About Cloud Penetration Testing

Cloud penetration testing to identify and validate real risks across services, identities, configurations, and integrations.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you perform both vulnerability assessment and penetration testing?

Yes. The engagement includes identifying potential weaknesses and validating whether they can be exploited in practice.

Which cloud platforms do you support?

Testing can be performed across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Do you require access to cloud accounts?

Yes. Appropriate access is required to simulate internal attack scenarios and assess configurations.

Do you test both external and internal cloud attack scenarios?

Yes. Testing can include exposed services as well as scenarios based on compromised identities, depending on the defined scope.

Do you assess identity and access management configurations?

Yes. Testing includes IAM roles, permissions, service accounts, and access control mechanisms.

What is included in the testing scope?

Scope typically includes cloud resources, identities, configurations, and service interactions. Final scope is defined during engagement setup.

Do you provide retesting after fixes are implemented?

Yes. Retesting is included as part of the engagement to verify that identified issues have been properly resolved and are no longer exploitable.

What will be delivered at the end of the engagement?

A report with validated findings, including reproduction steps, impact, remediation guidance, and mappings to standards such as CWE, CVSS, OWASP, and CVE where applicable.

CLOUD / VAPT

Cloud Penetration Testing

Cloud Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) to identify and validate real security risks across cloud services, identities, configurations, and integrations.

IAM // EXPOSURE // BLAST RADIUS // VISIBILITY // IAM // EXPOSURE // BLAST RADIUS // VISIBILITY

Service Overview

Cloud Penetration Testing focuses on identifying weaknesses in how cloud environments are configured, how identities are managed, and how services interact across the environment.

The assessment evaluates how cloud resources are exposed, how permissions are assigned and enforced, and how trust is established between services. This includes testing how identities can be abused, how misconfigurations expose data or functionality, and how attackers can move across services once access is obtained.

The objective is to determine how cloud environments can be exploited, how access can be expanded, and how sensitive data or critical services can be impacted. Findings are validated to ensure they represent real and actionable risk.

Attack Path Validation

From misconfiguration to environment-wide access

Weaknesses are assessed across cloud identities, services, and configurations, focusing on how issues such as excessive permissions, exposed resources, or weak trust relationships can be combined to escalate privileges, move across services, and access sensitive data.

Benefits

Clear visibility into cloud risk

Identifies how resources, identities, and services are exposed.

Focus on what matters most

Highlights the issues that create the highest impact across the environment.

Confirmed impact across cloud services

Shows how weaknesses can affect multiple services, integrations, and trust relationships.

Accurate understanding of environment exposure

Reflects how the cloud environment behaves under actual access and abuse scenarios.

Why Choose VulnXperts

What We Test

A structured review of how cloud resources, identities, and services behave across configurations and interactions to identify conditions that lead to unintended access or exposure.

How we approach testing

Testing begins with understanding the cloud environment structure and identity model, then focuses on how access can be abused, expanded, and used to move across services under real conditions.

Cloud asset discovery and attack surface mapping (public services, endpoints, exposed resources)
External attack surface (public IPs, load balancers, serverless endpoints, APIs)
Internal attack scenarios from compromised cloud identities (IAM users, roles, service accounts)
Identity and access management (privilege escalation, role assumption, excessive permissions)
Misconfigured access policies (IAM, RBAC, service account permissions)
Credential exposure and abuse (access keys, tokens, metadata service access)
Cloud metadata service exploitation (instance metadata, token retrieval)
Storage service exposure (S3, Blob, Cloud Storage, object access and enumeration)
Serverless function behavior (Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Functions, event abuse)
Container and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, GKE)
Virtual machines and lateral movement (VM-to-VM pivoting)
Network segmentation and isolation (VPC, VNet, firewall rules, security groups)
Cloud control plane and management interface exposure
API usage within cloud services and service-to-service trust
Third-party integrations and trust boundaries across services
Secrets management (Key Vault, Secrets Manager, environment variables)
Data exposure across storage, logs, backups, and snapshots
Backup and snapshot access (machine images, disks, stored backups)
Logging and monitoring gaps (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Logging)
Default configurations and legacy service exposure
Event-driven services (SQS, SNS, Pub/Sub, Event Grid)
Cross-account or cross-project access and trust relationships
Rate limiting and abuse of cloud APIs
Resource abuse scenarios within permitted scope

FAQs

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Tell us what needs to be tested. We will define scope, coverage, and approach based on your cloud environment.

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