Secure the cloud you already run and the one you are building
SideChannel finds the risks in your cloud environment, from misconfigurations to overly permissive access, then gives you a prioritized plan to fix them. You get a former security executive to set the strategy and cloud engineers to close the gaps, from the same team.
Cloud security problems we help you solve
You may not have a dedicated CISO, but that should not put your cloud strategy or your reputation at risk. These are the problems organizations bring to us most often.
We deliver the findings and the guidance fast, so your team can act on them.
Misconfigurations and overly permissive access policies
Unclear governance over cloud environments that are growing fast
Regulatory pressure without internal compliance resources
Legacy security models that do not scale to cloud-native architecture
Our approach
We move from your business goals to validated technical controls in three steps, so every recommendation ties back to what your organization is trying to achieve.
Start with your business objectives
We begin with a focused discussion of your business objectives, cloud strategy, and compliance obligations. This keeps cloud initiatives tied to growth, resilience, and competitive advantage rather than treating them as technical projects in isolation. Aligning governance and security planning with your priorities turns your business vision into secure, measurable outcomes.
Map strategy to technical controls
We evaluate your existing cloud configurations, access controls, and security workflows against the CIS Benchmarks for the major cloud providers. This analysis covers identity management and workload protection and shows where your controls support your broader objectives and where gaps remain. We turn governance goals into concrete, validated controls, so you can close gaps and strengthen your compliance posture.
Deliver a roadmap you can act on
After the assessment you get a detailed, phased implementation plan built for your environment. Each recommendation is prioritized and matched to your team's capacity, so remediation is realistic rather than aspirational. Your team can implement the changes internally or work with SideChannel's cloud security engineers to keep the work moving from risk identification to measurable risk reduction.
What you get
Every engagement produces the same core outputs, scaled to your environment and compliance obligations.
Executive briefing with key findings and business-focused risk insights.
Cloud architecture review aligned with your provider's Security Reference Architecture (SRA).
Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) gap analysis.
Technical risk report using CIS Benchmarks.
Prioritized implementation plan tailored to your organization.
Free tools and training resources to build your team's internal capabilities.
Strategic cloud services
Cloud Security Strategic Assessment (CSSA)
The Cloud Security Strategic Assessment (CSSA) is a four-week, executive-ready engagement built to reduce cloud risk and support secure growth. Organizations move to the cloud for agility and savings and often overlook the risks that come with it. Misconfigurations, outdated IAM policies, and weak governance can expose sensitive data and derail compliance. The CSSA identifies those gaps and delivers a tailored roadmap to close them.
Cloud security services we offer
Our cloud security work spans seven areas. We scope an engagement to the ones your environment needs.
Governance and strategy
Cloud Security Strategic Assessment, executive security simulations, and compliance alignment.
Cloud architecture
Architecture reviews, network design assessment, and SaaS risk management.
Identity and access
IAM tuning and cloud IAM governance.
Threat detection
Cloud threat visibility and vulnerability assessments.
Incident response
Cloud incident response playbooks and tabletop exercises (TTX).
Application and data security
CI/CD pipeline security, cloud application protection, and data encryption.
AI risk management
AI security governance and cloud-based AI risk mitigation.
Strategy and execution from the same team
A cloud assessment is only useful if someone can act on it. SideChannel gives you both halves: a former security executive who owns the strategy and cloud engineers who close the gaps the assessment surfaces. That is the same model behind our vCISO and cybersecurity engineering services. Where the fix calls for infrastructure, Enclave, our zero-trust platform, can close it.
A former security executive
Owns the strategy.
Cloud engineers
Close the gaps the assessment surfaces.
Enclave
Where the fix calls for infrastructure.
Frequently asked questions
What are cloud security services?
Cloud security services identify the risks in an organization's cloud environment and provide a plan to reduce them. SideChannel's cloud security services find problems such as misconfigurations, overly permissive access policies, and weak governance, then evaluate your configurations, access controls, and workflows against the CIS Benchmarks for the major cloud providers and deliver a prioritized, phased plan to close the gaps.
What is a Cloud Security Strategic Assessment (CSSA)?
A Cloud Security Strategic Assessment (CSSA) is a four-week, executive-ready engagement from SideChannel that reduces cloud risk and supports secure growth. It identifies gaps such as misconfigurations, outdated IAM policies, and missing governance, then delivers a tailored roadmap to close them. You receive an executive briefing, a cloud architecture review aligned to your provider's Security Reference Architecture, a Cloud Adoption Framework gap analysis, a technical risk report using CIS Benchmarks, and a prioritized implementation plan.
What do I get from a SideChannel cloud security engagement?
You get six core outputs, scaled to your environment and compliance obligations: an executive briefing with business-focused risk insights, a cloud architecture review aligned with your provider's Security Reference Architecture (SRA), a Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) gap analysis, a technical risk report using CIS Benchmarks, a prioritized implementation plan tailored to your organization, and free tools and training resources to build your team's internal capabilities.
Do I need my own team to act on the findings?
No. Your team can implement the changes internally, or SideChannel's cloud security engineers can do the work with you. A former security executive owns the strategy and the engineers close the gaps the assessment surfaces, so you get the strategy and the infrastructure from the same team rather than a report you have to resource on your own.
Which cloud security areas does SideChannel cover?
SideChannel's cloud security services span seven areas: governance and strategy, cloud architecture, identity and access, threat detection, incident response, application and data security, and AI risk management. Each area includes specific services, from IAM tuning and cloud IAM governance to incident response playbooks, tabletop exercises, CI/CD pipeline security, and AI security governance. An engagement is scoped to the areas your environment needs.
Ready to secure your cloud?
Talk with a former cybersecurity executive and get a tailored cloud risk report in weeks rather than months.