STRENGTHEN YOUR DEFENSES

Cloud Security Assessment

Deploy and scale in the cloud with confidence, knowing you have the right controls to proactively reduce risk.

Turn cloud complexity into actionable security insights

What’s included in your service

EXPERT-LED CLOUD ARCHITECTURE DEEP DIVES

Explore your cloud footprint, build bridges between stakeholders and prioritize mitigations.

TAILORED CLOUD THREAT ANALYSIS

Get deep threat intelligence and expertise to understand the cloud threats most likely to impact you.

PINPOINT AND FIX CRITICAL CLOUD RISKS

See your most critical misconfigurations and control gaps with a prioritized remediation plan.

ELEVATE CLOUD SECURITY MATURITY

Framework-guided workshop benchmarks maturity, defines "good" and sets a path to improve.

ACTIONABLE CLOUD SECURITY ROADMAP

Define your cloud security vision with a practical, step-by-step plan that adapts to growth.

Our threat-informed approach to secure the cloud

Align your security program to the dynamic and distributed nature of modern cloud environments.
Investigate the scope
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SCOPE

Technical analysis of your cloud, correlated with key trends from our threat intelligence.
Dynamic analysis
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ANALYZE

Workshops to align on cloud threats, control gaps and see their impact on your organization.
Security Lifecycle Review
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PLAN

Understand your current capabilities and define your target state for code to cloud security.
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IMPROVE

Develop a threat-informed roadmap to mature your cloud security program.

Turning Threat Intelligence into Cyber Resilience

Attackers move fast and adapt constantly. Unit 42 brings the experience, technology and operational depth to match that speed. From readiness through response to long-term improvement, we help you act with precision and continuously strengthen your security program.

THREAT-INFORMED

Your attack surface is expanding and harder to see. We use telemetry from 70,000+ customers and thousands of incident engagements to identify exactly where you're vulnerable. You gain the clarity to focus resources on the threats that actually matter to your bottom line.

TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN

Unit 42 combines deep platform integration with AI and automation to simplify operations, cut through noise, strengthen prevention and accelerate action so you reduce risk faster and stay ahead of evolving threats.

EXPERTISE-LED

You need experts who have seen it before. Our 24/7 global team spans response, readiness, threat intelligence and long-term transformation, delivering battle-tested expertise across every engagement and phase of your security journey.

TRANSFORMATION-FOCUSED

Every engagement turns lessons learned into lasting improvement. And every engagement concludes with a roadmap to harden your defenses and prove your maturing resilience to the board. You emerge stronger and more defensible after every encounter.

Be prepared.
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Seven Ways to Use Your Unit 42 Retainer

Respond fast to minimize the impact of an attack and get back to business sooner. Or, use Retainer credits for proactive services to assess, test and improve your security program.

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Ready to work together? We’ll help you assess and test your security controls, transform your security strategy with an intelligence-informed approach and respond to incidents in record time.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Cloud Security Assessment

Unit 42 is the threat intelligence, incident response, and security consulting arm of Palo Alto Networks helping organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber incidents.
A Unit 42 Cloud Security Assessment evaluates the security of your cloud environment and identifies risks across configuration, identity, data, workloads and operations.
The assessment examines your cloud architecture, access controls, network exposure, security monitoring, data protection and incident response readiness. It can cover single-cloud and multi-cloud environments.
A Cloud Security Assessment can identify overly permissive identities, exposed data or services, insecure configurations, gaps in monitoring and weaknesses in network, workload or incident response controls.
You receive prioritized findings and practical recommendations to reduce cloud risk, strengthen controls and improve the security of your cloud operations.