What is Cloud Penetration Testing?
Cloud Penetration Testing is an authorised simulated cyber-attack against a system that is hosted on a Cloud provider, e.g. Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft’s Azure.
The main goal of a cloud penetration test is to find the weaknesses and strengths of a applications hosted on cloud, so that its security posture can be accurately assessed and improved.
The benefits of a cloud penetration test are increased technical and security assurance, and better understanding of the attack surface that your systems are exposed to. Cloud systems, whether they are infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (SaaS), are prone to security misconfigurations, weaknesses, and security threats just as traditional systems are.
The Cloud Security Problem
Although cloud providers offer increasingly robust security controls, you are ultimately responsible for securing your company’s workloads in the cloud. According to the 2019 Cloud Security Report, the top cloud security challenges highlighted are about data loss and data privacy. This is followed by compliance concerns, tied with concerns about accidental exposure of credentials.
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We office best Cloud Configuration Review is an assessment of your Cloud configuration against the accepted best practice of industry benchmarks and a report is produced with a summary table showing the benchmarks and whether you are following the best practice, along with more details, as well as detailed explanations and remediation advice.
Cloud Penetration Testing involves a mixture of external and internal penetration testing techniques to examine the external posture of the organisation.