Cloud Security Testing Services

Cloud Security Assessment

The cloud audit is a “white box” infrastructure review and testing activity. The goals of cloud audit are:

• Check the cloud environment security settings and controls.
• Examine the environment and reveal any security gaps and issues.
• Report on the finding and suggest improvements.

Benefits of Cloud Security Assessment

Regularly performed cloud security assessments enable organizations to:

• Find non-addressed security gaps and issues
• Verify that security controls are implemented in line with industry best practices and a company’s policy
• Plan against the possibility of an outage from a Cloud provider
• Improve the security position and follow the compliance rules

DataArt’s cloud assessment framework consists of four phases:

1. Information gathering. The DataArt’s cloud security assessment team reviews and analyzes clients’ security-related documentation to identify the architecture of the cloud, the types of deployed services, and the security controls used as well as the key people and processes.
2. Interviews. DataArt arranges interviews with the key people responsible for the cloud: network engineers, technical architects, leads of support and maintenance teams, security, and compliance officers.
3. Manual and automated assessment. Our experts perform an automated assessment of the cloud infrastructure to validate the existing security controls. The assessment team also inspects and analyzes the whole setup manually, either via a web console or cloud-provided APIs.
4. Reporting. At the final step of the audit, we collaborate with a client’s cloud team on disputable findings and create an audit report which includes the executive summary section, description of methodology, definition of audit scope, and prioritized overview of issues.

Cloud Penetration Testing

Cloud pentest is a controlled process that simulates a real attack from a malicious user against a system that is hosted on a Cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Microsoft’s Azure). There are three models of cloud services: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and all of them are vulnerable to security breaches and threats.

Why Do You Need a Cloud Pentest?

Your company’s cloud environment may be poorly configured, which can risk the application safety and result in revenue loss for your company. Cloud pentest gives your organization a deeper view of the attack surface your system is exposed to. Moreover, a detailed report with remediation advice will help you to secure your cloud configuration in the future.

DataArt offers a combination of internal and external pentests to survey the infrastructure targets and evaluate your company’s protection level in the cloud. They are not limited to assessing the underlying infrastructure of the application, but it is aimed to test how each application performs and communicates with each other whilst in action. Cloud pentest is focused on the following main sectors:

DataArt’s cloud penetration testers have a wealth of experience across numerous industries for businesses of all sizes across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Find out more about DataArt approach to pentest services.

Cloud Quality Assurance Solution

Security should be embedded into all your applications from the very first day. DataArt’s cloud quality assurance service guarantees the development process and solution itself meets client’s security standards and applicable compliance requirements. Besides, with the help of cloud quality assurance, one can check whether the solution implementation is subject to the best security practices and whether it is sufficiently protected from potential threats and attacks.

Depending on the client’s needs, DataArt experts distinguish cloud testing services for the entire public, private and hybrid clouds and for specific cloud features.

• Whole cloud testing encompasses cloud analysis as a whole entity, including its specification and features.
• Within-a-cloud testing presupposes testing of the particular internal cloud features.
• SaaS testing includes functional and non-functional testing of the cloud-driven SaaS.

Core Components of Cloud Testing

• Identity and access management. Ensure all users in your organization have right roles and appropriate accesses.
• Compute and container security. Protect all the container components, including infrastructure, apps, and other elements, from potential risks.
• Data protection in transit and at rest. Protect both transferred and inactive datasets from external disruptions.
• Secure remote and administrative access. Prevent unauthorized accesses to your system.
• Audit log and real-time security monitoring. Enjoy the monitoring tool benefits to log events and get alerts in real-time.
• Attack detection and response mechanisms. Mitigate the attack risks and be ready to respond to any possible injections.
• Security backups and disaster recovery plan. Maintain businesses continuity and sustainability by being ready to react to a security incident.
• Compliance with regulatory requirements. Assure you follow the instructions to protect sensitive information.

Types of Cloud Security Testing

Apart from finding non-addressed security gaps and issues, DataArt verifies that security controls are implemented in line with the company’s policy. For this, we use two types of cloud security testing:

• Manual
• Automated

Cloud Security Testing Tools

The efficient compilation of cloud-specific security guides and tools allows to run cloud security tests successfully.

Guides

Tools