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  • May 10, 2025
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🏗️ Sherlocked Security – Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Review

Strategically Review Your Cloud Design for Resilience, Security, and Scalability

📄 1. Statement of Work (SOW)

Service Name: Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Review
Client Type: Cloud-Native Startups, FinTech, Enterprises, DevOps Teams
Service Model: Manual Architecture Review + Best Practices Gap Analysis
Compliance Coverage: AWS Well-Architected, CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS
Supported Cloud Platforms:

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Hybrid / Multi-Cloud Deployments

🧠 2. Our Approach (with Visual)

🔹 Best Practices-Driven Architecture Evaluation
🔹 Business-Aligned Infrastructure Modeling
🔹 Emphasis on Security, Cost, Resilience, and Automation

Generate one AI Visual using this flow and color codes:

[Kickoff & Discovery] → [Infra Documentation Review] → [Configuration Deep-Dive] → [Security & Resilience Analysis] → [Gap Identification] → [Remediation Guidance] → [Final Validation & Report]

Color Code:

  • Discovery: #064d52
  • Testing/Attack: #8b0505
  • Closure: #0f5c5a

🧪 3. Methodology (with Visual)

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[Kickoff] → [Architecture Diagram Review] → [Cloud Services Mapping] → [IAM & Network Review] → [Storage & Data Flow Audit] → [Security Config Check] → [Resilience & HA Review] → [Cost & Scaling Review] → [Final Report + Recommendations]

Visual Color Flow:

  • 🔹 Blue (Planning: #064d52)
  • 🔸 Red (Findings: #8b0505)
  • ✅ Green (Closure: #0f5c5a)

📦 4. Deliverables to the Client

  1. ✅ Infrastructure Gap Matrix

  2. 🧾 Statement of Work (SOW)

  3. 📘 Technical Architecture Review:

    • Service Inventory & Deployment Layout
    • Security Config & IAM Audit
    • Resilience & Availability Review
    • Logging & Monitoring Setup
    • CI/CD & Automation Practices
    • Architecture Diagrams & Recommendations
    • Compliance & Risk Mapping

  4. 📊 Architecture Diagrams (As-Is & To-Be)

  5. 📽️ Review Call with DevOps/Infra Teams

  6. 🧑‍💻 Advisory on Fix Strategy

  7. 🔁 One Round of Post-Fix Validation

  8. 🏁 Architecture Certification Report

🤝 5. What We Need from You (Client Requirements)

  • ✅ Access to Architecture Diagrams
  • ✅ IAM or Viewer Access to Cloud Accounts
  • ✅ Terraform / CloudFormation Files (if available)
  • ✅ List of Critical Applications and Services
  • ✅ Contact from Infra or Platform Engineering Team
  • ✅ Current Compliance or Certification Goals

🧰 6. Tools & Technology Stack

  • 🛠️ AWS Well-Architected Tool / Azure Advisor
  • 🔍 Checkov / tfsec (IaC Scanners)
  • 🧱 Custom Scripts for IAM & Network Evaluation
  • 📡 CloudMapper / CloudGraph for Visual Topology
  • 📊 Trusted Advisor / Cost Explorer / Billing API
  • 🔐 Gitleaks / Secrets Detection Tools

🚀 7. Engagement Lifecycle (Lead → Closure)

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1. Discovery Call 2. Requirements Gathering 3. Proposal + NDA + SOW 4. Infra Document + Access Review 5. Deep-Dive Config Analysis 6. Draft Architecture Report 7. Feedback Session 8. Final Recommendations 9. Fix Assistance + Certificate

🌟 8. Why Sherlocked Security? (Our USP)

Feature Sherlocked Advantage
🏗️ Full-Stack Infra Audit Covers compute, storage, IAM, VPC, serverless
📘 Architecture-Led Approach No tool-only automation — contextual review
🔁 DevOps Collaboration Fixes reviewed in Slack/Teams with engineers
📊 Visual Reporting Before/after diagrams, risk mapping, cost gaps
🛡️ Compliance-Ready Reports Mapped to CIS, NIST, ISO, and SOC 2
🏆 Certification Issued Post validation & remediation completion

📚 9. Real-World Case Studies

🛑 Over-Privileged IAM Roles in Production

Issue: Multiple admin-level IAM roles without audit logging
Impact: CloudTrail logs disabled led to unnoticed privilege escalation

🛠️ Our Fix Journey: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Client: FinTech company using AWS + Azure
Findings:

  • Gaps in HA between regions

  • No centralized logging or SIEM
    Our Role:

  • Reviewed and mapped services

  • Built phased fix plan for resilience and audit
    Outcome:

  • Cleared SOC 2 Type II audit

  • Reduced cloud costs by 28%

🛡️ 10. SOP – Standard Operating Procedure

  1. Kickoff Call & Scope Finalization
  2. Infra Diagrams & Access Sharing
  3. Service Discovery & Deep Config Review
  4. IAM / VPC / Storage / Logging Audit
  5. Cost, HA, and Auto-scaling Assessment
  6. Draft Report Submission
  7. Live Review and Fix Advisory
  8. Final Report + Architecture Certificate

📋 11. Sample Architecture Review Checklist (Preview)

  1. Review high-level architecture diagrams and threat models.
  2. Assess resilience, availability, and fault tolerance.
  3. Evaluate use of cloud-native services (IAM, KMS, VPC).
  4. Identify single points of failure or exposed services.
  5. Check secure configuration of load balancers and APIs.
  6. Ensure least-privilege access across all services.
  7. Validate identity federation and multi-account structure.
  8. Review encryption at rest and in transit.
  9. Assess logging, monitoring, and alerting setup.
  10. Provide security improvement recommendations and roadmap.

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