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Cloud Security Testing

A Cloud Environment can present a common target for cyber threats as they can be used to access business-critical systems, present a path to compromise of your business, and can often contain critical security issues which may be overlooked.

Several common issues can impact your cloud security due to insecure security controls such as weak authentication protocols and vulnerable access points.

Our team have over 10 years of expertise conducting cloud penetration testing

We identify, evaluate and communicate the issues which pose a risk to your business.

We utilise a combination of best practice methodologies alongside years of industry experience

We use tried and tested approaches to identify the issues which present a critical risk to your business and cloud infrastructure.

Our experienced cyber security professionals ensure you stay informed throughout the assessment process.

Through regular communication, scheduled calls, and ongoing support, we ensure you have all the information needed to understand and improve your cyber security posture.

Why Conduct A Security Assessment

Security incidents are often reported to have impacted over half of businesses and lead to costs and impacts which can be difficult to recover from. Cloud penetration testing helps to provide assurance to your clients, peace of mind to your business owners, and to proactively address risks.

On average, over a hundred new vulnerabilities are disclosed each day, which may impact your cloud systems.

When a business conducts a cloud configuration review it can uncover the vulnerabilities which impact your systems and help to identify solutions to improve your security posture.

Cyber Security has become increasingly prevalent as a client, partner and supplier requirement.

Cloud pen testing can evidence your commitment to cybersecurity, illustrate your proactive approach to security and demonstrate a seriousness to information security best practices, helping to maintain the confidence of existing clients and win new business.

Where a cyber security incident does occur, there are often several associated costs involved, such as the time and resources required for recovery, and any relevant fines and penalties which may be levied against your business for not managing information security effectively.

Conducting a cloud penetration test can identify the areas of risk within your business and help to produce a cost-effective approach and targeted strategy to address these security weaknesses.

Multiple compliance standards focus on your cyber security posture and how a business manages information security effectively.

Regular Penetration Testing has become a staple component of compliance requirements, and can be conducted to align with your certification standards, and improve your organisation’s overall reputation for the secure management of information security.

Benefits of A Security Assessment

Our approach to cloud penetration testing offers a range of benefits for your business to help improve overall security posture and gain a detailed knowledge of the real-world security risks which can impact your business.

The cost of a cyber security incident can quickly escalate due to downtime, reputational impacts, and information security fines. Implementing cyber security measures can also be a costly exercise if not focused on the areas which present a critical business risk.

Penetration testing services, can help to inform a vulnerability and risk management strategy, reducing the risk of an incident and targeting cyber security measures where needed.

Conducting a regular test of your cloud environment can highlight the risks which attackers may use to steal user credentials and gain access to your business-critical systems.

This allows proactive steps to be taken to improve cyber security and resolve potential vulnerabilities.

Through conducting tests for the most common cloud network vulnerabilities your teams can gain insight into how insecure practices can introduce vulnerabilities into your systems, and how these compromises can lead to additional cyber attacks.

This information can be used to guide improvements to enhance your cyber security.

Our Approach

We deliver expert cybersecurity services designed to protect, optimise, and future-proof your business, ensuring resilience, compliance & peace of mind in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Working alongside our cybersecurity consultants with over a decade of industry experience throughout your entire assessment process, from initial enquiry to project summary.

We provide help, support and guidance to ensure each of your security requirements are met.

Receive updates on your security weaknesses throughout the assessment.

Ensuring you stay informed and are never left in the dark about how your penetration test is progressing.

The specific cyber security concerns your organisation has can vary, and it’s important to our team that your individual concerns and risks are always addressed.

Our penetration testing team work with you to produce and deliver a report which meets your requirements and helps achieve your goals.

Security assessments don’t end with the report. Remediation, reassessments, and vulnerability management strategies all present ongoing challenges to address after a penetration test.

Our team ensure ongoing support is always available to help you address your immediate risks and achieve ongoing cyber security.

Popular Questions

A Cloud Penetration Test can be useful for reviewing your cloud environment, gaining a deep understanding of your security risks and helping to remediate security vulnerabilities, such as:

  • Default settings or misconfigurations in your Cloud Environment can introduce critical vulnerabilities into cloud systems, such as overprivileged identities, and unauthorized access to content and services.
  • Insecure API’s can be accessed by attackers to access your critical data and exploit vulnerabilities which are exposed through internet-facing cloud resources.
  • Account takeover attacks are a common security vulnerability which can impact multiple systems, including cloud providers, and can be setup to compromise accounts, including those protected with Multi-Factor Authentication.

Your Cloud critical assets can be vulnerable in many different ways and can therefore present a range of different risks to a business.

  • Data Breaches can occur for any business; however, the risk increases with cloud services, which are made continuously accessible to internet-borne threats.
  • Automated vulnerability scanning tools can identify common misconfigurations and weaknesses within security controls, which have an always-online target environment hosted in your cloud environment.
  • Account takeover attacks often target a range of businesses across a single cloud provider’s platform.
  • As new vulnerabilities, such as a zero-day vulnerabilities are identified within cloud infrastructure, each business which utilises the platform may be targeted and compromised.

Where a security issue does occur, there are several aspects which can impact your business:

  • The time required to recover from a security breach and restore your systems can incur costs such as recruiting people to aid in the recovery and the loss of business during any downtime.
  • The ongoing impacts on your business reputation can impact current and potential clients’ likelihood to work with you, as it can be seen as a security risk.
  • Fines and penalties can be levied against your business where a data breach occurs that impacts client data and personal data.

There are different benefits from both vulnerability scanning and penetration testing and each should be considered and applied for different reasons.

  • Vulnerability scanners and automated tools are useful for speed and are cost-effective, allowing them to be run on a regular basis. This is useful to identify the latest available security updates for known vulnerabilities, and can help maintain your ongoing security.
  • Penetration testing is useful for in-depth assessments, highlighting and contextualising security vulnerabilities which scanning tools are often not able to identify. This can be useful when conducted on an annual basis, or after significant changes.

Although there can be several overlapping areas for security and testing techniques with an internal network test, a cloud service network can have their own specific set of identified vulnerabilities and testing techniques, which can be followed to ensure your systenms are configured to a secure standard.

  • As cloud environments can be targeted over the internet, this presents a potential for real-world attacks to identify weaknesses with the security policies used to manage your environment, API’s and users.
  • While cloud providers can present a strong security posture, they often do not have many of the available security options enabled by default, which can introduce potential risks into your business’s cloud platforms.
  • Devices which connected to your cloud computing systems may also be affected by vulnerabilities and present a potential for attackers to leverage these vulnerabilities and gain access to your cloud environments, leading to a compromise of your security measures.

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