Cloud Penetration Testing

Organisations are rapidly adopting cloud technologies to deliver services to their customers and internal corporate stakeholders. As a result, information that was previously held within organisation-controlled IT assets is now being stored, processed and/or transmitted by third-party cloud providers.

Many of the larger cloud providers, due to their significant investment in security, can in some cases be considered more secure than an organisation’s own IT network. However, depending on the service procured from the cloud provider, many security-related responsibilities may still fall on the organisation consuming the service, which if not understood or implemented appropriately, often create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers to impact the security of the cloud environment and the information held within it, leading to data breaches, disruption to services, etc.

All organisations should test the security of their cloud environments to ensure attackers cannot cause serious and irreparable damage  or their ability to function.