Scoping & Planning
Align on business goals, compliance drivers, and change-freeze windows to define a precise test scope.
Cloud Penetration Testing
Cloud Penetration Testing
Close every misconfiguration and exposed service in your cloud before an attacker finds it.
What It Is
Cloud Penetration Testing (“cloud VAPT”) emulates real-world attacks against your public, private or hybrid cloud estate - AWS, and Azure. It combines configuration review, privilege-escalation attempts, API abuse, and live exploitation to uncover the exact paths an adversary could use to breach workloads, steal data, pivot into on-prem networks, or rack up fraudulent compute bills.
Why proactive testing matters
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- 80 % of breaches now involve cloud assets such as misconfigured storage buckets or exposed APIs.
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- Average cloud breach costs have surged past USD 4 million and can trigger regulatory fines.
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- Organisations that adopt continuous cloud testing slash incident costs by ≈ 27 % and avoid headline-grabbing data exposures.
Why Choose Trace for Network Security?
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Vulnerability Assessment
Leverage CSP-native APIs and leading tools to inventory services and flag misconfigurations across IAM, storage, networking and container orchestration.
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Remediation & Re-testing
Once fixes are applied, we validate them to confirm every vulnerability is fully resolved.
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Risk Analysis & Reporting
Prioritise findings by severity; deliver clear, actionable reports for cloud engineers and leadership.
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Penetration Testing
Safely exploit flaws (over-privileged roles, instance metadata abuse, SSRF, public bucket access, vulnerable serverless functions) to gauge real business impact - without disrupting production workloads.
Testing Modes We Offer
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Black-Box
External perspective with no credentials; reveals publicly exposed misconfigurations and attackable surfaces. -
White-Box
With 40+ Global OEM Partnerships, we are bringing you future-proof solutions matched to your exact needs
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Grey-Box
Limited credentials simulate a compromised developer or SaaS token, exposing insider-level attack paths. -
All testing aligns to CIS Benchmarks, NIST SP-800-144/190, CSA CCM v4 and PTES guidelines.
What We Test For
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Identity & Access Misconfigurations (over-privileged IAM roles, weak policies, stale keys)
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Storage Exposures & Leaks
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Network Segmentation Gaps
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Serverless & Container Risks
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API & Metadata Abuse
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Logging & Monitoring Weaknesses (disabled CloudTrail/Activity Logs, missing Defender alerts)
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Encryption & Key-Management Flaws (unencrypted volumes, hard-coded secrets, poor KMS usage)
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CI/CD Pipeline Vulnerabilities
What You Receive
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Executive Risk Reports
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Detailed Vulnerability Matrix
CVSS / CSPM scores, exploit paths & annotated screenshots.
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Remediation Playbook
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Free Retest
we verify every fix at no extra cost.
Benefits for Your Business
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Prevent data leaks, cryptomining abuse & costly downtime.
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Meet & prove compliance (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, GDPR, RBI, SEBI, SOC 2).
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Reduce outage risk & remediation spend through prioritised fixes.
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Enhance customer trust with third-party validation and hardening evidence.
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Optimise cloud spend by eliminating unused services and insecure defaults.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions
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How often should we conduct a Cloud Pen-Test?
At least annually and after major architecture changes, new regions, or large IaC deployments.
Will testing impact live workloads?
Network security ensures the No. We employ read-only API calls and low-impact exploit chains with immediate rollback procedures.
How is this different from a CSPM scan?
CSPM highlights misconfigs; a pen-test actively chains them to demonstrate real-world breach impact across accounts and regions.
How long does an engagement take?
Most projects complete within 5–12 business days, depending on cloud size and complexity.
