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Cloud Penetration Testing
Expose hidden cloud vulnerabilities, attack paths, and critical risks in your Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle OCI, and other third-party cloud environments.
Cloud Security Assurance
OnDefend cloud penetration testing evaluates key controls, identifies meaningful security gaps, and uncovers high impact vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and hidden attack paths across your cloud environment, strengthening your overall security posture and supporting compliance requirements for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and other regulatory frameworks.
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Cloud Environments Tested for Real-World Risk
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS cloud penetration testing identifies security weaknesses, misconfigurations, and control gaps that increase risk in AWS environments. It supports organizations migrating to AWS, building cloud-native applications, or performing regular testing to meet security and compliance requirements.
Microsoft Azure
Azure penetration testing validates cloud security by assessing identity, networking, and application controls in Azure environments. It supports organizations migrating to Azure, developing cloud-based applications, or conducting recurring testing to meet compliance and risk management objectives.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
GCP penetration testing helps secure cloud environments by identifying exposure across services, workloads, and Kubernetes platforms such as GKE. It supports secure cloud adoption, application development, and ongoing cloud security validation efforts.
Other Cloud Platforms
Penetration testing for additional public cloud platforms, such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and IBM Cloud, as well as private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, assess configurations, identity controls, connectivity, and isolation. Testing also covers cloud-native technologies like Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, and microservices to identify misconfigurations and excessive privileges.
AI-powered adversaries don’t exploit vulnerabilities.
They exploit attack paths.
AI-powered adversaries exploit more than vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. They chain together hidden risks like exploitable designs, security control failures, and novel attack techniques to reach critical assets. The goal is no longer finding every weakness, but breaking attack paths with the fewest high-impact fixes.
Reconnaissance
Attack Surface Mapped
Exploit
Initial Access
Misconfiguration Exploited
PIVOT
Privilege Escalation
Exploitable Design Abused
Chain
Exploitation
Low-Severity Finding Chained
exploit
Lateral Movement
Novel Technique Executed
bypass
Defense Evasion
Security Controls Defeated
Lateral
Impact
Critical Asset Compromised
Traditional pen tests and vulnerability scanners find these
What AI-powered adversaries find and chain into attack paths
Giving You The Competitive Advantage
OnDefend gives you a decisive advantage over adversaries by combining elite application security expertise, intelligence-driven testing, and validation that reflects real-world attacker behavior.
Elite Offensive Operators
Our testing is led by deeply experienced offensive security engineers with advanced certifications across AWS, Azure, GCP, and offensive security, ensuring risks are being validated through real attacker techniques and realistic exploitation paths.
Intelligence-Driven Testing
Testing is guided by a blend of external and proprietary threat intelligence, focusing on the most relevant techniques, emerging risks, and high-impact paths to compromise, so testing effort is directed toward threats that actually lead to cloud compromise.
AI- and Automation Enhanced Coverage
AI-driven automation and advanced analytics extend coverage across complex cloud environments, expanding discovery of misconfigurations, identity weaknesses, and cross-service abuse paths at scale.
Continuous Testing Capabilities
Automation and analytics enable ongoing validation across evolving cloud environments, maintaining visibility into new exposures introduced by configuration drift, identity changes, or service updates.
Executive and Technical Reporting
Clear reporting delivers prioritized, actionable findings for security teams while translating technical risk into business-level insights, aligning remediation efforts to both security impact and business risk.
Beyond Compliance Validation
Testing aligns with NIST 800-115, PTES, and OWASP Cloud Testing guidance while validating real-world exploitability, demonstrating whether security controls are effective beyond checkbox compliance.
Our Team
Partners with Yours
Our team partners with yours to gain a deep understanding of your environment and objectives so you receive clear communication, expert guidance, and actionable insight that ensures outcomes align with your security and business goals.
Cloud Penetration Testing FAQs
What is cloud penetration testing?
Cloud penetration testing is a controlled security test that identifies and validates exploitable weaknesses in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and other third-party environments.
How is cloud penetration testing different from a configuration review?
A configuration review checks settings, while penetration testing demonstrates how weaknesses can be exploited.
What vulnerabilities are commonly found in cloud environments?
Commonly found vulnerabilities in cloud environments include misconfigured permissions, exposed storage buckets, leaked secrets, insecure APIs, and poorly protected cloud native services.
Can testing be performed directly in AWS, Azure, and GCP?
Yes. Each provider allows controlled penetration testing within approved guidelines.
How often should cloud penetration testing be performed?
Organizations typically test annually, after significant changes, or before major deployments.
What is the difference between traditional cloud penetration testing and OnDefend Continuous Security Inspector?
Traditional cloud penetration testing is a point-in-time assessment that identifies vulnerabilities and exploitable paths in AWS, Azure, and GCP. OnDefend CSI is a continuous validation program that detects new risks, configuration drift, and exposure changes over time.
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