Cloud Penetration Testing

In today's multi-cloud era, the expansion of public and hybrid cloud usage brings increased pressures for businesses to address cloud threats swiftly. Protecting cloud-based workloads demands secure practices throughout the application lifecycle and cloud infrastructure management.

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Know what your business is up against

In today’s business landscape, reliance on cloud-based systems for critical operational data is common. However, perceiving cloud environments as inherently secure is a misconception. Their remote nature can heighten vulnerability to cyber threats. It's crucial to ensure the robustness and security of your cloud infrastructures, with a clear understanding of your provider's shared responsibility model.

Cloud penetration testing simulates authorized cyber-attacks on various components of your cloud infrastructure and platforms. It aims to assess the detection and response capabilities of your organization's people, processes, and technology while identifying vulnerabilities in the cloud environment.

Through meticulous analysis, a red team exercise reveals areas where additional investments in controls, personnel, or processes may be necessary to mitigate risks effectively. Furthermore, it emphasizes the potential business impact of exposures in your systems, networks, and processes.

Proactive in nature, cloud penetration testing serves to uncover both weaknesses and strengths within your system, providing a comprehensive assessment of its security posture. This practice plays a pivotal role in enhancing your cybersecurity measures and safeguarding valuable assets.

Empowering your defense

Organizations have spent years building security solutions to secure their internal networks, but as assets, data, and customer engagement move externally, the challenge now is how to protect the assets you own on networks you don’t.

Discover, Prevent, and Remediate

Minimize points of failure across technology, people, and processes before a malicious actor does. By emulating malicious adversaries, we provide detailed guidance for remediation of cybersecurity weak points. We help your organization to be better protected and less vulnerable to attacks.

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Benefits of cloud testing assessments

Cloud penetration testing offers invaluable benefits, including heightened technical assurance and a deeper understanding of your system's attack surface. Whether your cloud systems fall under infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (SaaS), they are susceptible to security misconfigurations and threats akin to traditional systems.

Genosec Cloud Security Services equips you to combat advanced attacks on your cloud resources, effectively respond to breaches, and elevate the security posture of your cloud infrastructure and platforms.

Our cloud penetration testing services meticulously assess the configurations of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure environments, benchmarked against best practice standards. Employing techniques akin to those used by real-world threat actors, we conduct safe yet thorough attempts to exploit identified vulnerabilities, confirming their potential to lead to a breach.

UNCOVER CRITICAL MISCONFIGURATIONS

Our cloud penetration testing services meticulously identify exploitable conditions and misconfigurations within core cloud services. By pinpointing vulnerabilities, we mitigate the risk of privilege escalation or unauthorized access to sensitive data, fortifying your cloud infrastructure against potential breaches.

UNCOVER INSECURE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES

Genosec helps unearth insecure application development practices within DevOps workflows. From the sharing of secrets like privileged credentials and API/SSH keys to other vulnerabilities, we shed light on areas that pose security and compliance risks to your organization, allowing you to rectify them promptly.

STRENGTHEN HYBRID CLOUD SECURITY

Identifying and remediating vulnerabilities crucially prevents potential attackers from pivoting between cloud environments and on-premises systems. By fortifying hybrid cloud security, we reduce risk and ensure uninterrupted business continuity, safeguarding your digital assets effectively.

SATISFY COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS

Benefit from our extensive experience in conducting tests to meet stringent compliance standards, including PCI DSS. Our seasoned experts are equipped to define and execute test plans that align with complex compliance needs, providing peace of mind.

Approach and Methodology

At Genosec, our cloud penetration testing goes beyond the surface to provide comprehensive security assessments for cloud-based systems and applications. We collaborate closely with cloud providers and third-party vendors to design and execute rigorous testing methodologies tailored to your unique environment.

Our approach begins with a deep dive into your cloud deployment, meticulously validating its security posture while identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities. Leveraging our technical expertise and bespoke solutions, we equip you with the knowledge and best practices needed to fortify your cloud security posture effectively.

With Genosec's assistance, you can navigate the complexities of the cloud environment with confidence. Our goal is to instill peace of mind as you transition your applications and services to the digital realm, ensuring that your data security and risk management strategies are robust and resilient against evolving cybersecurity threats.

In the initial phase, Genosec’s experts collaborate closely with clients to comprehend the business objectives of their cloud environment, including its architectural design and planned modifications.
During the information-gathering phase, our penetration testers employ cutting-edge intelligence gathering techniques to uncover critical security and technical details pertaining to the cloud environment and the targeted applications.
Drawing upon their offensive security expertise, our penetration testers meticulously analyze the cloud infrastructure, identifying misconfigurations and discrepancies compared to the ideal architecture. They evaluate potential attack chains to assess the system's resilience against sophisticated threats.
Upon identifying vulnerabilities, our experts develop and execute a meticulous plan to exploit them safely, ensuring minimal disruption and damage to the environment.
Following the completion of the cloud security testing, our penetration tester experts compile comprehensive findings and deliver prioritized remediation guidance to effectively address any identified exposures, safeguarding the integrity of the cloud environment.