Cloud Penetration Testing

Cloud penetration testing is a specialized security assessment of your AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform environment, targeting misconfigurations, overprivileged IAM roles, exposed storage, and attack paths that allow an initial foothold to escalate into full environment compromise. Unlike traditional infrastructure testing, cloud assessments require expertise in cloud-specific attack techniques including IAM privilege escalation, SSRF-to-metadata-service attacks, storage bucket misconfigurations, container escapes, and serverless function abuse. BugFoe's cloud security team holds AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), and GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer certifications.

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report consistently shows that misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud data breaches — not sophisticated zero-day exploits. A single S3 bucket with public access can expose millions of customer records. An overprivileged Lambda execution role can enable privilege escalation to administrative access across the entire account. IAM roles with wildcard permissions attached to EC2 instances become launchpads for full environment compromise. The tragedy of cloud security incidents is that they are almost always preventable: the average misconfigured cloud resource sits exposed for 120 days before detection.

BugFoe's cloud penetration testing begins with comprehensive asset discovery and IAM policy analysis. We map every privilege escalation path from the credentials provided to the most powerful role or account in the environment. Storage and database exposure testing verifies that no sensitive data is accessible without proper authentication. We test serverless functions for injection vulnerabilities and environment variable exposure. Container security assessments cover Kubernetes RBAC misconfigurations, namespace escapes, and pod security policies. All findings include Terraform, CloudFormation, or infrastructure-as-code remediation templates so your team can fix issues programmatically rather than manually.