AWS, Azure & GCP Assessments
Platform-specific cloud security assessments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, combining configuration review with penetration testing where in scope.
Each major cloud platform has its own attack model. AWS IAM, Azure AD / Entra, and GCP Workload Identity look superficially similar but behave very differently under attacker pressure. Platform-specific assessments combine deep configuration review with active attack-path testing using the techniques that platform-specialist consultants, not generic cloud testers, actually exercise.
Engagements typically cover one tenant or account family per platform. We work from authenticated credentials provisioned for the engagement and exercise the realistic attack chains: IAM privilege escalation, cross-account trust abuse, service-account compromise, container and serverless escape paths, and exfiltration to attacker-controlled storage.
Where you run multi-cloud, engagements can stitch platforms together, important because the most damaging recent cloud breaches have involved attackers moving across platforms.
What's at stake.
Configuration testing alone misses attack paths
A configuration review tells you what is misconfigured. An attack-path test tells you what an attacker can do with those misconfigurations, usually more than the standalone findings would suggest.
Each platform fails differently
AWS escalation typically runs through IAM trust paths; Azure through Entra and consent grants; GCP through workload identity and service-account impersonation. Platform-specific testing matters.
What we test.
Platform review
Deep configuration analysis aligned to CIS Benchmarks and provider-published security baselines.
- IAM and identity
- Service configuration
- Network segmentation
- Storage and database posture
- Logging and monitoring
- Key management and encryption
Attack-path testing
Active testing of the chains real attackers actually exercise, including cross-account, cross-tenant, and cross-region paths.
- Privilege escalation
- Lateral movement (where permitted)
- Data exfiltration paths
- Cross-account / cross-tenant exposure
- Container and serverless escape
- Pipeline / CI-CD trust abuse
A structured, intelligence-led path through every engagement.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path through the Velocity platform, so quality, traceability, and reporting are consistent across teams.
Scoping
Define assets, environments, Rules of Engagement, and acceptance criteria with the technical and security stakeholders.
Execution
Manual and tool-assisted testing by CREST-registered consultants, with evidence captured at each step.
Validation
Every finding is reproduced, risk-rated under CVSS, and confirmed by a second consultant before reporting.
Reporting
Cryptographically signed reports with test-case traceability, severity ratings, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance.
Debrief & Retest
Stakeholder walk-through of findings, prioritisation support, and a retest cycle on remediated issues.
Mapped to recognised baselines.
Common buyer questions.
Will you actually exploit findings in our production cloud?
Under written Rules of Engagement, with abort criteria, and with the white team briefed in advance, yes, where exploitation is the only way to validate the finding. Where the risk is acceptable from review alone, we do not.
Do we need to file a notification with the cloud provider?
Usually not for the testing itself, though the rules differ by provider and by activity, and you must always be authorised by the owner of every in-scope asset. AWS permits testing of its listed services without prior AWS approval, and Azure and Google Cloud require no advance notification, each subject to their published rules. Some activities are treated differently: AWS asks to be contacted at least two weeks ahead for command-and-control hosting, red, blue and purple team exercises, volumetric or stress testing, simulated phishing and malware testing, and we file those requests before testing starts. Denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service testing is prohibited outright; simulated DoS or DDoS is governed by a separate AWS DDoS Simulation Testing policy rather than the penetration-testing one, so it is scoped and approved separately or not at all. We confirm the current provider policy for every in-scope service during scoping.
Can you test multi-cloud and hybrid environments?
Yes. Most regional enterprises now run multi-cloud, typically AWS plus Azure, with GCP for analytics. Multi-cloud engagements add cross-platform attack-path testing as a deliberate scope element.
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Who contracts and delivers this service
Vantage Point Security Group delivers through three separately registered companies. Which one contracts, scopes, invoices and delivers depends on the market the work is bought in — each holds its own licences in its own name.
Singapore — Vantage Point Security Pte. Ltd.
Thailand — Vantage Point Security (Thailand) Company Limited
Indonesia — PT. Vantage Point Security Indonesia
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