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Cloud Security Assessment Services in the USA
Cloud environments change faster than traditional infrastructure. Your attack surface shifts without application code changes.
NuageSEC provides cloud penetration testing and security assessment services for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud environments, using authorized security testing to identify exploitable weaknesses and potential attack paths.
- 1Storage & Exposure
- 2IAM Privilege Chain
- 3Entra / KeyVault
- 4Workload Containment
- AWS, Azure & GCP
- Attack-Path Chaining
- Manual-First Assessment
- Kubernetes & Containers
- US Time-Zone Delivery
What We Assess in Cloud Environments
NuageSEC assesses cloud environments across identity boundaries, workload configurations, exposed interfaces, storage systems, and attack paths to uncover exploitable vulnerabilities.
Identity & Access
Assess relevant identities, permissions, role trust policies and privilege relationships across cloud environments.
Public Exposure
Identify services, ports, management interfaces or resources that are unnecessarily exposed to the internet.
Cloud Storage
Assess relevant cloud storage permissions, object ACLs, encryption policies and accessible attack paths.
Network Security
Evaluate segmentation, security groups, routing policies and network relationships within authorized scope.
Cloud Workloads
Assess relevant virtual machines, containers, serverless components and microservices for exploitable flaws.
Cloud APIs
Validate security around cloud-hosted, cloud-native and cloud-integrated application APIs.
Configuration
Identify security-relevant configuration weaknesses across managed services and identity providers.
Attack Paths
Determine whether multiple weaknesses can be chained into a meaningful, unauthorized compromise path.
NuageSEC's current cloud service explicitly identifies AWS exploitation, Azure privilege escalation, GCP pivots, Kubernetes/container environments, API verification and cross-account trust among its testing areas.
AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Security Testing
The specific testing scope depends on architecture, permissions, objectives and the approved rules of engagement. NuageSEC provides vendor-neutral testing across primary US enterprise cloud platforms.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Assess relevant accounts, IAM relationships, services, storage, workloads and trust relationships.
- IAM privilege escalation and STS AssumeRole trust chains
- S3 bucket permissions, bucket policies and pre-signed URLs
- EC2 instance profile metadata (IMDSv2) validation
- EKS cluster RBAC, pod security and container breakout boundaries
- Lambda serverless execution roles and environment secrets
- Cross-account trust configurations and AWS Organizations boundaries
Microsoft Azure
Assess subscriptions, identities, resource permissions and service exposure.
- Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) roles and tenant permissions
- Azure Key Vault RBAC, access policies and secret retrieval
- Storage Account public endpoints and SAS token scopes
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) pod identities and network policies
- Managed Identities and cross-subscription resource assignments
- Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Azure Bastion configurations
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Assess organizations, projects, identities and relevant cloud-service relationships.
- GCP IAM roles, Service Account keys and impersonation rights
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS) uniform bucket-level access
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Workload Identity configurations
- Cloud Functions and Cloud Run invocation permissions
- VPC Service Controls and perimeter egress policies
- Multi-project hierarchy, folder structures and organization policies
Factual Scope & Vendor Neutrality Notice: NuageSEC provides independent third-party penetration testing and technical assessments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments. These assessments are conducted under client authorization and approved rules of engagement. Testing does not represent or imply official cloud-provider certification, endorsement, or formal sponsorship by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Google.
Cloud Configuration Review vs Cloud Penetration Testing
Understanding the difference between baseline compliance scanning and offensive attack-path validation helps organizations choose the right assessment approach.
Cloud Configuration Review
“Is this cloud configuration securely implemented?”
A configuration review inspects cloud settings, IAM policies, and infrastructure-as-code against security benchmarks like CIS AWS/Azure/GCP baselines.
- Audits resource settings & static IAM permissions CIS Benchmark
- Checks encryption-at-rest & logging flags CloudTrail / KMS
- Compares templates against baseline policies IaC Drift
- Identifies deviations from standard templates CSPM Scan
Cloud Penetration Testing
“Can weaknesses in this environment be combined or exploited to create a meaningful attack path?”
Cloud penetration testing simulates real-world attack scenarios to determine how an adversary can pivot across identities, workloads, and subscriptions.
- Simulates authenticated and external threat actors
- Chains low-severity misconfigurations into compromise
- Validates IAM privilege escalation & metadata theft
- Tests cross-account trust boundaries & data exfiltration
NuageSEC describes cloud penetration testing as simulating real-world attack scenarios rather than relying only on automated configuration scans. Both approaches can be useful; the appropriate assessment depends on the organization's objective.
When US Organizations Should Reassess Cloud Security
Cloud attack surfaces shift whenever architectures, identities, or deployments evolve. Consider testing when your organization experiences key operational milestones:
Major Cloud Migration
When critical workloads or databases move from on-prem to cloud environments.
IAM Architecture Changes
When restructuring roles, federation, SSO, or privileged identity management.
New Public-Facing Services
When standing up new load balancers, public endpoints, or consumer-facing apps.
Significant Network Changes
When updating VPC peering, Transit Gateways, firewall rules, or VPN tunnels.
New APIs or Integrations
When exposing cloud endpoints to third parties, partners, or customer mobile apps.
Container/Kubernetes Deployments
When rolling out new microservices on EKS, AKS, or GKE clusters.
Infrastructure-as-Code Changes
When pushing major Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep template updates.
Security Remediation
When validating that prior cloud audit findings or vulnerabilities were properly resolved.
Application Architecture Changes
When adopting serverless components, distributed queues, or event-driven pipelines.
Pre-Audit Compliance Deadlines
When preparing cloud infrastructure evidence for SOC 2, HIPAA, or CMMC reviews.
NuageSEC's broader guidance emphasizes change-aware security validation for cloud environments rather than treating every configuration change as requiring an identical full-scale penetration test.
Scope Your Cloud Security Assessment
Tell us about your AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts, workloads, and cloud environments. Our offensive cloud engineers will scope an assessment tailored to your business risk.
- Response within 24 hours
- Scoping tailored to your accounts & architectures
- Sample cloud assessment report available
- Strict NDA & confidentiality guaranteed
Ready to Secure Your Business
Against Tomorrow's Threats?
Scope Your Cloud Security Assessment
Tell us about your cloud architecture, accounts, or services — our cloud security team will respond within 24 hours.
What Your Cloud Security Assessment Can Deliver
NuageSEC provides dual-purpose reporting: clear business impact for executive leadership and reproduction steps for DevOps and cloud security engineers.
Executive Cloud Risk Summary
High-level overview of critical cloud posture gaps, systemic exposure patterns, and business impact for executive leadership.
Technical Findings
Exhaustive details on affected cloud resource IDs, ARN references, misconfigured policies, and exact technical context.
Attack-Path Analysis
Step-by-step visual documentation illustrating how an attacker could chain low-severity gaps into high-impact compromise.
Evidence & PoC Records
Supporting technical proof, CLI execution logs, API response payloads, and configuration states validating exploitability.
Risk Matrix
Prioritized severity classification combining asset criticality, likelihood, and contextual exploitability across the cloud environment.
Prioritized Remediation Roadmap
Actionable, cloud-native fixes formatted specifically for DevOps, CloudSec, and engineering teams to patch root causes.
Cloud Security Scorecard
Structured scoring across IAM, storage, workloads, and network controls where included in the scope.
Retesting / Validation
Independent re-testing to verify that remediation successfully broke attack paths and hardened affected resources.
NuageSEC's current cloud service describes executive reporting, technical reporting, attack-path analysis, proof-of-exploitation documentation, risk analysis and remediation planning.
Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers to the most common questions US organizations ask when scoping cloud penetration testing and security assessments.
What is a cloud security assessment?
It is an authorized assessment of cloud environments for security weaknesses involving identities, permissions, configurations, services, workloads, network relationships and potential attack paths.
Which cloud platforms can NuageSEC assess?
NuageSEC's current service identifies AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including multi-cloud and hybrid deployments.
Is cloud security assessment the same as a configuration audit?
No. A configuration review focuses on settings and compliance controls, while penetration-oriented testing validates exploitability, chained attack paths, and true blast radius under simulated adversary conditions.
Can Kubernetes be included?
Yes. NuageSEC's cloud service identifies Kubernetes and container environments among its testing areas, covering EKS, AKS, GKE, pod escape boundaries, and cluster RBAC.
Can API security be part of a cloud assessment?
Yes, where the API environment falls within the authorized scope. NuageSEC frequently tests API Gateways, AppSync, GraphQL, and cloud-native microservice interfaces as part of cloud engagements.
Can cloud findings be retested?
Yes, where retesting is included within the authorized scope of work.
Validate Your Cloud Attack Paths Before They Become Incidents
Find identity weaknesses, exposed services, configuration gaps and chained attack paths across your authorized cloud environment.
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Against Tomorrow's Threats?
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