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Cloud Penetration Testing

AWS, Azure and GCP identity, configuration and workload security.

Cloud security assessment across identity and access management, configuration, workload exposure and tenant boundaries in AWS, Azure and GCP.

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Typical timeline
Typically 2–3 weeks per cloud environment
Business benefit
Turn cloud sprawl into a mapped, prioritised and controlled attack surface.
Industries
Banking & Financial ServicesHealthcareE-CommerceIT & Cloud ServicesGovernmentManufacturing

Overview

What Cloud Penetration Testing covers

In cloud environments identity is the perimeter. Most serious cloud incidents come from permission chains and exposed storage rather than software exploits.

We combine configuration analysis with adversarial privilege escalation testing inside your tenant.

The problem we solve

Rapid cloud adoption creates over-permissive roles, public storage and forgotten workloads that no single team owns end to end.

Scope & outcomes

What we test and what you receive

Scope coverage

  • IAM roles, policies and privilege escalation chains
  • Public storage and data exposure
  • Network, security group and perimeter configuration
  • Serverless functions and event-driven trust
  • Container and managed Kubernetes services
  • Secrets and key management
  • Logging, monitoring and detection coverage
  • Multi-account and tenant boundary validation

Key benefits

  • Least-privilege identity model with evidence
  • Elimination of publicly exposed data stores
  • Improved cloud detection coverage
  • Prioritised roadmap aligned to provider best practice

Deliverables

  • Executive summary written for business stakeholders
  • Technical findings with severity, CVSS and reproduction steps
  • Evidence: requests, responses, screenshots and payloads
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap
  • Remediation support session with your engineers
  • Re-test report and closure statement

Methodology

Our assessment process

  1. 01

    Scoping and rules of engagement

  2. 02

    Reconnaissance and asset mapping

  3. 03

    Threat modeling against business context

  4. 04

    Automated scanning and coverage checks

  5. 05

    Manual exploitation and chained attack paths

  6. 06

    Impact validation and evidence capture

  7. 07

    Risk analysis and prioritisation

  8. 08

    Reporting, debrief and remediation support

  9. 09

    Re-testing of fixed findings

Tooling

Tools and techniques

Tooling supports expert manual testing — it never replaces it.

Cloud configuration and posture analysis
IAM policy graph and escalation path analysis
Provider APIs for enumeration
Manual exploitation within authorised boundaries

FAQ

Cloud Penetration Testing questions

Major providers permit customer-initiated testing of your own resources within their published rules. We confirm applicable restrictions during scoping.

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Ready to scope Cloud Penetration Testing?

Talk to our offensive security team about scoping an assessment around your actual risk, stack and timelines.

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