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Cloud Security Audit

Ensure your cloud configuration is bulletproof. We audit identity management, storage, logging, monitoring, and database services.

What is a cloud security audit?

A cloud security audit is a systematic review of how your cloud services are configured, secured, and governed. It's not a scan of your workloads running in the cloud — it's an examination of the cloud platform itself: how identities are managed, how storage is exposed, how logs are captured, and how the whole environment is wired together.

This matters because cloud breaches almost never stem from flaws in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud themselves. They stem from customer misconfiguration — a public S3 bucket here, an over-privileged service account there, an unmonitored admin role somewhere else. The platforms are secure by default; the configurations rarely are.

The shared responsibility gap

Many businesses entrust their data to a cloud provider, then assume that provider has handled security end-to-end. This is one of the most common and costly misunderstandings in modern IT.

The cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud infrastructure — the physical data centres, the hypervisors, the underlying network.

Your company is responsible for the security and protection of business data in the cloud — how you configure services, who has access, how you detect anomalies, and how you respond to incidents.

This is the shared responsibility model, and the boundary is exactly where most cloud breaches happen. A single misconfigured cloud service can expose millions of records, even when every other security control is working perfectly.

Where misconfigurations occur

We focus our audits on the areas where real-world breaches actually originate:

Identity and access management — over-privileged users, dormant accounts, missing MFA, weak conditional access policies
Storage services — public buckets, unencrypted volumes, missing versioning and lifecycle policies
Logging, monitoring and alerting — gaps in audit trails, alerts that fire but go unread, retention periods that won't survive a forensic investigation
Database services — exposed endpoints, default credentials, missing encryption-at-rest
Cloud integrator changes — misconfigurations introduced during vendor transitions and provider migrations

When cloud security is at risk

Cloud environments are especially vulnerable at predictable moments:

When the cloud provider rolls out new options and default settings — each change adds complexity, and "secure by default" often means "secure only if you haven't touched it"
When environments grow organically without periodic configuration review
When teams lack current knowledge of evolving best practices and provider-specific pitfalls
During migrations, mergers, or rapid scaling events — when speed trumps security review

We map all configuration vulnerabilities according to CIS benchmarks. Our recommendations are based on best practices drawn from audits across multiple industries, adapted to your specific risk profile.

Our process

After the audit, freudiger IT security presents the results in a working session with your IT managers — not a handoff, but a conversation. We advise on the sequencing and implementation of configuration changes, flagging dependencies and warning about pitfalls.