Cloud Compliance Assessments
Auditor-level review of cloud posture against regulatory and industry standards, built around the shared responsibility model.
Cloud compliance assessments produce the evidence regulators, auditors, and customers increasingly expect for cloud-hosted workloads. Where a generic cloud "health check" lists everything that scanners flag, our compliance assessments cross-reference findings against the specific standards your organisation is held accountable to, and produce a coverage matrix you can hand directly to your auditor.
Engagements typically cover one tenant or account family per cloud platform, with the configuration of identity, services, networking, logging, encryption, and governance assessed against CIS Benchmarks and provider-specific guidance. Where regulators (CSA Singapore, OJK Indonesia, Bank of Thailand) publish cloud-specific expectations, findings are also mapped to those frameworks.
These assessments are non-disruptive by design, read-only access is sufficient. They produce evidence for audit, but also create a working remediation roadmap that engineering can act on.
What's at stake.
Auditors want cloud-specific evidence
Generic ISO 27001 evidence is no longer enough for cloud-hosted workloads. Auditors increasingly ask for CIS or CCM-aligned cloud-specific posture evidence.
Configuration is the new compliance baseline
Most cloud breaches start with a configuration error. Compliance assessments make that surface visible, and produce the evidence trail to prove it has been managed.
What we test.
Areas of assessment
- IAM permissions and identity posture
- Service configuration
- Public storage and data exposure
- Low-privileged access to sensitive resources
- Misconfigurations against CIS Benchmarks
- Logging, monitoring, and key management
Compliance mapping
- CIS Benchmarks (AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud)
- CSA Cloud Controls Matrix
- GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, where applicable
- Regional regulator requirements
- Internal policy and control mapping
A structured, intelligence-led path through every engagement.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path through the Velocity platform, so quality, traceability, and reporting are consistent across teams.
Scoping
Define assets, environments, Rules of Engagement, and acceptance criteria with the technical and security stakeholders.
Execution
Manual and tool-assisted testing by CREST-accredited consultants, with evidence captured at each step.
Validation
Every finding is reproduced, risk-rated under CVSS, and confirmed by a second consultant before reporting.
Reporting
Cryptographically signed reports with test-case traceability, severity ratings, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance.
Debrief & Retest
Stakeholder walk-through of findings, prioritisation support, and a retest cycle on remediated issues.
Mapped to recognised baselines.
Common buyer questions.
How is this different from your AWS / Azure / GCP penetration test? +
Compliance assessments are read-only, audit-focused, and benchmark-driven. Platform-specific penetration tests are active, they exercise attack paths. Most clients run a compliance assessment annually and a penetration test on top, periodically.
What level of access do you need? +
Read-only audit credentials are sufficient. We do not need write access, do not modify configuration, and do not impact running services.
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