Identity and privilege paths
Analyze users, roles, groups, service accounts, managed identities, permission boundaries, trust policies, federation, temporary credentials, and practical routes to privilege escalation.
AWS · AZURE · GCP · IDENTITY
Cloud Penetration Testing
Cloud penetration testing for exploitable IAM paths, public exposure, workload identities, secrets, network boundaries, and control-plane weaknesses.
EXPERT-LED · MANUAL VALIDATION
Go beyond a cloud configuration checklist
Cloud risk is usually an attack path across identities, workloads, secrets, policies, and services rather than one isolated setting. The assessment validates which combinations can expose data, expand privileges, cross account boundaries, or weaken production controls.
HOW THE TESTING FEELS IN PRACTICE
Cloud penetration testing, done by hand
Automation gives coverage. The findings that matter come from someone chaining weak controls together, questioning assumptions, and checking what a motivated attacker could reach next.
- Manual attack-path testing, not a scanner export
- Evidence you can reproduce and hand to engineering
- One retest round after remediation
ASSESSMENT COVERAGE
What the test covers
Coverage is finalized during scoping, then tested with a mix of systematic checks and manual attack-path analysis.
Public exposure and network trust
Validate internet-facing services, storage, load balancers, firewall rules, security groups, private endpoints, peering, egress, metadata access, and unintended cross-environment reachability.
Secrets and workload identity
Review secret stores, environment variables, instance profiles, workload identity, CI/CD credentials, deployment tokens, snapshots, backups, logs, and keys embedded in artifacts.
Storage and data services
Test object storage, databases, queues, analytics services, sharing policies, encryption boundaries, public links, replication, export paths, and data access through indirect identities.
Containers and orchestration
Assess cluster API exposure, RBAC, admission controls, workload isolation, image trust, service accounts, secrets, network policy, node access, and cloud-to-cluster privilege paths.
Detection and resilience
Review audit coverage, high-risk alerts, logging gaps, tamper resistance, break-glass access, key rotation, backup protection, and whether validated actions are detected.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FIRST
Penetration testing methodology
Every phase is designed to produce defensible evidence without taking unnecessary operational risk.
Scope and rules of engagement
Agree targets, environments, identities, exclusions, test windows, data handling, escalation contacts, and stop conditions before testing starts.
Architecture and threat review
Map sensitive assets, trust boundaries, data flows, likely attackers, and high-impact misuse cases so the test reflects the product rather than a generic checklist.
Systematic coverage
Use repeatable tooling and standards-aligned checks to cover the agreed surface while recording assumptions, constraints, and evidence.
Manual attack-path testing
Challenge identity, authorization, workflows, configuration, integrations, and chained weaknesses that require human context and adversarial reasoning.
Safe impact validation
Use the minimum proof required to establish exploitability. Destructive actions, persistence, and unnecessary data access stay outside scope unless separately authorized.
Report, remediation, and retest
Deliver risk context, reproduction evidence, root-cause fixes, and a stakeholder walkthrough. One retest round verifies agreed remediation.
ACTIONABLE OUTPUTS
What you receive
The report is written for two audiences: stakeholders who need a clear risk decision and engineers who need enough detail to reproduce and fix the issue.
- Executive summary and risk themes
- Scope, assumptions, exclusions, and coverage record
- Prioritized findings with evidence and reproduction steps
- Business impact and severity rationale
- Root-cause remediation guidance
- Retest status and residual-risk notes
KEEP REVIEWING YOUR CONTROLS
Security checklists for your team
COMMON SCOPING QUESTIONS
Cloud penetration testing FAQ
Is cloud penetration testing the same as a configuration review?
No. Configuration review finds control gaps. Penetration testing validates how identities, exposed services, secrets, and trust relationships can be combined into exploitable attack paths.
Which cloud providers can be assessed?
AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can be scoped, including hybrid and multi-cloud trust. The exact services and accounts are agreed before testing.
Do cloud providers allow penetration testing?
Major providers permit many common tests under their published policies, but restrictions differ by service and technique. The rules of engagement check provider requirements before testing.
Can Kubernetes be included?
Yes. Cluster exposure, RBAC, workload identities, secrets, network boundaries, admission controls, and cloud-to-cluster privilege paths can be included in a cloud scope.
CLEAR SCOPE · CONTROLLED TESTING · USEFUL REPORT
Request a Cloud penetration testing scope
Share the target, environment, roles, and objective. The service field is already selected so you can send the right context quickly.
- Written scope and assumptions before testing
- Safe rules of engagement and escalation path
- Manual validation with reproducible evidence
- Remediation walkthrough and one retest round
TELL US ABOUT YOUR SCOPE
Request a security assessment
Share a few details about the target and your goals. We will reply with the right testing approach and a clear proposal.
Protected against automated submissions. Only submit systems you own or are authorized to test. Do not include passwords, API keys, or other secrets.