Cloud Security
Cloud & Application Security
AWS and Azure architecture, identity, and the applications that sit on top of them.
Cloud environments are rarely compromised through novel exploits. They are compromised through an over-permissive role, a storage bucket nobody owns, a stale access key, or a management interface exposed to the internet. PhoenoSec reviews cloud estates the way an attacker enumerates them.
Architecture and misconfiguration review
Account structure, network design, encryption, public exposure, logging and backup posture are reviewed against the provider's own well-architected security guidance and against the way your workloads are actually used.
- Account, subscription and landing-zone structure review
- Public exposure analysis across storage, compute, databases and management planes
- Encryption, key management and secrets handling review
- Backup, recovery and resilience validation
Identity is the new perimeter
Most meaningful cloud risk is identity risk. Roles, service principals, federation, privileged access and conditional access policies are reviewed for excess privilege and for the paths that quietly lead from a low-value identity to full administrative control.
- IAM role, policy and trust-relationship review
- Privilege escalation path analysis
- Entra ID / Microsoft 365 and AWS IAM Identity Center configuration review
- Conditional access, MFA and legacy authentication review
Application protection
Applications exposed to the internet need protection that reflects how they are built. PhoenoSec advises on WAF architecture and rule tuning, secure deployment pipelines, and the application-layer controls that reduce exposure without breaking legitimate traffic.
- WAF architecture, rule tuning and false-positive management
- Bot management, rate limiting and DDoS posture
- Secure SDLC and pipeline security guidance
- Application security review and developer-facing remediation guidance
How engagements work
A process built to end in decisions, not documents
Every PhoenoSec engagement follows the same four movements, scaled to the size of the work.
- 01
Understand
Learn the organization, technology environment, business requirements, threats, and constraints.
- 02
Assess
Evaluate the relevant infrastructure, controls, architecture, processes, and security exposure.
- 03
Prioritize
Separate critical issues from lower-risk findings and create a practical remediation roadmap.
- 04
Improve
Help implement, validate, and mature the organization's security program.
Related
Often engaged alongside
Concerned about your current security posture?
A security assessment establishes where you actually stand and what to fix first.
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