Testing
Cloud misconfiguration is where a large share of real findings sit
The breaches that make the news are rarely novel. They are frequently an identity policy nobody read and a resource exposed by a default.
Facts checked — 2026-09-11
What does a cloud configuration review cover?
Identity and access policy — over-permissive roles, long-lived keys, missing MFA on privileged accounts; network exposure — what is reachable from the internet and whether it needs to be; storage permissions; logging, and whether anything reads it; and key management.
It is worth doing separately from an application test, because it moves on a different clock. The application changes with releases; the cloud estate changes whenever somebody provisions something, which is continuously and often without review.
The bottom line
Review identity policy first. Over-permissive roles are the finding that turns a small foothold into a large incident.
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