AWS Security Audit
A comprehensive evaluation of your AWS environment's security posture against the CIS Foundations Benchmark and the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar.
What is an AWS Security Audit?
An AWS Security Audit is a comprehensive evaluation of your Amazon Web Services environment's security posture. We assess IAM configurations, network architecture, data protection, logging, and compliance alignment against the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar.
The audit reveals misconfigurations, overly permissive policies, unencrypted data stores, and monitoring blind spots that expose your cloud infrastructure to compromise.
The resulting report provides a prioritised remediation roadmap to bring your AWS environment to a defensible security baseline.
Scored against the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark for measurable, actionable results.
assessment phases
Benchmark alignment
How do we audit AWS Security?
The engagement follows a structured methodology in four phases.
Discovery and Scoping
We inventory the AWS environment: accounts, regions, services in use, and organisational structure (AWS Organizations, SCPs). We collect IAM policies, VPC configurations, and resource inventories. We define the audit scope and depth, focusing on the services and accounts carrying the highest risk.
Automated and Manual Analysis
We run automated assessments using AWS Security Hub, Prowler, Access Analyzer, and Trusted Advisor, complemented by manual deep-dive review of IAM policies, roles, and trust relationships, S3 bucket policies, ACLs, and public exposure, VPC architecture, security groups, and network ACLs, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and logging completeness, encryption configuration (KMS, EBS, S3, RDS, Secrets Manager), Lambda, API Gateway, and serverless security posture, and backup, disaster recovery, and data lifecycle management.
Scoring and Recommendations
Findings are mapped to CIS Benchmark controls and rated by severity (Critical, High, Medium, Low). Each finding includes the affected resource, exploitation scenario, remediation steps (with AWS CLI or console instructions), and effort estimate. We produce an overall AWS security maturity score.
Restitution
We present findings to technical and management stakeholders, walk through the remediation roadmap, and deliver the final report via secure channel. All AWS access credentials and client data are revoked and destroyed at engagement close.
Prerequisites
Read-only IAM access to the AWS account(s) in scope (SecurityAudit managed policy or equivalent), AWS Organizations and account structure documentation, a list of critical workloads and data classification, and a designated AWS/Cloud contact on the client side.
Need an AWS Security Audit?
Evaluate your AWS environment's security posture with a structured assessment aligned to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark.