Google Cloud (GCP) Penetration Testing
Our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) penetration testing service identifies configuration and other security issues on your Google Cloud infrastructure and provides actionable recommendations to improve your GCP security posture.
Improve GCP Security
Reduce organizational risk and improve Google cloud security
Whether you are migrating to Google Cloud, developing cloud native applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GCP penetration testing helps you find security gaps that create security exposure and risk.
During GCP penetration tests, NetSPI identifies vulnerabilities, exposed credentials, and security misconfigurations that allow our expert GCP pentesters to access restricted resources, elevate user privilege, and expose sensitive data on GCP. Our penetration testing service goes beyond configuration review and automated scanning to manually exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to identify actual security gaps.
Deliverables include a GCP penetration testing report with prioritized vulnerabilities, and actionable guidance to help you reduce risk and secure your GCP attack surface.
Our GCP pentesters follow manual and automated pentesting processes that use commercial, open source, and proprietary penetration testing tools to evaluate your GCP infrastructure from the perspective of anonymous and authenticated users.
Review
Our expert GCP pentesters evaluate the configurations of your Google Cloud Platform services and the IAM policies applied to those services. Misconfigurations can lead to significant security gaps in GCP environments.
Pentesting
External vulnerability scanning tools and manual security testing probe your CCP infrastructure to uncover security issues in public-facing services. This includes web and network-related security.
Internal network layer pentesting of virtual machines and services enables NetSPI to emulate an attacker that has gained a foothold on your GCP virtual network.
GCP Pentesting Techniques
Our GCP penetration testing service includes a cloud services configuration review and external and internal penetration testing techniques, such as:
- System and services discovery
- Automated vulnerability scanning
- Manual verification of vulnerabilities
- Manual web application pentesting
- Manual network protocol attacks
- Manual dictionary attacks
- Network pivoting
- Domain privilege escalation
- Access sensitive data and critical systems
What to Know
Scanning internet-facing cloud resources is a high priority, but a complete cloud security assessment that tests the hardness of your GCP infrastructure requires more steps to:
- Discover all internet-facing assets a hacker could find as potential entry points into your cloud account
- Identify attack surfaces exposed by cloud and Active Directory integration
- Identify known and common vulnerabilities on internet-facing assets and web applications
- Identify confidential data exposure on publicly available resources
- Identify less severe vulnerabilities that can be chained together to obtain unauthorized access to other systems, applications, and sensitive data
- Verify findings using manual GCP penetration testing techniques and removing false positives
- Deliver actionable guidance for how to remediate verified vulnerabilities
Do I need to get Google Cloud penetration testing permission?
No. According to Google, if you plan to evaluate the security of your Cloud Platform infrastructure with penetration testing, you are not required to get permission. NetSPI penetration tests do not violate Google’s Cloud Platform Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service.
Why do I need to use manual penetration testing processes in addition to multiple toolsets during GCP penetration testing
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Cloud Penetration Testing Resources
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Watch this on-demand webinar by NetSPI and DisruptOps to learn how to better secure the application layer and cloud infrastructure using automated tools and expert penetration testers to uncover logic flaws and other security soft spots.