A cloud security audit of the accounts you already run.
F Creative Studio 360 reviews cloud and private-estate configuration for organisations in any country, against the benchmark that applies to them.
The provider secures the platform. The audit looks at what you configured on it.
The review covers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean and OVHcloud, and private estates on VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack or Proxmox.
F Creative Studio 360 does not change those accounts during the audit. Access is read-only, and only for the subscriptions you authorise.
- The accounts you already have
- An architecture describes how a cloud should be built. An audit looks at how the accounts, networks and identities are actually configured.
- Misconfiguration is the usual gap
- A public store, a role that can do too much, or a log that nobody collects is more common than a novel flaw in the provider’s platform.
- One report across more than one cloud
- Teams often run more than one provider, or a provider plus a private estate. The findings are written as one picture, not a separate pile for each console.
- The benchmark that applies to you
- The review is mapped to the framework you have to show, wherever the accounts are hosted.
What the audit covers
Configuration is compared with CIS Benchmarks and, where you use them, provider detection services such as Amazon GuardDuty and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Container reviews follow Kubernetes, including the managed clusters on those clouds.
- Identity and access
- Policies, roles, service accounts and keys, including paths where one role can become a more powerful one, and whether console access requires a second factor.
- Network
- How networks are separated, which rules allow traffic, and how sites connect. We review whether denial-of-service and web-application controls are configured. We do not run a denial-of-service test.
- Data
- Encryption in transit and at rest, who can open a store, how keys are managed, and whether backups and residency rules match what you have told customers.
- Logging and detection
- Whether audit logs exist, how long they are kept, and whether they reach the place your team actually watches. Provider detection services are included when you already use them.
- Workloads and containers
- Hardening of compute, Kubernetes clusters, serverless permissions, image scanning and how secrets are stored.
- How the estate is built
- A review of the pipeline and of infrastructure code, so the same misconfiguration is less likely to be deployed again.
How an audit runs
The sequence is the same in any country. Infrastructure code, when it is in scope, includes Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager templates and Pulumi.
- 1
List the accounts
Providers, subscriptions, projects and private estates in scope, and who can grant read access for the review.
- 2
Read the configuration
Identity, network, storage, logging and workload settings, compared with the benchmark you named.
- 3
Rate the gaps
Findings with evidence, ordered by what would change the outcome, not by how many settings differ from a template.
- 4
Hand back a roadmap
A summary for leadership and a technical list the team that owns the accounts can apply. Changes are not made in your accounts unless that is a separate engagement.
What you receive
- A gap view against the benchmark you named, with evidence.
- An analysis of identity and of roles that can become more powerful than intended.
- A network and segmentation review.
- Notes on the pipeline and infrastructure code, when those are in scope.
- A remediation roadmap and a summary a board can read.
Standards the audit can align to
F Creative Studio 360 maps the findings to the references that apply where you operate. The usual set is CIS Benchmarks, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27017, the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix and SOC 2.
PCI DSS, CPS 234 and the Essential Eight are added only when the organisation is measured against them. Alignment is not a certification.
Common questions
What is a cloud security audit?+
It is a review of how your cloud and private estates are configured: identity, network, data, logging and workloads. F Creative Studio 360 compares that configuration with the benchmark you need and returns a roadmap. It does not certify the environment.
Which platforms do you review?+
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, OVHcloud, and private estates running VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack or Proxmox, including a mix of them. The engagement is limited to the accounts you authorise.
Where do you deliver this?+
For organisations in any country. The technical review is the same. The report is mapped to the obligations that apply where you operate, such as CIS Benchmarks, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27017, SOC 2 or PCI DSS. A local rule, such as CPS 234 or the Essential Eight, is added only when that organisation is measured against it.
How is this different from cloud security architecture?+
Architecture is the design of how the environment should be separated, accessed and logged. This audit assesses what is already deployed. Many organisations use the audit to see the gap, then a design engagement to close it.
How is this different from a cybersecurity audit?+
A cybersecurity audit looks across the whole programme: policies, risk, identity and operations. A cloud security audit stays on the cloud and private-estate configuration. The two can be scoped together when you need both.
Will you change our accounts?+
No. The audit is read-only unless a remediation engagement is agreed afterwards. Production is not altered during the review.
How much does it cost?+
It depends on how many accounts and providers are in scope, and whether infrastructure code and the pipeline are included. A scoping conversation with F Creative Studio 360 is the way to get a quote. There is no obligation to proceed.
Start with the accounts that are already live.
F Creative Studio 360 will look at the providers and the reason for the review, then say what a sensible audit includes.