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Cloud and Container Security Testing
Secure your cloud and container infrastructure by uncovering hidden risks before they impact your business.
Why it matters
Cloud and container environments carry security risks across configurations, access controls, and deployments. Cloud security testing helps identify and address these risks before they are exploited.
Cloud and container security testing helps organizations address these risks by:
Reducing exposure from misconfigurations:
Cloud services and container platforms often introduce configuration errors that attackers exploit.
Identifying excessive permissions and access risks:
Overly permissive identities and roles can allow attackers to escalate privileges.
Validating the security of containerized workloads:
Containers and orchestration platforms introduce new attack surfaces that require focused testing.
Strengthening visibility into cloud security posture:
Testing helps organizations understand how effectively their cloud controls protect workloads and data.
Our Approach
Four Types of Assessment Services
Our approach combines architecture review, attacker-driven testing, and impact validation to uncover security risks across cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads.
Review cloud architecture, container platforms, deployment models, and operational practices to identify critical assets, workloads, and trust boundaries.
Analyze identities, roles, permissions, exposed services, and integrations to identify potential escalation paths and access risks.
Simulate attacker techniques involving misconfigurations, insecure deployments, identity abuse, and container exploitation using controlled testing methods.
Assess how attackers could move across cloud resources, clusters, and workloads, and determine what systems, data, or infrastructure could be affected.
Deliver clear, evidence-backed findings with prioritized recommendations to strengthen cloud and container security posture.
Service Offerings
- Our cloud and container security services uncover vulnerabilities across cloud architecture, identities, and containerized workloads.
Cloud Security Assessments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Evaluate cloud configurations, exposed services, IAM permissions, network controls, and monitoring settings to identify misconfigurations and security gaps across cloud environments.
Kubernetes Security Testing
Assess Kubernetes clusters for configuration weaknesses, RBAC permission risks, insecure workload isolation, and exposure of sensitive data or infrastructure resources
HITRUST Re-certification: Helps maintain certification and ensure continuous compliance with HITRUST CSF requirements.
Container Image & Runtime Security Testing
Analyze container images, dependencies, and runtime environments to identify vulnerabilities, insecure permissions, and risks such as container escape or secret exposure.
Cloud Architecture & IAM Review
Review cloud architecture and identity design to identify excessive permissions, insecure trust relationships, and risks across cross-account and service-to-service access.
benefits
By identifying misconfigurations, access risks, and exploitable paths, organizations gain the visibility needed to strengthen cloud security.
Reduced risk of cloud-wide compromise
Stronger identity governance and least-privilege enforcement
Improved visibility into real attack paths
Stronger protection for containerized workloads and sensitive data
Greater confidence in cloud and container security posture
why sisa
Our approach goes beyond posture checks to simulate how attackers exploit cloud environments, identities, and container platforms in real-world scenarios.
Attacker-led cloud and container testing
Assess cloud environments and container platforms using real adversary techniques rather than relying only on configuration reviews.
Identity-first security analysis
Focus on IAM roles, permissions, and trust relationships where many cloud breaches originate.
Validation of real privilege escalation paths
Simulate how attackers could escalate privileges, abuse identities, and move laterally across cloud resources.
Context-aware testing aligned to cloud operations
Evaluate security controls based on how cloud environments actually operate, including DevOps workflows and service integrations.
Actionable remediation guidance for cloud-native environments
Provide practical recommendations that help teams strengthen cloud security without disrupting operations.
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FAQs
Cloud and container security testing evaluates cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) for critical misconfigurations, weak access controls, and exploitable vulnerabilities that threaten data integrity.
This is essential for tech startups, cloud service providers, and FinTech. Fundamentally, any industry doing business via cloud-native applications or microservices architectures needs this testing to secure their infrastructure perimeter.
Major risks include utilizing compromised base images, running containers with excessive root privileges, insecure secrets management, and failing to isolate container networks, which allows attackers to move laterally.
SISA specialists review Kubernetes cluster configurations, evaluate Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies, audit API server security, and perform penetration testing to identify pathways for cluster takeover.
A CSPM review assesses an organization's public cloud environments against security best practices (like CIS Benchmarks). It identifies dangerous misconfigurations, such as publicly exposed storage buckets or overly permissive IAM roles.
IaC scripts (like Terraform) automatically provision cloud resources. If a script contains a misconfiguration, that vulnerability is deployed at scale. SISA audits IaC templates to ensure security is built-in before deployment.
Yes, if a container is misconfigured or running in privileged mode, an attacker who breaches the application can execute a "container breakout" to gain root access to the underlying host server.
SISA leverages a combination of automated configuration audits and manual cloud penetration testing, providing engineering teams with actionable remediation steps to harden their cloud footprint and secure microservices.