Pentesting AWS

The risk of data leakage and data breach increases significantly as organizations and individuals transfer and host data to cloud services accessible to the public. Most attack vectors against virtualized and cloud environments are unknown even to hosting providers.

This causes big security holes and opens up new attack vectors for dark hackers. An attacker can buy accommodation in a cloud installation to gain access with their new DMZ cloud. For a dark hacker, it’s like “move to the side and look over the fence” with much more direct attack techniques, which can be used to avoid and jump access controls. Most hosting in the cloud is implemented in virtual infrastructure, which causes virtualization threats that can be accessed by attackers.

To obtain a complete view of the real risks within your virtual environment / cloud, it is very important to perform penetration tests (pentesting) to validate the existing controls, assign defenses and resources to correct the real faults, taking quick actions minimizing the possibility of execution of critical events. Additionally, it generates protection of your business intelligence, data and IT systems, brand and reputation.

Penetration tests (without being limited to) include:

Application programming interface (API) (for example, HTTP / HTTPS) Web and mobile applications hosted by your organization.
Application server and associated language (for example, languages) of programming such as Python, React) Virtual machines and operating systems.
Virtual access control test: Uses a variety of techniques to manipulate virtual network access controls.
Hypervisor penetration test: Exploits the machine’s escape vulnerabilities Virtual to cross the hypervisor layer and gain control over the entire virtual environment.
Virtualization administration attacks: Manipulate and compromise the administration systems.
On-Cloud penetration penetration tests: Focus on the escalation of privileges within the cloud environment.
On-Cloud Application Penetration Testing: Focuses on the identification of vulnerabilities and faults access control within the cloud-based application.

It is crucial to perform the AWS architecture and the attached APIs:

Exploit the EC2 application
Handle AWS AMS keys
Test configuration and S3 permission failures
Establishing access to the private cloud through Lambda functions
Cover logs and / or manipulate logs in CloudTrail

There are more than 1950 services and features only in AWS, are they all being audited and protected in their cloud service?