Cloud Security
Cloud Hardening: Five Quick Wins Before Your Next Audit
Most cloud findings in M&E audits are not exotic — they're MFA gaps, public buckets, and stale IAM. Five hardening moves you can ship this week.
Most cloud findings we see in M&E audits aren't exotic — they're the same five issues, repeated across AWS, Azure and GCP tenants.
Five quick wins
- Enforce MFA on every console identity, including break-glass accounts (with the recovery codes printed and locked away).
- Block public access at the account / subscription level for object storage, not just per-bucket.
- Rotate or remove long-lived access keys — prefer workload identity and short-lived tokens.
- Turn on default encryption and key rotation; review who can read the keys, not just the data.
- Enable a centralised audit log (CloudTrail / Activity Log / Cloud Audit Logs) with 90+ days retention shipped to immutable storage.
None of these need a new tool. All five close the majority of findings in client and TPN cloud reviews.
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