Cloud security & IAM

Review cloud architecture and identity controls to establish clearer access boundaries and stronger cloud foundations.

OVERVIEW

Reduce risk with cloud security & IAM

A cloud rollout, access review or architecture change can expose configuration and identity gaps. Assess the agreed environment and develop a risk-ranked hardening plan. Where implementation is agreed, verify changes and record evidence.

Keep the scope clear: an advisory assessment identifies gaps; change-authorised implementation addresses them; an ongoing review is agreed separately. Link enterprise control evidence to AI security & GRC and cloud build or migration to Cloud services.

WHAT WE DELIVER

Architecture and access with clear outputs

Confirm the cloud environments, IAM providers and assessment depth before authorising access, aligning the review with your architecture and access requirements.

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Workload & configuration review

Compare the intended architecture with the configuration of workloads in scope.

Architecture and control-gap report
Configuration risks and owners

Network exposure & segmentation

Review network paths, firewall rules and intended access boundaries.

Exposure and segmentation gaps
Prioritised change recommendations

Identity lifecycle & privileged access

Agree workforce, privileged and service-identity scope, including joiner–mover–leaver controls.

Access-risk register
MFA, conditional access and secrets scope

Control evidence

Connect the agreed baseline with change ownership and validation.

Control-to-evidence register
Remediation and access-review plan

DELIVERY APPROACH

From authorised review to verified change

Example engagement pattern: a cloud workload review identifies an access-boundary gap; system owners approve hardening and verify the result.

Scope and authorise access

Define systems, identities and assessment permissions. Separate read-only review from change authority.

Approved inventory and scope
Access and data-handling rules

Assess configuration and IAM

Review the agreed design and access controls against the selected baseline.

Architecture/control-gap report
Access-risk register

Agree the hardening plan

Prioritise changes with owners, acceptance criteria and rollback responsibilities.

Change-authorised remediation plan
Client approval and exclusions

Verify and hand over

Check approved changes and hand over evidence with operational review responsibilities.

Verified change and exception record
Access-review cadence

REUSABLE ACCELERATORS

Reusable cloud and identity baselines

Apply reusable templates to the agreed environment; tailor the controls, ownership and evidence to your architecture.

Optional product when an AI gateway is in scope

DELIVERY ACCELERATOR

Cloud, AI & Identity Security Baselines

Structure baseline checks for scoped workloads, access boundaries and identities.

Baseline checklist and gap record
Tailored hardening and validation criteria

Explore delivery accelerators

DELIVERY ACCELERATOR

Regulatory Readiness & Control Mapping

Connect the requirements agreed with risk and legal owners to technical controls and evidence.

Requirement-control-owner matrix
Evidence register and review plan

Explore delivery accelerators

Scope first

Confirm applicable CIS or vendor baselines and any ISO/IEC 27001:2022 mapping before assessment. An AI gateway is a separate scope, not an automatic cloud-security deliverable.

SECURE BY DESIGN

Secure change with accountable evidence

Agree the technical, data-access and legal boundaries before work. Control mapping is not certification and does not replace legal advice.

Explore Regulated Cyber Readiness

Access and data safeguards

Agree least-privilege assessment access, test information, secure transfer and retention.

POPIA scope agreed with legal owners
Processing and cross-border access recorded

Change authority and rollback

Client system owners approve changes and define recovery responsibilities.

Read-only versus remediation permissions
Change window, rollback and acceptance

Evidence and exceptions

Link each risk to the approved action, validation result and any residual exception.

Starting configuration and access risk
Hardening action and verification evidence

BUYER QUESTIONS

Agree the review and delivery scope

Start with your cloud and identity environment and review objective. Do not send credentials, secrets or detailed architecture; agree a secure exchange after scoping.