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Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers Develop practical skills to perform pentesting and risk assessment of Microsoft Azure environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212932
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Okeyode David Okeyode
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding the Azure Platform and Architecture
2. Chapter 1: Azure Platform and Architecture Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Your Own Environment 4. Chapter 3: Finding Azure Services and Vulnerabilities 5. Section 2: Authenticated Access to Azure
6. Chapter 4: Exploiting Reader Permissions 7. Chapter 5: Exploiting Contributor Permissions on IaaS Services 8. Chapter 6: Exploiting Contributor Permissions on PaaS Services 9. Chapter 7: Exploiting Owner and Privileged Azure AD Role Permissions 10. Chapter 8: Persisting in Azure Environments 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying a pentest VM in Azure

Now that we have an Azure tenant to deploy resources to, we will want to set up a VM to use for testing. This VM will allow us to follow the exercises in this book and should provide a clean base for installing tools, as compared to trying to install tools on existing systems. For anyone looking to implement an Azure base image for automating their own internal team's tooling, this should also be useful for that.

Hands-on exercise: Deploying your pentest VM

We have prepared an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template in the GitHub repository of this book. The template will deploy a Windows Server 2019 VM with the following applications installed: Git for Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and Docker Desktop.

Important note

ARM templates can be a great tool for deploying resources in an Azure environment. Since this is a book focusing on attacking (versus building) Azure environments, we won't be covering ARM templates in depth...

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