Cloud penetration testing simulates authorised attacker behaviour against cloud-hosted workloads, identities and control planes to validate exploitable risk. It is designed for organisations that need adversarial testing beyond configuration review, particularly after major cloud changes or before high-impact services go live.
The purpose is to validate realistic attack paths safely and convert technical weaknesses into remediation priorities.
The exact boundaries are settled before the engagement begins. Depending on the objective, environment and authorised access, the engagement may cover:
Review cloud-provider testing rules, tenancy, assets, exclusions and emergency contacts.
Identify control-plane relationships, services, workloads and trust paths.
Select realistic paths relevant to the customer’s architecture and data.
Validate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations without exceeding agreed impact limits.
Explain attack chains, evidence, remediation and optional retest results.
Reports serve decision-makers and implementation teams alike. Depending on scope, they may include:
Тesting is governed by written authorisation, explicit exclusions, safety limits and emergency contacts. Material findings are manually validated, supported with reproducible evidence and explained in terms of realistic impact rather than scanner severity alone.
The engagement may draw on cloud-provider penetration-testing policies, MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud, OWASP guidance where applications are included, NIST technical guidance. Naming a framework indicates our approach; it does not constitute certification, accreditation or a regulatory decision.
Duration is agreed after scoping and depends on environment size, available evidence and stakeholder availability.
Cloud penetration testing must follow both customer authority and provider rules. It is not the same as a broad cloud posture assessment and does not include denial-of-service, other tenants or unmanaged third-party services unless expressly authorised.
Discuss Cloud Penetration Testing with us. We start with a scoping conversation to fix the objective, limits, evidence, delivery model and deliverables ahead of any proposal.
The exact boundaries are settled before the engagement begins. Typical areas include authorised AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud projects and subscriptions, Cloud identities, roles, policies and trust relationships, Public endpoints, compute, storage, databases and serverless services, and Metadata services, secrets and temporary credentials. Scope limits, access needs, client responsibilities and acceptance criteria are captured in the proposal and SoW.
Deliverables depend on the agreed objective and may include cloud penetration-testing plan and rules of engagement, Attack-path and privilege-escalation findings, Evidence linked to affected cloud resources and identities, and Business-impact and blast-radius analysis. Findings are traceable to evidence, impact, priority and the person responsible for acting.
Authorised testing can create risk if it is poorly controlled. Cyber Tech Group agrees testing windows, prohibited techniques, stop conditions and emergency contacts before work begins, and uses higher-risk techniques only with explicit approval.
Retesting can be included in the initial scope or ordered after remediation. It validates the previously confirmed findings and closely related bypass conditions; it is not automatically a complete new assessment.
Duration is agreed after scoping and depends on environment size, available evidence and stakeholder availability.
Cloud penetration testing must follow both customer authority and provider rules. It is not the same as a broad cloud posture assessment and does not include denial-of-service, other tenants or unmanaged third-party services unless expressly authorised.
