What is Cloud Penetration Testing
Cloud Security Testing aims to evaluate the security posture of your cloud environment by simulating real-world cyberattacks and identifying exploitable weaknesses across cloud services and configurations. At Cyberous, our cloud testing methodology focuses on the most vulnerable areas of your cloud application and delivers clear, actionable recommendations to strengthen security. The results help organizations enhance their overall cloud protection and maintain a resilient infrastructure. This assessment applies to major platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and others, where a shared responsibility model is essential—ensuring both the cloud provider and the customer play a role in maintaining security.
Cloud Penetration Testing Methodology
Cloud Security Testing Methodology
The goal of Cloud Security Testing is to examine attack paths, breach possibilities, operability risks, and recovery gaps within a cloud environment. At Cyberous, our Cloud Testing Methodology follows industry best practices and combines automated cloud security tools with advanced manual testing techniques to uncover vulnerabilities that may compromise your cloud platform. These include configuration flaws, insecure permissions, exposed services, excessive privileges, and mismanaged builds.
Cloud Penetration Testing AssessmentTesting Methodologies
Black-Box Cloud Penetration Testing
Black-Box Cloud Penetration Testing
Black-Box Cloud Penetration Testing simulates an external attacker with no prior knowledge of the cloud environment. Testers analyze publicly exposed cloud assets, misconfigured services, open ports, and weak security controls to identify entry points.
This approach helps organizations understand how resilient their AWS, Azure, or GCP environments are against real-world external threats.
Gray-Box Cloud Penetration Testing
Gray-Box Cloud Penetration Testing
Gray-Box Cloud Penetration Testing offers partial access—such as limited credentials, architecture details, or IAM insights—to perform a more targeted and efficient assessment.
At Cyberous, this method helps simulate insider threats or compromised user scenarios, uncovering vulnerabilities in permissions, cloud APIs, and configurations.
White-Box Cloud Penetration Testing
White-Box Cloud Penetration Testing
White-Box Cloud Penetration Testing provides full visibility into the cloud environment, including architecture diagrams, IAM policies, configs, and logs.
With complete access, Cyberous performs an in-depth evaluation of cloud workloads, permissions, encryption, and configurations to uncover deep-rooted security risks and strengthen overall cloud posture.
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Understand the Policies
The first step in Cloud Penetration Testing is understanding the provider’s security and pentesting policies. Every cloud platform has specific rules outlining what services can and cannot be tested. At Cyberous, we begin by identifying which cloud services the customer uses and verifying which components are allowed for testing under AWS, Azure, or GCP guidelines. This ensures compliance, avoids service disruption, and guarantees a safe and authorized cloud security assessment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cloud Penetration Testing evaluates the security of cloud environments by simulating real-world cyberattacks to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
It helps detect cloud-specific risks, prevents data breaches, and ensures your AWS, Azure, or GCP setup aligns with security best practices.
Cyberous performs Cloud VAPT for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and other major cloud service providers.
Yes. Cyberous strictly adheres to pentesting policies from AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure safe and compliant testing.
We identify misconfigurations, weak IAM policies, insecure APIs, exposed services, excessive permissions, and data access risks.
No. Cyberous performs cloud penetration testing safely to avoid downtime, performance issues, or service disruptions.
Yes. Cyberous delivers detailed reports with actionable remediation steps and AI-based recommendations to help fix cloud security issues effectively.