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.
What you will get
Deliverables that keep every stakeholder aligned
We deliver more than raw findings: you receive a complete package that leadership, engineers, and auditors can all act on immediately.
Reporting package
Evidence-rich documentation for executives and technical teams.
Executive summary that explains business impact, key risks, and the
narrative behind the assessment.
Vulnerability summary with grouped issues, risk owners, severity,
and time-to-fix guidance.
Technical analysis that includes screenshots, observations, attack
flow notes, and proof-of-exploitation where appropriate.
Metrics & scoring covering CVSS, likelihood/impact rationales,
and remediation priority to unblock quick decisions.
Remediation toolkit
Clear next steps, mapped to the people fixing the issues.
Excel remediation tracker that consolidates every vulnerability with
owners, status, due dates, and comments so progress is easy to measure.
Prioritized backlog with quick wins, blocked items, and prerequisites
highlighted to reduce remediation friction.
Restitution meeting to walk through findings live, align on
fixes, and answer engineer questions while the context is fresh.
Optional retest to validate patches and refresh CVSS scores so the
final report reflects your latest posture.
Where this service excels
Recent scenarios our team solved
Real-world stories that mirror the way customers deploy, defend, and recover.
SaaS
Privilege escalation through mis-scoped IAM role chaining
Abused a support role with broad sts:AssumeRole trust to pivot into production accounts.
Outcome
Constrained trust policies, split roles by environment, and enabled session tagging alerts.
E-commerce
Public S3 bucket exposing PII backups
Found nightly exports copied to a legacy bucket still referenced by a data pipeline.
Outcome
Migrated backups to private storage, added automated bucket policies, and deployed object-level encryption.
Media
Serverless misuse leading to cost spikes
Created proof-of-concept that spammed unauthenticated functions causing burst scaling.
Outcome
Implemented auth at the edge, concurrency caps, and budget alarms tied to anomaly detection.
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
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.