Cloud environments change quickly. New identities, storage services, network paths, integrations, and workloads can be created faster than traditional governance processes can review them. A cloud security assessment helps organizations understand whether their cloud environment is configured, governed, monitored, and protected in line with their risk profile and applicable obligations.

Cryptika assesses cloud security from both governance and technical angles. The work looks at how responsibilities are assigned, how cloud access is controlled, how exposed resources are managed, how logs and alerts support detection, and how security requirements are reflected in daily operations.

What the Assessment Covers

The scope is agreed before testing or review begins. Depending on the cloud environment, the assessment may cover identity and access management, privileged access, administrative roles, network exposure, public services, storage security, encryption, key management, backup, workload protection, logging, monitoring, vulnerability handling, configuration baselines, and cloud governance.

Cryptika also reviews the shared-responsibility model. This is important because cloud providers, cloud tenants, managed service providers, and application teams may each own different parts of security. Unclear responsibility can create gaps in logging, patching, backup, access review, incident handling, and evidence ownership.

How Cryptika Delivers the Work

• Confirm scope, cloud platforms, accounts, subscriptions, tenants, regions, and business-critical workloads.
• Review cloud governance, ownership, access model, and security responsibilities.
• Assess identity controls, privileged roles, MFA, conditional access, service accounts, and administrative separation.
• Review network exposure, firewalling, security groups, routing, public IP use, and management-plane access.
• Check logging, monitoring, audit retention, alerting coverage, and incident-response readiness.
• Assess storage, encryption, key management, backup, and data-protection controls.
• Review configuration risks and compare against agreed baselines and applicable requirements.
• Prepare findings with risk, evidence, affected assets, business impact, and remediation guidance.

Methodology Basis

The assessment can use CSA Cloud Controls Matrix, NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, CIS Controls, NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls, Microsoft cloud security guidance, ISO/IEC 27001, and client-specific cloud requirements where relevant. These references are examples and do not limit the engagement scope.

• A regulated organization is moving workloads to cloud.
• Management needs assurance over cloud exposure and access.
• Internal audit needs evidence for cloud security controls.
• A cloud environment has grown without consistent security review.
• The organization needs alignment with standards, regulations, client requirements, or internal policies.
• Security teams need a clear remediation roadmap for cloud risks.