Andersen has delivered 300+ security assessments, including reviews of cloud environments, helping clients identify critical gaps and prioritize remediation. Patterns from earlier projects show where misconfigurations often hide, so high-risk issues surface early in each assessment.
Cloud Security Assessment Services
Andersen's cloud security assessment services help enterprises identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security gaps across cloud environments. We assess security posture and compliance readiness to reduce the likelihood and potential cost of security incidents and prevent service disruptions, data exposure, and unplanned remediation costs.
Driving resilience through expert cloud security assessment
Andersen's team includes 40+ certified security specialists with expertise across cloud platforms, compliance frameworks, and threat detection. One team can therefore handle complex security challenges end to end, checking each technical fix against its compliance impact.
Andersen covers 10+ cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and reviews IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS layers as well as hybrid setups. One assessment method for every provider lets clients compare risks across all accounts on the same scale.
Cloud security assessment services we offer
We evaluate cloud configurations, identities, workloads, and compliance controls to uncover exposures that put business operations and sensitive data at risk. Each assessment delivers prioritized findings and practical remediation guidance aligned with your environment.
We assess your overall cloud security posture to identify gaps in configuration, access controls, and policy enforcement. It suits companies that want one security baseline across several AWS accounts or Microsoft Azure subscriptions before an audit, a merger, or a major release. Clients receive a clear picture of their security readiness and a prioritized roadmap for improvement.
We offer:
- Security posture evaluation across cloud accounts, workloads, and configurations;
- Gap analysis mapped to industry frameworks and best practices;
- Prioritized remediation plan tied to risk, cost, and business impact.
We review your cloud infrastructure to uncover misconfigurations, exposed resources, and network security weaknesses. Typical cases are a storage bucket left public after a rushed deployment or a management port open to the internet, issues that often go unnoticed between audits. Clients gain actionable insights to harden their infrastructure and reduce the attack surface.
Our team helps with:
- Infrastructure configuration review across compute, storage, and network layers;
- Identification of exposed resources, open ports, and insecure settings;
- Recommendations for hardening and network segmentation.
We assess identity management, access controls, and data protection practices to find weaknesses that lead to unauthorized access and data exposure. Common findings include third-party accounts that stay active after a contract ends and service accounts with broader rights than their workloads require. Clients receive a clear view of identity risks and data security gaps.
We provide:
- IAM and access control review across users, roles, and permissions;
- Data classification and encryption assessment for sensitive information;
- Recommendations for least-privilege access and data protection policies.
We review cloud applications and workloads to identify vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, and runtime environments. This fits teams that ship containers or serverless functions through CI/CD, where an outdated base image can reach production without a manual check. Clients gain a clear view of application-level risks and remediation priorities.
We help clients with:
- Application and API security review across code, dependencies, and runtime;
- Container and serverless workload assessment for misconfigurations;
- Remediation guidance for vulnerabilities and insecure configurations.
We assess cloud compliance controls, governance requirements, policies, and documentation against regulations and standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO/IEC 27001. Companies preparing for a first certification or a PCI DSS assessment of cloud payment systems use it to find gaps early, including where a documented control must compensate for a technical constraint. Clients receive a list of compliance gaps, control design recommendations, and a remediation plan that supports audit and certification readiness.
We offer:
- Compliance gap analysis against applicable frameworks, regulations, and security requirements;
- Control design and implementation guidance, including policies, procedures, and supporting documentation;
- Audit preparation and remediation guidance to address identified gaps and improve certification readiness.
Strengthen your cloud security posture and reduce risk with Andersen's certified experts
Cloud security certifications and standards
Andersen is ISO/IEC 27001-certified and SOC 2-audited, and its specialists hold AWS Certified Security – Specialty, OSCP, and CEH certifications. Each cloud security assessment therefore runs under audited data-handling controls and is performed by engineers with verified cloud and cybersecurity skills.
What our cloud security assessment covers
Our cloud security assessment evaluates the key areas that determine your overall security posture, from infrastructure to compliance readiness.
Cloud infrastructure and security controls
The review covers controls on the customer side of the shared responsibility model: account structure, network boundaries, encryption settings, and guardrails against risky changes. These settings determine whether a single mistake stays contained or spreads across connected resources.
Identity, access, and data security
Identity checks look at who and what can reach your data: user and service identities, privileged roles, directories such as Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory, and where sensitive records are stored. One weak spot in this area can let an attacker move across systems with a single stolen credential.
Applications and cloud workloads
Workload checks cover the software running in your cloud: web applications, APIs, containers, serverless functions, and the third-party libraries they depend on. Flaws at this layer can expose customer data even when the infrastructure underneath is properly configured.
Testimonials
Companies in fintech, healthcare, manufacturing, and enterprise IT describe Andersen teams that build cloud products on AWS, keep stakeholders updated, and react quickly when urgent fixes are required. A cloud security assessment depends on the same habits: agreed scope, regular check-ins, and fast escalation of critical findings.
Key benefits of cloud security assessment
A cloud security assessment helps organizations identify critical gaps, prioritize remediation, and reduce the cost and likelihood of security incidents.
Identify and reduce security risks
Your team gets a risk register in which every finding names the affected resource, its owner, and the fix. Risky settings are closed in planned work instead of surfacing during an incident.
Strengthen your cloud security posture
The first assessment creates a baseline mapped to CIS Benchmarks or the framework you choose. After fixes, rerunning the same checks shows leadership how many controls moved from failed to passed.
Protect sensitive data and cloud assets
You see where sensitive data is stored, who can read it, and which stores lack encryption, so protective measures go first to customer records, keys, and secrets.
Improve compliance readiness
Gaps against ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, or GDPR requirements can be closed before the audit starts, so auditors confirm existing controls instead of recording new findings.
Prioritize security remediation
Findings that relate to one root cause are grouped, and fixes are ranked by the risk they remove for the effort involved. One IAM policy change, for example, can close several excessive-permission findings at once.
Reduce security and remediation costs
Revoking an exposed access key during an assessment takes minutes; after a breach, the same key brings investigation, notification, and downtime costs. IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 puts the global average breach cost at $4.99 million.
Cloud security assessment process
Our cloud security assessment process follows a structured approach that moves from discovery to actionable remediation, ensuring clients receive clear, prioritized outcomes.
We start by understanding your cloud environment, business goals, and security priorities. Clients provide access to relevant accounts, documentation, and context. The outcome is a clearly defined assessment scope and success criteria. This stage also establishes key stakeholders, assessment boundaries, and the cloud services included in the review, ensuring expectations are aligned before assessment activities begin.
Why Andersen for cloud security assessment services
Andersen combines certified security expertise, engineering depth, and global delivery to help organizations close cloud security gaps with fixes that suit their technology stack.
Business-focused risk assessment
We assess security risks through a business lens, prioritizing findings based on impact on revenue, operations, and compliance. The approach has been applied in 300+ delivered assessments, and Andersen's ISO/IEC 27001 certification covers how client data is handled during the work.
Risk-based remediation priorities
Fixes are ranked by exploitability and the value of the affected asset, not by CVSS severity alone, so a medium-severity flaw on a public payment API can outrank a critical one on an isolated test server. Ratings are reviewed by Andersen's 40+ certified security specialists.
Security and engineering expertise in one team
We combine security expertise with engineering depth, so each recommendation names the exact configuration change and its effect on application functionality. Our team holds AWS Certified Security – Specialty, OSCP, and CEH certifications.
Global delivery with local expertise
Andersen delivers assessments across 10+ cloud providers from 18 offices in 14 countries, including the UK, Germany, Poland, the UAE, and the USA. Clients work with a team close to their region, while every finding follows the same assessment method.
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Security in the CloudFAQ
Cloud security assessment services evaluate the customer's side of the shared responsibility model in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. They review configurations, identities, applications, data protection, monitoring, and compliance controls, then rank vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and governance gaps by risk and provide remediation recommendations an organization can use to improve its cloud security posture. The assessment also helps stakeholders understand which findings require immediate action and which can be addressed as part of planned security improvements. The resulting priorities support more informed risk management decisions.
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