What Is Cloud Computing Testing?
There are varied processes or Cloud Penetration Testing Methodology. A professional penetration testing professional tracks down all the shortcomings of a cloud server with one’s years of experience and practice. In addition to offering cloud security penetration testing services with the best cloud pentesters in the wild, our expert penetration testers work in a team between your cloud servers and professional black hat hackers.
Moreover, our team players make a proper cloud pentesting checklist after a thorough dialogue process held in some meeting sessions between our team and the organizational higher officials. This cloud pentesting checklist will help attain complete security while performing various cloud computing penetration testing tactics on the target cloud servers.
Benefits Of Cloud Computing Penetration Testing
Certain benefits of cloud computing penetration testing can assuredly help an organization take several advantages in the future after the successful implementation of cloud computing penetration testing, such as the following:
- Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and gaps.
- Impact of exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Determine how to leverage any access obtained via exploitation.
- Deliver clear and actionable remediation information.
- Provide best practices in maintaining visibility.
Types & Methods Of Cloud Penetration Testing
There are 3 types of cloud computing penetration testing techniques by which a professional penetration testing expert can check all the vulnerabilities comprised in a cloud server, such as the following:
In this pentesting methodology, an anonymous hacker works on the cloud servers by applying any particular methodology to overcome the resulting shortcomings in systems, applications, networks, cloud servers, etc.
In this technique, the hacker generally exploits the vulnerabilities for one’s benefit.
In Grey Box Pentesting Testing, a hacking professional is provided with some limited access (generally some login credentials) to the cloud servers and asked to check all the shortcomings that one could come up with under certain conditions with the limited access.
In this methodology, the hacker has 50-50 chances of whether one can exploit or not the found vulnerabilities.
In this particular technique, generally, an insider is provided with all the required credentials to check if one can make any significant changes to the cloud server.
Most Common Cloud Security Threats:
Many Cloud Security Threats can sincerely harm the integrity of the datasets and the cloud servers that can genuinely cause severe effects on the cloud servers. In addition, the information breached through them can illegally be sold on the dark web or black market, which can cause monetary losses to the owners of the cloud servers.
Moreover, the most common cloud security threats are mentioned below for your reference:
- Misconfigurations
- Data Breaches
- Malware/Ransomware
- Vulnerabilities
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Supply Chain Compromises
- Insider Threats
- Weak Identities and Credentials
- Weak Access Management
- Insecure Interfaces and APIs
- Inappropriate Use or Abuse of Cloud Services
- Shared Services/ Technology Concerns