Linode security assessment
Frequently the forgotten environment: a staging or legacy estate that never got the same scrutiny as production.
The context
What actually breaks on Linode
Linode, now Akamai Cloud, is very often the environment nobody mentions in the kickoff call. It gets discovered during asset enumeration: a staging estate, a legacy product, or infrastructure inherited from an acquisition, still running and still holding data.
Forgotten environments are dangerous for a specific reason. They rarely get patched, they frequently hold a copy of production data for testing purposes, and they are usually outside whatever monitoring the main estate has. An attacker looking at your organisation will find them at the same point in their process that we do.
Where the environment is actively used, the findings look like DigitalOcean's: token scope, firewall coverage gaps, and object storage access keys with no rotation history.
Assessed surfaces
Everything we look at on Linode.
- 01Cloud Firewall rules and directly exposed instance services
- 02Object Storage access keys, bucket ACLs & public content
- 03API token scope and personal access token sprawl
- 04LKE Kubernetes RBAC and control plane access
- 05Managed database access controls and network restrictions
- 06Account user roles, 2FA enforcement and offboarding
- 07Backup configuration and verified restore capability
Questions
Linode FAQ
Usually yes, and staging is often where we find the highest-impact issues. Staging environments hold real data more often than teams admit, are patched less, and are monitored least. If it holds a copy of production data it deserves production-grade scrutiny.
A read-only API token scoped to the account, and visibility of user roles and 2FA enforcement. As with any provider, we can work from an engineer-run export instead if your policy prevents issuing third-party tokens.
Yes. Cluster RBAC, control plane exposure, node pool configuration and whether workloads run with more privilege than they need. Managed Kubernetes shifts some responsibility to the provider but the RBAC and workload configuration remain yours.
Other platforms we assess
A CI role assumable from an unrestricted GitHub OIDC condition, chaining into production admin.
AWS assessmentAn app registration holding a long-lived client secret with directory-wide Graph permissions.
Azure assessmentA downloadable service account key with project Editor, committed to a repo two years ago.
Google Cloud assessmentFind out what is reachable in your Linode estate.
Read-only access, one to two weeks, fixed price. You get attack paths with proof, not a posture score.
No sales sequence. A scoping call and a written proposal cost nothing.