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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.

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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.

Standard Cloud Pen Testing Only Finds 1/3 of Your Risk.

Our team of OnDefenders identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and access control weaknesses to reduce risk exposure and strengthen your overall cloud security posture, including:

Exploitable Vulnerabilities

Exploitable Vulnerabilities

Unpatched vulnerabilities in operating systems, cloud services, and applications that can be exploited using publicly available techniques or exploits

Cloud Misconfigurations

Cloud Misconfigurations

Insecure configurations such as publicly accessible storage, overly permissive security groups, and exposed management or service endpoints

Weak Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Weak Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Excessive privileges, misconfigured roles, or weak authentication controls that enable unauthorized access or privilege escalation

Insecure API Endpoints

Insecure API Endpoints

APIs with weak authentication, authorization, or input validation that allow unauthorized data access or service abuse

Missing or Ineffective Network Segmentation

Missing or Ineffective Network Segmentation

Flat network architectures that enable lateral movement across cloud resources after initial compromise

Outdated or Vulnerable Container Images

Outdated or Vulnerable Container Images

Container images and workloads running outdated software or vulnerable dependencies that introduce avoidable cloud-native risk

Basic Privilege Escalation Paths

Basic Privilege Escalation Paths

Misconfigurations or weak controls that allow escalation from low-privileged roles to sensitive cloud resources

Encryption and Key Management Gaps

Encryption and Key Management Gaps

Data not encrypted at rest or in transit, or encryption keys that are improperly stored, rotated, or protected

Continuous Security Inspector Reveals the Rest.

Standard cloud pen testing and PTaaS platforms miss how real adversaries adapt, or how chain identity and network access, bypass segmentation and monitoring controls change over time. OnDefend Continuous Security Inspector (CSI) goes beyond point-in-time testing revealing the remaining two thirds of cloud risk. 

Emergent Vulnerability Chains and Zero-Day Paths

Emergent Vulnerability Chains and Zero-Day Paths

Multi-stage attack chains created by interacting low-risk issues that surface only through continuous adversary simulation

Supply-Chain Compromise and Dependency Poisoning

Supply-Chain Compromise and Dependency Poisoning

Malicious or tampered third-party dependencies, container images, or integrations introduced through trusted pipelines

Stealthy Persistence Mechanisms

Stealthy Persistence Mechanisms

Hidden backdoors and long-lived footholds embedded across cloud workloads, identities, or services that evade detection

Covert Command-and-Control Channels

Covert Command-and-Control Channels

Encrypted or obfuscated C2 communications that abuse legitimate cloud services to blend into normal traffic

Time-Delayed and Conditional Attack Paths

Time-Delayed and Conditional Attack Paths

Exploitation paths triggered only by specific timing, conditions, or environmental changes

Cross-Service and Cross-Account Trust Abuse

Cross-Service and Cross-Account Trust Abuse

Hidden attack paths that exploit implicit trust between cloud services, accounts, tenants, or external platforms

Stealth Data Exfiltration Routes

Stealth Data Exfiltration Routes

Covert data leakage paths designed to bypass logging, monitoring, and data loss prevention controls

Abuse of Cloud-Native Control Planes

Abuse of Cloud-Native Control Planes

Misuse of legitimate cloud management features to enable lateral movement, persistence, and privilege expansion without alerts

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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.

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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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