Cloud Security Testing Services
Securexocean's cloud penetration testing delivers a structured, manual-led assessment of your cloud environment, identifying misconfigurations, access control weaknesses, and exploitable vulnerabilities across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
SERVICE INTRODUCTION
Cloud infrastructure operates on a shared responsibility model. Your provider secures the underlying platform. Everything above that, including identity configuration, storage permissions, network controls, and data access policies, is your responsibility to secure and validate.
Securexocean's certified practitioners assess your cloud environment from an attacker's perspective, identifying misconfigurations, overprivileged identities, and exposed services that create real breach pathways. Engagements cover AWS, Azure, and GCP including hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, following CIS Benchmarks, CSA Cloud Controls Matrix, and NIST SP 800-144 frameworks.
THREAT LANDSCAPE
Cloud environments are dynamic. Infrastructure is provisioned quickly, permissions granted to meet deadlines, and security reviews rarely keep pace with deployment velocity. The result is an accumulation of misconfigurations that individually appear minor but collectively create significant breach exposure.
Cloud-native attack techniques including metadata service abuse, IAM privilege escalation, and cross-account trust exploitation are not detected by traditional network security tooling and require cloud-specific methodology to identify.
WHAT WE IDENTIFY AND VALIDATE
Publicly accessible storage buckets and blob containers exposing sensitive data
Overprivileged IAM roles and service accounts with excessive permissions
Unrestricted security group rules permitting unauthorized inbound access
Instance metadata service exposure enabling credential theft from compute instances
Insecure serverless function configurations with exposed triggers and excessive permissions
Container and Kubernetes cluster misconfigurations enabling unauthorized workload access
Absent or misconfigured logging and monitoring across cloud services
Cross-account trust misconfigurations enabling lateral movement between accounts
Hardcoded credentials in environment variables, user data scripts, and repositories
Insecure API gateway configurations exposing backend services without authentication
Cloud platform coverage, account scope, and service boundaries defined. Written authorization obtained before testing begins. NDA executed prior to credential or architecture sharing.
Enumeration of compute instances, storage resources, IAM entities, network configurations, serverless functions, and managed services within defined scope.
Assessment of IAM policies, resource permissions, network access controls, encryption configurations, and logging coverage against CIS Benchmarks and provider security best practices.
Manual exploitation of identified misconfigurations confirming real-world impact. Privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data access scenarios validated where rules of engagement permit.
Severity-prioritized report with exploitation evidence and cloud-specific remediation guidance. Walkthrough conducted with your cloud and security teams. Post-remediation retesting and closure report issued.
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Our team uses cloud provider native assessment tools, infrastructure enumeration frameworks, IAM privilege escalation testing utilities, container and Kubernetes security tools, secrets scanning utilities, and configuration benchmark assessment platforms. All automated findings are manually reviewed before inclusion in the report.
Executive summary covering cloud security posture for CISO and leadership stakeholders
Technical findings with CVSS v3.1 scores, exploitation evidence, and reproduction steps
Cloud provider-specific remediation guidance for AWS, Azure, or GCP
Compliance mapping against CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
IAM and access control findings with role-level remediation recommendations
Post-remediation retest report for audit submission
BUSINESS IMPACT
A misconfigured storage bucket or overprivileged service account can expose customer data and internal credentials without triggering a single security alert. Beyond direct breach costs, cloud security failures carry regulatory notification obligations, contractual liability, and reputational damage that persists long after technical remediation. Cloud penetration testing converts unknown configuration risk into a prioritized remediation backlog before exposure becomes a breach.
COMPLIANCE RELEVANCE
Controls A.8.8 and A.8.23 require vulnerability management and access controls applicable to cloud service configurations.
Security and Availability criteria require documented vulnerability identification and access control validation across cloud infrastructure serving customer data.
Requirements 11.3 and 11.4 mandate penetration testing of cloud environments within cardholder data scope.
Technical Safeguard requirements apply to cloud infrastructure storing or processing electronic protected health information.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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