CLOUD SECURITY POSTURE

Cloud Security Assessment

Misconfigured IAM roles. Public S3 buckets. Over-permissive service principals. Cloud breaches aren't sophisticated — they're opportunistic. Privilege Zero finds the open door before attackers do, across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

CLOUD ATTACK SURFACE AZURE Entra · AKS · Blob AWS IAM · S3 · Lambda GCP IAM · GCS · GKE PRIVILEGE ZERO ASSESSMENT IAM · STORAGE · NETWORK · COMPUTE · SERVERLESS
The Cloud Security Problem

Speed of Deployment Outpaces Security Review

Cloud environments are designed for rapid provisioning. IAM roles get created with AdministratorAccess because it was quicker. S3 buckets get set to public for a demo that never gets cleaned up. Lambda functions run with overpermissive execution roles because the developer needed it to work by Friday. Privilege Zero finds all of it.

Azure

  • Entra ID / Azure AD
  • Azure RBAC & Managed Identities
  • Storage Account ACLs
  • AKS & Container Instances
  • Azure Functions (Serverless)
  • Network Security Groups

AWS

  • IAM Roles & Policies
  • S3 Bucket Policies & ACLs
  • Lambda Function Security
  • EC2 Instance Metadata (IMDSv1)
  • EKS / ECS Security
  • VPC Security Groups & NACLs

GCP

  • GCP IAM & Service Accounts
  • GCS Bucket Permissions
  • Cloud Functions & Run
  • GKE Cluster Security
  • Compute Engine Metadata
  • VPC Firewall Rules
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Cloud Providers — Single Engagement Covers All
IAM
Privilege Escalation Paths Modelled & Exploited
Real
Exploitation Evidence — Not Just Misconfiguration Reports
CIS
Benchmark Mapping Included for Compliance Reporting
Assessment Approach

From Posture Review to Demonstrated Compromise

01
Access Provisioning & Inventory

Read-only access provisioned using least-privilege service principals. Full inventory of all accounts, subscriptions, projects, regions, services, and resources before any assessment activity begins.

02
IAM & Identity Attack Path Modelling

Enumerate every IAM role, policy, service principal, and permission boundary. Graph all privilege escalation paths — including multi-hop role chains — that allow any identity to reach administrative access.

03
Network & Perimeter Assessment

Review VPC/VNet configurations, security group rules, firewall policies, publicly exposed management endpoints, and default-open network ACLs across all regions and availability zones.

04
Storage & Data Exposure Discovery

Identify all publicly accessible storage: S3 buckets, Azure Blob containers, GCS buckets, and exposed database instances. Review encryption configuration, versioning, access logging, and lifecycle policies.

05
Compute, Container & Serverless Review

Assess EC2/VM images for known vulnerabilities, container registry configurations, serverless function injection risks, SSRF via metadata service (IMDSv1), and Kubernetes RBAC weaknesses.

06
Exploitation & Impact Demonstration

Exploit the highest-risk confirmed findings — IAM privilege escalation, data access, lateral movement — to produce concrete evidence of real-world impact rather than theoretical risk ratings.

Attack Vectors

What We Look For Across Every Cloud

IAM Role Privilege EscalationService Account Key Leakage Public Storage Buckets (S3 / Blob / GCS)Overpermissive Security Groups IMDSv1 SSRF (EC2 / Compute)Serverless Injection (Lambda / Functions) Container Registry MisconfigurationKubernetes RBAC Abuse Cross-Account Trust MisconfigurationSecrets in Environment Variables Unauthenticated API EndpointsCloudTrail / Audit Logging Gaps Snapshot & AMI Public SharingVPC Peering Misconfiguration Terraform State File ExposureDefault VPC Security Group Rules
Deliverables

From Cloud Risk to Cloud Confidence

Cloud Risk Executive Report

Non-technical summary of your cloud security posture, most critical data exposure risks, and estimated breach impact in business terms.

Technical Findings & Exploitation Evidence

Per-finding documentation with exploitation proof-of-concept, affected resource ARN/ID, and cloud-native remediation steps.

IAM Privilege Escalation Map

Visual graph of all identified privilege escalation paths with recommended policy changes to close each one.

CIS Benchmark Compliance Report

Configuration findings mapped to CIS Azure / AWS / GCP benchmarks for audit and compliance documentation.

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