Who Needs an AWS Security Assessment?
Organisations running workloads on AWS often accumulate security risks over time — from misconfigured access controls to limited visibility across environments. These issues rarely appear in isolation and often vary depending on how teams build, deploy, and scale their cloud infrastructure.
An AWS Security Assessment helps identify these risks early and provides a clear, prioritised path to remediation.
This service is particularly valuable for:
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Financial Services & FinTech: Identify access risks, misconfigurations, and compliance gaps across AWS environments while aligning with regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS and GDPR.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences: Protect sensitive data and ensure cloud environments meet strict security and data protection standards across infrastructure and applications.
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SaaS & Technology Companies: Secure fast-moving cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines without slowing down delivery or introducing security bottlenecks.
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Retail & E-commerce Platforms: Reduce exposure during high-traffic periods by strengthening infrastructure security, access controls, and system resilience.
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Startups Scaling on AWS: Validate your cloud setup early, avoid security debt, and build a secure foundation as your infrastructure grows.
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Teams Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS): Assess cluster security, workload isolation, and container risks across modern cloud-native environments.
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Organisations Preparing for Compliance or Security Reviews: Identify and address security gaps before internal reviews, external certifications, or customer-driven security assessments.
Common Security Challenges We See
Across these environments, we typically identify recurring security issues that increase risk and reduce visibility:
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Over-permissioned IAM roles and unmanaged access
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Publicly exposed services and misconfigured networking
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Missing logging, monitoring, and detection gaps
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Weak CI/CD access controls and secrets management
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Inconsistent security policies across AWS accounts
What Our AWS Security Assessment Covers
We assess your AWS environment across identity, infrastructure, and workload security to identify misconfigurations, security gaps, and compliance risks. Our assessment is hands-on, performed directly within your AWS environment, and aligned with AWS best practices and industry frameworks to deliver clear, prioritised recommendations.
Key Features:
- Identity & Access Management (IAM): We review roles, policies, and access patterns to identify over-permissioned accounts, privilege escalation risks, and weak access controls across your AWS environment.
- Network Security & Exposure Risks: We analyse VPC configurations, security groups, and public access points to detect exposed services and misconfigured network boundaries.
- Encryption & Data Protection: We validate encryption practices across storage, databases, and data flows, including key management and secure configuration of sensitive data.
- Logging, Monitoring & Detection: We assess logging coverage, CloudTrail configuration, and alerting capabilities to identify visibility gaps and improve threat detection.
- Kubernetes & Container Security: For teams running EKS, we review cluster configurations, workload isolation, and container risks across cloud-native environments.
- CI/CD & Access Pipeline Security: We evaluate build pipelines, secrets management, and deployment workflows to identify risks in how code is built and released.
- Compliance Mapping & Security Benchmarks: We map findings against frameworks such as CIS, NIST, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and AWS security best practices to highlight compliance gaps and prioritise remediation.
Why Choose Our AWS Security Assessment?
Our expertise in cloud security and deep understanding of AWS environments make us the ideal partner to evaluate and strengthen your infrastructure. With a reliable approach and tailored recommendations, we help you address vulnerabilities, improve compliance, and achieve peace of mind knowing your cloud is secure.
Expert-Led Insights
Benefit from the expertise of seasoned AWS security professionals. Our assessment includes a live consultation with an AWS expert, offering you personalised insights and clarifications on your security posture and our recommendations.
Strategic Security Enhancement
Beyond identifying vulnerabilities, our assessment aims to empower you with strategies for long-term security enhancement. We provide guidance on aligning your security measures with best practices and regulatory requirements, ensuring your cloud infrastructure is robust, compliant, and resilient against threats.
Multi-Framework Advantage
Unlike assessments that stick to a single standard, our multi-framework approach ensures a holistic review of your security measures.
Quick and Actionable Results
Our assessment delivers prompt, actionable results, enabling you to quickly understand your security status and make informed decisions on how to improve it.
Prioritised Recommendations
Security improvement can be overwhelming, given the myriad of possible actions. We prioritise our recommendations, focusing on critical controls and secure configurations specific to AWS. This approach helps you tackle the most impactful issues first, streamlining your path to enhanced security.
How It Works:
- Comprehensive Scan & Security Assessment: We conduct an in-depth security scan of your AWS infrastructure, identifying misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance risks. Within 10 working days, we deliver a detailed assessment report outlining security gaps and improvement areas.
- Detailed Security Report & Compliance Insights: The report provides an in-depth analysis of your AWS security posture, mapping failed security checks to compliance frameworks such as CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, and GDPR. It includes a structured remediation plan with clear recommendations to address security risks and an executive summary outlining key findings and overall risk status.
- Expert Consultation: To ensure you fully understand the results, we include a 45-minute consultation with an AWS Specialist. During this session, we walk you through the findings, explain critical security issues, and provide expert guidance on remediation strategies. This ensures your team has the insights needed to strengthen your AWS environment effectively.
- Remediation & Ongoing Security Guidance: We provide actionable remediation steps for each security risk, helping your team implement best practices for identity and access management, network security, encryption, and continuous monitoring. Our experts are available for further guidance to ensure your AWS environment remains secure, compliant, and resilient.
Benefits
By choosing Bion's AWS Security Assessment, you gain:
Gap Identification
Identify potential weaknesses in your AWS environment by uncovering misconfigurations and security gaps. Our assessment aligns your setup with AWS security best practices, reducing vulnerabilities.
Guided Actions
Receive practical, step-by-step recommendations to address identified gaps. We help you implement the changes needed to create a stronger and more secure AWS environment.
Comprehensive Report
Gain a detailed report summarising the findings of our assessment, providing a clear understanding of your AWS security posture, identified gaps, and actionable recommendations for strengthening your cloud environment.
Secure Your Cloud with AWS Expertise
Your AWS infrastructure is the backbone of your business, and securing it is essential to protect your data and operations. As an AWS Advanced Services Partner, Bion brings recognised expertise and proven solutions to optimise your cloud's security.
With our tailored AWS Security Assessment, you'll gain peace of mind knowing your environment is safeguarded against vulnerabilities and aligned with best practices. Let us help you address your unique security needs, ensuring resilience against evolving threats. Take the first step toward a safer, more reliable AWS environment today.
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