Stay Ahead of Cloud Threats: Introducing Azure and AWS Security Reviews

Cloud adoption has unlocked speed and innovation for modern organizations, but it’s also introduced a new set of security challenges. As cloud environments grow more responsive and complex, pressure is increasing for security leaders to maintain visibility, manage risk, and ensure configurations remain secure. 

The Cloud Security Landscape 

Cloud environments, like AWS and Azure, have become foundational to business operations across industries, from healthcare and finance to e-commerce and technology startups. Their flexibility allows teams to deploy resources quickly, scale seamlessly, and innovate faster than ever before. The challenge? Keeping pace with these constantly changing environments, and their potential risky misconfigurations.  

Why Cloud Security Is So Difficult to Manage 

Cloud security challenges are complex, stemming from multiple issues. Factors include: 

• Complicated environments: Cloud resources are constantly evolving, from creation and modifications to eventual decommission. This rapid pace often leads to configuration drift, where secure baselines erode over time without teams realizing it.  
• Misconfigurations at scale: Simple mistakes, such as overly permissive storage buckets or exposed management interfaces, remain one of the leading causes of cloud breaches. And as environments grow, these risks multiply.  
• Limited visibility and expertise: Many organizations struggle to maintain a clear, centralized view of their cloud attack surface. Security teams may lack the expertise or tools required to monitor configurations across accounts and subscriptions.

As a result, organizations are left taking a reactive approach, meaning the damage is likely already done.  

The Need for Continuous, Proactive Security  

To secure modern cloud environments, organizations need to shift from reactive, point-in-time assessments to proactive, continuous security validation. This involves: 

• Ongoing reviews and monitoring to maintain visibility into cloud environments as they change.  
• Actionable insights that help teams understand what matters most, prioritize risk, and fix any problems quickly.  

How NetSPI Can Help 

NetSPI offers full coverage of Azure and AWS infrastructure by identifying exploitable weaknesses with penetration testing assessments both from anonymous, external attacker, and authenticated, internal user viewpoints. The Azure and AWS configuration review helps fill in the gaps between assessments by evaluating the configuration and identity and access management policies applied to those services. 

With our platform, security teams can gain visibility into cloud environments alongside external threats, such as domain monitoring and dark web monitoring. A key component of this visibility is NetSPI’s Cloud Security Configuration Reviews, which provide continuous insight into how cloud environments are configured over time.  

Learn more about NetSPI’s broader approach to attack visibility. 

Introducing Azure & AWS Configuration Reviews 

Cloud environments evolve rapidly, making it difficult for security teams to maintain secure configurations over time. Manual and point-in-time assessments quickly become outdated, limiting visibility as environments scale. Common challenges include:  

• Limited visibility into misconfigurations and insecure settings  
• Configuration drift from cloud and industry best practices 
• Difficulty understanding the full cloud attack surface 
• Challenges in prioritizing the most critical exposures 

Our Continuous Azure and AWS Configuration Reviews offer ongoing visibility, risk identification, and actionable insights, all of which are tailored to the unique services of each cloud platform.  

How Azure & AWS Configuration Review Can Help Security Teams 

NetSPI’s Azure and AWS Configuration Reviews continuously evaluate cloud environments and continuously monitor to find security gaps before they’re exploited. Through automated scans and assessments, security teams can:

• Identify misconfigurations and insecure settings that could expose sensitive data publicly 
• Detect deviations from Microsoft and industry-best practices 
• Track configuration changes through centralized dashboards 
• Pinpoint high-risk expires  

Beyond Configuration Reviews: Cloud Penetration Testing 

Configuration reviews are a critical foundation, but they’re even more powerful when paired with offensive security testing. NetSPI’s Cloud Penetration Testing services simulate real-world attacks to validate whether misconfigurations and weaknesses can be exploited. Together, continuous configuration reviews and cloud pentesting provide a comprehensive view of cloud security risk, from exposure to impact.  

Stay Ahead of Cloud Risk with NetSPI 

As cloud environments continue to evolve, security leaders need more than the typical, run-of-the-mill assessments. They need ongoing visibility, actionable data, and confidence that their cloud attack surface is being actively managed.  

Learn more about AWS and Azure Configuration Review within the NetSPI Platform and explore how continuous cloud security and cloud penetration testing can help protect your organization.