Azure penetration testing
Security responsibility gets complicated as organizations move to the cloud. Cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) take care of infrastructure but leave to their clients the task of taking care of what they create and put on these infrastructures. And that is where the Azure penetration testing, along with the AWS pen testing, comes into play. They ensure that your configurations, access controls, and deployed applications.
The basics of Azure Penetration Testing
Azure penetration testing checks on whether your cloud resources are misconfigured, abused privileges, and whether they are vulnerable to attacks across the virtual machine, applications, and storage.
The test is run on the policy of cloud testing of Microsoft which allows ethical hacking that is within acceptable boundaries.
The major areas that Aardwolf Security investigates are:
- Azure Active Directory (AD) configurations and identity management.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) assignments.
- Virtual machine security posture and network security group security posture.
- Database exposure, Blob storage and Key Vault.
- Weak API endpoints and DevOps pipelines.
Testing can be used to detect attack vectors that might cause unauthorized access or privilege escalation within your Azure ecosystem.
Understanding AWS Pen Test
AWS pen test aims at establishing vulnerabilities to your Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
Aardwolf Security applies real world tactics to find misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in line with acceptable use policy of AWS.
Common test targets include:
- Object access and bucket permissions of S3.
- Overprivileged roles and IAM policies.
- Vulnerabilities of EC2 instances and open ports.
- All API Gateway and Lambda operate securely.
- VPCs and network segmentation.
These tests will give you a complete picture as to how your AWS environment is exposed to prevent you leaving loopholes that attackers can use.
The reason why Cloud-Specific Testing is necessary
Cloud environment is dynamic as compared to the traditional data centres. Resources are scaled, permissions are changed fast and automation pipelines are regularly deployed with the changes.
Small configuration mistakes might be used to cause large-scale breaches without frequent testing.
For example:
- Storage buckets with sensitive data that are publicly exposed and leaking.
- Weakly-configured IAM roles that permit overreach to privileges.
- TODO: Insecure serverless functions with access to the backend systems.
Such issues can be identified before exploitation and the detection of such problems can occur with regular testing of the Azure and AWS systems.
Testing Methodology of Aardwolf Security:
1. Scope definition Identify in-scope cloud services and assets.
2. Surveillance: Survey cloud resources and collect intelligence.
3. Exploitation Simulation: Test real chain of attacks and ensure environment stability.
4. Post-Exploitation: Test privilege escalation and persistence techniques.
5. Reporting & Recommendations: Report findings by priority of severity and business risk.
Each of the assessments is conducted without down time and based on the policies of every provider.
Key Benefits
- Identify malfunctioning settings even before the attackers.
- Check adherence to ISO 27001, PCI DSS and SOC 2.
- Enhance IAM/access management controls.
- Improve cloud governance and visibility.
- Have confidence in multi-cloud deployments.
Reasons to select Aardwolf Security
- Profound knowledge of Azure, AWS and hybrid environments.
- CREST- and OSCP-certified penetration testers.
- Policy-conforming and non-disruptive testing.
- It has clear remediation reports with step-by-step instructions.
- Re-testing to identify vulnerabilities have been fixed.
Conclusion
Cloud brings about scalability and innovation; however, it increases your attack surface.
Aardwolf Security will keep your cloud environments safe, compliant, and resilient by using Azure penetration testing and AWS pen testing.
Secure your cloud applications. Stop by AardwolfSecurity.com to read more or make a security consultation.
