You're reading from Building and Automating Penetration Testing Labs in the Cloud Set up cost-effective hacking environments for learning cloud security on AWS, Azure, and GCP

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837632398

Length 562 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Joshua Arvin Lat

Preface

1. Part 1: A Gentle Introduction to Vulnerable-by-Design Environments

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing Labs in the Cloud FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Preparing Our First Vulnerable Cloud Lab Environment

4. Chapter 3: Succeeding with Infrastructure as Code Tools and Strategies

5. Part 2: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments in the Cloud

6. Chapter 4: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on GCP

7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on Azure

8. Chapter 6: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on AWS

9. Part 3: Exploring Advanced Strategies and Best Practices in Lab Environment Design

10. Chapter 7: Setting Up an IAM Privilege Escalation Lab

11. Chapter 8: Designing and Building a Vulnerable Active Directory Lab

12. Chapter 9: Recommended Strategies and Best Practices

13. Index

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

Before we start, we must have the following ready:

A GCP account—You may start with a free trial account by completing the steps specified in the following link: https://cloud.google.com/free/. In case you have not set up a billing account in your GCP account, make sure that you have properly set up billing information/profile so that you can access and use the GCP services without interruption. For more information on how to create a billing account, check the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRYUoR4u0s.
Any text editor (such as Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, or Sublime Text) where we can temporarily store specific values (for example, your local machine’s IP address) used in the hands-on solutions in this chapter.

You may proceed with the next steps once these are ready.

Important note

Make sure NOT to use any existing GCP account with production (or staging) environment resources for the hands-on exercises...

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