Cloud Security Assessment Services
CyberCrest helps organizations evaluate their cloud security risks and align their practices with compliance requirements through its cloud security assessment services. As part of these cloud security services, our cloud security experts review your cloud infrastructure, applications, and data for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. You receive actionable recommendations to improve your security posture, support regulatory compliance, and protect your critical assets in the cloud.
METHODOLOGY
How Our Cloud Security Assessment Services Work
Our cloud security assessment runs in four steps, from the scope you set to the recommendations your team acts on.
Scoping
This step starts with a kickoff call and a walkthrough of your environment and the sensitive data it holds. You decide what the assessment covers and which framework or contract it is measured against, and we guide you through each choice. Before you commit, you see the effort.
Configuration and Vulnerability Review
Once you commit, we review the configuration of your cloud infrastructure, the applications deployed on it, and the protection of your data. In each, we identify the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Compliance Gap Analysis
In this cloud security posture assessment for compliance, we compare the findings with the framework or contract you chose in scoping and show which compliance requirements your practices already meet and where gaps remain.
Recommendations
We recommend how to address each finding and each compliance gap, starting with the highest risks. Your team decides which fixes to make and puts them in place.
SERVICES
What Our Cloud Infrastructure Security Assessment Covers
Our cloud security analysis services cover the cloud infrastructure you run, the applications deployed on that infrastructure, and the data stored there. The review looks for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and gaps in data protection.
DELIVERABLES
What You Receive from a CyberCrest Cloud Security Assessment
The assessment ends with a report on your cloud, a summary for your leadership, and a plan your team can work through.
WHY US
Why Choose CyberCrest as Your Cloud Security Services Provider
If you are comparing cloud security consulting firms, these are the compliance credentials we hold: PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC), Authorized External Assessor Organization for HITRUST, and CMMC Registered Practitioner Organization (RPO).
Cloud, Security, and Compliance in One Team
Our consultants have broad and deep knowledge of IT, cloud, security, and compliance. The people who review your cloud also know the frameworks it has to meet.
ISO 27017 and 27018 Lead Auditors on the Team
People on our team hold the ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 Certified Lead Auditor certifications, alongside ISO 27001 Certified Lead Auditor. These are individual certifications. On ISO 27001 work, our Lead Auditors run the internal audits that come before the certification body's audit.
Support While Your Team Fixes the Findings
Hands-on remediation assistance is a separate service we offer, and it can follow the assessment. Your team makes each fix; we specify what the fix has to achieve, sit with your team while they work, and review the result.
Ready to Start
While some cybersecurity compliance firms may need several months to get started, CyberCrest staffs up ahead of time and is ready to start your cloud security assessment.
TESTIMONIALS
Hear from Our Clients
I have worked with CyberCrest on multiple compliance engagements over the past several years including HITRUST, NIS 2 and ISO 27001. Without exception, CyberCrest has consistently exceeded expectations for my clients through a combination of highly experienced consultants, and a practical approach to achieving compliance. They are willing to roll up their sleeves and help organizations fully understand and address their compliance challenges, not just function as external auditors.
“I have used the CyberCrest team for a variety of critical information security compliance engagements over the years including successfully attaining ISO 27001 and HITRUST certifications. All of our engagements have exceeded expectations!”
"We have worked with CyberCrest on multiple penetration testing and cybersecurity risk and maturity assessments. The CyberCrest team has consistently produced high quality deliverables at fair prices. We give their client prospects our strongest recommendation."
ABOUT CLOUD SECURITY ASSESSMENTS
What Is a Cloud Security Assessment?
The shared responsibility model is why cloud security assessments matter. NIST notes that what the provider and the customer each secure varies by service model and that organizations remain accountable for their data held by a cloud provider. It adds that a provider's assurances should be verified, whenever possible, through the organization's own assessment. A cloud security assessment reviews how your cloud environment is configured and protected, across infrastructure, applications, and data, against the requirements that apply to it. NIST's service-model definitions show what the customer controls:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): operating systems, storage, and deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networking components such as host firewalls.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS): the applications you deploy, and possibly the configuration settings of the hosting environment.
- Software as a Service (SaaS): at most, limited user-specific settings in the provider's applications.
WHEN TO ASSESS
When Your Organization Needs a Cloud Security Company
You bring in an outside team when a customer, a regulation, or your own plans raise the question of how your cloud is secured.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does a cloud security assessment cost?
A cloud security assessment is priced by its scope. Cost depends on the frameworks the assessment has to answer, the size and complexity of the cloud environment in scope, and how mature your existing controls are. CyberCrest scopes each engagement after a kickoff call and a walkthrough of your environment, so the effort is clear before you commit.
What do you receive from a cloud security assessment?
A CyberCrest cloud security assessment ends with three documents. The report lists the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations found, each with a risk rating, in priority order, and with actionable recommendations. An executive summary shows your leadership where to act first, and a remediation roadmap sets out the order of the fixes your team decides to make.
What does a cloud security assessment need from our team?
For a CyberCrest cloud security assessment, your team joins a kickoff call to agree on the objectives, the timeline, and the approach, then walks our experts through the cloud environment and the sensitive data it holds. Your team also decides what is in scope and, after the assessment, which fixes to make and how to put them in place.
What are cloud security services?
The term cloud security services covers the tools, managed monitoring, consulting, and assessments used to protect cloud environments. You can buy one or several of them from a cloud security services company. CyberCrest's cloud work is assessment and compliance support, with cloud infrastructure penetration testing on its own page.
How to choose a cloud security consulting partner?
As with any purchase of professional services, start with what you need at the end. That may be evidence for a customer, readiness for an audit, or a view of your own risk. Then check the partner's credentials for the framework in scope and whether it supports your fixes after the assessment. Ask who decides the scope and what you receive when the work is done.
What is the NIST standard for cloud security?
Three NIST publications answer this from different sides. NIST SP 800-145 defines cloud computing, its service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), and its deployment models. NIST SP 800-144 gives guidelines on security and privacy in public cloud computing. For cloud services used by federal agencies, FedRAMP's Rev5 baselines draw on the security controls of NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5.
How to perform a cloud security audit?
An audit starts by fixing the standard and the scope. The auditor then tests the controls in scope against that standard, collects evidence, and issues the result. For ISO 27001, an accredited certification body independent of CyberCrest performs the certification audit and issues the certificate. A cloud compliance assessment comes first and finds the gaps before an auditor sees them.
How often should a cloud security assessment be conducted?
As often as the rule you answer to requires. HHS guidance says the HIPAA Security Rule leaves the frequency of risk analysis open and that it will vary among covered entities. Under PCI DSS v4.0.1, some requirements let the entity define how often an activity is performed, based on a targeted risk analysis. A significant change to your cloud environment is also a reason to look again.
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