Cyber Security Testing
Penetration Testing for Cloud Environment
Identify vulnerabilities in your cloud environment before they can be exploited by hackers. Penetration testing safeguards your digital assets and protects your business.
What Is Cloud Penetration Testing?
Cloud Penetration Testing is an extensive security evaluation aimed at simulating real-world attacks on your cloud infrastructure and services. The objective is to proactively discover and address vulnerabilities before malicious actors can take advantage of them.
This testing process mimics the tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by actual attackers to identify weaknesses such as misconfigured storage buckets, exposed APIs, inadequate identity and access management (IAM), insecure containers, and other critical cloud security threats.
Common Security Risks in the Cloud Environment
Public Access to Sensitive Data
Cloud storage services, such as AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage, are often improperly configured, allowing public or unauthenticated access. This can result in data breaches, compliance violations, and unauthorised file manipulation.
What We Test For:
- Publicly accessible storage buckets
- Weak object permissions and ACLs
- Unencrypted stored data
- Anonymous read/write access
- Exposed environment files or credentials
Excessive Privileges Across Cloud Resources
Identity and Access Management (IAM) misconfigurations are a leading cause of cloud breaches. Broad permissions or wildcard policies can give users or services unnecessary access to critical infrastructure and sensitive data.
What We Test For:
- Wildcard actions in IAM roles or policies
- Unrestricted access to admin APIs
- Lack of least privilege enforcement
- Overprivileged service accounts
- Misconfigured cross-account roles
Internet-Accessible Without Proper Protection
Cloud services such as compute instances, databases, or APIs can be unintentionally exposed to the internet. Without proper security controls, these endpoints can be targeted for brute force attacks, data exfiltration, or exploitation.
What We Test For:
- Public IP addresses on cloud VMs or containers
- Open RDP, SSH, or database ports
Unauthenticated or weakly protected APIs - Misconfigured security groups or firewall rules
- Lack of network segmentation
Credentials Exposed in Cloud-Connected Codebases
Developers may accidentally, or if poorly managed, commit sensitive information to version control or expose it in public or internal repositories. Attackers can easily extract these secrets to gain access to cloud services.
What We Test For:
- API keys and secrets in Git history
- Hardcoded credentials in code files
- Insecure storage of secrets in CI/CD pipelines
- Tokens and environment variables in logs
- No use of secret management services