GCP Cloud Security Assessment
Identify misconfigurations and risks across your Google Cloud environment.
What this assessment covers.
GCP environments introduce a new category of security risks driven by configuration, identity, and access management. DERISK’s GCP Cloud Security Assessment service evaluates your Google Cloud infrastructure to identify security risks across compute, storage, networking, IAM, and deployed services.
Our testing helps organisations detect misconfigurations, excessive permissions, insecure deployments, and other GCP-specific security weaknesses. We assess IAM policies, Cloud Storage buckets, firewall rules, Compute Engine instances, and key management using proven methodologies aligned with recognised cloud security frameworks.
How we test.
A structured, expert-led methodology from initial reconnaissance through to real-time reporting and remediation guidance.
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GCP Architecture Review
We review your GCP architecture — projects, VPCs, resource hierarchies, and data flows — to understand how your environment is structured and where risks may exist.
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Configuration Assessment
We evaluate GCP configurations against CIS benchmarks and best practices to identify misconfigurations such as public storage buckets, open firewall rules, and unencrypted data.
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Security Posture Validation
We validate that security controls — Cloud Audit Logs, monitoring, encryption, and network controls — are properly enabled and functioning as intended across GCP services.
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Risk Analysis across IAM and deployed services
We analyse GCP IAM policies, roles, and permissions to identify excessive privileges, unused credentials, and paths to privilege escalation across your GCP services.
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Real-time findings published to the DERISK PTaaS portal
GCP security risks are published live to the PTaaS portal with configuration details and remediation steps for immediate action.
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Reporting & Remediation guidance
You receive a detailed report with configuration analysis, risk-rated findings, and GCP-specific remediation guidance aligned with recognised frameworks.
Why teams choose us.
Expert-led, manually validated, and delivered through the DERISK PTaaS platform for continuous visibility and rapid remediation.
Outstanding Features
- ✓Assessment aligned with recognised GCP security frameworks and best practices
- ✓Real-time visibility into GCP security posture through the DERISK PTaaS platform
- ✓Deep IAM and privilege analysis across GCP roles and policies
- ✓Coverage across Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, Cloud KMS, and other core GCP services
Why Choose Our Service?
- ▸GCP expertise: Assess Google Cloud environments using proven methodologies and CIS benchmarks
- ▸Configuration-driven security: Identify risks caused by misconfigurations before they become breaches
- ▸Identity & access governance: Review GCP IAM policies, privileged access, and permission models
- ▸GCP-native recommendations: Receive remediation guidance aligned with modern GCP architectures and security best practices
Frameworks & standards.
Testing is aligned with industry-recognised frameworks and standards to ensure comprehensive, repeatable coverage.
What you receive.
Everything you need to understand, prioritise, and remediate findings — delivered through the platform with ongoing validation.
GCP Security Assessment questions.
What does a GCP assessment cover?
IAM bindings and service account usage, organisation policy constraints, VPC and firewall rules, Cloud Storage exposure, KMS and Secret Manager, Cloud Logging and Security Command Center coverage, and GKE cluster configuration.
Why do service accounts get so much attention?
Because they are the most common escalation path in GCP. Over-privileged service accounts, downloadable keys that never expire, and impersonation chains between them turn a minor foothold into project-wide compromise.
What access do you need?
Viewer plus Security Reviewer at the organisation or project level covers configuration review. Anything that proves exploitability is scoped and agreed separately.
Does this cover Kubernetes?
GKE cluster configuration, workload identity, RBAC and network policy are included. Deeper container and supply-chain testing can be scoped alongside.
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Ready to secure your assets with GCP Security Assessment?
Get in touch with DERISK to schedule an assessment or learn more about how our expert-led testing can strengthen your security posture.
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