Offensive Security
Cloud Penetration Testing
Assessment of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud environments, aligned to shared-responsibility models and provider testing policies, to surface misconfigurations and identity weaknesses, under written authorization.
Overview
Cloud penetration testing evaluates how your cloud environment is configured, secured, and accessed. It answers whether misconfigured services, over-permissive identities, or exposed resources would allow an attacker to reach sensitive data or workloads in your accounts and subscriptions.
Testing respects the shared-responsibility model and the penetration-testing policies of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, focusing on what the customer controls. Scope can include identity and access management, storage exposure, network configuration, secrets handling, and workload hardening across the provider services you use.
Benefits
- Identifies misconfigurations and public exposure across storage, compute, and network services.
- Reviews identity and access management for over-permissive roles and privilege escalation paths.
- Respects provider penetration-testing policies and the shared-responsibility model to keep testing safe and authorized.
- Delivers remediation guidance tailored to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud native controls.
Methodology
- 01
Scoping and Authorization
Agree in-scope accounts, services, and rules of engagement, confirm provider testing policy requirements, and obtain written authorization.
- 02
Configuration Review
Assess cloud services against provider hardening guidance and the customer side of the shared-responsibility model.
- 03
Identity and Access Analysis
Examine roles, policies, and trust relationships for over-permissive access and privilege escalation paths.
- 04
Exploitation
Safely demonstrate impact from misconfigurations or excessive permissions, such as access to storage or secrets.
- 05
Workload and Network Testing
Review network exposure, workload hardening, and logging across the provider services in scope.
- 06
Reporting and Retesting
Provide prioritized, provider-specific remediation guidance and validate fixes through retesting.
Deliverables
- 01Executive Summary
- 02Technical Findings
- 03Risk Ratings
- 04Proof of Concept
- 05Remediation Recommendations
- 06Final Report
- 07Retesting Validation Report
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