AWS Security Specialty Certified

AWS Security Hardening

Comprehensive AWS security review and hardening — IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and Security Hub — aligned to CIS AWS Foundations and AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar.

What We Cover

AWS Security Services

End-to-end review of your AWS environment across all major service areas

IAM Hardening

Audit and harden IAM policies, remove overly permissive roles, enforce least privilege, and configure MFA for all privileged users

S3 Security

Identify public buckets, enforce encryption, configure bucket policies, enable access logging, and review object-level permissions

EC2 & VPC Security

Security group audit, NaCL review, network flow analysis, instance hardening using CIS benchmarks, and patch compliance

CloudTrail & GuardDuty

Configure multi-region CloudTrail logging, enable GuardDuty threat detection, and integrate findings into your alerting pipeline

Config & Security Hub

Enable AWS Config rules, activate Security Hub standards (CIS, PCI, NIST), and build a consolidated findings dashboard

KMS & Secrets Manager

Audit key rotation, enforce envelope encryption for sensitive data, and migrate plaintext secrets to Secrets Manager or Parameter Store

Common Findings

What We Typically Find

These misconfigurations appear in the majority of AWS environments we assess

Root account without MFA enabled
Overly permissive IAM roles (iam:* or *:* policies)
Public S3 buckets with sensitive data
Security groups with 0.0.0.0/0 on SSH/RDP
CloudTrail disabled in one or more regions
RDS instances without encryption at rest
Unused access keys older than 90 days
No GuardDuty or Security Hub enabled
Deliverables

What You Receive

  • Comprehensive AWS environment security report
  • CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark gap analysis
  • IAM policy review with specific remediation steps
  • Prioritized findings list with risk ratings
  • Remediation scripts and Terraform/CloudFormation snippets where applicable
  • Re-validation scan after remediation

Secure Your AWS Environment

Get a structured AWS security assessment with actionable findings and hands-on remediation support.