Conducting penetration testing in cloud environments
One of the ways to raise our assurance with a cloud provider is to conduct a penetration test to measure the effectiveness of their security controls. Penetration testing is a proactive security measure that involves simulating real-world cyberattacks to identify and address vulnerabilities throughout the development process. Penetration testing should be conducted on a regular basis, following the limitations that each cloud service model has, as explained next.
Let us review how to handle penetration testing in the various cloud service models and following the shared responsibility model:
- IaaS: We oversee the OS layer and the network environment around the VMs or containers. A penetration test allows us to measure the effectiveness of the security controls we have implemented.
- PaaS: In PaaS environments, specifically in FaaS, we are not in charge of the lower layer of the infrastructure; however, since we import...
