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Penetration - Innternal Assessment
Penetration - Innternal Assessment
Cloud Penetration Testing is the process of detecting and exploiting security vulnerabilities in
your cloud infrastructure by simulating a controlled cyber-attack. Cloud pentest is performed
under strict guidelines from the cloud service providers like AWS, and GCP.
Cloud penetration testing will examine attack, breach, operability, and recovery issues within a
cloud environment. Different types of cloud penetration testing include:
Internal assessments
Cloud-based security assessment services are able to assess any system that is
accessible via the Internet, but internal assessments by cloud-based security assessment
services often are implemented through the use of managed appliances or software
agents that are deployed within the enterprise.
Service providers should be able to validate that their appliances have the ability to
ensure for the permanent destruction/deletion of all data on the device upon request,
as well as at the end of an assessment.