SilentGrid

Cloud Assumed Breach

Simulate the compromise of cloud assets to assess your organisation's ability to detect, contain, and mitigate cloud-based threats.

Type

Adversary Simulation

Focus

Cloud Security

Platforms

AWS, Azure, GCP

Deliverable

Cloud Resilience

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Testing Resilience in Cloud Environments

Cloud environments introduce unique attack paths that differ from traditional on-premise infrastructure. Adversaries leverage identity-based attacks, misconfigured resources, insecure APIs, and over-permissioned accounts to move laterally and escalate privileges within cloud platforms.

SilentGrid's Cloud Assumed Breach simulates post-compromise scenarios, starting from the premise that an adversary has already gained initial cloud access. The objective is to test your detection, response, and mitigation capabilities against internal cloud threats and identity-based compromises across AWS, Azure, GCP, and multi-cloud environments.

Why Cloud Assumed Breach is Critical

While cloud providers offer robust security features, misconfigurations, poor visibility, and excessive trust relationships remain key entry points for attackers.

  • ✓ Identity is the new perimeter – A single compromised identity can lead to widespread breach
  • ✓ Cloud misconfigurations remain the leading cause of cloud breaches
  • ✓ Over-permissioned accounts allow attackers to move laterally across environments
  • ✓ Poor visibility in cloud environments hampers detection and response

Our Cloud Testing Methodology

SilentGrid leverages real-world adversary tactics specific to cloud environments, simulating attackers operating within compromised cloud accounts.

1

Establishing Initial Foothold

  • • Simulate compromised access keys, service tokens, or OAuth tokens
  • • Insider threat scenarios with existing cloud credentials
  • • Compromised developer accounts or stolen API keys
2

Privilege Escalation and Lateral Movement

  • • Abuse IAM policies, trust relationships, and role assumption paths
  • • Identify over-permissioned roles and misconfigured service identities
  • • Exploit serverless functions, containers, and Kubernetes clusters
3

Resource Discovery and Data Exfiltration

  • • Enumerate storage buckets, databases, and critical assets
  • • Test for publicly exposed resources and data leaks
  • • Simulate data exfiltration while bypassing logging and monitoring
4

Persistence Testing

  • • Create rogue IAM roles, long-lived tokens, and shadow infrastructure
  • • Evaluate visibility in cloud monitoring solutions (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Logging)
5

Incident Response Validation

  • • Trigger alerts through controlled exploitation to test SOC and IR workflows
  • • Evaluate effectiveness of SIEM, CSPM, and EDR tools for cloud attacks

Key Attack Scenarios Simulated

We replicate the latest cloud attack techniques used by adversaries:

Cloud Credential Harvesting

Testing for credential leaks, unprotected environment variables, and insecure repositories

IAM Privilege Escalation

Simulating abuse of role chaining, misconfigured trust policies, and role assumption paths

Cloud Lateral Movement

Exploiting cloud-native services, containers, and serverless functions for pivoting

Data Breach Simulation

Testing for open storage buckets, misconfigured databases, and exfiltration paths

Serverless and API Exploitation

Targeting Lambda functions, API gateways, and microservices to expand access

Multi-Cloud Attack Paths

Testing cross-cloud attack scenarios in hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Key Benefits

Expose Cloud-Specific Attack Paths

Test for misconfigurations, unprotected APIs, and privilege escalation paths unique to cloud

Validate Cloud Security Posture

Assess how well your cloud configurations defend against identity-based threats

Enhance Incident Response

Improve cloud SOC workflows, alerting pipelines, and incident containment strategies

Continuous Improvement

Receive iterative feedback and re-testing to ensure vulnerabilities are fully addressed

Comprehensive Deliverables

Our Cloud Assumed Breach engagements provide actionable insights into cloud security risks:

Attack Path Documentation

Detailed breakdown of attack paths, privilege escalation, and exploited misconfigurations

Cloud IAM Analysis

Identifying over-permissioned accounts, misaligned roles, and unnecessary privileges

Persistence Techniques Report

Demonstrations of how adversaries establish long-term access in cloud environments

Incident Response Recommendations

Strategic guidance to improve cloud logging, monitoring, and detection rules

Is Cloud Assumed Breach Right for You?

Cloud Assumed Breach is ideal for organisations that:

  • ✓ Operate heavily in AWS, Azure, GCP, or multi-cloud environments
  • ✓ Need to test the effectiveness of cloud-native security controls
  • ✓ Want to validate identity and access management (IAM) security
  • ✓ Seek to simulate post-compromise scenarios and lateral movement risks
Secure Your Cloud Infrastructure

Start Cloud Assumed Breach Testing

Expose cloud vulnerabilities before real attackers do

Our cloud-focused adversary simulations help you identify and fix critical security gaps in your cloud environments.

Cloud Platforms

All Major Providers

Testing Scope

IAM to Data

Approach

Real-World TTPs

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