Cloud Public Exposure
Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, storage, and hosted apps.
Orange County Cloud & identity security
Cloud and SaaS External Exposure Assessment
Use this cloud and SaaS external exposure to identify gaps across identity and privilege, configuration exposure, and logging and detection. Treat the result as initial guidance and validate material findings through a professional review.
CISO-led guidance from Ali Hassani, backed by 25+ years of IT, cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure experience.
Professional Intro
What this external audit tool reviews
Cloud and SaaS platforms can expose sensitive data without traditional firewall changes. This tool helps review public resources, external sharing, admin access, guest accounts, and conditional access controls across modern cloud services.
This free tool gives an initial readiness view based only on your answers. It helps identify practical gaps, missing evidence, and next steps before a deeper external security audit, vulnerability assessment, penetration test, or vCISO review.
SaaS and Sharing
Microsoft 365, external sharing, guest users, and third-party apps.
Identity Controls
MFA, conditional access, admin roles, and risky access.
Cloud Review Guidance
What to review before a formal cloud security audit
Business owners, IT managers, CISOs, compliance leaders, and Southern California organizations can use this assessment to review a focused set of cloud and SaaS controls before a deeper cybersecurity audit, compliance readiness review, cyber insurance discussion, or vCISO planning session.
Use this page to identify evidence gaps, weak configurations, missing ownership, and remediation priorities related to public storage, SaaS admin portals, identity federation, OAuth apps, cloud DNS, and externally shared files. The strongest result comes from comparing the answers against real evidence such as screenshots, exported settings, logs, tickets, policies, diagrams, vendor records, backup reports, access reviews, and recent remediation activity.
What this assessment reviews
- Public storage, shared links, exposed cloud services, SaaS guest users, and admin portals
- OAuth applications, API tokens, service principals, external collaborators, and delegated permissions
- Identity federation, MFA, conditional access, privileged roles, and break-glass access
- Cloud logging, alerting, configuration baselines, and evidence for high-risk settings
Technical areas to validate
- Review Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and SaaS admin settings from the live portals
- Export risky users, guest users, enterprise apps, shared files, public endpoints, and storage permissions
- Use cloud-native policy, posture management, and audit logs to validate drift from baselines
- Prioritize remediation for public data, privileged access, weak authentication, and unmanaged third-party apps
Implementation should start with a clear control owner, a documented current state, and a short remediation backlog. Prioritize gaps that affect internet exposure, privileged access, regulated data, business continuity, audit evidence, ransomware resilience, or executive risk reporting. Where a gap cannot be fixed quickly, document the exception, business owner, compensating control, and review date.
This tool is for initial guidance only and does not replace a professional cybersecurity audit, compliance assessment, penetration test, technical validation, or legal/compliance review. For a deeper review, use the result as a starting point for an OC Security Audit engagement with Ali Hassani, CISO, or request help through OC Security Audit contact.
Created by OC Security Audit
Guided by Ali Hassani, CISO
Ali Hassani brings 25+ years of cybersecurity, compliance, network security, Microsoft 365 security, cloud security, firewall security, vulnerability management, incident response, and risk assessment experience. His background includes CISSP, CCISO, CCNP, MCSE, MCSA Security, MCITP, MCP, and MCTS credentials.
Free Self-Assessment
Build your external audit readiness score
Select the sections you want to review, answer the questions, then generate a results-only readiness report with charts, gaps, and recommendations.
Assessment Questions
What the Report Shows
How to use your score
The output may show your overall external audit readiness score, internet-facing security gaps, missing documentation, weak external controls, priority remediation areas, and suggested consulting next steps. Use it as a starting point for evidence gathering and risk reduction.
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Authoritative external guidance
Disclaimer: This free External Audit Tool is an introductory self-assessment based only on the answers provided by the user. It is not a full external security audit, compliance certification, penetration test, vulnerability assessment, technical validation, or final professional opinion. For formal review, compliance readiness, security remediation, technical validation, or executive reporting, a professional external cybersecurity assessment by OC Security Audit is recommended.
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