You're reading from Cloud Penetration Testing Learn how to effectively pentest AWS, Azure, and GCP applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248486

Length 298 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Kim Crawley

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Today’s Cloud Networks and Their Security Implications

2. Chapter 1: How Do Enterprises Utilize and Implement Cloud Networks? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How Are Cloud Networks Cyber Attacked?

4. Chapter 3: Key Concepts for Pentesting Today’s Cloud Networks

5. Part 2: Pentesting AWS

6. Chapter 4: Security Features in AWS

7. Chapter 5: Pentesting AWS Features through Serverless Applications and Tools

8. Chapter 6: Pentesting Containerized Applications in AWS

9. Part 3: Pentesting Microsoft Azure

10. Chapter 7: Security Features in Azure

11. Chapter 8: Pentesting Azure Features through Serverless Applications and Tools

12. Chapter 9: Pentesting Containerized Applications in Azure

13. Part 4: Pentesting GCP

14. Chapter 10: Security Features in GCP

15. Chapter 11: Pentesting GCP Features through Serverless Applications and Tools

16. Chapter 12: Pentesting Containerized Applications in GCP

17. Chapter 13: Best Practices and Summary

18. Index

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Summary

Anyone can set up an AWS account under their Free Tier to try out some general AWS pentesting tools.

AWS has its own applications that will be useful to you as a pentester. They include AWS CloudShell, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector.

AWS CloudShell gives you a CLI you can use from your web browser once you’ve logged in to your AWS account. Alternatively, you can use the AWS CLI application, which you can install directly on your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC.

AWS Security Hub is a handy unified application for checking all of your AWS security settings, configurations, and reports.

Amazon Inspector is AWS’s native vulnerability scanning application. I would recommend using it in addition to the other vulnerability scanners and pentesting applications I demonstrate in this book.

A wide range of vulnerability scans and pentests can be executed with Prowler, Cred Scanner, CloudFrunt, and Pacu. These tools help you find security problems such as...