Your cloud is one misconfiguration away from a breach
Most cloud incidents don’t start with a zero-day. They start with a setting: a storage bucket left public, multi-factor authentication that was never enforced, an over-privileged service account, a logging control quietly switched off. These misconfigurations are invisible in day-to-day operations — until an attacker finds them first.
The problem isn’t a lack of security features in AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, or Google Workspace. It’s that each platform has hundreds of controls, they drift as your teams ship changes, and no one is checking all of them against a known-good standard, every time. That’s what Critical Path Security delivers with SkyWatch.
What SkyWatch is
SkyWatch is Critical Path Security’s cloud security assessment platform. We audit your cloud and SaaS configurations against recognized security baselines — CIS Benchmarks, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and the CISA SCuBA Secure Configuration Baselines — then turn thousands of raw checks into a prioritized, plain-English picture of where you stand and what to fix first.
It covers the platforms your business actually runs on:
- AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — full posture audits via Prowler against CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
- Microsoft 365 — CISA SCuBA baseline assessment (Entra ID, Defender for Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform, Power BI).
- Google Workspace — CISA SCuBA baseline assessment across Gmail, Drive & Docs, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Groups, Sites, Classroom, Gemini, and common controls.
Every result is linked to your engagement, rendered on a unified dashboard with charts and filterable findings, and exportable as a branded PDF.
How Critical Path Security uses SkyWatch for your organization
SkyWatch is a managed capability our analysts run for you — not a scanner you’re left to interpret alone. Here’s what that looks like.
1. Assess — one standard, every control
We connect SkyWatch to your cloud and SaaS tenants and run a full configuration audit against the applicable baselines. Instead of a human clicking through hundreds of settings across four consoles, every control is checked automatically and consistently — the same way, every time.
Credentials are handled with care: for live assessments they’re used once and deleted immediately, never persisted, and cloud credentials live in a protected, access-controlled store.
2. Prioritize — findings, not noise
A raw benchmark run can produce thousands of pass/fail results. SkyWatch rolls them into a single dashboard — pass rates, severity breakdowns, and findings you can filter by service, severity, and status. Our analysts work the material risks first instead of drowning in a flat export.
3. Explain — AI briefings your leadership can read
SkyWatch generates CISO-level executive briefings from the assessment: overall security posture, the top critical findings, prioritized recommendations, and compliance gaps — in language a board or an auditor can act on. Analysts can also enrich individual findings with context and ask questions of an AI assistant trained on the results, so the “so what?” is answered, not left as a control ID.
4. Track drift — prove it stayed fixed
Security posture isn’t a one-time snapshot. SkyWatch runs recurring assessments and shows an Assessment Timeline: a pass-rate trend across every scan, with explicit regressions (controls that were passing and now fail) and improvements (controls remediated since last time), each tied to its policy ID. When your team fixes something, we prove it — and when something drifts back, we catch it.
5. Report — deliverables your customers and auditors expect
Every assessment exports to a branded PDF report linked to the engagement, suitable for handing to leadership, customers, or auditors as evidence of due diligence and continuous improvement.
What this means for your organization
- See your real cloud risk. AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace — audited against the standards regulators and cyber-insurers actually reference.
- Fix what matters first. Thousands of checks collapse into a prioritized, severity-ranked queue, briefed in plain English.
- Prove continuous improvement. Drift detection shows remediation over time and catches regressions before they become incidents.
- Satisfy compliance faster. CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and CISA SCuBA mapping turns “are we configured securely?” into a documented, defensible answer.
Cloud misconfigurations are cheap to make and expensive to discover — usually after the breach. Critical Path Security flips that with SkyWatch: continuous, standards-based assessment that finds the weak settings first, tells you which ones matter, and proves they got fixed.
Know where your cloud stands
Talk to Critical Path Security about a SkyWatch cloud security assessment across your AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace environments.