Is Your Cloud Environment Secure? How Do You Know?

The adoption and utilization of cloud environments continue to proliferate for businesses of all sizes. Organizations realize numerous benefits upon integrating cloud services, including ease of use, flexibility, and lack of large upfront expenditures. However, several drawbacks exist, including the lack of understanding of the nuanced differences between managing traditional data centers and cloud environments. This drawback often leads to disaster, as numerous highly publicized data breaches have resulted from misconfigurations of cloud resources. Fortunately, there are multiple tools available to help combat this problem. This research analyzes three cloud auditing tools — AWS Config, Prowler, and Scout Suite, to determine which provides the best value to organizations.