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-accredited 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? +
For most invasive testing, yes, we handle filings on your behalf where required. Each provider publishes its own customer security-testing policy; we operate within those terms.
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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