Center of Excellence Security - Cloud Penetration Testing

Our Cloud Penetration Testing service identifies vulnerabilities through real-world attack simulations, assessing IAM configurations, network settings, and application security.

Fortify Your Cloud

Cloud Penetration Testing at COE Security

At COE Security, our Cloud Penetration Testing service is designed to help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities within their cloud environments. As more businesses move their infrastructure and applications to the cloud, securing cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others has become essential. While cloud providers offer built-in security features, the responsibility for configuring and maintaining secure cloud environments remains with the organization.

Cloud environments introduce unique challenges and attack vectors, including misconfigurations, insecure access controls, and potential data leakage. Our cloud penetration testing service helps identify these vulnerabilities by simulating real-world attacks, assessing your cloud infrastructure, applications, and services for weaknesses that could be exploited by cybercriminals.

With COE Security’s Cloud Penetration Testing, you gain deep insights into your cloud security posture, helping to reduce your risk of exposure and ensure that your cloud assets are properly protected.

Our Approach

Define the Scope and Objectives: Establish the scope of testing, identifying which cloud resources, services, and infrastructures will be assessed, and outline the objectives of the penetration test.
Gather Cloud Environment Information: Collect detailed information about the cloud architecture, such as services used, network configurations, user access control, and any integrations with third-party tools or services.
Review Security Configurations: Assess existing cloud security configurations, including firewalls, IAM roles, encryption protocols, and network segmentation, to identify potential weaknesses.
Conduct Reconnaissance: Perform reconnaissance to identify publicly accessible resources, exposed APIs, and other potential attack vectors within the cloud environment.
Vulnerability Scanning and Identification: Utilize automated tools to scan for common vulnerabilities in the cloud infrastructure, such as open ports, misconfigured permissions, and insecure configurations.

Manual Testing for Exploits: Perform manual testing to exploit identified vulnerabilities and verify their impact on cloud resources, ensuring a deeper level of assessment beyond automated scanning.
Test for Cloud-Specific Weaknesses: Evaluate cloud-specific risks, such as insecure serverless functions, misconfigured cloud storage, and poorly configured security groups that could expose sensitive data.
Assess Access Control and Authentication: Test identity and access management systems, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), role-based access control (RBAC), and credential storage for weaknesses.
Generate Detailed Findings and Reports: Document vulnerabilities discovered, attack vectors used, and the impact of each risk, along with clear remediation steps for addressing these vulnerabilities.
Follow-Up Remediation and Retesting: After remediation actions are taken, conduct follow-up tests to ensure that vulnerabilities have been resolved and the cloud environment is secure.

IAM Testing

Security Group Config

API Endpoints

Data Encryption Practices

Logging and Monitoring

Cloud Penetration Testing Process

Our established methodology delivers comprehensive testing and actionable recommendations.

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Threat Model

Passive/Active Testing

Exploitation

Reporting

Why Choose COE Security’s Cloud Penetration Testing?

In-Depth Cloud Security Expertise: Our team possesses specialized knowledge in securing cloud infrastructures across various platforms, ensuring robust vulnerability detection and mitigation.
Customizable Testing Framework: We tailor our testing methodology to your specific cloud environment, adjusting the approach based on your unique security and compliance needs.
Holistic Approach to Cloud Security: We assess all components of your cloud infrastructure, from virtual machines and storage to APIs and user access controls, leaving no stone unturned.
State-of-the-Art Testing Tools: We utilize the latest and most effective penetration testing tools, ensuring precise identification of vulnerabilities through both automated and manual testing.
Realistic Attack Simulation: Our tests simulate real-world attacks to uncover the most critical threats, ensuring your environment is prepared for potential malicious exploitation.

Comprehensive Risk Reporting: We provide clear, detailed reports with actionable insights, helping your team prioritize risks and take the necessary steps to strengthen security.
Ongoing Support and Remediation: Post-testing, we offer continuous support to assist with remediation, including additional testing to validate fixes and reinforce security.
Compliance Alignment: Our services help ensure that your cloud infrastructure aligns with relevant compliance requirements like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and more.
Cost-Effective Security Enhancements: By identifying vulnerabilities early, we help reduce potential costs from breaches, downtime, and compliance violations, making cloud security both affordable and effective.
Proven Success and Client Trust: COE Security has a track record of successfully securing cloud environments for clients across industries, building trust with proven results and a focus on client satisfaction.

Five areas of Infrastructure Security

Penetration Testing as a Service

Our Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) offers continuous, on-demand testing to evaluate the security of your cloud infrastructure. We conduct thorough penetration tests across your cloud environment, identifying vulnerabilities in your cloud-hosted applications, services, and networks. This includes testing for misconfigurations, weak authentication methods, exposed APIs, and insecure cloud configurations that could lead to data breaches or unauthorized access. By simulating real-world attacks, we uncover vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, providing you with actionable insights to enhance your cloud security posture. Regular penetration testing ensures your cloud environment remains resilient to evolving cyber threats.

Cloud Security Consulting

Our Cloud Security Consulting service helps you design and implement a secure cloud environment tailored to your business needs. We assist you in developing a cloud security strategy that includes best practices for access control, data encryption, and secure cloud configurations. Our team reviews your cloud architecture to ensure it is designed for maximum security and compliance with industry standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2. Additionally, we offer guidance on securing cloud-native services, APIs, and ensuring that your cloud environments are protected against attacks like data exfiltration, insider threats, and DDoS attacks. With our expertise, we ensure that your cloud security strategy is comprehensive, scalable, and resilient.

Application Security Consulting

Application Security Consulting is essential for securing the applications hosted in your cloud environment. We help you integrate security practices into every stage of the application lifecycle, from design to deployment. Our consultants assist in identifying and mitigating risks such as injection flaws, insecure APIs, improper authentication, and weak encryption mechanisms in cloud-based applications. We guide your teams on implementing security controls like secure coding practices, automated security testing in CI/CD pipelines, and compliance checks. By embedding security in your cloud applications from the outset, we ensure your cloud-hosted services are resistant to both internal and external attacks, minimizing the risk of data breaches and service disruptions.

Cyber Resilience

Building Cyber Resilience is crucial for ensuring that your cloud systems can quickly recover from cyberattacks without significant downtime or data loss. Our Cyber Resilience services focus on fortifying your cloud infrastructure to ensure continuity of operations in the event of a breach. We help you develop and implement business continuity plans, disaster recovery procedures, and incident response strategies specifically tailored to cloud environments. Additionally, we conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration tests to identify potential weaknesses in your cloud infrastructure. By integrating resilience measures, we help ensure that even if a cyberattack compromises your cloud environment, you can recover quickly, minimize operational disruptions, and maintain business continuity.

Managed Firewall as a Service

Managed Firewall as a Service is essential for protecting your cloud environment against unauthorized access, attacks, and data breaches. Our service provides continuous monitoring, management, and fine-tuning of firewalls to ensure that only legitimate traffic can access your cloud-hosted services. We implement advanced security rules and policies that align with best practices, blocking malicious traffic, and ensuring that cloud resources are not exposed to unnecessary risks. By outsourcing your firewall management to our experts, you ensure that your cloud environments are always protected by the latest security measures without the need for internal resource allocation, allowing your team to focus on business-critical tasks.

Advanced Offensive Security Solutions

COE Security empowers your organization with on-demand expertise to uncover vulnerabilities, remediate risks, and strengthen your security posture. Our scalable approach enhances agility, enabling you to address current challenges and adapt to future demands without expanding your workforce.