Cloud Penetration Testing Services
Cloud adoption – there’s no two ways about it. The question remains – Whether a cloud service model provides a safe and secure cloud environment to its users? Hire us for cloud penetration testing services and let us identify cloud security vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, and controls within your cloud computing network infrastructure.
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Why do you need Cloud Penetration Testing Services?
An authorised cyber attack simulation exercise against cloud assets hosted on a cloud provider environment.
The main objective of cloud penetration testing or cloud pentesting is to identify and mitigate security risks in cloud computing. So that the cloud security posture, strengths and security weaknesses of cloud systems can be assessed. It is composed of external (Internet-facing) and internal cloud penetration test assessments.
Cloud security infrastructure is everyone’s business.
Gartner predicts that, through 2020, 95 percent of security failures in cloud environments will be the customer’s fault.
What can't be tested in the Cloud services?
Cloud technologies or cloud system that belongs to the cloud management such as underlying cloud infrastructure, cloud providers facilities, other partners or vendors cannot be tested in cloud penetration testing. Lets get this shared responsibility model right, it simply means:
Cloud providers are responsible for security of the cloud
The tenant or organisation client is responsible for security in the cloud
Vulnerabilities identified during cloud security testing
In order to easily understand the different cloud security risks and security posture, this section provides examples with each risk mentioned below. Security risk areas remain the same, the underlying attack vector may change based on the cloud model and/or cloud platform vendors.
For instance, Amazon buckets have a history of security misconfiguration linked to S3 bucket data leakage. Azure blob storage has been the target too and subjects to Identity-based attacks. Office 365 tenancy security configuration is not in line with good security practices.
Frequently Asked Questions
Intellectual Property Theft
When it comes to intellectual property theft, cloud pen testing can be a valuable service. By identifying vulnerabilities in the system, we can help organisations to better protect their data. Intellectual property theft often occurs when hackers gain access to sensitive information, such as trade secrets or customer data.
Compliance Violations and/or Regulatory Actions
Our cloud pen-testing can help organisations identify compliance violations. By simulating an attack, we can determine how well data is protected and identify any potential weaknesses. In addition, our pen testing can also help to assess whether an organisation’s security policies are adequate.
Data Breaches
Data breach vulnerability in cloud pentesting is becoming an increasingly important issue as more businesses rely on cloud-based services. There are a number of ways in which we find data breach vulnerability in cloud pentesting, but one of the most effective is to identify data sets that are potentially vulnerable to attack. While data breach vulnerability in cloud pentesting is a serious issue, it is important to remember that reputable cloud penetration test services can be used to effectively mitigate these risks.
Insider Cloud Security Threats
Insider threats are one of the major concerns for many organisations. While most companies focus on protecting their data and applications from external attacks, insider threats can be just as damaging. After all, insiders already have access to sensitive information and systems, making it easier for them to wreak havoc. We find them during a cloud configuration review and let the oranisations know before attacks.
Credential Attacks
Credential attacks are a type of hacking where criminals try to gain access to your accounts by using your login information. These attacks can be very difficult to prevent, because they usually involve guessing or stealing passwords. However, they can be minimised by working on vulnerabilities found in cloud penetration testing.
Insecure APIs
In a cloud infrastructure review, Insecure APIs are found which may not follow the recommended security practices. This could lead to vulnerabilities in the system which could be exploited by a malicious individual. In order to mitigate this, we recommend that organisations follow the strategies put forward by our cloud penetration testers.
DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are a type of security breach that can target any type of online service. DDoS attacks work by flooding the target with requests from multiple computers, overwhelming the server and preventing legitimate users from accessing the service. DDoS attacks can cause significant disruption and downtime for organisations, which is why it’s important to be aware of DDoS attack vulnerabilities by using our cloud testing services.
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Cloud Pen Testing Services
Azure Penetration Testing
Whether you are utilising classic portal or ARM.
Our cloud security assessments can help you assess and remediate the cloud security threats.
It also detects insecure misconfiguration in storage blobs, Azure services and products.
Azure Penetration Testing
Build Configuration Review
If a cloud-based server is unhardened or weakly configured, this leaves the underlying business vulnerable, leaving itself open to loss of reputation and other implications.
Data breaches and cyber-attacks are often due to leaky S3 buckets or general misconfigurations.
Build Configuration Review
AWS Penetration Testing
These pentests include three different service areas, targeted at cloud pentest, external and internal cloud components.
Data Leakages, misconfiguration, Identity & Access Management, Networking, Logging & Monitoring are main pillars of AWS security strategy.
AWS Penetration Testing
GCP Penetration Testing
Google cloud penetration testing to meet all your GCP security demands. These cloud penetration testing services cover different cloud infrastructure such as Software as a service solutions or PaaS security risks.
Our GCP security tests help you to assess and remediate risks to keep your assets with minimal attack surface.
GCP Pen Testing
Office 365 Security Review
Cyphere Office365 Security Review includes a thorough review of your current setup against O365 risks and ensure that your setup follows Office 365 security controls around Device Management, Account Policies, App Permissions, Security Controls around authentication, exchange, auditing & storage.
O365 Security Review
SaaS Security Testing
Cyphere have the skill-set and extensive experience of working with most of the cloud service providers.
As shared cloud services concept is gaining more traction, risks of data leakage and implications are increasing with more blind spots than ever.
SaaS Security Testing
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Benefits of Cloud Pentesting Services
Cloud penetration testing gives better visibility on cloud process aligning
Cloud Penetration testing differ from other test because it ensures strong authentication, authorisation, encryption mechanisms
Secure validation of internal and third-party integrations
Performing cloud penetration testing will demonstrate data security commitment
Support ever changing regulatory/compliance requirements
Less is more – reduced costs, servers and staff
Our approach to Cloud penetration testing
1. Understanding Cloud Provider
Public cloud providers have cloud penetration testing policies that define what activities are permitted and prohibited in their environment. These policies are similar to other policies such as network stress testing and DDoS simulation testing. Examples of cloud penetration test rules of engagement can be found on cloud provider portals.
2. Creating a Pen Test Plan
Before conducting a cloud penetration test, businesses should work with security partners to create a plan that covers:
- Applications and data access to be tested.
- Network access and any relevant laws and regulations.
- The assessment approach (white, grey, or black box).
3. Vulnerability Identification Process
Constantly identifying vulnerabilities in cloud environments is very important. The right toolset, whether automated or manual, is crucial for effective cloud application security testing or security audits, both in the cloud and on-premises. A thorough requirements analysis is essential to determine the best approach.
4. Resource Risk Analysis
Correct tooling and resource usage are essential for identifying and analysing vulnerabilities. Third-party led cloud penetration testing can reveal security gaps that in-house teams may miss due to familiarity with the environment.
5. Risk Remediation
Risk remediation is an essential part of the risk management program of an organisation. We provide risk advice in our deliverables for cloud pentesting services to help the security team analyse and develop remediation plans. Cyphere can provide additional remediation consultancy due to the complexity of risk and the specific skills needed for cloud penetration testing remediation.
