You're reading from Cloud Penetration Testing Learn how to effectively pentest AWS, Azure, and GCP applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248486

Length 298 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Kim Crawley

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Today’s Cloud Networks and Their Security Implications

2. Chapter 1: How Do Enterprises Utilize and Implement Cloud Networks? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How Are Cloud Networks Cyber Attacked?

4. Chapter 3: Key Concepts for Pentesting Today’s Cloud Networks

5. Part 2: Pentesting AWS

6. Chapter 4: Security Features in AWS

7. Chapter 5: Pentesting AWS Features through Serverless Applications and Tools

8. Chapter 6: Pentesting Containerized Applications in AWS

9. Part 3: Pentesting Microsoft Azure

10. Chapter 7: Security Features in Azure

11. Chapter 8: Pentesting Azure Features through Serverless Applications and Tools

12. Chapter 9: Pentesting Containerized Applications in Azure

13. Part 4: Pentesting GCP

14. Chapter 10: Security Features in GCP

15. Chapter 11: Pentesting GCP Features through Serverless Applications and Tools

16. Chapter 12: Pentesting Containerized Applications in GCP

17. Chapter 13: Best Practices and Summary

18. Index

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Summary

GCP’s roots stem from when Google released App Engine in 2008, a way for businesses and other entities to launch their own web applications within Google’s platform. App Engine proved to be very popular. So, in the years since, Google has released a large number of additional cloud services that enterprises and organizations can use for their production networks and networking applications.

GCP is how Google competes with Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure. However, many organizations deploy multi-cloud networks that use all of those cloud platforms and more.

The two most important GCP components that are used in IaaS (but can also be used in SaaS and PaaS) are Compute Engine and Cloud Storage. Compute Engine is like the CPU, and Cloud Storage is your disks.

Google also provides a lot of very useful security controls that your organization really ought to use to harden their security against cyber attacks. They include Cloud Firewall, IAM, Secret...