What’s your real cloud security risk on AWS? Get the full risk picture.

AWS cloud security visibility challenges often emerge unintentionally. No team sets out to create misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, and logging gaps. Yet over time, these issues can quietly accumulate as AWS environments evolve.

In the Global Incident Response Report 2026, Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42 found that 90% of data breaches are linked to misconfigurations or other security gaps. These findings reflect gaps in visibility and oversight into what’s happening inside the environment, not a failure of security tooling.

Where do AWS security gaps tend to emerge?

AWS environments evolve organically as an enterprise’s needs change. New accounts are provisioned, services are enabled, and permissions are broadened to keep projects moving. As monitoring practices diverge across teams, security posture can become fragmented as environments expand, leaving leaders with limited confidence in their true exposure across accounts, workloads, and identities.

How organizations can assess cloud security risk before an incident

SHI’s Cloud Security Posture Assessment helps organizations move from reactive findings to a clear, risk-based understanding of their AWS security posture. Rather than focusing on individual tools or alerts, the assessment consolidates insights from AWS-native services to provide a unified risk view and answer fundamental questions like:

• Which configurations introduce the most risk?
• Where are permissions too broad?
• Are logging and detection controls consistently enforced?
• Which security gaps should be prioritized now versus later?

At the end of the engagement, SHI delivers a consolidated scorecard, prioritized remediation plan, and automation guidance to support sustained compliance.

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