Cloud Vulnerability Assessment: Evaluating AWS, Azure, and GCP Configurations

Configuration Assessment

Cloud vulnerability assessment evaluates resource configurations against security benchmarks—CIS Benchmarks, provider-specific best practices, and compliance framework requirements. IAM policies for least-privilege violations, storage permissions for public access, network rules for overpermissive access, encryption settings, and logging configurations all fall within scope.

CSPM for Continuous Cloud Assessment

Cloud Security Posture Management tools provide continuous configuration assessment—monitoring for drift, new misconfigurations, and non-compliant resources as they appear. This is the continuous assessment layer that operates between periodic manual testing cycles.

Beyond Configuration: Cloud Pentesting

Configuration assessment identifies misconfigurations. Cloud penetration testing validates whether those misconfigurations are exploitable—attempting privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data access to demonstrate real-world impact. Penetrify's cloud testing provides both layers: automated configuration assessment and manual exploitation testing with compliance-mapped reporting.

Multi-Cloud Assessment

Organisations running multiple cloud providers need unified assessment that covers provider-specific configurations and cross-cloud integration points. Penetrify's multi-cloud testing evaluates AWS, Azure, and GCP in a single engagement with unified reporting.