Chapter 2: Building Your Own Environment
To fully follow the content of this book, you will need access to an Azure environment and a penetration testing virtual machine (VM) that you can use to simulate using the tools, techniques, and procedures for exploiting an Azure environment. By following along with the hands-on examples in the book, you will gain a valuable insight into practically exploiting vulnerabilities in a real-world environment. On the plus side, Microsoft is eager to have people try out Azure, so it's easy to set up a free trial in Azure to help keep your costs down.
This chapter will provide guidance on setting up your own Azure tenant and a penetration testing VM with the necessary tools installed.
In this chapter, we will go through the following main topics:
- Creating a new Azure tenant
- Deploying a pentest VM in Azure
- Azure penetration testing tools
Let's get started!
