Cloud security review
Understand and improve your cloud security posture.
As cloud environments grow, security risk often increases quietly — through inconsistent configuration, unclear ownership, and gaps between cloud and security teams.
Our cloud security review provides a structured, multi-cloud assessment of your environment, helping you move from uncertainty to a clear understanding of risk, and practical, achievable improvement.
It is tailored to your institution and can be applied to individual platforms or across multiple cloud environments.
Benefits
This service is designed to give leaders confidence and teams a clear, actionable view of cloud security.
- Gain visibility across platforms: we assess cloud environments such as Azure and AWS using a consistent, standards-aligned approach
- Clarify risk and responsibility: the review helps establish clear ownership across cloud, security, and operational teams
- Support compliance and assurance: outputs provide evidence that supports audits, reviews, and governance processes
- Focus effort where it matters most: findings are prioritised by risk, enabling practical, achievable improvement
What the review covers
Identity and access controls
- Identity configuration and access management
- Privileged access considerations
- Alignment with good practice and institutional policy
- Identity configuration and access management
- Privileged access considerations
- Alignment with good practice and institutional policy
Network and perimeter security
- Network design and exposure
- Perimeter protections and segmentation
- Internet-facing risk considerations
- Network design and exposure
- Perimeter protections and segmentation
- Internet-facing risk considerations
Logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Visibility of security-relevant activity
- Log configuration and retention
- Readiness for detection and response services
- Visibility of security-relevant activity
- Log configuration and retention
- Readiness for detection and response services
Configuration against recognised standards
- Assessment against good-practice benchmarks (such as CIS)
- Identification of misconfiguration and inconsistency
- Platform-specific and cross-platform risks
- Assessment against good-practice benchmarks (such as CIS)
- Identification of misconfiguration and inconsistency
- Platform-specific and cross-platform risks
Shared responsibility model
- Clarity of responsibilities between cloud provider and institution
- Alignment between cloud and security teams
- Gaps in ownership or accountability
- Clarity of responsibilities between cloud provider and institution
- Alignment between cloud and security teams
- Gaps in ownership or accountability
How to buy and get support
Cloud security review services are available through G-Cloud and other approved public-sector procurement routes.
Your relationship manager can help scope the review and identify the right starting point.
Ready to assess your cloud security posture?
Contact your relationship manager or make a customer enquiry to discuss a cloud security review.