Cloud identity assurance
Cloud Identity Assurance
Cloud Identity Assurance combines continuous external exposure monitoring, twice-yearly specialist reviews and Business Email Compromise investigation capability for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
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Overview
What is Cloud Identity Assurance?
Cloud Identity Assurance brings together continuous external monitoring, two cloud identity reviews each year and prearranged BEC investigations. It helps your team see external exposure, strengthen Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and respond with clear support when a compromise is suspected.
This is for you if…
Your business depends on cloud identity
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace underpin email, authentication and access to business-critical information.
Your security posture can change
New accounts, permissions and configuration changes can introduce weaknesses between scheduled assessments.
Incidents rarely arrive with notice
When an account is compromised, finding an investigation provider and agreeing access takes valuable time.
Why you need it
What could expose your organisation to compromise?
Cloud identity attacks rarely depend on one weakness. Exposed credentials, weak authentication, excessive permissions and suspicious account activity can combine to provide access to email, sensitive information and connected services. Together, they show how an isolated weakness can become a wider compromise.
Exposed credentials
Compromised credentials can provide an initial route into business accounts and connected services.
Weak authentication
Gaps in multi-factor authentication and access policies can leave accounts exposed to unauthorised access.
Excessive privileges
Unnecessary administrative access and permissive application integrations can increase the impact of compromise.
Account compromise
Malicious forwarding rules, suspicious sign-ins and unauthorised changes can indicate existing access.
Motive
Why do adversaries target cloud identities?
Business email and cloud identities provide access to more than messages. A compromised account can expose confidential information, support fraudulent payment requests and unlock systems connected through the organisation's identity platform, making identity a valuable foothold for a determined adversary.
Adversaries may use stolen credentials, abuse existing permissions or establish persistence through malicious application consent and mailbox rules.
Business email
Financial conversations, invoices and sensitive communications.
Privileged identities
Administrative accounts capable of changing security controls and access.
Connected services
Applications and resources accessible through cloud identity.
Persistent access
Mailbox rules, application permissions and other mechanisms used to maintain access.
Reach
What happens when suspicious email becomes an incident?
When a suspicious payment request suggests an account may be compromised, existing investigation arrangements help the organisation respond without sourcing a provider during the incident. Adversify can examine activity, establish the extent of access, contain authorised threats and provide clear remediation advice.
Identify
Suspicious activity identified
A finance employee reports an unusual payment request appearing to come from a trusted colleague.
Report
Investigation requested
The organisation contacts Adversify using the scope and access arrangements established during onboarding.
Investigate
Compromise investigated
Our consultants examine account activity, identify malicious changes and determine the extent of unauthorised access.
Respond
Containment and findings
We carry out authorised containment or advise your team, then explain what occurred and what should happen next.
In practice
Cloud Identity Assurance gives our consultants prior context through external monitoring and scheduled identity reviews.
Membership includes two specialist BEC investigations each year. Each investigation covers a suspected compromise involving one to five mailboxes. Adversify can carry out authorised containment and advise on remediation, or provide advice only, according to the agreed scope.
Methodology
How does Cloud Identity Assurance work?
Cloud Identity Assurance links external monitoring, identity reviews and BEC investigations. The same team supports each part, so we know your setup. This keeps two planned reviews apart from the external watch that runs between them across the full year.
Onboard and establish access
We agree your environment, monitoring requirements and investigation arrangements. Tooling is deployed with the agreed permissions, and your first identity security review is scheduled.
- Scope
- Access
- Readiness
Monitor external exposure
Exposed credentials, relevant dark-web keywords and internet-facing IP addresses and services are monitored to identify changes in your external exposure.
- Credentials
- Dark web
- External services
Review identity security
Twice each year, our consultants assess your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace environment for indicators of compromise and weaknesses in its security posture. Findings and recommendations are discussed during a consultant-led review call.
- Authentication
- Access control
- Compromise
Investigate suspected compromise
When suspected Business Email Compromise is reported, our consultants investigate the affected accounts, determine the impact and either carry out authorised containment or advise your team on containment and remediation.
- Investigation
- Containment
- Remediation
Coverage
What is included in Cloud Identity Assurance?
Cloud Identity Assurance brings external monitoring, two cloud identity reviews each year and BEC investigation capability into one membership. Coverage is agreed during scoping so the monitoring, platform access and investigation arrangements reflect your environment, business needs and security priorities.
Credential exposure monitoring
Monitoring for exposed credentials associated with your organisation.
Dark-web monitoring
Monitoring agreed business keywords across relevant dark-web sources.
External exposure monitoring
Monitoring internet-facing IP addresses and open ports for changes in exposure.
Identity security reviews
Two reviews each year covering compromise indicators, authentication, access controls and security configuration.
Consultant-led recommendations
Review calls explaining identified issues and practical recommendations for remediation.
BEC investigation capability
Two investigations each year covering suspected compromise of one to five mailboxes.
Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace is agreed during scoping. Organisations using both platforms can discuss the appropriate coverage with us.
What you get
What do you receive from Cloud Identity Assurance?
Cloud Identity Assurance provides more than scheduled reviews. You gain ongoing visibility of external exposure, two independent cloud identity assessments each year and access to specialists who understand your environment when compromise is suspected, bringing proactive assurance and incident readiness together.
You receive
Continuous external monitoring
Visibility of exposed credentials, dark-web mentions and internet-facing services.
Two identity security reviews
Specialist assessment of compromise indicators and security posture, twice each year.
Two BEC investigations
Investigation capability for suspected compromise involving one to five mailboxes.
Consultant-led recommendations
Clear review calls explaining identified issues and practical remediation priorities.
What changes
- External exposure is monitored between scheduled reviews
- Your cloud identity security is independently assessed twice each year
- Investigation scope, tooling and access are agreed before an incident
- The same consultants support monitoring, reviews and investigations
Questions
Cloud Identity Assurance questions
These answers cover supported platforms, how Cloud Identity Assurance works with penetration testing, what happens when compromise is suspected and what access our team needs. They also explain BEC scope and how we work with your IT team or provider.
Not answered here? Ask it on the scoping call
Does Cloud Identity Assurance support Google Workspace?
Yes. Cloud Identity Assurance supports Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, including specialist compromise and security posture reviews and BEC investigations. If your organisation uses both platforms, we will agree the appropriate coverage during scoping.
Does Cloud Identity Assurance replace penetration testing?
No. Penetration testing actively assesses how an adversary could compromise your environment. Cloud Identity Assurance complements it through ongoing external exposure monitoring, scheduled identity security reviews and BEC investigation capability.
What happens if we suspect an account has been compromised?
Contact Adversify to initiate a BEC investigation. Because scope and access arrangements are agreed during onboarding, our consultants can examine the suspected compromise, establish its impact and either carry out authorised containment or advise your team on the action required.
What access do you require?
Access requirements depend on the platform and agreed coverage. During onboarding we agree the permissions needed to review relevant security and audit information. Any containment action requires explicit authorisation; Adversify can instead provide advice for your team or IT provider to act on.
What is included in a BEC investigation?
Each included investigation covers a suspected compromise involving one to five mailboxes. We examine relevant activity, persistence, data access and affected accounts, then carry out authorised containment or provide advice. A broader incident can be scoped separately.
Does the service replace our IT provider?
No. We work alongside your existing IT team or managed service provider, providing independent security assurance and specialist BEC investigation capability.
What happens next?
Put specialist cloud identity assurance in place
Speak to our consultants about your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace environment. We will explain the membership, agree monitoring requirements and discuss the access needed for security reviews and investigations.
- Continuous monitoring, two reviews and two BEC investigations each year
- Delivered by experienced, UK-based security consultants
- Scoped for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
A penetration tester will agree the environment, access and investigation arrangements before anything is quoted.