Cloud Security Posture Review: A Practical Checklist for Teams
Review cloud exposure, identity, logging, encryption, backups, and configuration drift using a structured checklist.
Inventory resources
List accounts, projects, regions, storage, databases, workloads, and internet-facing services. Assign owners and classify data.
Review identity and exposure
Check privileged roles, stale users, public endpoints, firewall rules, and cross-account access. Apply least privilege and restrict management interfaces.
Protect data and secrets
Review encryption, key access, secret storage, rotation, and sharing controls. Encryption does not compensate for excessive permissions.
Confirm logging and recovery
Protect audit logs, retain them appropriately, test backup restoration, and alert on high-risk changes such as public exposure or disabled logging.
Track fixes
Prioritize by business impact, assign owners and deadlines, record expiring exceptions, and verify the actual configuration after remediation.