E-Commerce Retailer Finds and Fixes Exposed Cloud Storage Before It Became a Breach

The challenge

This retailer's engineering team had grown quickly across multiple cloud accounts and services, and leadership suspected, correctly, that configuration drift had outpaced their ability to manually review it.

The approach

Eiferone ran a cloud security assessment across the retailer's AWS environment, covering storage configuration, IAM policy sprawl, network exposure, and logging coverage, followed by deployment of continuous cloud security posture monitoring.

What we found

The assessment identified four storage buckets configured for public read access, two of which contained historical customer order exports, along with a dozen IAM roles carrying far broader permissions than any associated workload required.

The outcome

All exposed storage was locked down within 48 hours of discovery, IAM permissions were scoped down to least privilege, and every account in the environment was brought under continuous configuration monitoring so similar drift is now caught automatically rather than during the next periodic review.