Cloud Infrastructure Risk Assessment
Review cloud assets, exposed services, infrastructure configurations and security controls to identify weaknesses and prioritise remediation.
Cloud Infrastructure Security
Secure Your Cloud Foundation. Protect What Powers Your Business.
Strengthen the cloud infrastructure that supports your applications, workloads and business operations. Petabyte helps identify infrastructure risks, improve configurations, restrict unauthorised access and build security into your cloud environment.
Infrastructure risk assessment
Secure configurations
Access control
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL MODEL● ILLUSTRATIVE
Cloud ResourcesCompute, storage and services
Identity & AccessPermissions and privileged access
Network ControlsSegmentation and traffic policies
Visibility & LoggingEvents, monitoring and alerts
Security control prioritiesRISK-BASED
✓ Least-privilege access
✓ Secure configuration baselines
✓ Logging and recovery readiness
Conceptual illustration — not a live cloud monitoring dashboard.
Protection across cloud environments
Compute & Storage
Cloud Networking
Identity & Access
Workloads & Services
Our Capabilities
Protect the Infrastructure Behind Your Cloud Operations
Cloud infrastructure security brings together configuration management, identity controls, network protection, monitoring and resilience. Establish safeguards that fit your architecture and operational requirements.
Secure Configuration & Hardening
Improve security settings for compute, storage, network services and management interfaces using appropriate configuration baselines.
Identity & Privileged Access
Strengthen role assignments, administrative access, authentication and least-privilege permissions across cloud resources.
Cloud Network Security
Review network segmentation, security groups, firewall policies, remote administration exposure and traffic restrictions.
Cloud Storage & Data Protection
Assess storage permissions, encryption settings, public exposure and data-access policies to reduce unauthorised disclosure risks.
Logging & Security Monitoring
Improve logging coverage, event visibility, alerting and monitoring workflows to support investigation and incident response.
Vulnerability & Patch Management
Identify infrastructure vulnerabilities, outdated components and patching gaps, then prioritise corrective actions by risk and exposure.
Backup & Recovery Readiness
Review backup coverage, access restrictions, recovery arrangements and resilience measures for critical cloud workloads.
Cloud Security Governance
Define ownership, infrastructure security policies, configuration standards and review processes that support consistent protection.
Our Security Framework
Four Steps to a More Secure Cloud Environment
Apply a repeatable security process to understand exposure, strengthen controls and improve infrastructure resilience over time.
PHASE 01
Discover
Inventory cloud assets, workloads, network paths, identities and critical business dependencies.
PHASE 02
Assess
Review configurations, permissions, exposed services, vulnerabilities and existing security coverage.
PHASE 03
Strengthen
Apply prioritised hardening, access restrictions, network controls and data protection safeguards.
PHASE 04
Monitor
Improve visibility, review control effectiveness and maintain an ongoing remediation process.
How We Work
A Structured Approach to Infrastructure Security
Build security around your existing cloud architecture while keeping business availability, operational requirements and risk priorities in view.
Understand Your Environment
Review cloud platforms, workloads, architecture, access patterns, critical services and existing security controls.
Identify & Prioritise Risks
Document relevant findings, assess exposure and establish remediation priorities based on potential impact and business criticality.
Implement & Improve
Support agreed security improvements, validate corrective actions and establish an ongoing review process.
Connected Security Solutions
Extend Protection Across Your Technology Stack
Cloud infrastructure security is most effective when aligned with workload protection, identity controls, network security and data resilience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cloud Infrastructure Security FAQs
Understand the controls that help protect cloud resources, workloads and supporting infrastructure.
Cloud infrastructure security protects the underlying cloud resources and services that run business applications. It includes identity and access management, network controls, secure configurations, data protection, monitoring and resilience measures.
Cloud security is the broader discipline covering cloud data, applications, identities, workloads, services and governance. Cloud infrastructure security focuses more specifically on foundational resources such as compute, storage, networking, management interfaces and their configurations.
The scope can cover supported public cloud, private cloud and hybrid environments. Specific platforms, services and assessment methods should be confirmed during initial scoping.
Common risks include overly permissive access, exposed management interfaces, misconfigured storage, weak network segmentation, unpatched systems, insufficient logging and inadequate recovery arrangements.
Yes. Configuration reviews, defined baselines, policy enforcement, continuous assessment and controlled remediation can help identify and reduce misconfiguration risks.
Review frequency depends on infrastructure criticality, change velocity, exposure, compliance needs and available monitoring. Continuous checks for suitable controls, supported by periodic deeper assessments, can help maintain security as environments evolve.
Build a Stronger Security Foundation for Your Cloud.
Talk to Petabyte about infrastructure risks, configuration hardening, access controls and a practical plan to protect your cloud workloads.