Cloud Security

Cloud Infrastructure Security

Cloud penetration testing that finds the IAM misconfigurations and privilege escalation paths that put your entire environment at risk

Cloud breaches rarely start with a zero-day — they start with an over-permissioned role, a misconfigured service account, or a storage bucket left public. We find those paths before an attacker does and show you exactly how far they lead.

Engagement Duration

5-9 business days

Primary Outcome

A validated privilege escalation map and hardening roadmap — showing which misconfigurations represent real attacker paths to full environment compromise, and how to close them.

How This Engagement Works

Scope and Threat Modeling

Human-led

We define your attack surface, trust boundaries, and the most likely attacker goals before testing begins.

AI-Assisted Discovery

AI-assisted

Automation expands coverage and surfaces anomalous patterns worth manual attention — no finding ships without human review.

Manual Exploit Validation

Human-led

Every finding is manually reproduced and confirmed by a senior analyst before it appears in your report.

Remediation and Free Retest

Collaborative

We provide developer-ready fix guidance and retest at no additional cost after your patch window closes.

What We Commonly Uncover

01

IAM policies that chain together to grant admin access from a low-privilege starting point

02

Service accounts with cross-project permissions attackers can weaponize after compromising one service

03

Publicly exposed storage, compute, or databases that were never meant to be internet-facing

04

Logging and alerting gaps that let attackers operate in your environment undetected

Identity and Privilege Path Analysis

IAM is where cloud breaches begin. We map every privilege escalation path — role assumptions, trust policies, and permission boundaries — to find what an attacker could do with any foothold in your environment.

IAM policy and boundary effectiveness review

Role chaining and practical escalation path validation

Service identity over-permissioning analysis

Cross-account and federation trust misconfiguration testing

Configuration and Workload Hardening

Misconfigurations compound — a public bucket, a permissive role, and a weak network policy can chain together into full environment compromise. We test those combinations manually to confirm real impact.

Public exposure paths in storage, compute, and managed services

Container/orchestration posture under attacker workflows

Serverless permission and event-trigger abuse testing

Logging, alerting, and forensic visibility gap assessment

Coverage Areas

Area 01

Cloud identity fabric

Area 02

Workload exposure

Area 03

Kubernetes/control plane

Area 04

Serverless event paths

Area 05

Storage and secrets handling

Area 06

Network boundary controls

Area 07

Detection and logging

Area 08

Cross-account trust

Reporting and Retest

Privilege Path Map

Every privilege escalation route we validated, with the specific policies and trust relationships that enable it.

Exposure Inventory

A ranked inventory of exploitable misconfigurations — what's exposed, what it affects, and what an attacker could do with it.

Hardening Sequence

A remediation sequence that prioritizes by attacker impact while accounting for operational constraints.

Free Retest Validation

After you remediate, we retest to confirm privilege paths are actually closed — not just that policies changed.