Cloud Penetration Testing

Cloud penetration testing is the delivery of IT resources over the Internet with the pay-as-you-go principle. We can access lots of technology services such as computing power, storage, and databases instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers. As we know, there are lots of popular cloud computing providers such as AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle that we rely on every day for our workloads. As the popularity of cloud services increases, attackers focus on cloud services and cloud vulnerabilities. Attackers use sustained attacks against managed cloud service providers and their customers. If companies use cloud technologies, they need to make sure they are secure. At this point, they need cloud penetration testing. Cloud penetration testing is an attack simulation performed to find vulnerabilities that can be exploited or misconfigurations in a cloud-based system. With cloud security assessment, companies learn about the strengths and weaknesses of their cloud system to improve its overall security posture.

Accedere’s experts provide expert advice on the implementation of security controls for cloud-based solutions and test and audit services to demonstrate the efficacy of the controls. The cloud security testing methodology is based upon best practices as established and defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Cloud Security Project guidelines.

Our expert test team uses both automated cloud security testing tools and manual techniques to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities that may threaten the cloud platform's security integrity. Typical issues identified include misconfiguration errors, unnecessary services, missing critical security patches and server build and application code errors.