Cloud Penetration Testing
Cloud penetration testing for AWS, Azure, GCP
Certified human testers chain real cloud misconfigurations into proven attack paths, then hand you a working proof-of-concept for every finding.
Cloud breaches rarely start with a zero-day. They start with an over-permissive IAM role, a public bucket, or an instance that hands out credentials over the metadata endpoint. We test your AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts the way a real attacker would: enumerate identities, map trust relationships, and chain small misconfigurations into full account or cluster compromise. Every path we find is exploited, human-validated, and signed off before it reaches your report.
What we test
Where we focus.
IAM privilege escalation
Wildcard policies, iam:PassRole, assumable roles, and escalation chains from a low-privilege identity to admin.
Over-permissive roles and trust policies
Cross-account trust, confused-deputy paths, and service roles scoped far wider than the workload needs.
Exposed storage
Public or misconfigured S3, Blob, and GCS buckets, weak ACLs, and sensitive data readable without auth.
Secrets exposure
Hardcoded keys in env vars, Lambda, CI/CD, and repos, plus reachable Secrets Manager and Key Vault entries.
Metadata SSRF and credential theft
IMDSv1 abuse and app-layer SSRF used to steal instance role credentials and pivot deeper into the account.
Network and segmentation
Permissive security groups, exposed management ports, and flat VPC or VNet peering that enables lateral movement.
Kubernetes and container security
RBAC gaps, exposed API servers, privileged pods, container escapes, and node-credential theft from EKS, AKS, and GKE.
Serverless and managed services
Event and input injection into Lambda and Functions, and over-scoped execution roles that widen the blast radius.
How it works
From scope to retest.
Scope
On a short call we agree on the accounts, subscriptions, and projects in scope, the rules of engagement, and a fixed price and timeline. You provision a read-only role or scoped credentials so testing stays controlled and auditable.
Test
We run authenticated and unauthenticated testing: enumerate identities and resources, map trust and reachability, then attempt privilege escalation and lateral movement. Every issue is exploited safely and non-destructively to prove real impact.
Report
You get each finding with a working proof-of-concept, the blast radius it unlocks, the exact policy or config fix, and a mapping to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA controls. A certified tester validates and signs off every one.
Retest
Once your team ships fixes, we retest the affected paths for free, confirm they are closed, and issue a clean letter of attestation you can share with customers and auditors.
What you get
In your report.
- ✓A findings report with a working proof-of-concept for every issue, human-validated and signed off
- ✓Attack-path narratives showing privilege escalation and lateral movement, not just a list of misconfigs
- ✓Each finding mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA controls
- ✓Prioritized remediation with the exact IAM policy and config changes to apply
- ✓A free retest and a clean letter of attestation once fixes ship
Questions
Answers, up front.
How do you get access to our cloud environment?
You provision a scoped, read-only IAM role or a set of limited credentials for the accounts in scope. We test against your real AWS, Azure, or GCP environment, or a staging replica if you prefer, and everything we do is logged and reversible.
Will testing break anything or run up our cloud bill?
No. Testing is non-destructive by design: we enumerate and exploit safely, avoid disruptive or resource-heavy actions, and coordinate with your team before anything noisy. The goal is to prove impact, not to cause an outage.
How is this different from a CSPM or cloud security scanner?
A scanner flags a misconfiguration in isolation. We chain those misconfigurations into a real attack path and exploit it, so you see what an attacker could actually reach, and a certified human confirms each finding is real before it lands in your report.
Ready to put it to the test?
Scope your cloud engagement on a short call. Fixed price, fixed timeline, and an auditor-ready report in days.
Book a scoping call →