Creating a new Azure tenant
This chapter will guide you through both the setup of a sample environment and a pentest VM in your own Azure subscription. In order to create a VM to complete the hands-on exercises in this chapter, you need to have an Azure tenant. If you do not have an Azure tenant, follow the steps in this section to set up your own. If you already have an Azure tenant, you may want to create a new subscription to use for following these examples.
Important note
If you intend to use an existing subscription for the examples in the book, make sure that the subscription is separate from any production workloads, systems, and services. The example services that are created in these setup scripts will create vulnerabilities that may expose your environment to risk. Proceed at your own risk!
In an ideal world, this entire environment would be a one-click deployment, but you will benefit from building up the environment yourself. It can be a lot of fun to attack a...