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// 04 — CLOUD

Cloud Security
Assessment

Comprehensive security review and adversarial testing of AWS, Azure, and GCP environments — identifying misconfigurations, IAM weaknesses, and exploitation paths before attackers do.

AWSAzureGCPEntra IDIAM ReviewPrivilege EscalationS3 ExposureIMDS Abuse
Overview

Cloud environments introduce a fundamentally different attack surface — one where a single misconfigured IAM policy, public S3 bucket, or overly permissive service principal can expose an entire estate. Our cloud security assessments combine automated configuration review with manual adversarial testing to identify and exploit real attack paths.

We support AWS, Microsoft Azure (including Entra ID / Azure AD), and Google Cloud Platform, delivering assessments against CIS Cloud Benchmarks and cloud-provider security frameworks. Our approach goes beyond configuration scanning — we attempt to actually exploit the issues we find, demonstrating realistic business impact.

Cloud and identity misconfigurations are often invisible to traditional security teams. We bring cloud-native attacker tooling and Entra ID expertise to surface the paths that your own teams may not have considered — including hybrid attack paths that bridge on-premises environments into the cloud.

Testing Methodology
01

Identity & Access Management Review

Comprehensive analysis of IAM users, roles, policies, and permission boundaries. We identify over-permissive policies, wildcard permissions, unused credentials, privilege escalation paths, and cross-account trust relationships.

02

Storage & Data Exposure

Enumeration of S3 buckets, Azure Blob storage, and GCS buckets for public access, insecure ACLs, and sensitive data exposure. We test object-level permissions, bucket policy configurations, and data classification in exposed stores.

03

Compute & Network Security

Review of EC2/VM configurations, security groups, network ACLs, VPC peering, and exposed management ports. We assess metadata service (IMDS) exposure and instance profile permission abuse to escalate privileges.

04

Serverless & Container Services

Assessment of Lambda functions, ECS/EKS configurations, and cloud-native container services for privilege escalation, environment variable secrets exposure, and over-permissive execution roles.

05

Logging & Monitoring Gaps

Review of CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, and GCP Cloud Audit Logs configuration — identifying gaps in detective controls that would allow an attacker to operate undetected within your cloud environment.

06

Adversarial Privilege Escalation

Practical exploitation of identified weaknesses to demonstrate privilege escalation from low-privileged access to administrative control, including cross-service and cross-account attack chains.

07

Entra ID / Azure AD Assessment

Enumeration of Entra ID RBAC assignments, service principal permissions, managed identities, conditional access policy gaps, and OAuth application consent abuse. We identify lateral movement paths from cloud identities into Azure resources and — where hybrid connectivity exists — back into on-premises environments.

08

Reporting & Remediation

Findings delivered with full evidence, risk ratings, and cloud-provider-specific remediation guidance. Terraform/policy snippets provided where applicable to accelerate remediation.

What Makes Levantis Different

We don't just run configuration scanners and hand you the output. Our operators understand cloud IAM deeply and approach each assessment as an attacker — attempting to chain misconfigurations into meaningful access rather than reporting them as isolated findings.

We produce cloud-native remediation guidance, including corrected IAM policies, Terraform snippets, and Service Control Policy examples — so your engineering teams can fix issues quickly without needing to research the solution themselves.

// Coverage Areas

  • IAM Policy Analysis
  • Entra ID / Azure AD Review
  • Public S3 / Blob Exposure
  • Metadata Service (IMDS) Abuse
  • Security Group Review
  • Secrets in Environment Variables
  • Cross-Account Trust Abuse
  • CloudTrail Gap Analysis
  • Serverless Permission Review

// Tooling

  • ScoutSuite
  • Pacu (AWS exploitation)
  • Prowler
  • ROADtools / AADInternals
  • AWS/AZ/gcloud CLI
  • Custom IAM scripts

// Standards

  • CIS AWS / Azure / GCP Benchmarks
  • CSA Cloud Controls Matrix
  • AWS Well-Architected Security
  • NIST SP 800-144

// Typical Duration

  • Single cloud account/tenancy (config review): 4-5 days
  • With adversarial testing: 8–10 days
  • Multi-cloud: 12–20 days

*Engagement duration dependent on cloud resources and services in use

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Cloud misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud security incidents. Find your exposure before an attacker does — with a manual, adversarial cloud assessment.

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