Comprehensive Methodology for Penetration Testing Cloud Environments to Assess Trust Boundaries
This article from Kaspersky Security Services presents a detailed overview of penetration testing strategies specific to cloud environments, focusing on assessing trust boundaries and tenant isolation. It introduces a three-layer model (External, Overlay, Underlay) metaphorically likened to a hotel structure, emphasizing that effective pentesting in cloud platforms must go beyond finding vulnerabilities in external interfaces and instead verify whether attackers can cross trust boundaries to access or affect other tenants' data and provider resources. The piece highlights the complexity of cloud architectures, the variability in implementations across providers, and common pitfalls in cloud security testing. It sets forth a practical attacker model, various trust zones, and stages to confirm isolation breaches, stressing the importance of validating impact in an ethical and controlled manner. This methodology is vendor-agnostic and considers a multitude of attack vectors, including managed services, Kubernetes pods, and IAM service accounts.
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This article from Kaspersky Security Services presents a detailed overview of penetration testing strategies specific to cloud environments, focusing on assessing trust boundaries and tenant isolation. It introduces a three-layer model (External, Overlay, Underlay) metaphorically likened to a hotel structure, emphasizing that effective pentesting in cloud platforms must go beyond finding vulnerabilities in external interfaces and instead verify whether attackers can cross trust boundaries to access or affect other tenants' data and provider resources. The piece highlights the complexity of cloud architectures, the variability in implementations across providers, and common pitfalls in cloud security testing. It sets forth a practical attacker model, various trust zones, and stages to confirm isolation breaches, stressing the importance of validating impact in an ethical and controlled manner. This methodology is vendor-agnostic and considers a multitude of attack vectors, including managed services, Kubernetes pods, and IAM service accounts.