Cloud Penetration Testing

Cloud environments change the security equation fundamentally. The perimeter you used to defend with firewalls is now a set of IAM policies. The servers you used to harden manually are now infrastructure-as-code templates. The storage you used to lock down physically is now an S3 bucket that might be one misconfigured policy away from public access. Misconfigurations — not sophisticated zero-day exploits — cause the overwhelming majority of cloud breaches. Our Cloud Penetration Testing identifies exploitable weaknesses across your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments by combining configuration review with active exploitation to show you exactly what an attacker can reach. IAM is the cloud perimeter. We test for overpermissioned roles, privilege escalation through IAM policy chaining, cross-account role assumption abuse, and service-linked role exploitation. In AWS alone, there are dozens of documented privilege escalation paths through IAM — most of which don't appear in standard configuration audits. We enumerate and test instance profiles, managed identities, and service accounts for exploitation opportunities that would give an attacker elevated access. Storage security testing covers S3 buckets, Azure Blob Storage, and GCP Cloud Storage for public exposure, misconfigured access policies, and cross-account access. We specifically look for sensitive data in storage — database backups, log files containing credentials, customer data, and infrastructure secrets — that shouldn't be accessible. Container and Kubernetes testing covers Docker image vulnerabilities, container escape techniques, Kubernetes RBAC misconfigurations, pod security standard violations, secrets management practices, network policy enforcement, and service mesh security. We test whether a compromised container can reach other workloads, access the node's metadata service, or escape to the underlying host. Serverless function testing evaluates Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloud Functions for event injection, excessive function permissions, environment variable exposure, and function chaining attacks that can escalate privileges through seemingly innocuous automation. Cloud network architecture testing evaluates VPC/VNet design, security groups, network ACLs, peering connections, and transit gateway configurations. We verify that network controls properly isolate sensitive workloads and that traffic between services follows least-privilege principles. All testing follows safe engagement rules coordinated with your cloud team. We operate within defined boundaries, never delete resources or modify production data, and report critical findings immediately.