Client

The Customer is a leading enterprise organization utilizing AWS cloud infrastructure to host critical business applications and services. The customer wanted an independent security assessment of their AWS environment to evaluate the current security posture, identify risks, and benchmark the environment against AWS Well-Architected Framework security best practices.

The Solution

RefactorQ team helped the customer with the following:

• Conducted a comprehensive AWS security assessment across compute, storage, networking, identity, logging, and monitoring services.
• Reviewed live AWS resource configurations and evaluated compliance with AWS security best practices.
• Performed risk-based analysis to identify security gaps and potential business impacts.
• Assessed IAM policies, network configurations, encryption controls, and access management practices.
• Evaluated monitoring, logging, and incident detection capabilities across the AWS environment.
• Identified opportunities to improve governance, resilience, compliance readiness, and operational security.
• Provided prioritized recommendations including VPC Flow Logs, EBS encryption enforcement, IAM governance improvements, ECR image scanning, and enhanced monitoring controls.
• Delivered an executive-level security roadmap with actionable remediation steps to strengthen the overall cloud security posture.

Impact

• Improved overall AWS security posture and reduced potential attack surfaces.
• Enhanced visibility into network activity and security events.
• Strengthened access control, identity governance, and credential management.
• Increased compliance readiness and audit preparedness.
• Improved incident detection and response capabilities through enhanced monitoring and logging.
• Reduced operational and security risks across critical cloud workloads.
• Established a clear remediation roadmap for continuous security improvement.
• Increased leadership confidence through better risk management and governance.