud environments connect to identity, internal networks, applications, APIs, and operational workflows. These are common pairings with Cloud Configuration Review.
Cloud configuration review questions, answered plainly.
A cloud configuration review evaluates whether a cloud environment is configured securely across identity, access, network exposure, data protection, logging, monitoring, backup, and operational controls.
Canary Trap reviews Azure, AWS, and GCP environments with an attacker-aligned lens to help teams identify which configuration and control gaps create meaningful risk.
Azure is Canary Trap’s deepest area of focus. Canary Trap also performs cloud configuration review engagements for AWS and GCP environments. Scope, access, and methodology are confirmed during the scoping call.
No. CIS and provider benchmarks can be useful inputs, but a Cloud Configuration Review should go beyond checklist alignment.
Canary Trap references benchmarks where helpful, then focuses on attacker-relevant configuration, identity paths, data exposure, segmentation, and control gaps.
Usually, no. Canary Trap typically works from a read-only review identity scoped to the in-scope subscriptions, accounts, or projects.
The exact access model is confirmed during scoping to balance coverage, safety, and least-privilege access.
Azure review may include identity and access, Entra ID configuration, privileged access, subscriptions, resource groups, networking, storage, key vaults, logging, monitoring, workload protection, backup, recovery, and control posture.
Final scope depends on the environment and objectives.
AWS and GCP reviews may include identity and access management, network exposure, storage and database security, secrets and key management, logging and monitoring, workload configuration, backup, recovery, and relevant provider-specific controls.
Final scope depends on the provider, environment, and testing objectives.
Yes. Many organizations pair Cloud Configuration Review with Internal Network Penetration Testing to understand how cloud identity, access, and connectivity could influence internal compromise paths.
Yes. Cloud Configuration Review can support common compliance and customer assurance requirements. Canary Trap reports provide technical remediation detail while also supporting audit, leadership, and operational conversations.
Yes. Retesting of remediated findings is included within the defined engagement window after report delivery.
Timing depends on the provider, number of accounts or subscriptions, environment complexity, access model, and review objectives. Timing is confirmed during the scoping call.
Cost depends on scope, including the number of cloud providers, subscriptions, accounts, projects, identities, workloads, environments, and control areas involved.
Canary Trap prices from scope, not from a generic rate card.
Scoping typically requires the cloud provider, in-scope accounts or subscriptions, access model, business priorities, compliance drivers, technical contacts, and review objectives.
A scoping call is used to confirm the right approach before work begins.
Canary Trap reviews the findings with your team, explains the most important risks, provides remediation guidance, and retests remediated findings within the defined window.
Ready to scope your Cloud Configuration Review?
A short scoping call is enough to align on your cloud environment, access model, timing, review objectives, and the right next step.
Working against an audit, renewal, migration, or cloud-readiness deadline? Tell us the date and we’ll work backwards from it.
