Cloud Penetration Testing
AWS • Azure • GCP
Modern cloud environments offer scale and flexibility—but also introduce complex and often misunderstood security risks. At Kairos Sec, we specialize in manual, expert-driven cloud penetration testing that goes beyond configuration checklists. We simulate real-world attacks across AWS, Azure, and GCP to uncover misconfigurations, privilege escalation paths, identity abuse, and lateral movement opportunities that are often missed by automated tooling.
Whether you’re cloud-native, hybrid, or in a transitional phase, our goal is to help you understand and reduce your cloud attack surface—before an adversary does.
Testing Methodology
Our cloud penetration testing methodology blends offensive security expertise with deep knowledge of cloud provider architecture and services. We test your cloud environment as a real attacker would, using live tactics to assess security boundaries, privilege scopes, and exploitation potential.
1. Discovery & Mapping
We begin with in-depth discovery of your cloud estate:
- Inventory of exposed assets (public S3 buckets, cloud frontends, APIs, etc.)
- Identity structures and IAM roles
- Networking layout (VPCs, subnets, security groups)
- Privileged services and serverless functions
- Third-party integrations and trust relationships
Our approach is always tailored to the specific cloud provider and deployment model in use.
2. Threat Modeling
We identify the most relevant risks for your architecture:
- Excessive IAM permissions and role assumption paths
- Unrestricted storage, compute, or messaging services
- Over-permissive policies on critical resources
- Lateral movement opportunities across services or tenants
- Exposure of credentials, tokens, and metadata endpoints
Threat modeling informs a structured, prioritized attack path simulation.
3. Manual Exploitation
We execute controlled, manual exploitation scenarios to safely simulate real-world attacker behavior:
- Privilege escalation through IAM misconfigurations
- Enumeration and misuse of serverless functions
- Discovery of credentials in EC2 user data or environment variables
- Cross-account or cross-tenant access
- Abuse of cloud-native services like Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Functions, and more
Our testing also considers chained vulnerabilities—where small missteps combine into high-impact exposure.
4. Risk Analysis & Business Impact
Each finding is contextualized for business and operational relevance:
- What data is exposed?
- What accounts or roles are at risk?
- What level of access could an attacker gain—and how easily?
- How far could an attacker pivot or persist?
You get clarity on both technical severity and practical risk.
5. Reporting & Remediation Support
Our reports are built for remediation, not just documentation:
- Executive summary for leadership
- Risk-rated findings with business context
- Detailed reproduction steps and screenshots
- Actionable remediation advice, mapped to provider-specific controls
- Optional retesting to validate fixes
Why Kairos Sec for Cloud Security
Full Coverage Across Providers: Expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including hybrid, multi-cloud, and containerized environments (ECS, EKS, GKE, AKS).
Developer-Friendly Reports: Clean, actionable findings tailored for cloud engineering and DevOps teams—ready to feed into sprint backlogs or IaC changes.
Manual-First, Privilege-Aware Testing: We don’t stop at surface misconfigurations. We test privilege boundaries, identity misuse, trust relationships, and real lateral movement potential.
Zero Outsourcing: All testing is performed by senior engineers with deep experience in cloud-native offensive security—no external contractors or automated scan-dumps.