SUZU Offensive Security Solutions

Cloud Penetration Testing

Misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed storage, and identity drift introduce silent risk across cloud environments. Suzu Labs Cloud Penetration Testing simulates real-world attacker paths through AWS, Azure, and GCP to demonstrate how cloud assets can actually be compromised, helping you remediate what matters before it's exploited.

See How Attackers Move Through Your Cloud

Cloud risk isn't just about open ports, it's about identity abuse, lateral movement, and chaining misconfigurations. We test IAM roles, storage controls, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, serverless functions, and hybrid connectivity to uncover realistic escalation paths across your environment.

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How We Test

We focus on exploitability, not checklist reviews, so findings reflect real attacker behavior across your cloud estate.

Storage & Data Exposure


Public buckets, snapshot leakage, backup access, and data exfiltration paths.

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Compute & Container Security

Misconfigured VM instances, container breakout risks, and Kubernetes control weaknesses.

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CI/CD & DevOps Pipelines

Pipeline injection, secrets exposure, and build system compromise testing.


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External Attack Surface

Discovery of exposed services, shadow IT assets, and forgotten cloud instances.



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IAM & Identity Security

IAM policy misconfigurations, overprivileged roles, cross-account trust abuse, and privilege escalation paths from low-privilege identities to administrative access. 

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Hybrid & Cross-Environment Access

VPN tunnels, Direct Connect links, peering configurations, cross-account access paths, and on-prem pivot paths that turn a foothold in one environment into broad compromise.

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PHYSICAL LAYER DEFENSE

Hardware Hacking

This usually comes up when something is on the line. A new device launch, customer trust, or protecting intellectual property.

We evaluate the security of your hardware and embedded systems to ensure they can’t be easily exploited, cloned, or manipulated in the real world.

  • When you’re shipping devices or relying on connected technology, unseen risks can lead to real consequences. From customer trust issues to expensive fixes. We help you catch those issues before they impact your business.
  • What We Hack: SCADA, IoT, OT, Vehicles, Embedded Systems.
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Questions

Cloud Penetration Testing FAQs

Yes and beyond.  We test across all major cloud  providers, regardless of hybrid and multi-cloud  environments. If your cloud provider doesn't include a blanket testing agreement within their  Terms of Service, we can help you with securing  testing authorization.

Where appropriate. Credentialed and white-box testing increases depth when validating IAM and configuration controls.

Testing is carefully coordinated to minimize impact while still demonstrating real exploitability.

 

Findings are delivered live as they're discovered, with attack-path context and prioritization. Your team doesn't wait weeks for a PDF to learn what's already exploitable.

 

It depends on the engagement model. For black-box testing, we work from the outside with no credentials. For white-box or gray-box testing, we typically request read-only IAM credentials, access to the cloud console, and documentation of your architecture if available. We walk through all of this during the scoping call so your team knows exactly what to prepare.

Cloud security posture management tools and configuration audits flag policy violations and known misconfigurations. A penetration test goes further by proving what an attacker can actually do with those misconfigurations. We chain findings together into real attack paths - demonstrating how an overprivileged role combined with an exposed storage bucket leads to a full account takeover, not just listing each issue in isolation.

Most engagements run one to three weeks depending on the number of accounts, services, and complexity of the environment. We provide a clear timeline during scoping. If we discover a critical finding that poses an imminent threat, we escalate it to your team immediately.

The report is the beginning, not the end. You get a live debrief with the operators who ran the engagement, walking through every finding, its real-world impact, and specific remediation steps. If your team needs hands-on help remediating, we can work alongside your engineers to close the gaps. Once fixes are in place, we conduct retesting to verify they’re resolved.

Cloud Penetration Testing vs. Network Penetration Testing

Cloud Penetration Testing Network Penetration Testing
Scope Focuses on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, storage, compute, and networking Focuses on on-premise networks, servers, firewalls, VPNs, and internal systems
Primary Objective Identify improper configuration, excessive permissions, exposed storage, and cloud identity risks Identify weaknesses that allow unauthorized network access or lateral movement
Attack Surface IAM roles, security groups, storage buckets, container services, serverless functions, APIs Open ports, outdated services, weak segmentation, remote access systems
Testing Approach Simulates a cloud-focused attacker abusing identity, permissions, and misconfigurations Simulates an attacker attempting to gain a network foothold and move laterally
Impact if Compromised Large-scale data exposure, cross-account access, cloud environment takeover Domain compromise, ransomware deployment, internal system access
Best For Organizations operating in AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments Organizations validating traditional network and internal infrastructure security

Verified expertise

Validate defenses. Reduce exposure.

Penetration Testing

What It Is: We don't just scan for vulnerabilities; we exploit them safely to prove where your defenses might fail. Our offensive security experts simulate real-world attacks to identify complex misconfigurations and logic flaws across your entire infrastructure.

 

  • Full-Spectrum Testing: Deep dives into web apps, internal/external networks, and cloud environments.
  • Risk-Based Analysis: Understand exactly how an attacker could move laterally through your systems.
  • Continuous Validation: Transition from periodic "check-the-box" audits to a culture of constant defensive improvement.
  • What We Test: Web-App, Mobile App, API, External Network, Internal Network, WIFI, Cloud, IoT, Physical.
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PHYSICAL LAYER DEFENSE

Hardware Hacking

What It Is: Modern attacks don’t stop at software. We analyze firmware, embedded systems, and IoT devices to uncover security gaps at the hardware level. From side-channel testing to reverse engineering, our hardware security services safeguard critical infrastructure and consumer technology alike.

  • Move beyond software patches by identifying vulnerabilities in firmware and embedded systems that traditional scanners miss, ensuring your hardware is secure from the first boot.
  • We simulate advanced attack vectors like side-channel analysis and reverse engineering to ensure your critical infrastructure and consumer tech can withstand hands-on exploitation.
  • Protect your brand and your users by uncovering hidden gaps in interconnected devices, preventing your hardware from becoming an easy entry point for larger network breaches.
  • What We Hack: SCADA, IoT, OT, Vehicles, Embedded Systems.
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OFFENSE AND DEFENSE SYNERGY

Purple Team Exercises

What It Is: High-impact collaborative engagements where our offensive experts (Red) and defensive (Blue) teams work side by side to test detection and response capabilities, turning findings into immediate improvements.

  • Targeted Exploitation: We move beyond basic scanning to emulate specific TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) used by modern threat actors, ensuring your defenses are tested against actual adversary behavior.
  • Closing the Detection Gap: By mapping offensive actions to your specific security telemetry in real-time, we identify exactly where visibility fails and provide the code-level fixes to bridge those gaps.
  • Operational Resilience: We don't just find vulnerabilities; we use offensive data to build "detection-as-code," giving your team the playbooks needed to stop sophisticated lateral movement and data exfiltration.
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PROVING DEFENSIVE EFFICACY

ThreatSIM — Attack Simulation & Service Validation

What It Is: ThreatSIM is our proprietary platform designed to simulate MITRE ATT&CK®–based adversary behaviors safely within client environments. Unlike point-in-time tests, ThreatSIM continuously validates the effectiveness of your security stack, your SOC, and your MSSP’s detection and response capabilities.

  • Move beyond static testing with ongoing simulations that verify your security stack, SOC, and MSSP are detecting and blocking threats in real time.
  • Safely emulate real-world adversary behaviors within your environment to ensure your defenses are tuned against the most current and relevant global attack tactics.
  • Eliminate guesswork by gathering concrete data on how well your existing tools and service providers perform, allowing you to bridge gaps before a real breach occurs.
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If there’s a way in, we’ll find it first.

A patch is a start, but it isn't a strategy. Connect with our offensive security specialists to identify the logic flaws and lateral movement paths that put your critical assets at risk. Let’s build a roadmap to true resilience.

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