Why Pen testing AWS Matters

The rapid adoption of AWS services has contributed to the complexity of enterprise environments. As a result, organisations are finding that is increasingly important to challenge existing AWS security measures to immediately identify potential issues.

Here are a the scenarios which help illustrate why penetration testing in AWS environments is so important to maintain security:

-Flawed understanding of the ‘shared responsibility model’ leading organisations to underestimate the risk that they are responsible for.

• Failures across fundamental AWS security checks including ‘open-wide security groups’ and excessive permissions.
  Failures in multi-factor authentication requirements, implementation or operation. The latter is particularly vexing when you consider how effective social engineering attacks, credential sharing and privilege escalation are.

Do you carry out security assessments or penetration tests against your AWS infrastructure?

We all know that AWS is ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Level 1 certified but it is it is essential that you test your company’s configuration of the AWS platform and the additional application code or assets living in the AWS environment.

If your asset is hosted on AWS and you would like to conduct a penetration test, visit the link below for more information.

Perform penetration tests on your AWS resources (amazon.com)