Cyber Security Testing
Cloud Penetration Testing
AWS, Azure and GCP configuration review, IAM privilege analysis and cloud-native exploitation.
Every engagement includes manual validation, a two audience report and free re-testing.
Get a scoped quote+91 96682 00222What this actually is
Cloud breaches are rarely exploits. They are configurations: a storage bucket left readable, a role with wildcard permissions, a metadata endpoint reachable from an application that accepts URLs.
We test AWS, Azure and GCP environments from both angles. From outside, what can an anonymous attacker reach. From inside, what can a compromised workload or a low-privilege identity actually do.
Identity is usually where it gets uncomfortable. Most cloud estates have accumulated roles that nobody would grant today, and the path from a minor foothold to full account control is often shorter than anyone expects.
What we go after
- IAM role, policy and trust relationship analysis
- Privilege escalation paths within and across accounts
- Storage, database and secrets exposure
- Network and security group configuration
- Container, Kubernetes and serverless workload security
- Metadata service and SSRF exposure
- Logging, monitoring and detection coverage
How we run it
- 01
Scope and authorise
Targets, testing windows, escalation contacts and safety limits, all agreed in writing before anyone touches anything.
- 02
Map the surface
We enumerate what is actually exposed, which is usually more than the asset register says.
- 03
Test by hand
Tooling gives coverage, our engineers give proof. Every finding is reproduced before it is written down.
- 04
Report
An executive narrative your board can act on, and a technical annexe with the exact request, payload and fix.
- 05
Re-test and sign off
Once you have fixed it we verify each one at no extra cost, then close the engagement properly.
What you receive
- Configuration findings with exact remediation
- Identity privilege escalation path analysis
- Cloud posture benchmark against CIS
- Detection gap assessment
- Prioritised hardening plan
Who needs this
Any organisation running production workloads in public cloud, particularly after a migration or a period of rapid growth.
How long it takes
One to three weeks depending on account count and workload complexity.
Standards this satisfies
- CIS Benchmarks
- ISO 27017
- SOC 2
- CERT-In
- PCI DSS
Why it matters
Cloud breaches are rarely a broken hypervisor. They are an over-permissive role, a storage bucket left readable, or a workload that can reach the metadata service and mint credentials. The provider secures the infrastructure; everything you configured on top is yours.
The shared responsibility model is where most organisations get caught. Your provider's certification covers their layer. It says nothing about the identity policy somebody wrote last quarter.
Choose the depth you actually need
Most of the price difference between quotes comes down to this one choice, and it is rarely explained. Pick one to see what it covers, what it suits and what it costs you.
You give us working accounts at each privilege level and a short walkthrough. We then test what a real attacker reaches after the first stolen password, which is where the findings that matter almost always live. This is what we recommend for most engagements.
Choose this when
- Any application with authenticated functionality
- Multi-tenant products, where tenant isolation is the real risk
- Getting the most findings for the money
Effort and cost
Moderate effort and by far the best coverage per rupee. Most of the serious findings we report come out of authenticated testing rather than unauthenticated.
Assessed against CIS Benchmarks and provider guidance
Cloud configuration is assessed against the CIS Benchmark for your provider and the provider's own security guidance, so every finding references a published control rather than our preference.
Scope it yourself, before you call anyone
Answer a few questions and you get an indicative number, the working behind it and what your answers tell us. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type reaches us.
What needs testing?
Pick everything in scope. Effort is driven by unique functionality, not by how many IP addresses you own.
What we look for, and keep finding
These are the classes of problem this work exists to surface. Not every engagement finds all of them, but these are the ones that turn up often enough to be worth naming.
Over-permissive identity and access policy
The defining cloud weakness. Wildcard permissions, roles that can escalate themselves, and service accounts with far more than the workload needs. We map who can become whom, which is the question that matters.
Publicly reachable storage and data services
Buckets, snapshots and managed databases exposed by a policy nobody reviewed. Often it is not the primary store but a backup or an export copy.
Metadata service and workload escape
Server side request forgery reaching the instance metadata service is still one of the most reliable routes to cloud credentials. We test for it specifically on anything that fetches a URL.
Container and orchestration weaknesses
Privileged containers, exposed control plane APIs, secrets held in environment variables and workloads sharing a namespace that should not.
Logging blind spots
Regions with no trail enabled, log destinations an attacker can write to, and retention shorter than the regulatory duty. We check whether the evidence would exist after an incident, not just whether logging is switched on.
Who runs your engagement
A senior tester, named before you sign
Testing is led by an engineer holding OSCP, CREST or equivalent, and you are told who it is before the engagement starts. They write the report themselves rather than handing notes to someone else, and they are on the call when findings are walked through. If the person changes, we tell you why.
Questions we get asked
Do we need cloud provider approval?
For the major providers, standard penetration testing of your own resources no longer requires prior approval, though some activities still do. We confirm the current position for your provider before we start.
Is this different from a CSPM tool?
Yes. A posture tool tells you a policy is permissive. We tell you that this specific permissive policy, combined with that application flaw, lets an anonymous user read your production database, and we show you the steps.
Often scoped alongside
- Web Application Security TestingOWASP-aligned manual and automated testing of web applications, with validated proof-of-concept for every finding.Read more
- Mobile Apps Security TestingAndroid and iOS binary, runtime and API-layer assessment against OWASP MASVS.Read more
- Network Penetration TestingInternal and external network exploitation, lateral movement and privilege escalation testing.Read more
- API Security TestingAuthentication, authorisation, rate-limiting and business-logic testing across REST, GraphQL and gRPC.Read more
Ready to scope your cloud penetration testing?
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, and you leave with a written scope and indicative effort.