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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Setting up an Azure instance

Anyone can set up their own Microsoft Azure account. Many Azure services are free of charge. I strongly recommend deploying your own Azure instance to practice vulnerability scanning and pentesting in Azure before you do paid work for a client so that you can practice your skills. And chances are that your Azure test deployment is simpler than the Azure network the organization you work for operates!

Thanks to the magic of the cloud and the fact that the computer processing, data storage, and bandwidth are on Microsoft’s infrastructure, you don’t need to have a powerful workstation computer to try the exercises I will demonstrate in this chapter. A typical desktop or laptop PC with Windows, macOS, or Linux, good web functionality, and a modern web browser will do.

First, open your web browser and go to Microsoft’s guide to free Azure services (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/free). Here are most of the Azure services that are...