preeloader

Cloud Penetration Testing

Identify misconfigurations, privilege escalations, and exposed services across your cloud infrastructure.

Overview

As organizations continue migrating critical operations and sensitive data to cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, the responsibility to secure these environments becomes more complex. A single misconfiguration, excessive access permission, or exposed service can open the door to data breaches and business disruption.

Our Cloud Penetration Testing service simulates realistic attacks across your cloud stack, from IAM and network segmentation to storage exposure and workload compromise, helping you identify exploitable weaknesses before they are used against you.

Cloud

Resource Enumeration

Identify IAM roles, service accounts, compute instances, databases, and functions.

IAM Testing

Detect overprivileged identities, misconfigured roles, and privilege escalation paths.

Network Testing

Validate internet-facing assets, segmentation, and firewall/security group rules.

Auth & API Testing

Assess management consoles and APIs for weak authentication, missing MFA, and insecure tokens.

Data Exposure

Detect public buckets, snapshots, and secrets in metadata or environment variables.

Workload Exploitation

Compromise VMs, containers, or serverless workloads to demonstrate impact.

Platform Configuration

Evaluate configurations in AWS, Azure, or GCP for best-practice compliance.

Encryption & Logging

Review encryption at rest/in transit and audit log integrity.

Testing Methodology

1

Scoping & Kick-off

Define in-scope regions, cloud accounts, and services. Align objectives, rules of engagement, safety protocols, and reporting requirements.

2

Reconnaissance

Enumerate cloud resources, configurations, and exposed services using native tooling and custom discovery scripts.

3

Scanning & Vulnerability Identification

Use cloud-native scanners and manual verification to detect IAM misconfigurations, open storage, insecure APIs, privilege escalation paths, and weak network segmentation.

4

Exploitation

Safely validate confirmed weaknesses such as excessive permissions, token misuse, or exposed management interfaces, demonstrating potential compromise without disrupting production.

5

Reporting & Debrief

Deliver a comprehensive report including executive summary, scope, methodology, prioritized findings with PoCs, risk ratings, and actionable remediation guidance, followed by a restitution meeting.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

A single excessive permission or exposed service can turn a minor misconfiguration into a major security incident. This assessment identifies exploitable misconfigurations and quantifies their real-world impact, which roles enable lateral movement, what data can be reached, and how your overall cloud posture can be hardened.

Duration depends on the environment size and complexity:

  • Small (≤15 cloud services): 4–5 business days
  • Medium (15–40 cloud services): 7–10 business days
  • Large (up to 100 services): 10–15 business days

Includes documentation review, configuration analysis, validation, and report presentation.

Testing is designed to be safe and non-destructive. For production environments, we coordinate testing windows and approvals to minimize any impact. Intrusive steps are performed only with prior authorization.

Ready to Strengthen Your Cloud Security?

Request a Quote
Contact Info