Cloud Computing
Cloud computing, which involves the transfer or development of applications or entire parts of the company information system in remote environments managed by external suppliers, represents one of the most significant technological evolutions of recent years. Although cloud services offer benefits in terms of flexibility, scalability, cost reduction and ease of management, they require special attention.
The distributed nature of these infrastructures introduces greater levels of complexity and involves new intermediaries in the management and control chain.
Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment Cloud
In addition to internal vulnerabilities, which can be managed through appropriate analysis, the Cloud exposes additional access points to potential cybercriminals.
Cyber attacks can come from both outside and inside the cloud. Threats can come from external attackers, such as hackers or cybercriminals, or from insiders, such as rogue employees or consultants within the provider's structure, or from other users sharing the same cloud environment. This latter risk, known as threat from other cloud users, is particularly dangerous as it depends on elements outside the company's control. Therefore, performing a Vulnerability Assessment and a Penetration Test specific to the Cloud is essential, also to address threats that transcend the good practices implemented.
Security risks in the Cloud apply to any type of service, whether Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Cloud security service by Safecore
Safecore has extensive experience in cloud implementation and security. We cover all the security aspects of platforms based on the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba), as well as that of infrastructures based on private clouds (Private Cloud) or hybrids (Hybrid Cloud). Our know-how allows us to effectively evaluate a cloud infrastructure as it is implemented, up to the more complex and general aspects concerning the security of the architecture and the containment and mitigation of the risk scenarios typical of this paradigm.
How do Pt and Va work for the Cloud?
Safecore makes your own comprehensive package of Dedicated Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Test on all components of the cloud structure: front-end, REST services, ancillary services, network and network management, analysis of specific instances and templates, up to the revision of the configurations of the individual tenants.
Our specialists therefore turn their attention to the Cloud "container", to verify that the monitoring, logging, IAM, network or other settings are in line with the hardening best practices. This complete Cloud Assessment allows you to identify all potential threats, both deriving from internal security risks, such as poor application of good practices, and deriving from weaknesses in the Cloud service, intrinsic or caused, for example, by other realities that share the same service.
How do Pt and Va happen for the Cloud?
As with any other analysis service offered by Safecore, the experts agree with the customer the safety tests to be carried out, both on the basis of the specific needs of the company and on the basis of a preliminary analysis. Our analysis and verification services cover all the potential weaknesses of Cloud services.
The parameters to simulate a potential hazard
Various parameters can be used to simulate different potential risk conditions. Among the main ones:
- Attack Source: Replicate and analyze attacks from outsiders, insiders, and suspicious tenants.
- Operating methods based on available information or resources. We start from the black-box mode, without any prior knowledge of the infrastructure to be tested, passing through the gray-box mode, with partial information such as user credentials, up to the white-box mode, with full knowledge of the implementation details, architectural schemes, etc.
This type of cloud security assessment allows you to identify potential attack points and vulnerabilities in the infrastructure. After this initial phase of analysis, the specialists of Safecore they will provide the customer with the remediation strategies necessary to guarantee the security of the company Cloud and prevent future vulnerabilities.
Purpose and architecture of the service
PURPOSE
Cloud security assessments interrogate your cloud environment to identify misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities that expose your organization to undue risk.
Common misconfigurations include excessive access and permissions granted to roles and users, publicly accessible cloud storage, and lack of logging and monitoring.
Safecore Leverage our in-house AWS security experts to take a hands-on look at your AWS accounts to validate adherence to AWS security best practices.
ARCHITECTURE
A secure architecture and infrastructure of cloud applications are essential for data protection. Security must be implemented already in the design and development phase to be effective and then re-verified at regular intervals as the architecture grows, adapts and matures. This effectiveness is also cost-effective since integrating security into a cloud architecture too late is costly and time consuming. Each member of our team has extensive experience in both software engineering and cloud security and it is thanks to this knowledge that we carry out a quality and specific security assessment with respect to the technologies used by the customer.
output
The result delivered to the client will consist of a detailed and clear report illustrating the conclusions reached by the team, summarizing the results of the analysis conducted. In particular, the report is structured into three main thematic sections:
Non-technical summary of the analysis carried out and the current security situation in the cloud infrastructure. This document is designed for Management.
Section intended for the Security Manager: focuses on the specific aspects of the analysis. In this part, the vulnerabilities detected within the cloud infrastructure are exposed in detail, together with their potential influence on the application.
Technical section aimed at System Administrators, which includes detailed instructions on how to address and resolve the problems and vulnerabilities identified in the cloud infrastructure.
Who can benefit?
Penetration Test and Vulnerability Assessment for the Cloud are available to any company and organization using public cloud infrastructure and platform providers and related services (based on OpenStack, Azure, Google Cloud or AWS) to control associated risks and follow industry best practices, such as those suggested by the Cloud Security Alliance.
