Cloud Security Remediation
Closing Assessment, CSPM, and Penetration Test Findings with IaC-Delivered Changes Through Your Change Management Process
Assessments and CSPM tools identify problems. This engagement fixes them. The gap between knowing what is wrong and actually remediating it is where most organizations stall. Findings pile up across assessment reports, CSPM dashboards, and penetration test results — but remediation requires cloud engineering skills, change management discipline, and the ability to fix things without breaking production.
Every change is delivered as infrastructure as code — Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep — so remediation is repeatable, auditable, and version-controlled. Changes go through your change management process, not around it. Each change includes documentation of what it fixes, why, what it affects, and how to roll back. For findings that cannot be fully remediated due to business constraints, a residual risk register documents the remaining risk with compensating controls.
Scope covers IAM tightening, logging enablement, encryption configuration, network control remediation, and other common finding categories across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The engagement addresses 15-50 findings depending on tier, with prioritization based on risk and implementation complexity.
Who This Is For
Ideal clients for this engagement.
The Problem
What this engagement addresses.
Finding Backlog
Assessment reports, CSPM dashboards, and pen test results generate findings faster than the team can remediate. The backlog grows, older findings lose context, and the remediation effort feels insurmountable. Meanwhile, the actual risk remains unchanged.
Fix Without Break
Cloud security remediations — tightening IAM permissions, modifying network controls, enabling encryption — can break production applications if applied without understanding dependencies. Teams defer remediation because the blast radius is uncertain.
Manual Fixes Drift Back
Console-based manual remediation is not durable. Without IaC, the same misconfiguration reappears the next time someone deploys. Click-ops fixes create a cycle of finding, fixing, and re-finding the same issues.
Compliance Clock
Audit and compliance deadlines require documented evidence of remediation. Teams need not just fixes but change records, before/after evidence, and risk acceptance documentation for findings that cannot be fully remediated.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Remediation IaC Code
Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep) implementing all remediations. Code is documented, tested, and ready for deployment through your existing IaC pipeline or change management process.
Change Documentation
Per-change documentation: finding reference, change description, affected resources, risk assessment, implementation steps, validation criteria, and rollback procedures. Formatted for your change management process.
Remediation Evidence Package
Before and after evidence for each remediation — screenshots, configuration diffs, compliance scan results — suitable for audit and compliance documentation.
Residual Risk Register
Documentation of findings that cannot be fully remediated due to business, technical, or timing constraints. Each entry includes the remaining risk, compensating controls in place, and recommended future actions.
Methodology
How the engagement works.
Finding Triage & Planning
Week 1
- Finding inventory consolidation from all sources (assessments, CSPM, pen tests)
- Finding validation and deduplication
- Risk-based prioritization and remediation sequencing
- Dependency analysis to identify changes that may affect production
- Change management process alignment
Remediation Development
Weeks 2 – 5
- IaC development for each remediation (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep)
- Change documentation preparation
- Pre-deployment testing and validation
- Stakeholder review for changes with production impact
Deployment & Validation
Weeks 4 – 7
- Change deployment through client change management process
- Post-deployment validation and evidence collection
- Remediation verification scanning
- Rollback execution if needed
Closeout & Documentation
Weeks 7 – 8
- Remediation evidence package assembly
- Residual risk register finalization
- Final remediation status report delivery
- Knowledge transfer for ongoing maintenance of IaC remediations
Engagement Tiers
Scoped to your architecture.
Focused
Up to 15 findings across a single cloud provider. Core remediation categories: IAM, logging, and encryption. Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep delivery.
- Up to 15 finding remediations
- IaC code delivery
- Change documentation per remediation
- Remediation evidence package
- Residual risk register
Standard
Up to 30 findings across up to 2 cloud providers. Full remediation category coverage including network controls. Change management integration.
- Everything in Focused
- Up to 30 finding remediations
- Multi-provider coverage (up to 2)
- Network control remediation
- Change management process integration
Complex
Up to 50 findings across multiple cloud providers. Full remediation coverage with complex changes (IAM restructuring, network architecture modifications). Extended deployment support.
- Everything in Standard
- Up to 50 finding remediations
- Complex IAM and network architecture changes
- Extended deployment and validation support
- Post-remediation verification scanning
Prerequisites
- Source findings: assessment reports, CSPM exports, penetration test results
- Cloud environment access with permissions to deploy IaC and modify configurations
- Existing IaC pipeline or willingness to deploy IaC through change management
- Change management process for production environment modifications
- Application and infrastructure owner availability for impact assessment
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions.
Do you deploy changes directly to our cloud environments?
All changes go through your change management process. We develop the IaC, prepare the change documentation, and support deployment — but your team approves and executes through your established process. We can deploy directly if that is your preference and your change management process permits it, but we never bypass change management.
What happens with findings that cannot be fully remediated?
Findings that cannot be fully remediated due to business constraints, technical dependencies, or timing are documented in the residual risk register. Each entry includes the remaining risk level, compensating controls in place or recommended, business justification for acceptance, and a recommended future action with timeline. This provides the documentation needed for risk acceptance decisions and audit evidence.
Can we use this engagement to remediate findings from any source — not just your assessments?
Yes. We remediate findings from any source: our own assessments, third-party assessment reports, CSPM tool exports (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud), penetration test results, and internal audit findings. During the triage phase, we validate and deduplicate findings regardless of source.
Related Offerings
Often paired with this engagement.
Cloud Security Posture Assessment
The assessment that generates the findings this engagement remediates. Often engaged as a sequence: assess, then remediate.
DevSecOps Program Build
Prevents new findings from being introduced. IaC scanning in CI/CD catches misconfigurations before deployment — stopping the cycle of fix and re-find.
Cloud IAM Architecture
If IAM findings are systemic rather than tactical, architectural redesign provides the target state that remediation implements toward.
Secure Cloud Landing Zone
If findings indicate fundamental architecture gaps, a landing zone design establishes the secure foundation that individual remediations build upon.
Cloud Detection Engineering
Builds detection for the attack techniques that exploited the misconfigurations being remediated — defense in depth beyond just fixing the configuration.
Ready to discuss this engagement?
30-minute discovery call. We will discuss your application architecture, your specific concerns, and whether this assessment is the right fit.