The document introduces COBRA (Cloud Offensive Breach and Risk Assessment), an open-source tool for simulating attacks in multi-cloud environments to evaluate security controls. It highlights challenges in current multi-cloud attack simulations and provides features such as comprehensive assessments, benchmarking, and actionable insights. Users are encouraged to contribute to the tool's development via GitHub.

1. Cloud Offensive Breach & Risk
Assessment (COBRA)
Harsha & Anand

2. Authors
Harsha Koushik Anand Tiwari
@0xlcheetah @anandtiwarics
linkedin.com/in/hkoushik linkedin.com/in/anandsundartiwari/
Research & Product Mgr. @ Palo Alto Networks Manager, Product Management @ Palo Alto Networks

3. Challenges and gaps with running Multi Cloud based Attack simulations
● Single point specific threats or Vulnerabilities use cases simulations
● Lack of simulating multi-dimensional attack scenario in Cloud.
● Difficulty evaluating new Security Vendors for cloud-native with advanced use cases.
● Difficulty building and managing multi-stage cloud lab environments.
● Difficulty in simulating realistic attack path scenarios
● Lack of comprehensive tools for multi-staged attack simulation

4. Introducing COBRA - Cloud Offensive Breach and Risk
Assessment
● Cloud Offensive Breach and Risk Assessment (COBRA) is an
open-source tool designed to empower users to simulate attacks
within multi-cloud environments
● Offers a comprehensive evaluation of security controls. By
automating the testing of various threat vectors including external
and insider threats, lateral movement, and data exfiltration

5. Key Features
● Comprehensive Assessment of Cloud-Native Security Posture
● Benchmarking Against Industry Standards and Best Practices
● Seamless Integration for POC and Tool Evaluation
● Actionable Insights and Recommendations
● Continuous Threat Simulation

6. Architecture/Solution Diagram

7. Demo

8. Contribution
● Github Repo - https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/cobra-tool
● Contribs are not just limited to code, feel free to contribute - Ideas, Code, Feedback, Docs,
walkthroughs etc..
● Try the tool out & provide feedback.

9. QnA
Thank you