Google Cloud Security Testing

According to a Statista report, over 29% of respondents run their most significant workloads on Google Cloud¹.

Public cloud, including Google Cloud, offers incredible ease of use, scaling and speed to boost business workloads. For most organizations, these are the deciding factors for migrating to cloud.

This platform provides 150+ products across a wide range of categories, including compute engines, databases, storage, and more. Services are available worldwide across 41 Google Cloud regions, including one in Warsaw, Poland. Each service comes with its own settings, specifications and limitations that can impact security.

Our experts can help you identify the most common security issues in your Google Cloud environment. Also, we can deeply analyze your unique cloud infrastructure and identify specific security vulnerabilities. Below is a list of selected security issues commonly found in Google Cloud services:

Misconfigured Cloud Storage buckets overexposing sensitive data,
IAM policies granting excessive privileges (Google Cloud has over 10,000 granular permissions!) across too many resources.
Unencrypted data handling, both in transit and at rest,
Compute Engine instances unintentionally exposed to attackers, providing an entry point into the private network,
Improper secrets management (e.g., storing access keys in environment variables instead of using Secret Managers).
Lack of Organization Policies, leading to weak enforcement of security requirements across the organization.

Connect with the Cloud Security Expert!

We are realists. We understand that the amount of knowledge you need to efficiently navigate the configuration complexities of some services can be overwhelming. This is why we are here to help you tame this beast and make your environment better and more secure.

Our approach to Google Cloud security testing

The first step of our Google Cloud assessment is an introductory meeting, where we learn about your infrastructure, security requirements, and assumptions. This is also a great opportunity to get to know each other and build a comprehensive list of the most significant threats, which can later be used to execute targeted attack scenarios.

Next, we run dedicated automated tools alongside self-crafted scripts to capture the general state of your infrastructure’s configuration quality.

After that, we analyze the output and categorize identified misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. Finally, each finding is manually reviewed before we include it in the report.

Our analysis considers the specific use case of each service, the data it processes, and the risks it may pose to your organization. The test cases presented in the report include gcloud CLI commands, allowing you to create a proof of concept (PoC) on your own without configuring additional tools. If we identify an opportunity to demonstrate a specific attack chain of combined misconfigurations – we will do so. All of this is based on current Google Cloud best practices, combined with a persistent desire to popularize the principle of least privileges and zero trust. As a result, you receive a report highlighting the biggest security issues that, under favourable conditions, can be exploited against your organization.