We attack your cloud – before someone else does
The cloud offers enormous flexibility – but also new attack surfaces. Excessive permissions, exposed resources, and weakly protected identities are often an attacker's fastest route to your data. In our cloud penetration test, we take the perspective of a real attacker and show how far they get in your cloud environment.
With migration to the cloud, security responsibility shifts – but it doesn't disappear. The Shared Responsibility Model means: the cloud provider secures the infrastructure, but you are responsible for correct configuration and protecting your data. In practice, we keep finding the same entry points: publicly accessible storage buckets, over-privileged service accounts, missing multi-factor authentication, and access keys that ended up in code.
Individually, such weaknesses often look harmless. What makes them dangerous is chaining them: a leaked key, an overly broad role, a reachable storage account – and the attacker is reading your customer data. These are exactly the attack paths we uncover.
We attack user accounts, service accounts, and roles: password spraying, token abuse, bypassing MFA and conditional access, all the way to escalating to tenant or account admin.
We look for publicly reachable VMs, databases, APIs, and management interfaces, and exploit overly permissive security groups and firewall rules to break into your cloud networks.
We try to access storage, databases, key vaults, and secrets – for example via open buckets, leaked access keys, or flawed permissions.
We check whether an attacker can move from the cloud into your on-premises network – or the other way round: via hybrid identities, VPN connections, sync services, and CI/CD pipelines.
Our cloud penetration test covers the most common cloud platforms. We tailor our attack techniques to the specifics of each platform:
Entra ID, managed identities, storage accounts, Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager
IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, Secrets Manager, STS
Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OAuth apps
IAM, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, service accounts, Cloud Functions
Mapping your cloud attack surface: publicly reachable services, tenants, accounts, and leaked credentials.
Attack from the outside or starting from a compromised user account – depending on the agreed scenario.
Exploiting permissions and misconfigurations to gain higher privileges and access to critical resources.
Detailed report with traceable attack paths, prioritized findings, and a concrete remediation plan.
Anonymized engagement example
A Swiss technology company. AWS. 3 S3 buckets with customer data publicly readable.
S3 buckets locked down within 24 hours. IAM overhaul and logging setup implemented in a four-week roadmap. Result: no publicly exposed resources remaining.
A Swiss technology company wants its AWS environment reviewed after a security incident at a competitor put cloud security on the management agenda. The infrastructure has grown organically over two years.
Upon completion of the cloud penetration test, you will receive:
Management-ready summary of the results with an overall risk assessment.
Detailed listing of all exploitable vulnerabilities with severity, description, and reproduction steps.
Traceable account of how individual vulnerabilities chain into an attack on your critical data.
Prioritized plan for fixing the vulnerabilities found, with quick wins for immediate implementation.