Although cloud providers are providing more powerful security safeguards, you are ultimately responsible for securing your company’s cloud workloads. The top cloud security problems, according to the 2019 Cloud Security Report, are data loss and data privacy, followed by compliance concerns and concerns about inadvertent credential disclosure. This is when cloud penetration testing might come in handy.

Cloud Pen Testing is the permitted simulation of a cyberattack on a system hosted on a cloud provider, such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and others. Its primary goal is to identify the dangers and weaknesses of a system housed on a cloud platform so that you can determine how secure it truly is. A shared accountability paradigm is also required for cloud app pen-testing.

An organization can serve as both a provider and a tenant for certain consumers.

• Provider: The organization that constructs and manages the cloud environment and delivers metered services to one or more tenants is known as the provider.
• Tenant: A tenant is an entity that uses the cloud provider’s metered service.

Cloud Service Models

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): The cloud provider provides hardware and network connections. The tenant is responsible for the virtual machine and everything that runs on it.
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): The provider provides all of the components needed to operate the application, while the tenant provides the application.

Cloud penetration testing is possible in PaaS and IaaS settings if you collaborate with the cloud service provider. It is worth noting that there is a third option: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In this situation, the provider provides the application as well as all of the components needed to operate it. Penetration testing is not permitted in the SaaS environment due to the impact on infrastructure.

Understand the Cloud Service Provider’s Policies

Aside from private clouds, public clouds have security testing rules. You must tell the provider that you intend to do penetration testing and adhere to the limitations on what you may really execute during the testing.

Many public cloud providers have a certain procedure that must be followed. Failure to follow the procedure might land you in serious danger. For example, if your testing results in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, your account may be suspended.

The public cloud is multi-tenant. Your penetration testing may potentially consume so many resources that it interferes with other tenants in the cloud. There are regulations for this, so before you do it, make sure you follow the legal requirements, regulations, and processes.

Make a Plan For Penetration Testing

ZOFixer.com security scan helps to find vulnerabilities and run pen-testing on cloud services, you can easily use it by registering on our website and activating the 30-day trial.

ZOFixer security scan tool helps you in this process and examines many of your high and medium risk vulnerabilities and provides solutions that are compatible with new technologies.

The following is a checklist of some standard and advanced tests that are available in ZOFixer services.

Information Gathering

• .env Information Leak
• .htaccess Information Leak
• Backup File Disclosure
• Cookie Slack Detector
• Directory Browsing
• ELMAH Information Leak
• Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
• Hidden File Finder
• Possible Username Enumaration
• Proxy Disclosure
• Remote Code Execution
• Source Code Disclosure
• Trace .axd Information Leak
• Port Scan

Injection

• Advance SQL Injection
• Buffer Overflow
• Cloud Metadata Potentialy Exposed
• CRLF Injection
• Cross Site Injection (Persistent)
• Cross Site Injection (Persistent) – Prime
• Cross Site Injection (Persistent) – Spider
• Cross Site Injection (Reflected)
• Expression Language Injection
• Format String Error
• HTTP Parameter Pollution
• Integer Overflow Error
• Parameter Tampering
• Remote OS Command Injection
• Server Side Code Injection
• Server Side Include
• SQL Injection
• SQL Injection – Hypersonic SQL
• Advance SQL Injection
• Buffer Overflow
• Cloud Metadata Potentialy Exposed
• CRLF Injection
• Cross Site Injection (Persistent)
• Cross Site Injection (Persistent) – Prime
• Cross Site Injection (Persistent) – Spider
• Cross Site Injection (Reflected)
• Expression Language Injection
• Format String Error
• HTTP Parameter Pollution
• Integer Overflow Error
• Parameter Tampering
• Remote OS Command Injection
• Server Side Code Injection
• Server Side Include
• SQL Injection
• SQL Injection – Hypersonic SQL
• SQL Injection – MsSQL
• SQL Injection – MySQL
• SQL Injection – Oracle
• SQL Injection – Postgre SQL
• SQL Injection – SQLite
• XML External Entity Attack
• XPath Injection
• XSLT Injection
• SOAP XML Injection
• Cross Site Scripting (DOM Based)

Server Security

• Anti-CSRF Tokens Check
• Cross Domain Misconfiguration
• HTTpoxy – Proxy Header Misuse
• Insecure HTTP Method
• Path Traversal
• Relative Path Confusion
• Remote Code Execution – Shell Shock
• Remote File Inclusion