Cloud Penetration VAPT - Cyber Security

CYBER SECURITY

Overview : Cloud Penetration Testing

This assessment’s purpose is to examine your cloud environment’s cyber security posture through simulated attacks, and to discover and exploit weaknesses in your cloud security services. Our cloud security testing approach will prioritize the most vulnerable areas of your cloud Application and give you a way to improve your cloud security services. The results of the cloud Security Testing will be used by the organization, to improve an organizations security aspect. Some examples include Amazon Web Services(AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc. A concept of shared responsibility is required for cloud penetration testing.

Methodology

The purpose of cloud security testing is to explore attack, breach, operability and recovery issues within a cloud environment. Our Cloud Testing Methodology is developed using best practices and includes some combination of automated cloud security testing tools and manual methods to discover security vulnerabilities that may threaten the security integrity of your cloud platform such as configurations flaws, excess builds etc.

Black Box

Grey Box

White Box

Attack simulating a situation where the cloud penetration testers are unfamiliar with your cloud systems and do not have access to them.

Cloud penetration testers may be given some restricted administrative rights and have some limited user and system expertise.

Access to cloud systems at the admin or root level is granted to cloud penetration testers.

Benefits

Why do organizations need Cloud Security Testing?

Potential Risks & Vulnerabilities
Incident Response Plans
Maintaining Visibility
Optimization of Security
Cost Reduction
Reliability

Our Approach

Understand the Policies

Each cloud service provider has a pentesting policy that specifies what services and testing methods are permissible and what services and testing methods are not permissible. Each cloud environment is different, so first, we should look to see which cloud services exist in the customer’s environment of the policies.

Plan for Cloud Penetration

[A]. We want to contact the customer first to decide the start and end date of the pen test. [B.] Pen testers need time to learn about the system once they get the information so they can review it - seek out its source code, software versions, possible entry points to see if any keys are released.

Select Cloud Penetration Tools

Resources for cloud pentesting should reflect a real attack. Many hackers use automated methods to find vulnerabilities, such as repeatedly trying to guess passwords, and looking for APIs that provide direct access to should closely simulate real-world cyberattacks to identify weaknesses before adversaries.

Response Analysis

Without evaluating the outcomes and responses, cloud security would mean nothing. After we have used the automated tools and followed up with manual testing, we must evaluate the responses. We must document every response. One of the steps involves utilizing our knowledge and experience with the cloud.

Eliminate the Vulnerabilities

The cloud security methodology ends with this stage. The severity and effect of vulnerabilities should be reviewed and looked into with the cloud pentesting team once all cloud tests and inspections have been completed. A final report on cloud vulnerabilities should be created with suggestions and fixes.