Preface
As more organizations around the world migrate their data and their workloads to the cloud, engineering teams as well as security professionals face the complex task of securing production environments against an increasing number of cloud-related threats and risks. This has led to a surge in demand for security professionals capable of attacking and defending cloud applications and systems. Security professionals seeking career growth and looking to excel in their careers should learn how to set up various types of vulnerable-by-design lab environments in the cloud to sharpen their skills even further.
I have written this book to help you and other professionals design, build, and automate penetration testing lab environments running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will learn how to automate the preparation and configuration of cloud resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions and strategies. You will have the opportunity to harness the potential of generative AI tools to significantly accelerate the process of building and automating vulnerable-by-design lab environments. In addition to these, you will learn how to use various offensive security tools and techniques to validate and test the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in our cloud-based labs.
By the end of this book, you should be able to build and automate various types of penetration testing labs in multiple cloud platforms where you can practice and experiment with different types of attacks and techniques.
