Cloud Security / AWS Security
AWS security done
by people who
know AWS.
AWS gives you enormous flexibility — and enormous opportunity to misconfigure. IAM policies that are far too permissive, S3 buckets exposed to the internet, Security Hub alerts nobody's reading, GuardDuty deployed but never tuned. Cliffside's AWS security team finds the gaps and fixes them — with deep platform knowledge and a business-context lens.
What we cover
Comprehensive AWS security services.
Assessment of your AWS environment against the Security Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework — with prioritised remediation guidance and risk rating.
Review of IAM policies, roles, and permission boundaries — identifying over-permissioned identities, unused access, and privilege escalation paths.
Bucket policy review, public access settings, encryption configuration, and logging — ensuring your data isn't inadvertently exposed.
Configuration and tuning of AWS native security tooling — ensuring findings are meaningful, prioritised, and routed to the right people.
VPC architecture review, security group analysis, NACLs, WAF configuration, and network flow analysis — covering your AWS network attack surface.
Mapping your AWS environment to ISO 27001, APRA CPS 234, Essential Eight, and other compliance requirements — with gap analysis and remediation roadmap.
Common findings
The AWS security issues we find most often.
In nearly every AWS environment we assess, we find variations of the same core issues: IAM policies granting far more access than required, S3 buckets with overly permissive configurations, CloudTrail either disabled or not forwarded anywhere useful, and security tooling deployed but never configured meaningfully.
None of these are unusual. They're the predictable outcome of environments that have grown organically, under time pressure, without security-first thinking. The good news is they're all fixable — and fixing them eliminates the majority of your cloud risk exposure.
Find out where your
AWS environment is exposed.
Book a free AWS security assessment conversation. We'll scope a review appropriate for your environment and give you a clear, prioritised remediation plan.