Comprehensive Cloud Penetration Test

Cloud Shared Security Model

Clouds are seen by many as the future of Information Technology. It’s common for companies to move to the Cloud believing that it solves their most pressing problems. Clouds definitely have advantages in a variety of areas: quality of infrastructure, redundancy, backup and the offloading of IT infrastructure administration.

What many companies fail to understand is that Cybersecurity in the Cloud is a shared security model.

• Cloud providers are responsible for “Security of the Cloud”
• Customers are responsible for “Security in the Cloud”

The customer is still responsible for the security of their data, which is not that much different than the on-premises model they had before. Using Clouds transfers the administrative responsibility of many things - but cybersecurity is not among them.

Rapidly Changing and Iterating

Clouds themselves are new technologies. They are rapidly iterating and adding many beneficial products and features. These new technologies and design approaches are often not fully documented. They are also not completely understood from a cybersecurity perspective.

Clouds should be regularly assessed just like on-premise technologies. Simply being in the cloud does not make something secure. In fact, the complexity of cloud deployments mean that there are new opportunities for malicious actors to breach cloud systems.

Just as Clouds are seen as the future of IT - they are also the future of hacking.

Cybermode Cloud Penetration Test

A Cybermode Cloud Penetration Test has a strong focus on identifying and mapping the entire attack surface of a company’s cloud footprint prior to the vulnerability assessment and penetration test.

Cloud-based networks are complex and dynamic, with multiple layers of security controls and configurations. Resources are often provisioned and then torn down without a proper understanding of the attack surface they present to the Internet.

Beyond the Black Box

It’s essential to go beyond the "Black Box" approach and conduct a more comprehensive cloud penetration test to assess the security posture of cloud-based infrastructure. Due to the complexity of cloud deployments a Cloud Penetration Test requires company cooperation to provide additional information as to the resources present within its Cloud Tenancy.

A Cybermode Penetration Test is an authorized simulated attack. A Cloud Penetration Test acts like a malicious actor would, assessing the attack surface of an organization, searching for vulnerabilities and attempting exploitation. It evaluates the security of a system to determine if the controls in place work as designed.

The Cybermode Comprehensive Cloud Penetration Test evaluates the security of external and internal networks by methodically validating and verifying the effectiveness of network security controls. The process involves an active analysis of the network targets for weaknesses, technical flaws, or vulnerabilities. All security issues that are identified will be presented to the system owner with an assessment of the impact and a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution.

Performing regular Cloud Penetration Tests from Cybermode will give you a detailed understanding of the attack surface and potential vulnerabilities your Cloud Tenant presents to the Internet. With this information in hand you can protect your greatest asset.