Secure Your Cloud Before Misconfigurations Become Breaches
Cloud environments are complex, dynamic, and deceptively easy to misconfigure. A single overly permissive IAM policy, an exposed S3 bucket, or a misconfigured serverless function can give attackers access to your entire cloud estate. Our cloud penetration testing goes beyond automated configuration scanning to manually exploit real attack paths in your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments — demonstrating exactly how an attacker would pivot from a misconfiguration to a full compromise of your cloud infrastructure.
What we test
Our testers systematically evaluate every attack vector relevant to this assessment type.
IAM & Access Policy Analysis
Identity and Access Management is the perimeter of the cloud. We analyze IAM policies, roles, and trust relationships for privilege escalation paths — overly permissive policies, wildcard permissions, cross-account role assumption chains, service account key exposure, and conditional policy bypasses. A single misconfigured IAM role can grant an attacker administrative access to your entire cloud account.
Storage & Data Exposure
We test S3 buckets, Azure Blob Storage, and GCS for public access misconfigurations, overly broad ACLs, missing encryption, access logging gaps, and cross-account access. We enumerate storage resources to discover sensitive data exposure including database backups, application logs with credentials, customer data exports, and infrastructure-as-code files containing secrets.
Serverless & Container Security
Lambda functions, Azure Functions, and Cloud Functions introduce unique attack vectors. We test for event injection, overprivileged execution roles, insecure environment variable storage, and dependency vulnerabilities. For containerized workloads on EKS, AKS, or GKE, we test for container escape, pod-to-pod lateral movement, Kubernetes RBAC misconfiguration, and exposed dashboards or APIs.
Network Security & Segmentation
We evaluate VPC configurations, security groups, network ACLs, and routing tables for overly permissive rules that expose internal services to the internet or allow lateral movement between environments. Testing covers VPC peering misconfigurations, transit gateway route leaks, and VPN/Direct Connect security that could allow on-premises compromises to reach cloud resources.
Compute & Metadata Exploitation
We test EC2 instances, VMs, and compute resources for SSRF to instance metadata services (IMDSv1 exploitation), credential harvesting from metadata endpoints, user data scripts containing secrets, unpatched instances exposed to the internet, and SSH/RDP access with weak or default credentials. Metadata service abuse remains one of the most impactful cloud attack vectors.
Logging, Monitoring & Detection
We assess whether your cloud security monitoring would detect our attacks. This includes evaluating CloudTrail/Activity Log/Audit Log coverage, alerting rule effectiveness, GuardDuty/Defender/SCC configuration, and whether an attacker could disable logging or operate in blind spots. Effective detection is essential for limiting the impact of a cloud breach.
Our approach
A structured methodology that ensures thorough coverage and actionable results.
Scoping & Environment Mapping
We define which cloud accounts, subscriptions, and projects are in scope. We map your cloud architecture including VPCs, IAM structure, compute resources, storage, serverless functions, Kubernetes clusters, and cross-account relationships. We review your IaC templates (Terraform, CloudFormation) when available to identify misconfigurations before they reach production.
Automated & Manual Assessment
We run cloud security posture tools (Prowler, ScoutSuite, Pacu) to identify misconfigurations at scale, then manually investigate and exploit the most impactful findings. Automated scanning finds the breadth of issues; manual testing finds the exploitable attack paths that actually lead to compromise. We test from both authenticated (insider) and unauthenticated (external attacker) perspectives.
Exploitation & Privilege Escalation
We exploit identified weaknesses to demonstrate real attack paths — escalating from a low-privilege user or compromised service to administrative access, pivoting between cloud services, accessing sensitive data stores, and demonstrating the impact of each misconfiguration in the context of your specific environment and business data.
Reporting & Hardening Guidance
We deliver findings with cloud-provider-specific remediation guidance — exact IAM policy modifications, security group rule changes, Terraform/CloudFormation fixes, and architecture recommendations. Each finding includes the CLI commands or console steps needed to implement the fix and verification steps to confirm remediation.
Technologies and frameworks we use
What you receive
Executive Summary
High-level assessment of your cloud security posture with risk ratings, critical findings, and strategic recommendations for engineering leadership — contextualized for your specific cloud provider and architecture.
Technical Findings Report
Detailed documentation of every misconfiguration and vulnerability including affected resources (with ARNs/resource IDs), attack path walkthroughs, evidence screenshots, and provider-specific remediation steps with exact CLI commands and policy JSON.
Cloud Attack Path Diagrams
Visual maps showing how individual misconfigurations chain together into complete attack paths — from initial access through privilege escalation to data exfiltration — helping your team understand the systemic risks in your cloud architecture.
Infrastructure-as-Code Remediation
When IaC templates are in scope, we provide corrected Terraform modules, CloudFormation templates, or Pulumi configurations that fix identified misconfigurations at the source — preventing drift and ensuring fixes persist through future deployments.
Secure Your Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud misconfigurations are the leading cause of data breaches. Get expert penetration testing that finds the real attack paths in your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment before attackers do.