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Penetration Testing
Cloud infrastructure is powerful — and notoriously easy to misconfigure. An overly permissive IAM role or a public S3 bucket is all an attacker needs to access your entire environment. We find these before they do.
About This Service
Security assessment of your cloud infrastructure — testing AWS, Azure, and GCP environments for misconfigurations, overly permissive IAM policies, exposed storage, and exploitable attack paths.
Cloud environments are elastic, complex, and frequently misconfigured. Overly permissive IAM roles, public storage buckets, and default credentials are behind a significant share of major cloud incidents — and most organisations have at least one of these risks present without knowing it.
CIS Cloud Benchmarks, CSA STAR, NIST SP 800-144
Typical Timeline: 5–10 days depending on cloud footprint
Report: Executive summary + full technical findings
Retest: Complimentary, included in every engagement
NDA: Signed before any technical discussion
Deliverables
Cloud security risk overview for leadership and DevOps teams
All findings with affected resource identifiers, proof-of-concept, and CVSS scores
Detailed analysis of identity and access management policies with privilege escalation paths highlighted
Your cloud environment measured against CIS Benchmarks for AWS/Azure/GCP with pass/fail per control
Cloud-provider-specific fix instructions including CLI commands and console steps
Confirms critical and high findings resolved after remediation
Scope
IAM policies — overly permissive roles, privilege escalation paths
Storage bucket and blob exposure (S3, Azure Blob, GCS)
Network security groups, firewall rules, and exposed services
Secrets management — hardcoded credentials, exposed keys
Container and Kubernetes security (EKS, AKS, GKE)
Serverless function security (Lambda, Azure Functions)
Cloud metadata service abuse (IMDS attacks)
Cross-account and cross-tenant access issues
Logging, monitoring, and detection gaps
Compliance against CIS Cloud Benchmarks
Process
Every engagement follows a defined, transparent process — no surprises, no hidden scope changes, and no invoice for work you did not agree to.
Document cloud accounts, regions, services in scope, and access levels for testing.
Map exposed cloud assets and enumerate IAM permissions.
Assess IAM policies, network rules, storage permissions, and security settings against CIS Benchmarks.
Attempt to exploit identified misconfigurations to demonstrate real-world impact.
Assess attacker movement potential within the cloud environment.
Risk-rated findings with AWS/Azure/GCP-specific remediation guidance, followed by complimentary retest.
Why Us
Automated tools find known signatures. Our certified consultants find the chained attack paths, logic flaws, and context-specific vulnerabilities that no scanner will surface. Every finding we report is manually verified — zero false positives.
Every finding includes a proof-of-concept, a CVSS risk score, the affected system or endpoint, and step-by-step remediation guidance written for the team that has to fix it. Your developers and your board both get a report they can use.
We sign a formal NDA before any technical discussion begins. Your vulnerabilities, your architecture, and your engagement findings are treated with the same confidentiality as attorney-client communications. We have never disclosed client information.
Every engagement includes a complimentary retest once your team has addressed the findings. We verify that the vulnerabilities are genuinely closed — not surface-patched — and issue a formal retest certificate you can share with clients and auditors.
Cloud breaches rarely involve sophisticated exploits. They involve misconfigured storage, excessive IAM permissions, and exposed credentials. We focus our testing on the real-world attack paths that have caused the most significant cloud incidents, aligned to CIS Benchmarks for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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FAQ
We test Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We can also assess multi-cloud environments.
For a configuration review, we typically need read-only access. For penetration testing, we work from a defined starting permission level agreed during scoping — often equivalent to a compromised developer account.
The most frequent findings are overly permissive IAM roles, publicly exposed storage buckets, hardcoded credentials in code repositories, and missing logging configurations.
Yes. Container and Kubernetes security is part of our cloud testing scope — including pod security policies, RBAC configurations, and exposed container management interfaces.
Get a free scoping consultation — no commitment required. We’ll scope the right cloud penetration testing engagement for your environment and send a fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.
