Service Overview
Comprehensive Cloud Security Validation
NAASE-Cloud closely mimics the methodologies employed by advanced persistent threats (APTs) to infiltrate and maneuver within cloud environments, focusing on identity abuse, permission escalation, API exploitation, and trust relationship misuse; providing the enterprise with assurance against tangible real world attacks and threat scenarios.
Identity & Access Testing
Comprehensive evaluation of IAM policies, privilege escalation paths, role assumptions, OAuth flows, SAML assertions, and federation trusts across all identity providers.
API & Service Exploitation
Testing cloud API authentication, authorization bypasses, rate limit circumvention, GraphQL exploitation, REST parameter tampering, and webhook manipulation.
Workload Identity Abuse
Harvesting credentials from metadata services, extracting managed identity tokens, exploiting service principals, and testing workload federation misconfigurations.
Data Access Validation
Enumeration of storage resources, validation of access controls, signed URL abuse, cross-account access, secrets management, and encryption key usage testing.
Lateral Movement Testing
Abuse of service-to-service trusts, cross-account role chaining, subscription/project traversal, VPC peering exploitation, and trust relationship validation.
Detection & Response
Assessment of logging coverage, SIEM ingestion quality, alert correlation, SOC escalation paths, SOAR effectiveness, and time-to-detect/contain metrics.
Coverage
Multi-Cloud & SaaS Platform Support
Comprehensive testing across all major cloud providers and enterprise SaaS platforms with deep knowledge of platform-specific security controls and attack vectors.
Amazon Web Services
IAM, EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, VPC, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, Organizations, Control Tower
Microsoft Azure
Entra ID, VMs, App Services, Functions, AKS, Storage, SQL Database, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Key Vault, DevOps
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Identity, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Security Command Center, Chronicle
Oracle Cloud
IAM, Federation, Dynamic Groups, Compute, Container Engine, Object Storage, Autonomous Database, Cloud Guard
Microsoft 365
Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Graph API, Power Platform, Azure AD B2B/B2C
Google Workspace
Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Admin SDK, Cloud Identity, Marketplace Apps
Salesforce
Objects, Connected Apps, Communities, SOQL/SOSL, Apex, REST/SOAP/Bulk APIs
ServiceNow
Tables, REST/Table APIs, Scripted Services, RBAC, OAuth, Integration Hub
THE THREAT LANDSCAPE

Core Emulation Principles

Our methodology is technique-oriented, identity-prioritized, and fully aligned with MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud, eschewing vulnerability-centric approaches in favor of realistic adversary behavior emulation, making it suited for highly regulated sectors such as banking, financial services, insurance (BFSI), healthcare, and other enterprises subject to stringent compliance mandates like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and DORA.
Identity-First Attack Paths:
Prioritizing simulation of identity compromise and exploitation over traditional vulnerability exploitation
Permission Escalation:
Testing privilege elevation from low-privilege to administrative access through policy manipulation
Trust Relationship Abuse:
Evaluating service-to-service trusts, federated identities, and delegated permissions
API-Driven Movement:
Testing silent traversal between resources, accounts, and tenants via cloud APIs
Legitimate Tool Misuse:
Using native CLIs, SDKs, and consoles to demonstrate how built-in tools can be weaponized
Detection Validation:
Ensuring each technique produces discernible security events for SOC investigation
PROCESS

Engagement Workflow

1. Pre-Engagement Authorization, scope definition, communication channels, approved testing windows, emergency procedures, NDA execution
2. Intelligence Gathering Identity enumeration, resource discovery, trust mapping, permission analysis, service configuration review
3. Attack Execution Identity abuse, privilege escalation, lateral movement, data access, trust exploitation with continuous logging
4. Detection Validation SIEM correlation assessment, SOC response evaluation, TTD/TTC measurement, purple team collaboration
5. Reporting & Remediation Detailed findings, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, remediation guidance, executive briefing, technical deep-dive
Value Proposition
Business & Risk Value
Empirical Security Proof
Transform security assumptions into measurable evidence through controlled adversarial emulation, providing objective validation of cloud security controls.
Regulatory Compliance
Objective evidence for board reporting and regulatory adherence including DORA, PCI DSS, SWIFT CSP, HIPAA, GDPR, and banking red team requirements.
Risk Intelligence
Detailed understanding of adversarial exploitation paths involving identities, APIs, and trust relationships with actionable control performance metrics.
Strategic Investment
Data-driven security investment decisions backed by real-world attack simulation results and prioritized remediation roadmaps.
Operational Resilience
Proactive identification and remediation of exposures under simulated conditions, enhancing organizational cyber resilience.
SOC Enablement
Purple team collaboration to improve detection capabilities, correlation rules, and incident response procedures against cloud-native threats.
SAFETY & COMPLIANCE
Rules of
Engagement
Allowed Activities
IAM policy testing & privilege escalation
Workload identity & metadata abuse
API authentication & authorization testing
Data access & storage enumeration
Lateral movement via trust relationships
Detection & response validation
OAuth & SAML token manipulation
Service principal & managed identity abuse
Prohibited Activities
DoS/DDoS attacks
Resource exhaustion or degradation
Cryptomining or unauthorized consumption
Data encryption or destruction
CSP infrastructure attacks
Social engineering of CSP support
Malware or destructive payloads
Production data modification/deletion
Guardrails
Blue-team oversight
Real-time communication
Emergency kill-switch
Detailed activity logging
Restricted credentials
Non-destructive methodologies
Rollback procedures
CSP notification compliance

Our Approach

NAASE exercises simulate the full end-to-end cycle of a cyber attack, replicating actions and procedures utilized by real-world adversaries with a high level of intent, sophistication, and capability. The remediation enablement modules of the service provide in-depth assistance to fix failed controls and improve the detection capabilities of the SOC.

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OSINT & Dark Web Enumeration

During the Open-source intelligence (OSINT) and Darkweb enumeration phase of NAASE NetSentries will collect data about the target organization from publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context for further steps in a complete zero knowledge manner. The collected datasets are risk-scored and correlated with each other to identify possible unknown threat vectors. Business risk scoring helps organizations to take necessary preventive, proactive actions.

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Red Team Exercise

Red Team (RT) exercises are sanctioned, planned, risk-managed, and objective-driven cybersecurity assessments that simulate highly sophisticated targeted attacks against an organization. The exercise includes external simulations like advanced spear-phishing, attacks against application channels, and advanced post-exploitation actions like persistency, lateral movement, data exfiltration, and password dumping. Internal simulations verify the effectiveness of logical and physical security controls related to People, Processes, and Technology like a determined insider attacker.

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Purple Team Exercise

The organization's internal Blue team is a part of this exercise, working with the NetSentries Red team to conduct objectives-based assessments that mimic known and quantifiable threat actors. The Blue team assesses the Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures and builds and configures their detection and response capability in line with these known approaches.

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Remediation Enablement

NetSentries provides assistance to fix failed security controls, provides advice on deploying compensating controls where an immediate fix is not possible, and helps create a roadmap with prioritization to address high-risk gaps and continuously improve the organization's overall security posture.

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CSOC Enablement

The results from the adversarial simulation are used for strategic planning support for the remediation of failed incident detection. Advanced services like support for log baselining, events of interest definition, selective log forwarding recommendations, use case/correlation rule definitions, monitoring dashboard development, etc., are provided to improve the Detection and Response Posture.

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