The Challenge
Why Cloud Workloads Are Exposed
Cloud settings change fast and mistakes are easy. One misconfigured setting can expose data or services to the internet.
Is This Relevant?
Is This Use Case Relevant to Your Organization?
The people, moments and signals that usually bring this need to the surface.
Relevant Teams
- Cloud and platform teams
- Security teams
- Engineering teams
Common Triggers
- Rapid cloud adoption
- A misconfiguration incident
- Audit or customer security requirements
Warning Signs
- Storage or services open to the internet
- Many users with administrator access
- No continuous configuration checks
Typical Environments
- On-premises, cloud and hybrid environments
- Endpoints, networks, applications and identities
Benefits
What Better Looks Like
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Our Approach
A Practical Approach
A continuous cycle, because risk changes as systems and threats change. Each stage is tailored to your environment.
Assess
Review controls, vulnerabilities, cloud configuration and current reporting.
Prioritize
Rank what you find by business impact, effort and risk, and agree where to start.
Design
Agree priorities, risk owners and the reporting that will track progress.
Implement
Set up scanning, posture checks and remediation workflows.
Validate and Optimize
Confirm fixes are in place and that risks have reduced.
Solutions
Solutions That Can Help
The solutions that address this use case, starting with the primary one.
Services
How Signisys Can Support You
The services that deliver the approach, from the first assessment to ongoing improvement.
Technology
Technology Options
Where technology fits in the approach. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Before You Start
What to Consider Before Getting Started
A little preparation makes the first assessment faster and its findings more reliable.
- Cloud accounts and subscriptions in scope
- Identity and access design
- How resources are deployed today
- Applicable standards and frameworks
- Who will own the work and act on recommendations
- Engagement model and ongoing support
Measuring Success
How to Measure Success
Illustrative measures. Agree a baseline first, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Misconfigurations
Open configuration findings by severity.
Privileged Accounts
Accounts with broad administrative access.
Time to Fix
How quickly findings are resolved.
Policy Compliance
The share of resources meeting baselines.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this use case.
How do we know our cloud is configured securely?
Continuous checks against secure baselines show misconfigurations and excessive permissions as they appear, instead of finding them after an incident.
Will security checks slow down our teams?
Checks built into deployment pipelines catch problems early, when they are quickest to fix, rather than blocking work later.
What information is needed to get started?
The cloud accounts in scope, how resources are deployed, current identity setup and any security standards you must meet.
Which environments does this apply to?
On-premises, cloud and hybrid environments, including endpoints, networks, applications and identities.
How is progress measured?
Agree a baseline for measures such as misconfigurations, privileged accounts, time to fix and policy compliance, then track them over time.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Use Cases and Guides
Where to go next: the outcome this use case supports, nearby scenarios, technology partners and practical guides.
Business Outcome
Strengthen Cybersecurity and Reduce Business Risk
Technology Partner
AWS Solutions and Services
Technology Partner
Palo Alto Networks Solutions and Services
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