Cloud Security Testing
Cloud Security Testing
Secure Your Cloud Before a Misconfiguration Becomes a Breach
Cloud environments — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud — are powerful but introduce new misconfiguration risks at scale. A single over-permissioned IAM role, an exposed S3 bucket, or an unsegmented VPC can provide an attacker with access to your entire environment. SIRI Law LLP’s cloud security team conducts in-depth configuration reviews, penetration tests, and attack path simulations across all major cloud platforms.
Overview
Cloud Security Testing: Technical Depth Meets Legal Oversight
Cloud environments are fundamentally different from on-premise infrastructure — perimeter-based security does not apply. The shared responsibility model means customers are responsible for securing what they deploy on top of cloud provider infrastructure, yet most cloud breaches result from customer-side misconfigurations, not provider failures.
Our cloud security assessments go beyond compliance checklists — we model realistic attack scenarios, demonstrate actual exploitation paths, and provide prioritised, platform-specific remediation guidance. Every finding is validated manually, not just from automated scanners.
We assess all major cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, EKS, RDS), Microsoft Azure (Active Directory, Storage, AKS, Functions), and Google Cloud Platform (GCS, GKE, IAM, Cloud Functions). Multi-cloud and hybrid environments are assessed holistically.
AI Cloud Infrastructure Security
Cloud-hosted AI workloads — ML training pipelines, model serving endpoints, SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI — present unique attack surfaces including model extraction risk, training data exposure, and inference endpoint security.
We assess AI cloud infrastructure against AI-specific attack vectors including adversarial input injection via API, model exfiltration through prediction APIs, and data poisoning via compromised training pipelines.
Services Offered
What We Handle
- IAM policy review — least privilege assessment, privilege escalation path mapping
- S3 / Azure Blob / GCS public exposure and access control review
- Network segmentation — VPC, security groups, NACLs, firewall rules
- Serverless security — Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions
- Container and Kubernetes security — EKS, AKS, GKE pod security
- Cloud logging and monitoring coverage — CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Logs
- Secrets management — exposed API keys, credentials in environment variables and code
- Cross-account and cross-tenant attack path analysis
- Cloud-native service security — RDS, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB exposure review
- Serverless function injection and event-triggered attack simulation
- AI/ML workload security — SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI
- Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud security review
- DevOps pipeline security — CI/CD, IaC misconfiguration (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Third-party integration and API gateway security review
Client Benefits
Why Clients Choose SIRI Law LLP
Platform-Agnostic Expertise
Deep hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP — we do not rely on a single cloud vendor’s tooling or perspective.
Exploit-Validated Findings
Every critical finding is demonstrated with a proof-of-concept — you see the actual impact, not just a theoretical risk rating.
Legal Context for Findings
Our cloud findings are framed in terms of regulatory risk (DPDPA, GDPR, PCI DSS) — helping your legal and compliance teams prioritise remediation correctly.
DevSecOps Integration
Findings are mapped to IaC templates and CI/CD pipeline controls — so remediation is systematic, not ad hoc.
Retest Included
All engagements include a complimentary retest of critical and high findings after remediation — confirming vulnerabilities are genuinely closed.
Representative Matters
Typical Engagements
All matters described generically to protect client confidentiality.
AWS Cloud Assessment
Identified 14 critical IAM privilege escalation paths and 3 publicly exposed S3 buckets containing sensitive application data for a financial services company — all remediated within the agreed timeline.
Azure Kubernetes Security
Discovered and demonstrated container escape from a misconfigured AKS pod to cluster-admin access for a SaaS provider — exposing all customer data hosted in the cluster.
GCP MLOps Security
Assessed a machine learning platform’s GCP infrastructure — identifying unauthenticated model inference endpoints and insufficient isolation between customer ML workloads in a multi-tenant deployment.
Multi-Cloud Security Review
Conducted a holistic security review of a hybrid AWS/Azure environment — identifying cross-cloud attack paths enabled by over-permissioned service accounts.
What to Expect
Client Outcomes
Executive Summary + Technical Report
Every engagement delivers a clearly structured report: executive summary, findings with CVSS scores, exploitation evidence, and a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Regulatory Mapping
Findings are mapped to ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and DPDPA controls — so your remediation effort also advances your compliance programme.
Remediation Guidance
Platform-specific remediation guidance for each finding — not generic advice. Our engineers are available to clarify recommendations post-delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a cloud configuration review and a cloud penetration test?
A configuration review examines your cloud environment against security best practices and compliance benchmarks (CIS, AWS Foundations, Azure Security Benchmark) — identifying misconfigurations without active exploitation. A cloud penetration test actively exploits identified weaknesses to demonstrate real attack paths and impact. We recommend combining both for comprehensive coverage.
Which cloud platform is most commonly assessed in your engagements?
AWS is the most frequently assessed platform in our engagements, followed by Azure. However, we have equivalent expertise across GCP, and our multi-cloud assessments are increasingly common as organisations adopt two or more cloud providers.
How long does a cloud security assessment take?
A focused cloud security assessment typically takes 5–10 business days for assessment plus 3–5 days for reporting. Large or complex environments — multiple accounts, significant IAM complexity, AI/ML workloads — may require 15+ days. We scope every engagement before starting.
Ready to Strengthen Your Security Posture?
We begin every engagement with a scoping call — no commitment required.
Also see: All Cybersecurity Services · Compliance & GRC