What is Cloud Penetration Testing?

Cloud penetration testing looks for mistakes in your cloud settings, such as overly broad permissions and exposed storage. That is where breaches often start.

We test AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, including hybrid setups. An ethical hacker validates every finding.

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Example finding from a pentest reportSEC-018

High risk

A storage folder with customer documents is open to anyone with the link

Impact: Invoices and contracts can be downloaded without logging in.
Fix first: Make the folder private and check who has already had access.

Validated by an ethical hackerRetest included

What does the cloud pentest scope include?

AWS, Azure, and GCP configuration review

IAM roles, policies, and permission boundaries

Storage bucket and blob exposure (S3, Azure Blob, GCS)

Secrets management and exposed credentials

Serverless functions (Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run)

Container and Kubernetes security (EKS, AKS, GKE)

Network segmentation and security group rules

Logging, monitoring, and detection gaps

How do we approach a cloud pentest?

Configuration Review

We map your cloud environment and assess configurations against current attack patterns. This covers IAM policies, network rules, default settings, and any configuration drift from secure baselines.

IAM and Privilege Analysis

We analyse roles, permissions, and trust relationships to identify paths for privilege escalation. Over-permissioned service accounts and role chaining are among the most frequently exploited weaknesses in cloud environments.

Attack Path Validation

Identified misconfigurations are validated to determine whether they are exploitable in your environment. We chain findings into realistic attack paths and show what an attacker could actually reach.

How does a cloud pentest work?

Scope and mapping

We agree on the cloud environment, services and scoped access, then map your architecture and attack surface before active testing begins.

Configuration and IAM testing

We assess misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and privilege escalation paths across your cloud environment.

Attack path validation

We chain findings and validate exploitability to give you accurate severity ratings, not theoretical risk scores.

Report and remediate

Clear report with evidence and prioritized fixes. The retest after your fixes is included.

Frequently asked questions

We test cloud configurations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM roles and policies, storage bucket exposure, secrets management, serverless functions, container security, and network segmentation. The scope is agreed upfront based on your environment.

Not necessarily. We can work with read-only access and scoped test accounts in most cases. The exact access depends on what we agree to test and whether active exploitation is in scope.

A scan flags known CVEs against a list. A cloud pentest goes further: we chain misconfigurations, test privilege escalation paths, and validate whether a finding is exploitable in your specific environment. Every finding is human-validated.

An executive summary, a technical report with evidence, severity ratings, and prioritized fixes. After your fixes, we retest to confirm the issues are resolved. The retest is included.

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