Google Cloud Security Pentesting Methodology

Penetration Test of a Web Application hosted on Google Cloud in 2023 is quite different to just a simple/traditional web app pentesting.
Cloud Penetration testing is misunderstood to be just config review in Google Cloud. In this video, we have Kat Traxler who is a cloud security researcher, SANS Course author and has worked in the Google Cloud space to even build open source tools that can be used to perform cloud security testing.

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Question

(00:00) Introduction

(04:17) A bit about Kat Traxler

(05:56) Pentesting in GCP vs AWS

(08:07) Config review vs cloud pentesting

(09:24) Cloud pentest vs Traditional Pentest

(10:28) Starting to do GCP pentesting

(12:35) Common services used in GCP

(14:10) Low hanging fruits in GCP

(15:25) What are default service accounts?

(17:52) You may already have google cloud

(20:00) How to persist access in Google Cloud?

(21:56) Shared responsibility in GCP

(24:01) Common TTPs in GCP

(28:05) Is there SSRF in GCP?

(30:19) Open source tools for cloud pentest

(33:59) Fun questions

Resources that Kat shared during the episode

• The Google Cloud Adoption Framework
• Google Cloud Org Policy Bot
• GCAT Threat Horizons Report
• Pacu
• Microburst
• DeRF
• Stratus

See you at the next episode!