Cloud Penetration Testing

We begin by identifying and mapping the organization's cloud environment, including exposed assets, virtual machines, storage services, APIs, identity structures, networking configurations, and third-party integrations. This phase helps establish visibility into the overall cloud attack surface and provides a foundation for the assessment.

We analyze the environment to identify the risks most relevant to the cloud architecture and deployment model in use. This includes assessing identity and access management configurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, insecure policies, credential exposure, segmentation weaknesses, and opportunities for privilege escalation or lateral movement within the environment.

We perform controlled exploitation scenarios to safely simulate real-world attacker behavior within the cloud environment. This may include abuse of misconfigured identities, exposed credentials, insecure services, cross-environment access, or chained vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized access, persistence, or lateral movement. All findings are manually validated to eliminate false positives while minimizing operational impact.

Each finding is analyzed in the context of business and operational risk. We evaluate what resources, identities, services, or data could be impacted, the level of access an attacker could obtain, and how weaknesses could be leveraged to move deeper into the environment or maintain persistence.

We provide a detailed report outlining identified vulnerabilities, attack paths, business impact, and prioritized remediation recommendations. Reporting is tailored for both technical teams and leadership, with clear explanations and actionable guidance. If requested, we also conduct an out-briefing or executive walkthrough of the assessment findings.

As an additional service, after remediation efforts are completed, we can perform a follow-up assessment to validate that vulnerabilities have been properly addressed. This includes verifying configuration changes, confirming security controls are functioning as intended, and ensuring no new security weaknesses were introduced during remediation.