[ PLATFORM CAPABILITY ]
Continuous cloud assessment
Read-only posture across six environments — normalized, scored, and comparable.
Cloud security tools often stop at a single provider or drown teams in raw misconfigurations without business context. NorthSec AI ingests read-only configuration and telemetry from AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, DigitalOcean, and on-premises estates, normalizes to a common schema, and scores risk across IAM, data, network, and logging domains. Operators compare environments without relearning a new console per cloud — and leadership sees one trend line for the whole hybrid estate.
[ WHO IT IS FOR ]
Platform and security teams managing multi-cloud or hybrid estates; organizations preparing for SOC 2, ISO, or PCI where posture evidence must stay current between audits.
[ OPERATING CADENCE ]
Read-only connectors keep posture current without write access to your control planes.
Delivered as part of your NNSEC retainer and NorthSec AI tenant — not a separate SKU.
Problems this
capability removes.
Teams adopt this when the status quo costs audit time, incident credibility, or engineering trust.
- ◆Different severity models per cloud console
- ◆IAM and data findings scattered across siloed tools
- ◆No unified view when acquisitions add a second cloud
- ◆Audit evidence that ages the day after export
What changes
after adoption.
Measurable shifts in audit prep, triage time, and executive confidence — not vanity dashboard counts.
Comparable risk scores
Normalize misconfigurations and exposure paths so AWS and Azure findings compete fairly in one backlog.
Read-only assurance
Connectors use assessment APIs and scoped IAM — no write paths to production control planes by default.
Automation-friendly API
Pull findings and scores into your CI/CD or ticketing pipelines with stable identifiers.
What you
operate.
Concrete surfaces and objects your teams touch weekly — described in operator language.
Multi-cloud connectors
Deploy templates from onboarding with external ID patterns and health checks your platform team validates.
Domain coverage
IAM privilege paths, storage exposure, network segmentation gaps, and logging blind spots in one model.
MITRE-aligned context
Technique tagging helps analysts explain why a misconfiguration matters beyond the checkbox.
Drift detection
Alerts when production diverges from approved baseline or prior audit snapshot.
How teams
use it weekly.
Typical cadence once connectors and authorizations are in place — aligned to your retainer milestones.
01
Connector onboarding
Security reviews IAM template; platform deploys; NNSEC validates ingestion within days.
02
Weekly posture review
Trend criticals, new exposures, and resolved items with vCISO commentary in retainer cadence.
03
Pre-audit freeze
Export posture state linked to compliance controls without manual screenshot hunts.
[ GOVERNANCE ]
- ◆Assume-role and service principal scopes documented in onboarding
- ◆Per-connector disable without losing historical findings
- ◆Contractual data residency and retention choices
FAQ
Cloud assessment is API-first; endpoint agents complement workload visibility where you approve them.
Include Continuous cloud assessment in your retainer
Book a briefing to map this capability to your clouds, frameworks, and SOC maturity.