Darkside Service

Cloud security review

One misconfigured bucket can end a company.

Darkside cloud security reviews assess AWS, Azure, and GCP environments for practical misconfiguration risk, over-permissive identities, exposed storage, weak logging, and insecure network design.

Why it matters

Practical evidence, not scanner noise.

Cloud environments change constantly. We help teams understand which permissions, services, and deployment patterns create exploitable exposure today.

What we test

  • IAM roles, policies, and privilege escalation paths
  • Publicly accessible storage buckets and blobs
  • Security group and firewall rule misconfigurations
  • Logging, monitoring, and alerting gaps
  • Secrets in environment variables and metadata
  • Container and Kubernetes security
  • Serverless function security
  • Identity federation and SSO misconfiguration
  • Snapshot and backup exposure
  • Compliance posture for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS

What you receive

  • CIS Benchmark-aligned findings
  • IAM privilege escalation path diagrams
  • Risk-prioritised remediation list
  • Terraform or IaC remediation snippets where applicable
  • Free retest within 90 days
  • Compliance mapping to relevant frameworks

Methodology

How the engagement runs

  1. 01

    Agree read-only access, account boundaries, cloud providers, and sensitive services.

  2. 02

    Review IAM, storage, network, logging, compute, container, and serverless configuration.

  3. 03

    Identify exploitable chains rather than isolated low-context warnings.

  4. 04

    Map findings to practical remediation and compliance evidence.

  5. 05

    Retest remediated controls against the original attack paths.

FAQ

Common questions

Do you need admin access?

No. We normally request scoped read-only access sufficient to inspect configuration and evidence without changing resources.

Can you review Kubernetes?

Yes. We can review managed Kubernetes posture, RBAC, network policy, exposed services, secrets handling, and workload configuration.

Can you provide IaC recommendations?

Yes. Where useful, we include Terraform or infrastructure-as-code remediation examples to help engineering teams fix issues cleanly.

Get started

Ready to scope this test?

Book a 30-minute call. We will confirm scope, timelines, evidence requirements, and the fastest path to start.