Andersen runs cloud security testing and offensive security assessments for financial, healthcare, and SaaS organizations, helping teams identify flaws and reduce exposure.
Cloud Penetration Testing Services
Andersen delivers cloud penetration testing services that simulate real world attack scenarios on AWS, Azure, and GCP to expose IAM flaws and attack routes. Certified testers turn results into remediation guidance that reduces exposure and supports SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits. Unlike automated scanning, cloud pentesting does not stop at flagging misconfigurations — testers exploit them to prove real attack paths.
Andersen's cloud penetration testing expertise in numbers
Our certified engineers conduct penetration testing and cloud pentesting with commercial and open source tools, giving customers evidence, not scanner output.
Across these engagements we have tested AWS, Azure, and GCP environments in regulated industries, delivering exploit-verified findings and remediation guidance.
Cloud penetration testing services we offer
Our cloud penetration testing service for SaaS teams covers EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS. Andersen exposes IAM escalation, exposed buckets, and security-group flaws before attackers reach customer data.
What we test:
- IAM roles, policies, and privilege escalation paths;
- S3 bucket exposure, Lambda functions, and API Gateway configurations;
- Security groups, VPC boundaries, and lateral movement across the account.
Azure penetration testing for enterprise teams on Entra ID, AKS, and Azure Storage. Andersen validates identity and network controls to determine how a threat actor reaches sensitive information.
Coverage includes:
- Entra ID role assignments and security gaps;
- Storage account exposure and key management weaknesses;
- AKS, virtual network, and privilege escalation paths.
GCP penetration testing for engineering teams on GKE, Cloud Storage, and IAM-managed projects. We test project trust and service account abuse to reveal how threat actors reach production data.
What we examine:
- Service account impersonation and IAM binding review;
- Cloud Storage bucket permissions and public exposure;
- GKE workload isolation and cross-project trust paths.
Cloud IAM testing for security teams managing complex role hierarchies. Andersen maps every path from a low-privilege identity to admin control, so you revoke the credentials attackers abuse.
Testing scope:
- Role, group, and policy analysis across accounts and projects;
- Privilege escalation chains and token abuse;
- Federated identity and cross-account trust review.
Cloud misconfiguration testing for platform teams scaling fast. We combine configuration reviews with active exploitation to prove which cloud misconfigurations create real exploit paths.
We validate:
- Public storage, open ports, and exposed management interfaces;
- Logging, encryption, and network segmentation gaps;
- Attack-path validation from misconfiguration to data access.
Cloud application and API penetration testing for teams shipping applications on serverless and container platforms. We test authentication, authorization, and business logic to stop unauthorized access to customer data.
Assessment scope:
- Authentication, session, and token handling across roles;
- Broken object-level authorization and API abuse;
- Serverless and container workload security.
Andersen tests organizations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, probing provider trust boundaries in cloud architectures to expose how a threat actor pivots between clouds.
What we cover:
- Cross-provider identity federation and trust review;
- Inconsistent controls and policy drift across clouds;
- Pivot paths between AWS, Azure, and GCP workloads.
When a configuration review fits better — for example, pre-production with no live data — Andersen scopes a lighter cloud review instead of a full test.
Get cloud penetration testing services scoped to your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
Certifications and partnerships
Andersen's cloud security engineers hold cloud provider and security certifications aligned to recognized industry standards, validating security posture and remediation quality.
Benefits of cloud penetration testing
Prioritised cloud security findings
Andersen ranks every result by severity and exploitability, so your team fixes top exposures first, not scanner noise.
Expert-validated exploitability and impact
Each vulnerability is manually exploited to prove potential impact, giving you evidence-backed exposure instead of theoretical CVSS scores and a prioritized remediation path.
Clear remediation guidance
Findings include step-by-step remediation mapped to IAM policies, configurations, and services, producing audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.
Validated security improvements through retesting
A free retest confirms fixes close the issues, documenting a measurable drop in exploitable exposure before sign-off.
Better visibility into cloud attack paths
You receive an attack-path map across your cloud environment showing how an attacker reaches sensitive data, improving security posture.
Meet our expert
Vladimir Pedchenko
Senior Director of Managed Services and Security
15+
Years in IT Ops and Security
150+
Active service contracts
99.99%
Uptime for 10% of SLAs
At Andersen, Vladimir leads IT operations and security services, keeping customer systems secure and stable.
- Builds and leads high-performing and scalable IT teams;
- Ensures reliability and resilience across critical systems;
- Leads large-scale transformations and process improvements.
What our clients say
Why choose Andersen for cloud penetration testing
Andersen combines certified offensive security experts with hands-on cloud engineering to deliver cloud penetration testing services that produce verifiable results.
Certified cloud offensive security experts
Andersen's testers hold OSCP, CEH, and GXPN certifications and perform cloud-based pentesting against live AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, with validation from accreditation bodies.
Cloud expertise combined with software engineering
Our teams pair cloud security testing with software engineering, so every finding maps to a specific service your engineers already own and knows how the fix should be built.
Business-impact-focused risk assessment
Andersen ranks results by exploitability and impact, regardless of cloud complexity, turning vulnerabilities into a security review that gives leadership the advantage of confident budgeting.
Compliance-ready reporting and remediation
Reports map results to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA requirements, giving audit-ready evidence with reproduction steps, remediation guidance, and ownership for closing each security gap.
How we run a cloud penetration test
Andersen defines scope, target accounts, and a threat model with your security and cloud teams, prioritizing business-critical services and likely threat actors.
- Target accounts, regions, and services agreed with stakeholders;
- Threat model built around your data, users, and attack surface;
- Approved scope document with objectives and exclusions.
Our cloud penetration testing standards and frameworks
OWASP-aligned cloud security testing
For pentesting cloud services, we apply OWASP cloud and API guidance to authentication, authorization, and configuration, so findings map to controls developers can act on.
NIST SP 800-115 penetration testing methodology
Our testing methodology follows the NIST SP 800-115 stages — planning, discovery, attack, and reporting — giving you repeatable, defensible evidence for auditors.
PTES-based cloud penetration testing
We run PTES phases against cloud workloads, from intelligence gathering to exploitation, covering the full attack lifecycle, not just scanning.
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FAQ
It is a manual, goal-driven security assessment where certified testers exploit real weaknesses in AWS, Azure, and GCP — across IAM, storage, network, and application layers — to prove business risk before attackers do, then deliver prioritized remediation guidance.
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What happens next?
An expert reaches out to you after having delved into your requirements;
If requested, we sign an NDA to guarantee the highest privacy level;
Andersen submits a comprehensive project proposal containing estimates and timelines.
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