CLOUD / VAPT

CloudPenetrationTesting

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

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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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