Cloud environments introduce unique security challenges, requiring a tailored approach to penetration testing. Our cloud penetration testing services identify vulnerabilities in cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and configurations to prevent data breaches.
Cloud applications rely on APIs, microservices, and serverless functions, which need specialised security assessments.
A proactive security approach includes realistic attack simulations to uncover weaknesses before attackers do.
Ensuring compliance with industry regulations is a critical aspect of cloud security.
Cloud penetration testing is an authorised, simulated attack against your cloud environment - including infrastructure, applications, identity and access management (IAM), containers, and serverless functions - to identify vulnerabilities specific to cloud architectures.
Unlike traditional infrastructure testing, cloud pen testing focuses on the misconfigurations, over-permissioned roles, exposed services, and architectural flaws that account for the majority of real-world cloud breaches - not just OS-level CVEs.
Yes - all three major cloud providers permit customer-authorised penetration testing of their environments, subject to specific rules. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each publish acceptable use policies that define what customers can and cannot test, what notifications (if any) are required, and which services are off-limits.
Our team scopes every cloud engagement in line with each provider's current policy so testing is fully authorised and doesn't trigger platform-side abuse detection or service disruption.
A cloud security assessment (typically CSPM-driven) reviews your cloud configuration against benchmarks like the CIS Foundations Benchmark, ACSC guidance, or the Well-Architected Framework - it identifies misconfigurations against a known standard.
A cloud penetration test goes further, actively exploiting those misconfigurations to prove impact, chaining findings together to demonstrate real attack paths, and testing business logic scenarios like tenant isolation and privilege escalation.
Assessments tell you what's wrong; penetration tests prove what an attacker could actually do with it.
Yes - modern cloud pen testing has to. Containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, AKS, GKE) and serverless functions (Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions) introduce an attack surface that traditional infrastructure testing misses entirely.
Our team tests container escape paths, misconfigured pod security policies, exposed Kubernetes APIs, over-permissioned service accounts, insecure serverless triggers, and IAM role abuse across container and serverless workloads - mapped against relevant benchmarks including the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark and the OWASP Serverless Top 10.
The recurring findings across our cloud engagements include publicly exposed storage buckets and databases, over-permissioned IAM roles allowing privilege escalation, misconfigured network security groups exposing internal services, unrotated or hardcoded access keys, insecure Terraform or CloudFormation templates baking misconfigurations into every deployment, and gaps in logging and monitoring that would prevent detection of a real attack.
These aren't unusual - they're the same failure modes behind most publicly reported cloud breaches.
PCI DSS explicitly requires penetration testing of cloud environments that store, process, or transmit cardholder data. ISO27001 requires periodic technical vulnerability testing, including cloud infrastructure under Clause A.12.6.1. APRA CPS 234 requires regulated entities to test the effectiveness of information security controls, including those in cloud environments. SOC 2 examinations frequently rely on penetration testing evidence for the security trust services criterion.
Our team maps every cloud engagement to your specific applicable frameworks so the report supports certification or audit evidence directly.
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