Cloud Penetration Testing
Expose the identity and misconfiguration attack paths in your AWS, Azure and GCP environments.
Overview
Cloud penetration testing assesses cloud environments for misconfigurations and identity-based attack paths that traditional pentests miss, such as over-permissive IAM, exposed storage, metadata abuse and privilege escalation across cloud-native services. It combines configuration review against CIS Benchmarks with hands-on exploitation. It evaluates cloud environments through simulated attacks across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Testing reflects the shared responsibility model, focusing on the cloud misconfigurations and identity weaknesses that fall to the customer to secure.
Methodology & Standards
CIS Benchmarks (AWS/Azure/GCP), provider testing policies and MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud, framed by PTES and NIST SP 800-115. Each engagement covers attack surface review, configuration assessment, access-control validation, and recovery and resilience considerations.
What's Included
What You Receive
Frequently Asked Questions
For most user-operated resources the providers now allow testing without prior approval, but some managed services still require notification. We confirm provider policy during scoping and stay inside it.
No. Posture tools flag misconfigurations; we exploit them, chaining an over-permissive role or exposed credential into real privilege escalation and data access.
Yes. A combined engagement maps how an app-layer foothold escalates through cloud IAM, which is how real breaches unfold.
Common issues include insecure APIs, excessive permissions, server misconfigurations, weak credentials and outdated software.